Recent Studies on Pot and Brain Damage Need to be Given “Sober” Attention

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 5/1/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[bassmaner]

Why the hostility?

Probably because we've heard all this scaremongering about weed one too many times, and it always results in some killjoy calling for stricter laws and punishments for possession and distribution. In other words, the failed policy of prohibition.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's rather clueless to attack an ally like Msgr. Pope (a person who does not see jail as "the" "solution") because of what some other (unspecified) person might possibly say.

You weaken your own position --- a position which I'd like to see better-defended--- when you resort to badly-aimed insult as a substitute for argument.

[Jeff Chandler]

Why the hostility?

(It's the drugs.)

[ravenwolf]

At least I guess that gives them an excuse for being brain dead,

I have been trying to figure out what accuse the rest of us could use.

[ravenwolf]

Let’s slow down the train and at least adopt the same attitude toward pot that we have toward cigarettes.

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Yeah, just a bunch of dam hypocrites who think they are going to get to heaving by washing the out side of the cup.

Since this is on a religious thread I believe it is fair to say that Jesus never said anything about any of this.

[arbitrary.squid]

“The Bible, while condemning drunkenness, does not forbid the use of alcohol and even commends the proper use of wine, etc.”

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

[GreyFriar]

I never figured out how pot could be good for you when tobacco is bad. I’m sure the pro-pot folks will decide that communion wine will cause brain damage and want to ban it in retaliation. Or communion grape juice.

[SuziQ]

So many states are “legalizing” pot. This is a guaranteed way to put the public into a stupor and take its mind off the way the government is ruining their lives.

Also makes it easier for government to take over their lives, without push-back.