Study: Marijuana Does Not Lead to Hard Drugs

Reuters ^ | Dec. 2, 2002 | unknown

[Illbay]

Psst: Pot leads to hard drug use.

Pass it on.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

You will find this article at the top of the linked list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/involved?group=124

[SunStar]

BINGO!

[Smogger]

Finding recreational users or abusers of drugs who haven't used marijuana will be just a bit easieer than finding an honest man.

But considerably easier then finding recreational users of drugs who haven't used liquor or tobacco.

[Illbay]

Your refutation is based on even less. At least he discussed his own observations. You just said "nuh-UH!"

[What Is Ain't]

"Something will start at the Republican National Committee, inside the building, and it will explode the next day on the right-wing talk-show network and on Fox News and in the newspapers that play this game," ---- Al Gore

Replace RNC with Rand and Fox News with Reuters.

[Ronin]

I did a lot of pot 20-30 years ago during my teens and early 20s, but never touched anything harder. And, yes, I know a lot of people that can say the same. I haven't touched anything harder than scotch in more years than I can remember.

Like it or not, marijuana is a lot less destructive in virtually every way than alcohol. Yet no one is seriously considering prohibition again.

They do make a good point. Money and resources spent chasing kids with a few home-grown buds in their apartment could be much better spent on the serious problems facing America -- like the war on terror, for instance.

There is no need to keep persuing a phony and unwinnable drug war, that does nothing but turn hardworking, taxpaying Americans into criminals, when we have a genuine enemy that needs to be confronted.

[breakem]

Stop applying the rules of logi. Don't you know this is a drug thread!

[breakem]

or the rules of spelling for that matter.

[SunStar]

Your refutation is based on even less. At least he discussed his own observations. You just said "nuh-UH!"

Actually, I said "I've found the opposite to be true."

My observations are that the pot users I know do not use hard drugs. In fact, they are quick to point out that the other major drugs of choice are not "natural" like marijuana is.

[authordavidtoy]

The pot dilemna could be settled by one "joint" session of congress.

[galt-jw]

hey, facts don't matter here. druggie (sarcasm).

[tracer]

wodping

[galt-jw]

every one who tries to define reality from anecdotal experience or the collective is being intellectually invalid.

[realpatriot71]

Perhaps we should concentrate on the dihydrogen oxide problem as well?

[galt-jw]

Psst. Blanket statements lead to a representation of reality that fits very well into small minds.

[realpatriot71]

Someone paid attention in Logic 101 . . . sadly most of your statement will be lost on the meathead puritans here

[Tony Niar Brain]

Drugs and spelling always mix.

[Kerberos]

”Like it or not, marijuana is a lot less destructive in virtually every way than alcohol. Yet no one is seriously considering prohibition again.”

That’s because at some level they understand that prohibition didn’t work. Now weather or not they understand the fallout that was created by the prohibition laws is another matter.

The truth is that alcohol kills more people and creates more destruction per year than all drugs combined. And if any of the WOD’ers who usually pop off on these threads had any intellectual or moral honesty about themselves they would have researched the data and been aware of that fact and would likewise be calling for the prohibition of alcohol as well as drugs.

However, I suspect that most of the rabid WOD’ers here are probably staunch members of the Budweiser for lunch bunch.

[Bedford Forrest]

I did a lot of pot 20-30 years ago during my teens and early 20s, but never touched anything harder. And, yes, I know a lot of people that can say the same. I haven't touched anything harder than scotch in more years than I can remember.

Maybe you can't remember very many years. George Soros, the quisling NWO apparatchik, spends big bucks pushing repeal of our drug laws. Why does a quisling billionaire like Soros want to have lots more American kids strung out on drugs? Is it because he loves this country? I don't think so.