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Marijuana Kills People
janitor's view ^ | 06/14/18 | Reasonmclucus

Posted on 06/14/2018 7:53:46 PM PDT by kathsua

When a mass shooting occurs, some people act as if the guns themselves are responsible rather than the people who use them, Other people respond with the statement: "Guns don't kill people. People do." The statement is true because guns cannot independently affect the operation of the human brain.

The brain is a complex system controlled by the interaction of various chemicals. People use marijuana because it is one of the chemicals .that can affect the operation of the brain. Unfortunately, there is a dark side to marijuana. In addition to creating the sensation of feeling "high", marijuana can cause behavior that kills.

Marijuana has two ways of killing people. Marijuana reduces the brain's ability to detect and respond appropriately to danger such as when driving a car. Sometimes the marijuana user dies from a traffic accident. Sometime the person who dies was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Marijuana is associated with homicidal behavior. Marijuana violence often involves firearms. Some of this violence is due to marijuana's tendency to induce paranoia in some people. Marijuana heightens the sense of fear as it does the other senses.

The sense of smell can play a role in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD]. Police officers who have had a bad experience with drug dealers or marijuana users could become overly fearful if they smell marijuana on someone they are dealing with and be more likely to shoot than they would be otherwise. Government needs to finance research on this possibility.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: cannabis; drugs; marijuana; paranoia; pot; ptsd; violence; wod
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To: kathsua
I have no experience of marijuana killing people.

I do have experience in how it changes people.

Years ago I worked nights and I would watch my nephew.

He smiled the biggest smiles and we had a great time together. He was fun to be with and we were best friends.

When he became a teen, he started smoking pot and continued to do so in college.

He's not that happy little boy anymore.

He became distant, uncaring, and cynical.

Whereas we used to have great fun talking, our 'conversations' amount to, 'I dunno. I don't care'.

Mind you he's doing well for himself. Steady job, a girlfriend but he's different.

Yes, there are other factors to consider (friends who smoked pot, high school and college indoctrination) but I will always believe it was pot that turned one of the happiest little boys in the world to a disillusioned cynical young man.

21 posted on 06/14/2018 8:14:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: dirtboy

Stand up and change the damned law!! Otherwise we are sworn to uphold it!!


22 posted on 06/14/2018 8:15:18 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.)
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To: kathsua

People are going to get stoned nomatter what. Be it a plant or various chemicals. We have people literally dropping dead from using various synthetic pot down the block from me. Or turning into mad zombies that feel no pain. Literally trying to eat people.

This kind of madness NEVER happens with cannabis.

If the WOD was truly about our safety, they would be banning all the deadly pills and alcohol that are currently sold almost like candy. You can buy and legally use drugs that are proven to cause death/violence. For things like insomnia, quitting smoking or even “stress”.

It’s an f’n joke. Nothing but a scam for government power and profit!


23 posted on 06/14/2018 8:16:01 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: kathsua

Not this sh*t again...

24 posted on 06/14/2018 8:16:16 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: kathsua

Tobacco kills people. Five gallon buckets kill people.


25 posted on 06/14/2018 8:16:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: kathsua
Marijuana and Your Health: What 20 Years of Research Reveals

"People who drive under the influence of marijuana double their risk of being in a car crash, and about one in 10 daily marijuana users becomes dependent on the drug, according to a new review."

" adolescents who use cannabis regularly are about twice as likely as their nonuser peers to drop out of school, as well as experience cognitive impairment and psychoses as adults."

"here have been case reports of deaths from heart problems in seemingly otherwise healthy young men after they smoked marijuana,"

"Regular cannabis users also double their risk of experiencing psychotic symptoms and disorders such as disordered thinking, hallucinations and delusions — from about seven in 1,000 cases among nonusers to 14 in 1,000 among regular marijuana users, the review said. And, in a study of more than 50,000 young men in Sweden, those who had used marijuana 10 or more times by age 18 were about two times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia within the next 15 years than those who had not used the drug."

26 posted on 06/14/2018 8:17:31 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: kathsua

Wow, look at that strawman.


27 posted on 06/14/2018 8:18:15 PM PDT by Weaponier (FREE TEXAS!)
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To: kathsua

28 posted on 06/14/2018 8:18:29 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: raiderboy
Stand up and change the damned law!! Otherwise we are sworn to uphold it!!

YEAH! Let's applaud federal usurpation!

29 posted on 06/14/2018 8:18:56 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: raiderboy

Yeah, lets go back to the days where the WOD only grew the size and scope of government in every direction costing tax payers hundreds of billions. Go back to throwing pot users in cages! Brilliant!


30 posted on 06/14/2018 8:19:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dirtboy

Booze is a much bigger killer, sorry.

I like when a friend says he got 3 dui’s driving from one side of town to the other drunk but has logged over a half million miles driving around the country and has never done worse than missed an exit while smoking pot.


31 posted on 06/14/2018 8:19:42 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: cba123

It sure might could be but I’m out of pop-tarts so I’ll have to miss the entertainment.


32 posted on 06/14/2018 8:23:20 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: raiderboy

“Stand up and change the damned law!! Otherwise we are sworn to uphold it!!”

I assume, since you are a man of principle, you post that on abortion protest threads as well.


33 posted on 06/14/2018 8:27:14 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Yes, there are other factors to consider (friends who smoked pot, high school and college indoctrination) but I will always believe it was pot that turned one of the happiest little boys in the world to a disillusioned cynical young man.


I have seen the same in some people. I witnessed some people go off the deep end on it. Most friends who were not negatively impacted, gave up smoking it after a couple of years.

Can anyone point to one person who marijuana helped to make a better person?

34 posted on 06/14/2018 8:28:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: kathsua; Squantos; Lazamataz
Police officers who have had a bad experience with drug dealers or marijuana users could become overly fearful if they smell marijuana on someone they are dealing with and be more likely to shoot than they would be otherwise.

That explains why they called me "Yosemite Larry." I kept smelling marijuana on folks.

Government needs to finance research on this possibility.

Yes! More research! More money for everyone! Wheee!

35 posted on 06/14/2018 8:31:53 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dirtboy; raiderboy
Legalize drugs and become Soros' slave:

Tokin' Resistance
By Howard Stansfield, 12/12/96

Soros, who declined to comment for this story, writes that “the drug problem as primarily a criminal problem is a misconception” and that “eradicating the drug problem is a false idea.”

“A drug-free America is simply not possible. You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs.”

So what would he do?

“I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available,” he writes. “Initially, I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was obtained, I would keep raising the prices, very much like an excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime.”

source: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1996-12-12
36 posted on 06/14/2018 8:37:09 PM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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To: donna

Oh, spare me. I do not believe in solutions that are worse than the problem. And pot prohibition, IMO, meets that criteria.


37 posted on 06/14/2018 8:42:00 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: kathsua

Alcohol is much more deadly.

Medical marijuana used to be a way for recreational activities sers to get around the laws, but now that it is being legalized it has a lot of real promise for medicine.

Marijuana + genetic modification = super drugs in the near future.

It will replace addictive opiods as pain killers, sleeping pills, etc.


38 posted on 06/14/2018 8:42:46 PM PDT by bobk333
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To: kathsua

Dihydrogen oxide has marijuana beat


39 posted on 06/14/2018 8:44:08 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: dirtboy

It’s your future.

How much is a pack of cigarettes now days?


40 posted on 06/14/2018 8:45:41 PM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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