Posted on 08/22/2018 8:15:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode
I think everyone knows marijuana is not harmless.
However, bunk science does not further the cause of education on the harming effects and acts as no deterrent for young people.
It could cause them to think all of the science is bunk. And it’s not.
I don’t think the states, which many are bankrupt and looking at billions in unfunded pension liabilities, will give a care less what the consequences are or might be to the commoners.
Legalized sports betting, legalization of marijuana,...next will be legalized prostitution - just watch.
Remember - everything is illegal unless the state gets to skim off the top. Then it’s all well and good.
I spent 25 years responding to alcoholics and marijuana users. I have close friends and family who have and continue to abuse both substances. Both can be very damaging to abuser's lives and relationships. The difference is that many alcoholics are able to recognize that they have a problems and get their lives back together. Very few marijuana users will ever recognize or admit that they have a problem which is the first step in recovery.
I predict that the responses to this thread by marijuana advocates will once again be proof of this. It has been shown over and over and over again in study after study that marijuana is harmful especially to the brain but causes other circulatory problems as well, yet many advocates continue to insist that it causes no harm at all. And they do it right here on a conservative forum time after time. It is incredible.
Long term marijuana use has a strong association with mental illness. Family members Any health-care provider who has worked with marijuana users from first responders as I was to nurses as my wife was, to social workers and doctors can tell you this from their own observations.
Complicating the situation from a clinical standpoint is that marijuana users typically abuse other substances such as prescription medications, alcohol and other recreational drugs. So it is difficult to isolate the consequences in most cases. Curiously once a problem has been identified most abusers say that they are willing to give up anything and everything but marijuana. Yet advocates continue to insist that marijuana is not habit forming.
I have become a big fan of vaping.
It redeems even the crummiest pot, and is way easier on the lungs.
Edibles just don’t affect me the same way. It comes on slowly, and I’m more of an On/Off kinda guy.
Thanks for the ping!
Another pro-prohibitionist ‘study’.
I see no data regarding the diets of the subjects participating in this ‘study’.
Reads like a ‘study’ designed for a specific outcome to me.
There is a component in pot that that has anti-cancer properties - It could possibly save countless lives and decrease suffering in a big way.
I'm glad to see you admit that, even if you did so in a dismissive and smart alecky way.
You should want people to suffer and die early, because to do otherwise is against the law, said no normal conservative ever.
Back when I used to smoke, my friend had a vaper.
It was pretty good, but I was the guy who would always try to smoke the vaped bud after it was vaped. I’m pretty dumb like that.
I found those gummies to be quite nice though. they do take a while to onset, and they last quite a long time. Tasty little candies too, I have to say.
I don’t get to do this too often, bc I live in Florida, but on my recent vacation to Denver, my brother and I went by the head shop. That was an item on my bucket list.
Good times!
You built a whole monopoly game’s worth of strawmen in one paragraph lol!
No wonder democrats have made it legal!
Should pot be legal? Sure.
Given that long-term stoners can usually be identified quickly suggests that there is some physiological effect. Common sense tells you that long-term exposure to a substance that crosses the wires in your brain is not going to be harmless.
Thanks! Just for that, here’s my fave pot joke:
What’s the difference between a drunk driver and a stoned driver?
A drunk driver will blow past a stop sign. A stoned driver will wait for it to turn green.
;^)
This will benenfit libs since they have the mentality of children.
I am saving your post to quote from in the future because it is so incredibly accurate and should be repeated in every one of these threads. I have gone round and round in real life with people who are destitute but continue to flush their lives down the toilet. Marijuana becomes the most important component in their lives and they literally will refuse to give it up until their dying breath.
I have young kids.
Don’t want yummy gummies in my house!
It’s a big liability.
When I’m done with it, my vaped material smells like puffed rice cereal. All the active stuff has been stripped out.
I dump it in my garden. Seems like it would provide a good medium for plants to grow.
“I don’t think the states, which many are bankrupt and looking at billions in unfunded pension liabilities, will give a care less what the consequences are or might be to the commoners.”
It’s the commoners who are driving legalization, not governments. State governments are dragging their feet. The first 8 states to legalize were from ballot initiatives.
Govt is way out of step with the people on this issue.
In my experience... A drunk driver will blow past a stop sign. A stoned driver will argue for hours on Free Republic that the stop sign was green.
Definitely would not want kids anywhere near the gummies. That would be very bad.
If I had them with kids in the house, they would go in the safe.
I remember that smoking vaped bud tasted like burnt popcorn.
It was just awful.
“It’s the commoners who are driving legalization, not governments”
I don’t disagree.
Just saying that the reason governments have capitulated at this point in time is tax revenue. Same as why all of a sudden sports betting is fine and dandy, when not long ago it was a crime.
Asked another way, why would what was once seen as a vice now be legal and fine with the ‘authorities’? As is often said here: follow the money.
Pot is a mild sedative which can lead to users being less active than average. People who are couch potatoes have lower brain bloodflow and increased risk of dementia.
Of course the same couch potato effect can be caused by drinking, video games, TV, sleeping too much, masturbation, etc, etc, etc. We can’t ban everything that encourages laziness.
Their comparison versus alcohol is ludicrous. Alcohol abuse directly rots every single organ in the body including the brain. I’ve volunteered in rehab clinics and seen alcoholics who permanently have the brains of stroke victims. Some even had livers that were swollen out of their bodies. Pot abusers never came close and even the heaviest abusers all returned to normal function after 1-2 weeks max. Pot doesn’t seem to have much long term effects after quitting but people who enjoy it will sometimes use 24/7 and be perpetually impaired.
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