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To: bassmaner

I agree

I used it in the past (15 years ago) and so I know from experience that is it far less harmful than alcohol when used in moderation


6 posted on 06/26/2006 8:28:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: Mr. K

Even recreational marijuana use should be allowed. Any argument to keep marijuana illegal can be applied to alcohol (times 10).


11 posted on 06/26/2006 8:44:48 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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To: Mr. K
I used it in the past (15 years ago) and so I know from experience that is it far less harmful than alcohol when used in moderation

It is, on available statistics, far less harmful than alcohol even when used in immoderation. No amount of marijuana will, for example, despite the best efforts of the Calif. Hwy Patrol, and others, to demonstrate otherwise, significantly impair the safety of a driver. In fact, in many of the tests they ran, the marijuana users were safer than non-users, because they became more deliberate and more in-the-moment than the control drivers--the upside of lowered short-term memory. You might ask yourself why alcohol is, according to the CHP, impairing above a .02 blood level, but no such measure exists for marijuana--CHP put a lot of expensive effort into establishing just such a number, and failed.

16 posted on 06/26/2006 9:05:34 AM PDT by donh (U)
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