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Asked 4 years ago
by Caitiee01  United States |
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I think that I am willing to hear others opinions, and I am told that I get along with adults very well, and I can seem years beyond my age in most matters.
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[2 points] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyThe argument that MaryJane is a gateway drug is as bogus as it gets. Alcohol is 1000 times more likely to lead to other drugs than MJ. To 'directly' equate ANY death because of Marijuana usage is an outright lie. Nobody has EVER overdosed on Marijuana ... the same thing CAN NOT be said for alcohol. There are ALWAYS other contributing factors that are present when someone dies and pot is mentioned. As far as "DAWN", their statistics are self-serving ... without the statistics, their very reason for existing disappears.
Before someone accuses me of making a blanket statement that Marijuana has NEVER 'contributed' to an accident resulting in a death, that is NOT what I have stated. Read my 'full' comments.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyNo.
why not?
why?
Because it would be hypocritical for alcohol and tobacco to be legal but for marijuana to be illegal. A & T are responsible for over 500,000 deaths a year and marijuana usage responsible for none.
You can sit there with your bald face hanging out and make a blanket statement that marijuana was not a contributing factor to many automobile deaths and any deaths involved in raids on drug dealers? Methinks you spoke hastily.
Drug-raid deaths?
Something tells me there wouldn't be any of those if it wasn't illegal. But thanks, I hadn't thought of that.
This may enlighten you further. There was much more, but this should suffice.
DAWN also collects information on deaths involving drug abuse that were identified and submitted by 128 death investigation jurisdictions in 42 metropolitan areas across the United States. Cannabis ranked among the 10 most common drugs in 16 cities, including Detroit (74 deaths), Dallas (65), and Kansas City (63). Marijuana is very often reported in combination with other substances; in metropolitan areas that reported any marijuana in drug abuse deaths, an average of 79 percent of those deaths involved marijuana and at least one other substance.15
DAWN is Drug Abuse Warning Network.
Started new thread, close to edge.
You said the words. "at least one other substance". Marijuana has not caused death on its own.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyNope.
why not?
Because she's a mom now. You should have asked her what she would have said 30 years ago.
Right Mag? :-)
yes--same as alcohol
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[2 points] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyYeah, for me beer led to pot. Go figure, eh?
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyTobacco led to both of them. It's the REAL culprit. :-)
But like Ogden Nash said, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." And that's it in a nutshell, a sugar rush led to all of the hard stuff. Probably sugar is everybody's first high.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user Reply^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I second waugs' request.
Please someone make a legitimate case for why this should not be legal.
And as a special favour please explain why it should be treated any differently than alcohol or tobacco.
Thanks!
Yes
Down here MikeHend.
You mean this DAWN?
Information collected by DAWN is widely cited by drug policy officials, who have sometimes confused Drug-Related Episodes - emergency room visits induced by drugs - with Drug Mentions. The Wisconsin Department of Justice claimed, "In Wisconsin, marijuana overdose visits in emergency rooms equal to heroin or morphine, twice as common as Valium." Common Sense for Drug Policy called this as a distortion, noting, "The federal DAWN report itself notes that reports of marijuana do not mean people are going to the hospital for a marijuana overdose, it only means that people going to the hospital for a drug overdose mention marijuana as a drug they use"
I see nothing here that refutes that marijuana was instrumental in those auto accidents.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplySmoke it sometime and then you might have even the remotest clue about what you're talking about. Right now, you don't and you're embarrasing yourself with your ignorance on the topic.
I bet the majority vote "no" and you know why? A lot of the people that smoked it in the 60's, 70's, and 80's have kids or grandkids and they don't want them doing drugs. But it was okay when they were young. Isn't that a double standard?
I don't have kids so I can argue from the viewpoint of an 18 year old. :-)
I haven't smoked in the last five years but I would if it was legal and, for the record, I think it's less dangerous than tobacco (except while driving and then it's as dangerous as alcohol and intoxication should be handled identically).
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyHopefully I was wrong. Only 10 more votes needed for a majority. :-)
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyThe sad thing is I bet half the nay voters smoked it and inhaled at some point in their lives.
An even sadder thing is if just you and I abstained from voting the nays could have won instead of just breaking even (which they probably consider a win anyway).
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user Replyget yourself a vaporizer!
Unreal.
It's kinda disheartening when no case can be made for the prohibition,yet half the people think that it's valid.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyYAY!! We've solved the problem!
50%-50% who would have known?
The only reason that Marijuana is illegal in the first place is because many years ago the government made a deal with the crop growers to keep marijuana illegal, crop growers wouldnt have any competition or taxes and the government would make billions off of probation and fees for those who get caught with marijuana. So both crop growers and government win and that is my opinion as of why marijuana is illegal still to this day. Tsk tsk its all about the money...damn their selfish love for it.