Posted on 06/10/2017 6:19:46 AM PDT by rktman
Unfortunately I have friends this happened to. They lost their retirement. There are apparently big issues with insurance covering the damage in these cases.
Agree. Marijuana is no safer or worse than alcohol or tobacco. Contrary to the claims, smoking it is about as bad as smoking tobacco, both of which coat the respiratory membrane with resinous materials. Alcohol casuses several types of cancer and liver cirrhosis. Pick your own poison.
About what I expected...
In the article, the author links to another article, stating: “For those who think legalizing marijuana is harmless, go read this article. Read every word, from top to bottom. Then read it again. This, folks, is our future.”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/pot-biz-bullies-itself-into-idyllic-oregon-valley/
I’m not saying I agree or disagree with any of it, just providing the additional link from the author. :)
If you think the only two kinds of people in the world are potheads and compulsive shoppers, you don't need to kill any more brain cells.
Funny but unfortunately not true. Their reaction time is retarded so they tend not to notice when traffic has stopped until they have connected with the car in front of them. All the potheads around here drive around with front end damage.
Um... I've done that while perfectly sober. You have to wait a long time for that sign to change...
He designed Poison Oak/Ivy too however it’s negative effects are just more immediately noticeable.
That’s harsh, bro.
Thanks. I could have done that too but apparently I didn’t. And, I ain’t smokin’ no wacky tabbacky either. LOL!
P.S. To babbe-on and logi_cal869-——Sounds like someone needs to fire up a joint here. ;-) Sharing is caring.
Soma.
Traditionally, marijuana has not been the subject of medical research. Now that it is becoming legalized in many states, researchers are studying it. What they are learning is, for the most part, pretty incriminating.
Marijuana interferes with proper brain development. Since brain development continues until about age 25, this means that anyone younger than 25 who uses marijuana is very likely to suffer permanent alterations in brain function as a result. One such alteration is linked with psychosis. Another affects initiative (the user can’t be motivated to do anything other than seek the next high).
One of my research staff is studying the use of cannabidiol for treatment of epilepsy. Cannabidiol is not the psychoactive component of marijuana. I do not know if cannabidiol causes the deleterious effects of smoking marijuana—if it does, it will never get FDA approval for treating epilepsy, even if it is effective.
Like the unintended (under a charitable interpretation) consequences of anti-pot laws: driving the market beyond the reach of effective regulation, and putting law-inflated profits in the hands of violent criminals.
Laid back, man. [...] a grim picture of a stoned society: [...] crime
So they're laid-back lotus eaters going on crime sprees? Few things are funnier than watching a nanny-statist frantically contradicting himself.
increased emergency room visits
No reference given - presumably the usual BS about ER "mentions" which mean only that when asked if they'd used pot recently they said yes. About as meaningful as asking them if they'd eaten a hamburger recently.
DUIIs
No reference given - presumably the usual BS about how drivers pulled over tested positive for THC, which proves only that they'd used in the past few weeks.
tantamount to reproducing the effects of Prohibition.
Where has this stooge been for the last 40-plus years? Anti-pot laws have already reproduced the effects of Prohibition: (to repeat) driving the market beyond the reach of effective regulation, and putting law-inflated profits in the hands of violent criminals.
And those are merely the choicest bits of foolishness in this exceptionally stupid article.
Geez. Remember when doctors touted cigarettes? Wonder what the findings will be 50 years from now on long term pot usage. I’m 9+ weeks clean of tobacco and there is a definite difference in the coughing and mucous generation. Nearly ZERO now. Do I want one? Hell yes but I made a promise to Mrs rktman for her birthday back in April and there is NO WAY I can go back on that one. Thanks for your input.
Synthetic THC, psychoactive, has FDA approval.
Should they be banned? What about alcohol - know to have negative health efects? I say no and Hell no.
LOL! Well, one persons “stupid article” is mere information for others. And I know a LOT of folks who toke up on a regular basis. I play music with a lot of them. It’s just not my thing.
We do see more ER visits and I admit more to the hospital. Cyclic vomiting syndrome is the biggest reason. Marijuana also causes huge issues with other medical problems We are now having to design treatment plans for pain control in chronic marijuana users because the traditional opiates are not effective and their pain requires medications like ketamine for control. This is a big issue for injuries at ski areas where a large percentage of the injured are chronic pot heads. Push you favorite intoxicant all you want but it is not the benign substance some think it is
I think that was a result of political pressure. I have looked for and not found results of clinical trials into the efficacy and safety of THC in the treatment of specific conditions--trials that are necessary for any *other* drug to be FDA approved. There is also no medical literature supporting the use of THC as a treatment for any condition. So, based on the lack of evidence, I have to conclude that the FDA approval of THC was politically motivated, based on the same propaganda that NORML has been promoting for years. You know the propaganda--that marijuana is some sort of miracle drug, whose use has been banned to bolster the profits of Big Pharma, etc., etc. Unfortunately, propaganda is not equivalent to actual evidence.
In the late 1800s/early 1900s, the citizens of the United States recognized that the deleterious effects of drug addiction were incompatible with a free and functioning society, with the effect that psychoactive drugs were banned. I'm afraid we have to learn those lessons all over again. How many citizens made useless by drug addiction can society support? Especially now, when we already have a quite sizable dependent class?
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