Posted on 04/17/2014 3:46:00 PM PDT by kingattax
Every day, the push toward national legalization of marijuana seems more and more inevitable. As more and more politicians and noted individuals come out in favor of legalizing or at least decriminalizing different amounts of pot, the mainstream acceptance of the recreational use of the drug seems like a bygone conclusion.
But before we can talk about legalization, have we fully understood the health effects of marijuana?
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persistent marijuana users show neuropsychological decline as they age. numerous studies have supported that conclusion.
Correct! Anyone who is unable to connect the dots on this one must he high! On something!!!
That’s ok, thanks to socialized medicine and welfare the healthy can pay for all of these brain abnormalities.
I have to wonder, with all the monkeys in cages subjected to enormous amounts of marijuana smoke for years at a time in goverment labs, why none of those researchers ever noted brain changes in those subjects? are monkeys immune to the effects?
Studies have shown that moderate alcohol consumption yields some health benefits. The key is moderation.
This study on MJ seems to suggest that even a small amount of pot consumption can result in neurological damage.
These two things are neither equal or the same.
It’s probably behind the increasing popularity of conspiracy tales (paranoia).
Anyone who can’t see the advantages of liberty ought to be on something.
www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/...Obama/.../Illegal_Drugs/
Jul 27, 2012 - President Obama has admitted that in his youth he used marijuana and ... stated that he "drank heavily" and "tried drugs enthusiastically." ... What the president said during the campaign, you'll be surprised to .... Amen to that!
Hey bong man, we are discussing weed not alcohol.
You must be correct because half the Ron Paul supporters are on something.... or behave like it
Our Founding Fathers would be mortified to find out that their "liberty" has been appropriated to mean "liberty to legally smoke marijuana"
Marijuana has many well-documented health benefits. It can also be abused, like anything else. It is especially dangerous to developing teenager brains.
Alcohol is many more times dangerous, however. And to deny the economic threat and resulting bias against it from pharmaceutical and chemical companies is inexcusable.
Overall, weed’s benefits vastly outweigh it’s threats FOR ADULTS, especially when compared with the daggers of alcohol and prescription anti-anxiety and antidepressant meds.
And that’s not even getting into what possible legal right the government has in deciding what a person can or cannot ingest. That old problem of freedom gets in the way over and over again.
You know what the difference is between someone who smokes weed, and someone who smokes weed and commits an injury against someone else while under the influence?
Everything.
Flashback: Obama’s Sordid High School Past
by Ben Shapiro 10 May 2012
Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.
In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.”
The rest of Obama’s admitted past
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/10/Obama-High-School-Drugs
Personally I think alcohol is way more detrimental than Pot.
But everybody handles themselves or reacts differently.
I know guys that “Wake and Bake” and are on top of their game. I’ve worked alongside of top exec’s from the CEO and all his top exec’s that smoked while running a multi-multi million dollar business. Well over $100 million in revenue.
Some people get paranoid and just want to chill, while others can get extraordinarily creative.
From my experience, alcohol may provide an initial boost of energy and creativity, but lends itself to mind numbing indifference.
There are a lot of really smart and creative people that are complete social misfits. With one or two drinks, they begin to feel comfortable in expressing themselves. Some can’t stop drinking.
Alcohol is highly addictive where as pot is not.
I’m old school, and recall “Lemmon 714’s”, drunk in a pill.
I recall buying dime bags of “Mexican” weed.
I recall “angel dust” (seriously F**ked up S**t)
I don’t smoke pot today, but would rather have access to pot than access to alcohol. Alcohol is evil. Vodka is really evil.
When someone smokes a joint, they don’t want another joint and another joint. That’s the difference.
Maybe it’s just me.
What the founders would understand is that it’s none of your business what someone else takes.
People do abuse alcohol it is true. But most people have a few drinks and that is it. They self moderate. Pot users on the other hand go for the full blown brain bake - every time. I have never seen someone just take one hit and say no more. They smoke the thing until it burns their fingers while some else is rolling another one.
As long as it is your teenager smoking it, I’m cool with it.
Weak are the worshippers of a weed. Looks like they’re brain damaged, too.
What a crock. Nobody is advocating making pot legal for minors.
Pot users on the other hand go for the full blown brain bake - every time
Not true, from what I have experienced.
No more likely than whether welfare cheats might take a real job.
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