Colorado Deaths Stoke Worries About Pot Edibles

Denver CBS local ^ | 4/18/14 | gurman

[Yardstick]

I wonder what Western Civilization would be like if it had steered clear of alcohol.

[Rashputin]

A Diarrhea to the point of death from dehydration common would have been common Cholera outbreaks, and Hepatitis would be far more common (it's not just transmitted sexually but in food and water as well). Wine and Beer were and still can be good substitutes for locally available impure water.

[CaspersGh0sts]

I admit people to the hospital on a fairly regular basis that are psychotic and hallucinating while smoking or consuming marijuana. Many are hearing the voice of God and/or Satan. Many others think that others are out to hurt them, including their loved ones.

You can see how that could very easily end up in tragedy. I say tragedy, but I consider it an assumed risk of consuming a mind-altering substance.

[Yardstick]

Well that’s true, it does have some health benefits. Of course most of them are irrelevant now. So the next question is, going forward, does alcohol help or hurt our society?

[ansel12]

Backwards, like the cultures that have mostly done that.

Alcohol was almost indispensable to civilization, it is why new theories are crediting beer with civilization, and its abundant mention in the bible.

[jospehm20]

“the issues with pot can be largely addressed through better regulations”

That’s the ticket! Is it just me or is this really the lib answer for pretty much everything?

[jospehm20]

Alcohol makes people drive better too, ask any drunk.

[USNBandit]

Pot is legal in WA. Starting to see BC weed coming across the border again. Haven’t seen weed coming across in a couple years.

[Rashputin]

People who want to legalize pot and other drugs are disgusting in part because they refuse to look at the massive amount of damage alcohol, a drug, does to society.

Beer and wine were dinner table beverages in a lot of families even for the kids where I grew up and there are very few people to this day who, IMHO, abuse consumption of those two to the detriment of anyone but themselves.

Liquor? I've seen more women and children nearly beaten to death by the "man" of the house who was drunk and pissed off at them than I've seen men beaten badly for all reasons combined. If the "man" of the house had tried the same thing at a bar or club he'd have been throttled and under arrest in short order.

For full disclosure, I like some brands of Scotch and fifth lasts me around a year, maybe ten months on average. I don't know how you make it illegal but I don't know how you can say it's anything other than that on balance it's a curse, one I wouldn't miss if it all vanished overnight.

[Rashputin]

What's your problem?

Isn't infantacide working "just fine" now that it's legal and well regulated?

Oh, (sarc), if you really need it.

[higgmeister]

Paul McCartney's (a huge dope champion) production after the sixties was mostly garbage. He wasn't the only big name, dope-smoking rock and roller who did all their best work early, and then produced crap later.

Heart of the Country - 1971
Band on The Run - 1973
Jet - 1973
Live and Let Die - 1973
My Love - 1973
Listen to What the Man Said - 1975
Silly Love Songs - 1976
Let 'Em In - 1976
Mull of Kintyre - 1977
London Town - 1978
Girlfriend - 1978
With a Little Luck - 1978
Rockestra Theme - 1978
Goodnight Tonight - 1979
Daytime Nighttime Suffering - 1979
Wonderful Christmastime 1979
Coming Up - 1980
Ebony and Ivory - 1982
Take it Away - 1982
Pipes of Peace - 1983
No More Lonely Nights 1984
C'Mon People - 1993
Hope of Deliverance - 1993
Freedom - 2001
Ever Present Past - 2007

Or it could be that people get older and escape the passion of their youth.

But whatever the case, at the age of seventy one, Sir Paul McCartney (net worth 1.1 billion dollars) can fill any arena, auditorium or stadium in the World.

He is currently on his "Out There! Tour" and your comment makes me suspect that you may be the person on drugs.

[DH]

What amazes me the most about the legalization of marijuana is the fact that smoking it is “good” while smoking a tobacco cigarette is “bad.”

What is up is down, what is down is up in the smoking Bizarro world of smoke Nazis.

[Yardstick]

And now that alcohol has enabled the existence of Western Culture, does it help us or hurt us going forward?

[driftless2]

Yeah, I saw McCartney in Milwaukee last summer. At least I saw a tiny figure 400 feet away. His best songs are still his sixties songs. You’re like my wife who loves everything he did... even all his slop. Which is what his post-sixties output was.

[Ditter]

Maybe the Coloradans who voted for this didn’t consider the children who would die after eating tainted cookies that were not meant for children.

[dhs12345]

Exactly. And when people get sick from it and the lawsuits begin, whine about the evils of pot and act like you are our heroes (when you have been getting tax revenues from it all along) and then demand your cut of the “take” when the lawsuits are in done. And then spend the money on pet projects and not on “pot” education, etc. as promised.

That is how the game works here in Colorado.

[dhs12345]

Wow. So it is true.

Boy have we been sold a bill of goods.

[the_daug]

The war on drugs or legalize pot? The war on drugs prepared the way for a militarized police state. Now militarization is almost complete it is ok to legalize drugs and take over the health system. You need pacify the masses. Almost /S

[ansel12]

Shouldn’t you be starting a thread on that bizarre question rather than hijacking one on drugs?

[Yardstick]

Well, you answered my first question about alcohol with such enthusiasm that I thought I’d ask a second.