Posted on 08/20/2014 10:40:32 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Boy what a load of crap! I could bring several examples to him to prove many of those statements are ridiculously false. It is a gateway drug. It is addictive. And boy does it sure make the people I know that are on it apathetic and lazy. Was the author of this piece a blogger for a Soros’s funded community group by chance?
We already did this experiment. Pot criminalization phased in pretty slowly, with Alaska keeping it legal until the 90s. There were no effects on the general populace.
Not so - I read and debunk the Reefer Madness articles.
Because there is a faction of anti-MJ types that have their opinions based entirely on propaganda and false information. These types still believe "Reefer Madness" was a documentary.
This is useless.
Advocacy dressed up as objectivity.
It’s pathetic.
It doesn’t know what is solid and tangible (addictive) vs purely subjective (lazy).
This is not a serious defense of marijuana nor serious review.
I hate these amateur polemics.
So you correctly predicted I'd rebut your mischaracterization of my posting habits. You must be so proud.
You probably think “Reefer Madness” was a documentary, too, right? Lol. C’mon! You’re on FR! There has to be a bit of common sense in you somewhere. Quit basing your unrealistic fear of MJ on propaganda and lies!
The fallacy of the end of criminalization by legalization is being demonstrated on Colorado, right now. The Black market for marijuana is still thriving . Maybe the profit is lower, but the Black market is not slowing down a bit. In CA, where just about anyone can get what they call, medical marijuana, a young man, whose mother is an administrator at Western WA University ( where pot is legal) , is facing life in prison as the mastermind of a the robbery of a medical marijuana facility, that resulted in a murder.
You have to wonder why the young man didn’t just go to WA to get his supply.
Another good argument for relegalization - sellers of the legal drug alcohol don't doctor their product because legal products can be regulated.
How many street corner dealers are checking ID's? The legal shops here in CO are doing a MUCH better job of keeping pot out of kids' hands than any prohibitive measure does.
You are not a conservative.
Not because you say you’d vote to legalize marijuana. No, your reason.
” I have seen no...”
It’s all about you.
Marijuana is not something someone should make a habit of, neither is tobacco, alcohol or other mood altering substances, and marijuana use should be publicly discouraged with both formal and public education campaigns.
But, outright prohibition has created the same problems that alcohol prohibition did - actual crime (violence, murder, ect. over the drug trade), as well as creating virtual criminals out of everyone who partakes of it.
It is right that government help to deter marijuana use, through education, but criminalizing it and all who partake of it has not been worth the cost of the effort and its horrendous results.
The problem with the war on drugs use of the term “gateway” is that it is used with the intention of implying that if someone uses marijuana, particularly as a teen, they are likely to become a user of “harder” drugs later on.
But gateway cannot be used or understood in that fashion, because among the millions who try marijuana as a teenager or very young adult - college, or military - MOST neither become regular long term marijuana users or hard drug users.
The real “gateway” is not merely a drug, but an entire set of circumstances in someone’s life, of which the drug use is one part.
Feel free.
Cinematic evidence that pot makes you smarter:
“Dave’s not here”
“Dude, where’s my car?”
” All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.”
“That was my skull! I’m so wasted! “
Alaska has a very small population. More states with larger populations will give a better idea of the effects of pot legalization on the country.
Tell that to jsanders2001, who claims in post #21 that pot does make users lazy.
Lowering criminal profits sounds like a good thing to me.
Everyone knows it makes people lazy.
People who deny it are idiots.
People that think it is a scientific criterion that can be quantified are dopes.
You know a pot smoker, you can see the effects. Not much analysis required.
I actually found this article to be (seemingly) well balanced. It admits smoking weed is harmful, as harmful as smoking tobacco. This is something most libertarians who smoke pot won’t admit.
I’d at least like to see someone post something that refutes the studies cited in the OP.
Going back and forth from “tolitarians” to “stoners” and every ad hom inbetween doesn’t get us very far.
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