Posted on 10/06/2014 6:05:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A definitive 20-year study into the effects of long-term cannabis use has demolished the argument that the drug is safe. Cannabis is highly addictive, causes mental health problems and opens the door to hard drugs, the study found.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I never heard a peep about scientific studies before pot was legalized.
Folks will argue that the study is skewed to favor a given outcome. Could be, but the fact remains that folks who have chosen, and continue to choose, to use pot fry their brains. Their choice. But they should know the effects over time. The very folks who object to THIS report have absolutely NO PROBLEM with the anti-smoking jihad that’s gone on for 30 years.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 John Adams
I understand that. Do you agree that supporting marijuana prohibition based on 'societal costs', is also supporting the argument of food-nannies, who are rapidly gaining control over what we eat?
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Do you favor laws against drunk driving. Or street sign laws?
Yes. Yes.
This study talks about long term use, but then seems to mostly focuses on teens and adolescents... I don’t think anybody for legalization is for letting kids use it any more than they are legal to drink beer or any alcohol.
Here is my 2 cents for anybody interested.
First off, in the short run, I think Colorado has had pretty positive results over all with tax revenue up and crime statistics down with just a short time to judge by so far, compared to prohibition tactics and the “war on drugs”.
Besides that, the only thing I can judge by is my own personal observations, at almost 50 years old now, I have a solid 30 years “adult life” being aware of drugs & alcohol in general and the people I know who are pot smokers have in the long term been far ahead of the alcoholics as far as living a happy and productive life. The Meth & Coke heads are the ones that both destroy families and seem to go to jail long term with most regularity. Strangely enough a large percentage of those pot smokers are the group that look young for their age and I have heard more than a few of them call it their “fountain of youth”. I started working as a drafter at 20 years old, working with a guy that was mid 40’s and wanted to share his wealth of life knowledge with a young wet behind the ears kid. He told me he started smoking at 15 and smoked daily within a few years of starting, now over 70 and still a daily smoker, there is one example of a good 50 years of daily use and still a clean and perfect bill of health... btw, his perspective gateway drug... his 2 big brothers started him out with speed, coke and lsd back in the early 60’s when he was just a teen, when he started smoking weed, the rest of the hard stuff got phased out because he realized how much better he felt in the morning after smoking weed than he did after using all that other crap...
I have another friend that was the biggest anti-pot person I have ever met, for the first 20 years I knew him. Thought they were all losers and low life people. Almost divorced his wife early on when she tried it at a party one night. He was a big guy, like 6’5 with size 16 foot, a big beer drinker, until he started having knee problems and foot problems, where he had to have multiple surgeries. He was on pain meds so often, he could not drink and finally just quit. Well within a few years, after being on prescription drugs and pain management for over 5 years, feeling like a zombie, asked his Doctor about Marijuana when Arizona legalized for medical use. His Dr. was all for it, went to bat for him and he was one of the first few hundred legal in Arizona. When he did start smoking, he just quit all the other prescriptions, thinking if this was going to work, it was going to work by itself, not in addition too... he has been off all that man made crap for 3 years now and feels like he has a life again. He does edibles, comes home from work and eats a couple cookies and smokes a little bit while waiting for the cookies to kick in... He has gotten his 70 y/o Mom to get her card for arthritis pain and his grandmother who had been wheel chair bound for over 5 years her card and now 2 years later the 95 year old woman is so spry she is up and around on her own every day. Both of them use a tincture he makes and they put under their tongue. There is a valid medical use for it and nobody will ever convince me otherwise!
Yeah It is a joke to a good portion of them when you can get a card for anything at all... Chronic severe pain from all these 19 year old kids, but that is the way the law was written and passed. I have a friend that got his card and went off a bunch of hard drugs with a long term pain management program, that made him feel like a zombie. He was telling me about farmers markets he went to and was amazed at how the majority of the people buying and selling were in the 40 and over crowd, many 60’s and up. There were that good portion of younger kids there too, that you mention, it was those kids the older people had there product asking for a 300 to 400 per ounce donation, like the younger vendors had theirs priced at. When my buddy talked to the vendors his age bracket, the “donation” he made was as little as half that... that was early on after Arizona legalized medically, all those farmers markets and clubs for donations have gone away now that the state licensed dispensaries opened up and taxing it.
Revenue has been below expectations. Where have you heard otherwise?
How is the crop in your neck of the woods?
Sugar is seldom used in any product now, it's all sugar substitutes.
I have one a day with a glass of milk.
LEgalized marijuana is a trial lawyer’s dream. Legally, it’s a tobacco that also causes impairment. Win-win.
On what planet?
Unless it says "diet" or "sugar free".....it's sugar. Donuts, other pastries, soda pop, ketchup, relish, coffee (with cream and sugar) any candy. You name it.
And any white flour products immediately turn to sugar when you ingest them.
Where have you been?! You go read some labels on food. They use high fructose corn syrup and aspartame. None of the soda has sugar in it now. Neither do ice teas. Gum uses aspartame. Hunt’s ketchup uses sugar, Heinz doesn’t. CHECK LABELS.
You need to pay attention to labels.
Uh....what exactly is "fructose"?
I do, I also took chemistry and biology.
As far as your system is concerned, sugar is sugar. And starch is also sugar.
High-fructose corn syrup is processed corn syrup. It leaves an after taste but it’s cheaper than sugar.
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