10 Surprising Side Effects To Legalizing Marijuana

We’re seeing an experiment in action. Over the past few years, more and more countries and states have been legalizing marijuana, and we’re finally getting to see what effect it really has.

There have been all kinds of predictions. The naysayers have been sure that legalizing pot will all but bring the world to its doom, with drug abuse and crime running rampant. And on the other side, pot advocates have all but suggested that it’ll usher in a new era of peace and prosperity, where mankind finally settles its differences over a toke.

Enough time has passed now, though, that we can pretty definitively say what really happened—and it’s not all what you might expect.

When you legalize weed, it seems, you replace a lot of your drunk drivers with high drivers. And that has some interesting side effects.

First off, legalizing marijuana definitely leads to more people smoking marijuana. In Colorado, adult marijuana use has gone up by 29 percent since it was legalized. But a lot of those people picking up joints are putting down beer bottles, especially before driving.

Drunk driving, in Washington state, has gone down nearly 33 percent since 2007. High driving has gone up about 50 percent—but its hard to get much meaning out of that, because marijuana stays in the bloodstream for weeks after the effects wear off.

"Look at the homeless problem, much/most caused by alcoholism. There really is no argument about personal dangers and social costs."

I think your much like those folks that argue that "pit bulls" are just as harmless as any other dog... It's all in the way they're treated they say. You just have to train them properly they say... They REFUSE to look at the numbers right before their eyes..

I would like to say this to you.. My last word on the subject.. Why do you suppose it's only the Godless democrats that support legalizing drugs for all.? Why is it only democrats that support open borders..? I'll tell you why and you can think on it... It's to bring about the distruction of the moral and social fabric of our nation... Want proof..?? Take a look at California this very day... Look at Boston... Take time to look at other states, Cities and parts of our county ran by the dimocraps… Narcotics, POT is the tool used to gain leverage over the fool.....

That's my humble opinion... Adios...……..

When you base law upon lies...1938 to 1951The terrific reputation that marijuana got in the late 30s and early 40s stemmed from something Anslinger had said. Does everybody remember what Anslinger said about the drug? "Marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
Well, this time the magic word -- come on lawyers out there, where's the magic word? -- Insanity. Marihuana use, said the Government, would produce insanity.
And, sure enough, in the late 30s and early 40s, in five really flamboyant murder trials, the defendant's sole defense was that he — or, in the most famous of them, she — was not guilty by reason of insanity for having used marijuana prior to the commission of the crime.
All right, it's time to take you guys back to class here. If you are going to put on an insanity defense, what do you need? You need two things, don't you? Number one, you need an Expert Witness.
Where, oh where, in this story, are we going to find an expert witness? Here it comes -- sure enough -- the guy from Temple University -- the guy with the dogs. I promise you, you are not going to believe this.
In the most famous of these trials, what happened was two women jumped on a Newark, New Jersey bus and shot and killed and robbed the bus driver. They put on the marijuana insanity defense. The defense called the pharmacologist, and of course, you know how to do this now, you put the expert on, you say "Doctor, did you do all of this experimentation and so on?" You qualify your expert. "Did you write all about it?" "Yes, and I did the dogs" and now he is an expert. Now you ask him what? You ask the doctor "What have you done with the drug?" And he said, and I quote, "I've experimented with the dogs, I have written something about it and" — are you ready — "I have used the drug myself."
What do you ask him next? "Doctor, when you used the drug, what happened?"
With all the press present at this flamboyant murder trial in Newark New Jersey, in 1938, the pharmacologist said, and I quote, in response to the question "When you used the drug, what happened?", his exact response was: "After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat.
He wasn't done yet. He testified that he flew around the room for fifteen minutes and then found himself at the bottom of a two-hundred-foot high ink well.

Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall

FRiend, a close friend (whose family runs tobacco warehouses for Reynolds and others) went to Brazil for a “state of the art” warehouse tour. Allowed to wander through the facility— way in the back, piled to the ceiling— shrinkwrapped pallets of weed (not baccy, weed) with RJR logos on the lading slips. Anecdotal, true— but I believe him and his family (held to silence by their business relationships, all powerfully democrat machine linked).

They don’t have to own growing operations, and they can very well be backing vaping. You should look into the reasons why hemp was, for decades, held in the same context as cannabis sativa— in the nascent days when jazz age narcotics squads (and the feds) listed cannabis as a narcotic, they banned hemp along with c.sativa. This was due to heavy press linkage and advocacy from the Hearst newspaper dynasty. Hearst and his pulpwood/lumber baron pals controlled the production and cost of newsprint (like controling the current MSM electronic media), and faced new competitors who were buying hemp based paper and able to publish for much cheaper costs. So— they called all cannabis... narcotic, and banned hemp. Hemp had to have a wartime emergency lifting of the ban for WWII war effort (ship’s hawser ropes, and other hemp fiber uses in aircraft, truck tarps etc.). Hemp that is genetically modified to produce ONLY cannabidiol has been patented by Israeli inventors— CBD oil is a very real, pharmacologically important non-opiod pain medication produced from a non-narcotic cannabis varietal. But pharma is trying to shut it down— cause it doesn’t have addictive properties (am serious about this).

Finally, as all good democrats (big D) democrats should— one should read the biography of Dick Reynolds. Those who can because of their monopoly oligarchy- influence the govt. through “sin” taxes such that an entire federal tax agency can be named (Bur. of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) to justify federal policing of the taxes on the basis of the huge revenue it brings in— is well positioned to introduce another legalized addictive product, for the sake of “needed revenue”. It is what leftist democrats have done since 1900’s, the big machine D democrats. Who still run (using RINO senators) NC, the country’s largest producer/exporter of bonded tobacco. Tobacco, which has the highly addictive component-— nicotine (more addictive than heroin).

Dig up the lobbyists in tobacco— dig deep. The “taxes” as justification for “legalization” is virtually the same, and Tobacco has the entire history of the country as a precedent, from it’s early introduction to colonists as a sacred Indian ritual, and not a daily habit— to become an exportable cash crop to Britain and then the world. Our revolutionary history as a nation stems from the taxation of tradable cash equivalent commodities. Personally, am conflicted with pharmacology knowledge vs the reality of this country as a completely stoned unhealthy nation. The elitist view is-— “give the masses the high they want, we can control them using the revenue derived from their habit”. All cultures seek chemical agents to escape reality— be they peyote, coca, ghat, opium (see: Boxer Rebellion and the British Empire enslavement of a nation), or what have you. Not a priest, or a puritan— just a factual observer.

It is equally ludicrous (saying this as a Southerner) that the Alcohol Beverage Control system of some Southern states is structured with state stores and central purchasing of booze and distribution by State governments with sales revenues allocated back to those counties-— you know... “for the children and schools”. And the concurrent illegal business in moonshine (an even greater American tradition— again fought over taxes, long before there was a Boston “tea” party). The Regulator war, in particular— really like your name tag btw— was the first volley in our American Revolution, and it began in North Carolina.

Yes, CBD that is the new highly concentrated derivative from hemp plants genetically modified and patented (plants)— is the coming thing. And also, some people really do need opiods because of their end-stage or extreme pain indices.

Am taking some heat on this thread, with people saying I’m making crap up about big Tobacco backing “legalization” of marijuana for medical reasons (because marijuana is a narcotic,and CBD cannabidiol is not), positioning themselves to monopolize production of pot cigarettes and of the “growers” as well. They as an industry have to power to do so.

Here’s some irony— you know who just became the head lobbyist for the “cannabis” “industry”— John “hiccup” Boehner (whose daughter is married to a Rastafarian Jamaican former posse member— imagine that kind of gangnam pressure on him, he with his considerable addiction problems of his own).

But yeah-— CBD oil can be vaped, or rubbed on sore joints topically. It is an amazing breakthrough, and many neurologist friends are excited at it’s potential for epileptic seizure control in tumor patients. A medical assistance sorely needed.

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