Marijuana Myths

TheCollegeConservative ^ | 02/03/2012 | Alan Groves

[JustSayNoToNannies]

The thing is that marijuana stays in your system for 30 days or so depending on how much fat a person has or how much they smoke/eat/vape.

Inert metabolic byproducts are what stay in the system; if it was the active ingredient, users would stay high for 30 days.

[allmendream]

Symptoms of overdose may include:

drowsiness

inappropriate happiness

sharper senses than usual

changed awareness of time

red eyes

fast heartbeat

memory problems

feeling that you are outside of your body

mood changes

difficulty urinating

constipation

decreased coordination

extreme tiredness

difficulty speaking clearly

dizziness or fainting when standing up too fast

[JustSayNoToNannies]

To me it’s simple, GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT SEEK TO OR PROFIT FROM THE VICES OF THE GOVERNED. TO DO SO INVITES TYRANNY OF THE WORST KIND.

So you support an end to alcohol taxes?

[gundog]

...retailing at $100 per gram...

Many of Oregon's legal growers have quit becuase pot became so cheap that they couldn't cover their electrical bills.

[svcw]

There are fewer side effects from this drug then there are on my thyroid meds.

[rhombus]

OK you be scared and pony up the funds. That kind of hand-wringing is way down on my list of priorities about what threatens the Republic.

[allmendream]

California has defacto legalized it. It is for sale in more shops than Starbucks around here. All you need is $30 and to tell a Dr. you think it helps with stress or whatnot, and then you can shop at the corner store for it.

Where is the corresponding increase in addiction, violence, disorder and death in California from the time it went widely available in legal shops?

Speaking of being short of facts.....

[easternsky]

I personally have never met a Pot Head who did not have a scrambled brain. They have the Medical shops all over in California, set outside one for awhile and observe the consumers. Very enlighting.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

"Legalize marijuana, and the demand for marijuana goes up substantially as the deterrence effect of law enforcement disappears. Yet not many suppliers will operate legally, refusing to subject themselves to the established state regulatory scheme— not to mention taxation—while still risking federal prosecution, conviction, and prison time."

Laughable BS. As a first-year econ student could have predicted, when the drug alcohol was legalized, legally-operating suppliers sprung up, and illegal supply was rapidly relegated to a footnote.

[Osage Orange]

Had a friend awhile back go to a concert at a local Casino.

She lit up a cigarette..and got busted big time. All the while...people were burning weed at the same time. Ha!!

Maybe that was a one-time event. I dunno.

[gdani]

There is strong evidence to suggest that legalizing marijuana would serve little purpose other than to worsen the state’s drug problems— addiction, violence, disorder, and death

First, I think you mean RE-legalize.

Second, why haven't all those horrible things happened in countries where marijuana is legal or decriminalized?

Heck, in Ohio you can have up to 100 grams personal possession and all you get is a minor misdemeanor (like a jaywalking ticket).

Somehow, Ohio has not cracked to the point of falling into Lake Erie, though.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

I personally have never met a Pot Head who did not have a scrambled brain.

That's easily explained: the ones with unscrambled brains are able to hid their use.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Many of Oregon's legal growers have quit becuase pot became so cheap that they couldn't cover their electrical bills.

Competition is a good thing - price comes down and efficiency goes up.

[longtermmemmory]

just imagine how many people will die due to some pot head stoned and driving.

it happens now it will only get worse.

[rhombus]

Hard to believe someone would be able to smell tobacco if everyone was burning weed around them. But like I wrote, I haven’t seen anyone smoke anything at a concert in years.

[Responsibility2nd]

California has defacto legalized it. It is for sale in more shops than Starbucks around here. All you need is $30 and to tell a Dr. you think it helps with stress or whatnot, and then you can shop at the corner store for it.

Where is the corresponding increase in addiction, violence, disorder and death in California from the time it went widely available in legal shops?

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Really? Are you that clueless? You ask “Where is the corresponding increase ...”

Do you just skim by the many articles that show how these pot shops have created more crimes in the areas they are located? Locals are getting tired of them and are pressuring officials to run these dopers out.

[rottndog]

Fact from direct sources in California prisons. The violent offenders LOVE their pot.

Can't keep drugs out of PRISONS...how can we possibly keep people in a FREE society from obtaining and using????

The WOD is a complete and total failure--it can never succeed given the above statement. Drugs are more available and more potent than ever, primarily because of the prohibition fueled black market.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

just imagine how many people will die due to some pot head stoned and driving.

it happens now it will only get worse.

People die now due to someone drunk and driving. Is that sufficient reason to ban alcohol?

[USNBandit]

I think one could make the case that legalizing marijuana would put some extreme pressure on the cartels. Despite being involved in all the other trafficking, marijuana is still their major commodity. Not all things about legalization are good. If you go to Vancouver B.C. where marijuana is almost legal, the streets are littered with kids trafficking marijuana to pay for their own habit. It is pretty sad.

The real question would be the state of the illegal marijuana trade once the government figures out a way to tax marijuana.

Smuggling is a crime that really comes down to two factors; a price difference, and a geo-political boundary. A perfect example is the trafficking of cigarettes from North Carolina (low tax) to New York (high tax). That market is much smaller than the illegal marijuana trade, but it still exists.

If the price point was big enough, it might make the current cartel marijuana trade still a profitable one. If anybody here thinks that California is going to put a modest tax on legal marijuana, they are already smoking something.

One thing that has been really overlooked, while Janet Napolitano has been preaching "secure as it has ever been," is that the cartels are taking over domestic transshipment routes and marijuana production. The state and national forests in California are no longer safe because armed Mexicans are tending huge marijuana grows. The coke trade north to Canada used to be conducted by Americans and Canadians. Now that business is being done more by illegal Mexicans. Illegal aliens that the Obama administration won't deport until they have an extensive criminal record.

[numberonepal]

Inert metabolic byproducts

THC?