Research shows health benefits for moderate consumption of alcohol.
I’m sure some prescriptions for beer and wine were written.
Suppose they were - was that wrong?
Was Prohibition a good policy? Should we bring it back?
Another argument for the end of prohibition was that it would stop gang violence in the national war to control the illegal sale of booze. But the end of prohibition did not end alcohol abuse and addiction, or end organized crime gangs and their violence.
It got them out of the alcohol trade, as the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce reported.
Legalizing pot will do no better.
Please check out the California Narcotics Officers Association (CNOA) papers on medical marijuana and the legalization of marijuana. There’s no benefit found in smoking marijuana that can’t be more safely achieved with other prescription medications.
Here's what real medical professionals say:
"there is no clear alternative for people suffering from chronic conditions that might be relieved by smoking marijuana, such as pain or AIDS wasting."
- "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base", Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
How can we teach our children that smoking tobacco is bad for everyone, but smoking marijuana is good?
Stupid straw man - by allowing Vicodin to be prescribed, are we teaching our children that "taking Vicodin is good"?
anyone who uses “medical pot” should have their license automatically suspended “for medicinal purposes”.
We already have doctors required to report when specific drugs are prescribed which impair driving. Those licenses are pulled during treatment.