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To: LongTimeMILurker

Drug compounds can have many deleterious effects short of death, so I’m not sure what your point is about the coroner’s office.

Coroners list the known cause of death of each body. They have listed alcohol poisoning as the cause of death many times. They have never listed marijuana as a cause of death.

You know what I'm getting at. You responded to post 10 as though the below questions didn't exist there.

In how many deaths has alcohol been determined to be the cause of death? 
In how many deaths has marijuana been determined to be the cause of death?

What percentage of people that consume alcohol die from it?
What percentage of people that consume marijuana die from it?

What's the ratio of people that act out violently under the influence of alcohol? 
What's the ratio of people that act out violently under the influence of marijuana?

Who should decide what a person puts or doesn't put into their body, the individual or the government?

20 posted on 07/27/2007 8:04:12 PM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Zon

I was probably mainly responding to the last question. Between the words and lines, it is clear that you either support legalization or no enforcement. From the standpoint that the war on drugs has been a failure, your case is made. Personally, regardless of how many deaths are attributed to alcohol versus marijuana, the other nonlethal effects preclude my support for legalization. You really have to wonder about why in almost all other countries, it is also not legal. Certainly they did their own tests in some of those countries. They must not have liked the effects marijuana had on their own citizens.


23 posted on 07/28/2007 11:18:40 AM PDT by LongTimeMILurker
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