People die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed - they wreck their cars, fall off stuff, make bad decisions around machinery, etc.
Ditto for alcohol - should government ban it?
Way to change the subject.
It was the subject of the text you replied to: "The government banned ...".
If you noticed, I offered no opinion one way or another about legalizing or not legalizing. I simply corrected your false statement;
Not my statement.
people do die every day while under the influence of that commonly-occurring weed, period.
Nobody ever died from the proximate cause of using marijuana - but many have died from the proximate cause of using alcohol.
Funny thing is, because laws against driving while under the influence of drugs don’t always prevent people from driving under the influence . . .
They have another law to prevent people from sitting still under the influence.
“Nobody ever died from the proximate cause of using marijuana - but many have died from the proximate cause of using alcohol.”
Correct and specific. Do you think we should not count marijuana-related/alcohol-related deaths when discussing the legalization question? Doesn’t that kind of distort the discussion?
Personally, my opinion is that we should legalize or quasi-legalize, but let’s be honost and open-eyed about it. We should not assert or imply that lives are not harmed by using the drug.