Not this sh*t again...
Posted on 06/14/2018 7:53:46 PM PDT by kathsua
When a mass shooting occurs, some people act as if the guns themselves are responsible rather than the people who use them, Other people respond with the statement: "Guns don't kill people. People do." The statement is true because guns cannot independently affect the operation of the human brain.
The brain is a complex system controlled by the interaction of various chemicals. People use marijuana because it is one of the chemicals .that can affect the operation of the brain. Unfortunately, there is a dark side to marijuana. In addition to creating the sensation of feeling "high", marijuana can cause behavior that kills.
Marijuana has two ways of killing people. Marijuana reduces the brain's ability to detect and respond appropriately to danger such as when driving a car. Sometimes the marijuana user dies from a traffic accident. Sometime the person who dies was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Marijuana is associated with homicidal behavior. Marijuana violence often involves firearms. Some of this violence is due to marijuana's tendency to induce paranoia in some people. Marijuana heightens the sense of fear as it does the other senses.
The sense of smell can play a role in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD]. Police officers who have had a bad experience with drug dealers or marijuana users could become overly fearful if they smell marijuana on someone they are dealing with and be more likely to shoot than they would be otherwise. Government needs to finance research on this possibility.
I do have experience in how it changes people.
Years ago I worked nights and I would watch my nephew.
He smiled the biggest smiles and we had a great time together. He was fun to be with and we were best friends.
When he became a teen, he started smoking pot and continued to do so in college.
He's not that happy little boy anymore.
He became distant, uncaring, and cynical.
Whereas we used to have great fun talking, our 'conversations' amount to, 'I dunno. I don't care'.
Mind you he's doing well for himself. Steady job, a girlfriend but he's different.
Yes, there are other factors to consider (friends who smoked pot, high school and college indoctrination) but I will always believe it was pot that turned one of the happiest little boys in the world to a disillusioned cynical young man.
Stand up and change the damned law!! Otherwise we are sworn to uphold it!!
People are going to get stoned nomatter what. Be it a plant or various chemicals. We have people literally dropping dead from using various synthetic pot down the block from me. Or turning into mad zombies that feel no pain. Literally trying to eat people.
This kind of madness NEVER happens with cannabis.
If the WOD was truly about our safety, they would be banning all the deadly pills and alcohol that are currently sold almost like candy. You can buy and legally use drugs that are proven to cause death/violence. For things like insomnia, quitting smoking or even “stress”.
It’s an f’n joke. Nothing but a scam for government power and profit!
Not this sh*t again...
Tobacco kills people. Five gallon buckets kill people.
"People who drive under the influence of marijuana double their risk of being in a car crash, and about one in 10 daily marijuana users becomes dependent on the drug, according to a new review."
" adolescents who use cannabis regularly are about twice as likely as their nonuser peers to drop out of school, as well as experience cognitive impairment and psychoses as adults."
"here have been case reports of deaths from heart problems in seemingly otherwise healthy young men after they smoked marijuana,"
"Regular cannabis users also double their risk of experiencing psychotic symptoms and disorders such as disordered thinking, hallucinations and delusions — from about seven in 1,000 cases among nonusers to 14 in 1,000 among regular marijuana users, the review said. And, in a study of more than 50,000 young men in Sweden, those who had used marijuana 10 or more times by age 18 were about two times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia within the next 15 years than those who had not used the drug."
Wow, look at that strawman.
YEAH! Let's applaud federal usurpation!
Yeah, lets go back to the days where the WOD only grew the size and scope of government in every direction costing tax payers hundreds of billions. Go back to throwing pot users in cages! Brilliant!
Booze is a much bigger killer, sorry.
I like when a friend says he got 3 dui’s driving from one side of town to the other drunk but has logged over a half million miles driving around the country and has never done worse than missed an exit while smoking pot.
It sure might could be but I’m out of pop-tarts so I’ll have to miss the entertainment.
“Stand up and change the damned law!! Otherwise we are sworn to uphold it!!”
I assume, since you are a man of principle, you post that on abortion protest threads as well.
Can anyone point to one person who marijuana helped to make a better person?
That explains why they called me "Yosemite Larry." I kept smelling marijuana on folks.
Government needs to finance research on this possibility.
Yes! More research! More money for everyone! Wheee!
Tokin' Resistance
By Howard Stansfield, 12/12/96
Soros, who declined to comment for this story, writes that “the drug problem as primarily a criminal problem is a misconception” and that “eradicating the drug problem is a false idea.”source: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1996-12-12“A drug-free America is simply not possible. You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs.”
So what would he do?
“I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available,” he writes. “Initially, I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was obtained, I would keep raising the prices, very much like an excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime.”
Oh, spare me. I do not believe in solutions that are worse than the problem. And pot prohibition, IMO, meets that criteria.
Alcohol is much more deadly.
Medical marijuana used to be a way for recreational activities sers to get around the laws, but now that it is being legalized it has a lot of real promise for medicine.
Marijuana + genetic modification = super drugs in the near future.
It will replace addictive opiods as pain killers, sleeping pills, etc.
Dihydrogen oxide has marijuana beat
It’s your future.
How much is a pack of cigarettes now days?
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