Some questions I like to ask the Dopes about its status in Colorado...some on this thread may attempt to answer:
1. If marijuana is harmless, should there be an age restriction? If so, why?
2. Should a pregnant woman smoke marijuana? If not - why?
3. Should people on welfare be drug tested for marijuana?
4. Should driving under the influence of marijuana be allowed?
5. If not, what is the limit...and how is it tested?
6. If a driver/pilot/train conductor has marijuana in his system after an accident, should he be criminally charged?
7. Should a CDL truck driver (who has a 0.0 BAC limit for DUI) have a similar prohibition against weed? If so, why?
8. How many hard drug users do you know, who never tried marijuana?
9. Is marijuana addictive? If not, why did Ricky Williams quit football to go smoke?
The answers you get to these questions will be evasive, and full of conspiracy theories about the DEA and beer companies...and will generally have a paranoid tone.
You can’t argue with a stoner.
Stoners have lost their good judgement. I did some research recently on mj. It is so far from harmless that the stoners’ arguments about it’s benignity are proof of how it damages the ability to think rationally, proper judgement and sensory perception.
I firmly believe Ricky, although a gifted athlete, was a couple short of a full sixpack upstairs. It would have been something, if not MJ.
1. If marijuana is harmless, should there be an age restriction? If so, why?
I don’t know that I’ve read anything from a serious commentator that suggests pot is harmless, so your question is silly. Like all other mood/mind altering substances, there should be an age restriction. Informed choice is a good thing, and children rarely have all the info they need to make an informed choice.
2. Should a pregnant woman smoke marijuana? If not - why?
I favor leaving that up to the woman in question, but decades ago, my wife did not smoke pot or cigs or drink. It was common sense to us.
3. Should people on welfare be drug tested for marijuana?
Frankly I don’t favor this, as we all, every one of us, take advantage of one or another government service. What’s to stop them from testing anyone at that point, and testing them for whatever they want.
4. Should driving under the influence of marijuana be allowed?
No. It should carry the same penalty as driving under the influence of alcohol.
5. If not, what is the limit...and how is it tested?
That remains to be seen, now doesn’t it?
6. If a driver/pilot/train conductor has marijuana in his system after an accident, should he be criminally charged?
Once we figure out how to determine whether or not the person is “intoxicated”, absolutely.
7. Should a CDL truck driver (who has a 0.0 BAC limit for DUI) have a similar prohibition against weed? If so, why?
Questions 4-7 seem to be asking much the same thing. Asked and answered.
8. How many hard drug users do you know, who never tried marijuana?
None. to a person, they all smoked cigs and drank booze first. But I only know (for sure, anyway) a handful of hard drug users.
9. Is marijuana addictive? If not, why did Ricky Williams quit football to go smoke?
I’d have to ask Ricky that question. You do realize that he came back to football after that, right, spending his last 2 seasons as a Baltimore Raven, and performed pretty well in a very limited role.
Sorry to not have evaded your questions as you clearly desired - so as to make your point. And my only reference to booze was that DUI should carry the same penalty for both, while acknowledging that a test to determine level of mj intoxication does not yet exist.