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To: Rockingham
To state the obvious, alcohol and marijuana are different substances with different effects and risks.

That's what I've said several times with no response from you: alcohol is more addictive than marijuana, more violence-increasing, and the only one of the two that can lead to fatal overdose.

it may reasonably be surmised that, in the aggregate, the greater marijuana use that would follow general legalization would lead to a greater burden of marijuana abuse and mental illness.

Facts trump surmises: as I said, while marijuana use has risen over decades there has been no corresponding increase in overall levels of schizophrenia.

marijuana has well-proven dangers

As does alcohol - greater on a number of fronts.

138 posted on 04/30/2017 12:54:58 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
So what if alcohol is bad from a public health perspective? Logically, that does not offer a reason for having available another legal intoxicant to abuse. Indeed, your line of argument would justify making virtually all intoxicants legal because alcohol is legal.

Not enough is known about the epidemiology of schizophrenia to provide evidence for the argument that you suggest. Yet the proven effect of marijuana in causing and triggering schizophrenia and prompting relapses in schizophrenics makes for a sound reason for keeping it illegal.

139 posted on 04/30/2017 3:28:39 PM PDT by Rockingham
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