Cannabis is damaging in that people whose brains are damaged to the point where they are incapable of caring for themselves become a burden on society. On the other hand, what in the world is the "social harm" of eating the way we evolved to eat? Can the author of this piece even explain that without falling back on vague claims of "climate change"?
Sorry, but this is one of my pet peeves. I can't let this argument go uncontested.
This line of thinking is VERY harmful. What you are suggesting is that it is right and proper for tax payers and people who make good decisions to be forced to mitigate harm of the people who make bad choices. THIS IS THE PROBLEM....not Cannabis.
Someone smoking their brain into mush has ZERO impact on you. Someone forcing you to pay for someone who has smoked their brain into mush DOES have impact on you.
Your quarrel is NOT with Cannabis. It is with socialism. Making the type of argument that you are making is only normalizing the idea that it is right for society to take responsibility for the bad choices of it's citizens and that by extension, it is proper for society to then attempt to dissuade individuals from making bad decision.
“Cannabis is damaging in that people whose brains are damaged to the point where they are incapable of caring for themselves become a burden on society.”
It’s much worse than that. Otherwise sensible and functional people decide to vote for and support and even worship the like of Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama etc...
Why did the 60’s New Left, today’s Democrat Socialists and others, push pot and hallucinogens so much?
That’s a rhetorical question.
“Cannabis is damaging in that people whose brains are damaged to the point where they are incapable of caring for themselves become a burden on society. On the other hand, what in the world is the “social harm” of eating the way we evolved to eat? “
What are you talking about? People die extremely early deaths EVERY FEW MINUTES from heart attacks and strokes directly caused by their eating habits. They also frequently become vegetables and need society to literally spoon feed them and turn their overweight bodies. VEGETABLES. Such a thing will not happen at such an age to an otherwise healthy person even if they consume cannabis daily!
If we are supposedly making these laws to save people from themselves and stop being a burden, HOW is ordering mountains of unhealthy food/drink legal?
The active component of Cannabis has not done damage to a single cell in any human body. Smoking does damage but legalization is bringing forth lab-tested smokeless methods that cause zero harm.
The theoretical toxic dose of cannabis determined in petri dishes and lab animals is beyond what any human can ever consume or even afford to buy. NO long term permanent damage has ever been proven even with even daily use. No twin studies have shown any permanent difference even under the highest doses. The studies showing various indirect correlations are exactly like the studies correlating schizophrenics to be 300-400% more likely to be cigarette smokers. It only shows crazy/stupid people are more likely to smoke. The smoking did not cause it.
Nearly anything you pull of the shelf at the pharmacy is more toxic than cannabis. Cough syrup, sleeping pills, allergy pills are all more toxic/addictive/impairing yet 100% legal at any age. Pure Methamphetamine can be still legally given in 50 states to your child if a doctor prescribes it! As well as stronger synthetic versions heroin with doses high enough to kill a horse! Pharma patches that get people stoned for days, poison their body and make them addicted they feel like they’ll die without one! Billions of tax dollars are spend on these poisons while people can be shot for growing a free plant that is better in every way.
PROHIBITION OF THIS PLANT IS NOT ABOUT SAFETY
“On the other hand, what in the world is the “social harm” of eating the way we evolved to eat?”
But to be honest, a lot of that meat is full of GMOs, and all manner of chemicals these days.
You want to own a business that requires having tricks & drivers? Something like a florist? Or a caterer?
Cannot get drivers if they all ae using pot. Won’t pass mandatory rug tests.