Posted on 09/29/2023 4:08:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The evidence for keeping weed illegal keeps mounting — even as the laws get looser. A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000 Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of experiencing their first heart attack, stroke, or other major cardiovascular event.
In other words: Weed’s not a harmless vice. It’s a killer, like cigarettes. And unlike cigarettes, it literally drives people insane.
A massive Danish study based on nearly 7 million health records drew a strong correlation between heavy cannabis use and increased risk of schizophrenia in young men.
That’s to say nothing of the fact that pot, no matter what its advocates claim, likely serves as a gateway drug: Evidence suggests a link between cannabis use in kids and later opioid use, and the drug can play a role in rewiring the reward circuitry in young brains.
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Why is it legal? Because it isn’t tobacco . Maybe some day it will be tobacco but it isn’t yet.
“My daughter has been able to kick the hard drugs and alcohol, but can’t kick the marijuana.”
I had a harder time quitting alcohol than marijuana; everyone is different.
“Why is it legal? Because it isn’t tobacco .”
Tobacco is legal.
Because Prohibition failed.
Millions of people: Ahem, let’s not.
Yeah but shoving a 6 inch nail up your nostril is bad for you too, so why not ban that?
Were the fatalities among immune-compromised chemo patients? I know that they test legal weed for fungi...and fungicides.
How many times do we have to say it?
DEPOPULATION AGENDA
Because democrat communists want people controlled.
I smoked just as strong cannabis back in the early 80’s, and constantly up to currently.
So what if it has more THC than weaker strains? Do you actually comprehend the statement “One Hit Shit”? My meaning being, you smoke what you desire till you get where you're happy.
Need I elaborate further?
Also, yes, legal cannabis has the THC content percentage on its packaging.
Weed is legal so that rebellious kids will experiment with other drugs like Tranq and fentanyl.
Coming of age in the ‘60s, I knew a ton of people who were smokin’ rope. Some of them were smokin’ rope because they were insane. None of them were insane because they were smokin’ rope.
Because the ignorant, ill, impaired are far, far easier to rule.
For Deep State legal weed is a hat trick.
“DEPOPULATION AGENDA”
LMAO! If the literal poisons alcohol and nicotine haven’t gotten the job done, cannabis doesn’t stand a chance.
Legal weed doesn’t make the state that much money.
It’s too expensive.
That’s not why it’s legal.
I noticed no one mentioned chocolate...(ducks)
I think it’s legal because Weed seems to make you Liberal.
Unlike then, today everyone who hasn’t tried pot themselves knows someone who has - the Reefer Madness ignorance can’t fly. One wonders enjoy the Post is beating this dead horse.
So sports like the NFL?
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