Reefer Madness in Reverse: Happy Talk about Pot

AmericanThinker ^ | May 3, 2019 | Richard Kirk

[ransomnote]

Marijuana is safer than alcohol.  No one has ever died from using marijuana.  Legalization of marijuana will allow law enforcement to focus on more serious crimes and will eliminate the black market.  Marijuana has clear medical benefits.  State regulation of marijuana will guarantee product uniformity and produce significant tax revenue.  Marijuana reduces opioid addiction and crime.  Mental health problems related to marijuana (like psychosis) are overstated and can be explained away without viewing pot as the primary cause.  All these claims, especially those about safety and mental health, are debunked by Alex Berenson’s book Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. 

Berenson, a novelist and New York Times journalist, only began this countercultural work after his typically liberal sentiments about marijuana were challenged by his wife, a forensic psychiatrist, who matter-of-factly suggested he read relevant studies on the subject after she observed, to her husband’s surprise, that one of the violent criminals she evaluated in New York was “of course… high” and had “been smoking pot his whole life.”  Berenson’s book was the unexpected and (for marijuana advocates) unwelcome, result of that challenge.

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 Currently more than sixty percent of Americans have followed that buzzed logic even though “neither cannabis nor THC has ever been shown to work in randomized clinical trials” which, as the author further notes, is “the only reliable way to prove a drug works.” Moreover, what may be marijuana’s most effective pain-relieving component, cannabidiol (CBD), is almost nonexistent in most cannabis today, so “whatever good [it] may do is irrelevant.”  

[wardaddy]

I can smoke both !

If I crank back up

Of my five

Three no smoke

One likes gummies

Other is like i was lol but he knows it’s fleeting era once life comes at u hard

Problem is I don’t have a mouth hair to get that early 70s long haired southern guy look

But I can master grumpy old chapter president look

[muir_redwoods]

I’m not interested in daily use. I do feel it’s safe but I’m much more clear-headed if I space the use out a bit. Once a week seems about optimum.