Case for legalized pot is a deadly con job

NY Daily News ^ | October 17 2003 | A.M. Rosenthal

[knighthawk]

Ping

[ladtx]

Uh-oh. This will be a good one. Better get a fresh cup of coffee.

[bvw]

• Case for mutual self-respect is a deadly con job
• Case for freedom is a deadly con job
• Case for responsibility is a deadly con job
• Case for liberty is a deadly con job
• Case for adulthood is a deadly con job

[Protagoras]

Reefer madness, part 2.

[MrLeRoy]

The specialists say legalization of it would create mass addiction and vastly multiply the cost of drug treatment.

What "specialists"---John Walters?

What a crock of sh*t.

[thegreatbeast]

Yes, right across the bow.

[CWOJackson]

Interesting article. The foam war that follows will be fun to watch.

[MamaTexan]

Better get a fresh cup of coffee.

(gasp!) I'm gonna tell!

Don't you know caffeine is a DRUG???

:)

[BrooklynGOP]

For example, marijuana has now been shown to cause physical dependence and physical withdrawal. What's next?

[bvw]

Hmmm .. the Creator made simething that is completely unusable safely or wisely, From that we can gather that guns MUST be banned, for if the Creator can make something that must be banned, surely men make many things that must be banned. And guns which can only kill, are one of those.

Let's face it our government always knows better than G-d, if there is one, for surely the "establishment clause" means that that the US is an atheist nation.

[Wolfie]

Rosenthal, who acutally consults the Drug Czar on his editorials. Feh.

[Walkin Man]

Experts also point out that one marijuana cigarette contains as much tar as four tobacco cigarettes.

Well hey if that’s the case then we obviously need to outlaw cigarettes as well and make them and their dangerous junkies subject to the WOD.

Supporters of legalization say it's cruel to withhold a drug that could ease the pain of certain patients, such as cancer victims. But there is nothing helpful in marijuana that is not already legally available in alternative medications.

Yeah sure, the difference being that the person in pain could grow their own and go around the multi-billon dollar pharmaceutical industry and its outrageous skyhigh prices.

You don't think that has anything to do with keeping marijuana illegal do you?

Nah...couldn't be. /sarcasm

[ladtx]

Don't you know caffeine is a DRUG???

I know and I'm really strung out on it. Tried to go cold turkey but just can't. {:o))

[jim_trent]

I have never understood the liberal left pushing for the illegalization of cigarettes and also pushing for the legalization of marijuana cigarettes.

[Havoc]

Scurilous pothead ping!!

[MrLeRoy]

Don't you know caffeine is a DRUG???

I know and I'm really strung out on it. Tried to go cold turkey but just can't.

We'll toss you in prison for using it---for your own good, of course.

[Nonstatist]

The current "war on drugs" is inconsistently executed and the extra-legal confiscations are unconstitutional, IMO. OTOH, Marijuana (as currently "sold") is a lot nastier drug than the libertines suggest. Worse than alchohol in several ways; with a higher potential to create dependency, even.

[CWOJackson]

Insightful post. I'm affraid it will get steamrolled however instead of being logically discussed.

[MrLeRoy]

Marijuana (as currently "sold") is a lot nastier drug than the libertines suggest. Worse than alchohol in several ways;

What ways?

with a higher potential to create dependency, even.

False:

Drug Category	Proportion of Users That Ever Became Dependent (%)
Tobacco	32
Alcohol	15
Marijuana (including hashish)	9
Cocaine	17
Heroin	23

- Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base (1999), Institute of Medicine