[robertpaulsen]

"Marijuana Crack cocaine on the other hand gives one the high they desire quickly and with much less smoking. There is less inhaling of smoke, done less frequently, and if acquired from a "knowable" source, there are no chemical additives doing even more physical harm."

So, crack cocaine is safer than cigarettes? By that reasoning, injectable heroin would be one of the "safest" drugs out there.

FYI, ounce per ounce, marijuana is more dangerous than cigarettes.

[tacticalogic]

FYI, ounce per ounce, marijuana is more dangerous than cigarettes.

And ounce per ounce, aspirin is more dangerous than marijuana, but I don't think anyone will notice the illogic in your argument.

[Hillary's Folly]

So, crack cocaine is safer than cigarettes? By that reasoning, injectable heroin would be one of the "safest" drugs out there. No, one cannot argue crack and heroin on the same bases as tobacco and marijuana because the former are a processed derivative of the original plant, cocoa and poppies, with highly (no pun intended) addictive qualities. Now if you want to argue using those plants in their God given form, that's another issue.

And that is basically where I come from. God put all of these plants on the earth for us to use. And as with all things man does, sometime we use good things for bad purposes. Tobacco, marijuana, cocoa, and poppies, in their natural form are not, IMHO, bad things. A pure tobacco cigar or a pure marijuana cigarette are not something that should be outlawed, nor should the cocoa plant or the poppy. But a manufactured tobacco cigarette is not pure tobacco, and as such has more in common with crack than does a pure marijuana cigarette.