It's Time to Rethink Marijuana Laws

Philadelphia Enquirer ^ | July 9, 2007 | Kathleen Parker

[Lord_Baltar]

hehehehe Game, Set, Match... Once again HG!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Delusions of Grandeur. But then, marijuana use is known to cause delusions.

You serve a very weak brew of tea, my friend.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Marijuana Statistics

Do you have diarrhea of the mouth? Why post this DARE rubbish to me?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Post #101 ROFL!

[A CA Guy]

So simple, yet recreational drug worshipers still can’t get why everyone laughs at them in remarks all over the conservative FR threads.

[microgood]

Recreational drug use is behavior of the lowest kind deserving of no respect. Most people know that IMO.

Drinking alcohol is recreational drug use. So I doubt most people agree with you.

[A CA Guy]

Not really, pretty much everyone on FR would call recreational drug users losers and would consider people who drink a little no issue at all.

Good try though...

[Murray the R]

pretty much everyone on FR would call recreational drug users losers and would consider people who drink a little no issue at all.

Have any evidence for these claims? I think you think too little of your fellow FReepers' grasp of reality, i.e., the reality that marijuana is less of a public problem than alcohol.

[Murray the R]

Today’s marijuana is 10 to 15 times stronger than it was in the 60’s

Evidence?

There have been over 7,000 published scientific and medical studies documenting the damage that marijuana poses. Not one study has shown marijuana to be safe.

Have any studies shown skydiving to be "safe"? If not, should we ban that?

Data has shown that people high on marijuana show the same lack of coordination on standard “drunk driver” tests as do people who have had to much to drink. [...]

Marijuana is the second most common drug, after alcohol, present in the blood stream of non-fatally and fatally injured persons.

Both good reasons to restrict alcohol at least as severely as marijuana. Do you support that policy?

[Nate505]

I thought marijuana use was known to cause users to listen to negro jazz music, and rape white women.

[TigersEye]

“Pot’s not dangerous.”

Correct. Hell, I just boiled some hot dogs in one.

Just to show how dangerous I really live; I would never boil a hotdog I slowly fry them in oil. I do use olive oil though. ; )

[TigersEye]

LOL But it’s so much fun.

[TigersEye]

My being a professional psychologist working in the field of mental health and having worked with and around those who use illegal drugs, including marijuana, for the past 11 years probably gives me a little bit of validity on this subject, thanks.

Frankly I don't know what could cut your credibility more. I have seen the results of your professions handiwork a few times over and it ain't pretty.

[TigersEye]

I was thinking of the CDC but there is another gov agency also, NIHS? National Institute of Health Statistics? Maybe it’s not a gov agency.

[ovrtaxt]

I was going to respond to this thread three days ago,

but I forgot.

[jwh_Denver]

Can’t fault you for that! Sometimes it’s a gas and then there’s total brain dead.

Just an observation. I’ve noticed there are far less knuckleheads after the Rudy fiasco that happened what a month ago? FR really needed a purge.

[TigersEye]

I have mixed feelings about the Rudy Purge but it does make sense that the level of cognitive dissonance is lower now.

[Eric Blair 2084]

When did this thread get to 190 posts? I have to read this.

[Eric Blair 2084]

liberal CA Guy and soldierdad have apparently gone to town.

[TigersEye]

About 28 percent of violent crimes involved an offender who was perceived to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Thanks, philman. That's a far cry from the bridge we were being sold here.