Buckley, like many well meaning conservatives, was duped by leftist propaganda that used words like "freedom" and "states rights" and "liberty" to push drug legalization. It's standard leftist rhetoric to get sinful activities legalized. It works every time it's tried in an immoral or amoral or when government is controlled by immoral or amoral people. Look at abortion and pornography for the playbook here.
Any honest libertarian would have to support the legality of these issues. Do you?
How about comparing Ambien to the theoretical Free Cannabis we would have if prohibition did not bastardize everything down to the definition of liberty. Are you going to say cannabis won’t help you sleep?
Drinking 6 beers will make you sleep but that doesn't mean it's good medicine. Try again.
Can you admit it is non-toxic
No because it's not. Your bodies reaction to it, the "high" means that your body is trying to cope with a poison, a toxin, that has been introduced to it.
16. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. — DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young at http://tinyurl.com/cem8y3
Oh good. Since you want to quote a DEA lawyer I'll quote the DEA website:
Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illnesses, a heightened risk of lung infections, and a greater tendency toward obstructed airways. Cancer of the respiratory tract and lungs may also be promoted by marijuana smoke. Marijuana has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because marijuana smoke contains 50 percent to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke.(8) Marijuana's damage to short-term memory seems to occur because THC alters the way in which information is processed by the hippocampus, a brain area responsible for memory formation. In one study, researchers compared marijuana smoking and nonsmoking 12th-graders' scores on standardized tests of verbal and mathematical skills. Although all of the students had scored equally well in 4th grade, those who were heavy marijuana smokers, i.e., those who used marijuana seven or more times per week, scored significantly lower in 12th grade than nonsmokers. Another study of 129 college students found that among heavy users of marijuana critical skills related to attention, memory, and learning were significantly impaired, even after they had not used the drug for at least 24 hours.(9)
For those of you interested in more harmful effects of pot you can find it here.
Look fast though. The toker in chief is going to have his minions pushing "medical" marijuana harder than ever and it's only a matter of time until all government agencies lose their teeth.
Propaganda.
There has never been a case of lung cancer attributed to cannabis use.
If you want to talk harm, it is simple. The harms come from the laws. That is what everybody is trying to get through to the television minds and authority worshipers. Go down to the courthouse or jail and ask someone how the law messed up their life. Everyone that buys cannabis gets robbed because of government policy which is the greatest of tyrannies no matter that some are blind to the fact.
Tell us the harms that come from the laws all the way to the prison slavery and the corruption of our police and “justice” system. Where is that link if you want to talk about harm.
I agree. Pot can cause slavery and that slavery is some bad, bad shite.
You do not know the definition of toxic. Are you being paid to put this up or do you really believe this stuff?
Cannab is toxic? Just how wrong can you get? Where is the first body that resulted from cannabis toxicity? How do you get off saying something is toxic when it has not produced on death?
I wish you devoted your energy to reducing the harms of sugar consumption. That sugar is the biggest substance abuse problem we have.
Ahhh, a FedGov propaganda site. I take it you supported the "stimulus" package as well?