Posted on 04/02/2014 10:25:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Denver coroner says an exchange student from Wyoming fell to his death after eating a marijuana cookie, the first reported death linked to marijuana since the drug became legal for recreational use in Colorado in January.
Nineteen-year-old Levy Thamba died after falling from the balcony of a Denver hotel on March 11. …
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One heckofa cookie.
Eat enough of them and you won’t fit thru the gateway..................
ha ha...exactly.... I remember when I would get stoned. I would think, gee...I'm so spiritual....gee i'm thinking of all these wonderful ideas...peace love.....
In objective reality though I was just an idiot sitting there zoning out with a pipe in my hand. No spirituality, no ideas, only drug induced idiocy.
There are rehab centers but nobody comes in for medical treatment for pot.
The treatment for pot addiction is purely psychological. The same as the treatment for video game addicts, porn addicts, workaholics, shopaholics, overeaters, adrenaline junkies, cutters, etc, etc, etc. Psychological addiction is a form of OCD and these people will always find something pleasurable to use for escape. If you tried to use laws to stop addiction, you would have to outlaw every pleasurable thing.
“The citizens of those states will be living proof of the danger involved in playing with ones mind.”
Then we shouldn't allow alcohol and shouldn't be prescribing truckloads of designer psychotropics and narcotics like candy. Alcohol and all of those synthetic drugs, without exception, are 100% MEDICALLY PROVEN to be physically and mentally dangerous. Many are extremely physically addictive.
Cannabis has been used for thousands of years and is consumed by millions of people around the world daily. There has not been a SINGLE case of proven damage or mental illness caused by the chemicals found in Cannabis. Even when they are abused beyond all reason. Even under lab tests involving doses not possible in the real world. Not a single study shows a direct link to mental illness (the closest show only a casual correlation that can also be found with nicotine).
Nothing in life is 100% safe. Even sitting in a padded room is damaging to your health. I'd say cannabis is the least of our worries and zero resources should be invested in pointlessly trying to outlaw a plant that a child can grow.
You may have been thinking of the Hartford Courant.
So what we have, sort of, is in between. So I take it you side with lawlessness and anarchy then?
You can only have one or the other, it’s either a 1 or a 0 CodeToad
Close to 30 years ago Father -in -law, their Co built water tanks a guy went to lunch got high did not belt in when returned to the work space at top of the tank. Poof! Combined OSHA and other penalties plus death benefit cost the CO over 100k.
Yea a little pot never hurts!
At least have the courage to say “I choose anarchy”
same age old argument between pro legalizers and alcohol consumers.
I don’t do either and proud of the fact that I don’t
The minute some scientist does a study on this you can bet the results will prove driving while high reduces your reaction time and results in a decrease in your driving skills.
The decline in fatality rates is statistically significant.
The problem is, when it's your child the person high on pot hits and kills you wont care that their was something worse they could have been high on, your child is dead either way.
that’s like arguing that because alcohol impairs you less than heroin that it’s ok to drive drunk. Because it’s better that they are drunk and not high on heroin.
The problem is, when it’s your child the person high on pot hits and kills you wont care that their was something worse they could have been high on, your child is dead either way.
No one is arguing that it’s “OK.” I’m just pointing out the fact that liberalizing pot laws causes a decline in fatality rates. Pot prohibition appears to be more harmful to public safety, if you’re worried about your moppet getting squashed.
I know, I know marijuana is simply harmless and you can quit at anytime, and it really does nothing(yet one has to get it.)Marijuana users are like drunks as is any person needing a chemical to negotiate life. I’ll bet most consistent users cannot quit. I went to school with a kid that had everything including connections. Due to marijuana use he lost all including his license and just sits in a rocking chair on his mothers front porch. People will reap a whirlwind with that crap. Really you people sound like drunks, the same words a different chemical.
I said that? I’ll chalk up your foaming at the mouth as confirmation that you’re a big govt progressive with same lack of constitutional understanding as the left. Have a good one, poopy pants.
Why? Because they play video games compulsively and can't hold the most menial job. They do no booze, drugs or anything else. The only time I see them is when I stop by to play once in a while.
You can name almost any pleasurable activity and find people who “ruined” their life by only doing that. Does this mean we should ban all of those activities for everyone?
WOW to need something as bad as a chemical to enable ones self to function. Are you hooked?
The gamers and other psychological addicts don’t NEED it to function. They can stop without any pain or injury if they truly wanted to.
They just compulsively seek that activity and it blocks out any problems in their life. They’ll continue to do it and seek the path of least resistance to do so until the problems prevent them from doing it.
I’m hooked on FR, if anything. Luckily it is a somewhat beneficial addiction since I learn from it.
you implication is that we should all do what we want, thats anarchy.
I applaud you for thinking in a no rules world that everyone will operate on an honor system and keep out of other peoples space and rights.
No, I’m in no way a big government progressive, but I have the common sense to know that there has to be rules in a functioning society.
I was wondering about that myself...
Meanwhile back here in reality, the federal war on drugs is an unconstitutional (unless you're a progressive *GASP*) atrocity against the bill of rights and the states should decide what they want to do about them.
But thanks for playing. Ya, you're either a big govt progressive or you lack the intellect to even consider the system setup by the Founders that you (being on this board) supposedly agree with. My bet is probably both.
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