Posted on 06/25/2014 3:53:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The first one is illogical, because the reason for smoking a "blunt and a half" is BECAUSE weed mellows a person out. So it's NOT going to be the cause of "bouncing a baby off of the walls" like, oh I don't know, METH would.
Secondly, notice he is saying who possesses a gun while passed out on weed is an act of violence. Fairly major logic stretch there.
Sorry, the data is massive - weed does not cause violence or overdose deaths, even in children.
What weed CAN cause, in a minimal (as in not majority) number of instances is anxiety or panic attacks.
In addition, chronic weed smoking of fairly heavy levels in early teens has been shown to disrupt brain development on measurably damaging ways.
So instead of letting cops claim yet another reason to start blowing people away, it would help if the actual, real-world problems with weed were addressed. That way maybe effective laws concerning this PLANT could be created that protected those needing protection, without raping civil rights.
Hey I can dream, can't I?
Martin was a punk...get over it.
I know, absolutely and for a fact, that a heavy user of marijuana (remember Trayvon only had “trace” amounts of it in his system), who hasn’t been able to score for a while, can get really really cranky, and downright mean. I haven’t seen violence, but I’ve seen the mean and it’s not pretty.
It wasn’t MJ, it was the THUG CULTURE, he was steeped in,
the constant white oppressor myth drummed into him every
time he heard a rap song.
He got what was coming to him.
Has anyone stopped to think about the fact that there’s Trayvon, banging Zimmerman’s head into the concrete, and a neighbor comes out and yells, “Knock it off!” and does Trayvon jump up and run away? No, he continues his head bashing. A normal criminal finding himself in this situation (bashing someone’s head into the concrete) would get up and run away, not wanting to get caught. But Trayvon continued. He was either under the influence of some substance, or he had serious psychological problems.
Trayvon wasn't from Sanford, where this happened. He was from Miami Gardens which by all accounts I've read is a much different place. He might not even have considered that someone would actually call the cops about a beat-down, or talk to them if they showed up.
No - that was the purple drank kicking in.
Nope. I think his upbringing and consequentially his attitude toward others (especially whites) had everything to do with his confrontation.
It’s my understanding that most people stoned on pot are too “mellow” to get violent, and that SSSSaint Skittles got violent partly because he was on ‘Lean” (or “drank”) that night. A small amount of the druggie concoction is sedating, but larger doses appear to get the user agitated and perhaps violent.
Trayvon MAINLY had "purple drank" in his system, and was living a life of thuggery.
And if crankiness is the threshold of whether people get thrown into prison or banned from using things that they believe help them with illness, you've got a long, long line of things ahead of weed.
Starting with alcohol.
It wasn’t the mj that made him go off on George. It was because he was pissed because George prevented him from robbing a home he was casing out.
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