Oh Goodie. Our Number One Retread Troll Newbie is Back with his Daily Pro-Dope Message.
I concur and I don’t use the stuff.
Lots of qualifiers and language in there to “soften” the impact of the pro-dopers
Then there’s this:
“only about nine percent of users developed dependency to the drug”
Gee, ONLY nine percent? Well that certainly makes it worth it. Even ONLY one percent is enough to avoid this crap. Stay away from it.
Eh. I’m a down the line conservative on pretty much every issue and I personally don’t see why marijuana is illegal. I have seen no evidence that it is worse than drinking or that it causes mass harm like heroin or cocaine. If it came to a vote in my state, I’d vote to legalize it.
I see.... so smoking dope is beneficial?...
AND Barry Obama is just a community organizer..
I'm more anti-pot than pro-pot, but let's wait five years and see what happens in Colorado and Washington. More states will probably follow. I never believed pot was totally harmless like the enthusiasts claimed, but it's just too early to make any hard and fast pronouncements about the effects on the general population.
The problem with all of these ‘studies’ is that they always mix apples and oranges, with an occasional watermelon thrown in.
Take a few unadulterated marijuana seeds, toss them into the ground, and come back in a few months. Roll those leaves up and smoke them. Yes people have being doing so for over a thousand years, with relatively minor if any negative results.
But do you think that is what is sold on the street? Hell no. Kids would refer to it as stink weed. Your throat would get sore before you could smoke enough of it to REALLY get high.
No, what is sold on the street is specially raised, processed, and doctored with who knows what to dramatically increase the potency. What are the possible harmful effects? Who the heck could know that, since nobody knows what’s been done to it in the first place!
Sorry, but it is EXACTLY like every other drug sold on the street - a total unknown. And people use it at their own risk.
This is useless.
Advocacy dressed up as objectivity.
It’s pathetic.
It doesn’t know what is solid and tangible (addictive) vs purely subjective (lazy).
This is not a serious defense of marijuana nor serious review.
I hate these amateur polemics.
Marijuana is not something someone should make a habit of, neither is tobacco, alcohol or other mood altering substances, and marijuana use should be publicly discouraged with both formal and public education campaigns.
But, outright prohibition has created the same problems that alcohol prohibition did - actual crime (violence, murder, ect. over the drug trade), as well as creating virtual criminals out of everyone who partakes of it.
It is right that government help to deter marijuana use, through education, but criminalizing it and all who partake of it has not been worth the cost of the effort and its horrendous results.
The problem with the war on drugs use of the term “gateway” is that it is used with the intention of implying that if someone uses marijuana, particularly as a teen, they are likely to become a user of “harder” drugs later on.
But gateway cannot be used or understood in that fashion, because among the millions who try marijuana as a teenager or very young adult - college, or military - MOST neither become regular long term marijuana users or hard drug users.
The real “gateway” is not merely a drug, but an entire set of circumstances in someone’s life, of which the drug use is one part.
Cinematic evidence that pot makes you smarter:
“Dave’s not here”
“Dude, where’s my car?”
” All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.”
“That was my skull! I’m so wasted! “
You know a pot smoker, you can see the effects. Not much analysis required.
duuuuuuddddeee mannnnnn... legalize it, man, and tax it, man...... wait wha???
Maybe its just that the dumbest, laziest, slackers, and losers just tend to smoke MJ. Or maybe the MJ effects them and they begin to act that way.
I didn’t notice anything about the health effects on the lungs in this article.
All I know is that almost all of the people I have ever known who are long-term pot smokers are: poor, lazy, apathetic, slackers. Not all, but nearly all.
The only way they’ll prevent legalization of marijuana is to again criminalize alcohol. The hypocrisy is too great to keep it going otherwise. 10 years, tops, and marijuana is legal nationwide.
in before Zot!
So after dope, meth is next on the list of drugs to “myth” debunk?
Then coke, heroin, etc.?
Afterall, it can be “argued” that they have “medicinal” uses as well, correct?
Incrementalism, it’s what liberalterians pursue...
Oh, no, not this again. Don’t want to work and live off of some poor relative taking care of you or some government agency. I think it’s a lazy outlook of one’s life. And, stay off of the highways.
The thing I don’t understand about some of the posts that oppose legalization is that they talk about its effects on someone’s body, or that it makes people lazy. Who cares? That’s not my problem. If someone wants to drink themselves to death, that’s not my problem either. The unspoken question is, “yes, but we have to pay for it in healthcare.” Ask me that question and my answer will be that we should not have to pay for other people’s healthcare.
MrLeroy never gives up. Ever.