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To: little jeremiah

“Where ever mj is legalized, other drug use goes up.”

Another declarative statement with zero evidence to back it up.

“It’s a lie that people switch from other drugs to mj if mj is legalized.”

Fake news. It’s been proven in various studies that opioid use in states with medical marijuana programs.

https://drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-opiate-overdoses/

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303426

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/28/opioid-abuse-is-plummeting-in-states-with-legal-marijuana/

Excerpt: “Research released in February from the University of British Columbia and University of Victoria suggests patients suffering from chronic pain and mental health conditions will choose marijuana over their addictive prescription drugs when doctors give them a choice.”

So you were saying, little prohibitionist Jeremiah???


175 posted on 11/28/2017 4:09:12 AM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: TheStickman
When a prohibitionist hears a claim that supports his preconceptions, he immediately accepts it as established fact and stands ready to repeat it as such.

Sources? We don' need no steenkin' sources!

204 posted on 11/28/2017 3:04:49 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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