[fireman15]

“Marijuana use was also linked with a variety of factors known to increase cardiovascular risk, such as obesity, high blood pressure, smoking and alcohol use.”

LOL. So the big risk of marijuana is that it might lead to smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol? What kind of nonsensical reasoning is this? If the tobacco and alcohol are a problem, why not make those illegal instead?

Love the way you craftily left out the sentences that immediately followed, “After researchers adjusted the analysis to account for these factors, marijuana use was independently associated with a 26 percent increase in the risk of stroke and a 10 percent increase in the risk of developing heart failure.”

Maybe you should try reading the entire paragraph when you are not stoned; it might not seem so funny but it might have some additional meaning.

[fr_freak]

And maybe you should try not being a pompous ass.

That was the text you chose to quote - “Marijuana use was also linked with a variety of factors known to increase cardiovascular risk, such as obesity, high blood pressure, smoking and alcohol use." I didn't change that ridiculous wording. The fact that the very next sentence tosses away what they claimed in the first sentence just to sound less ridiculous doesn't make the article more competent; it simply illustrates the lack of logic even more.

What pompous asses like you don't get is that no one, and I mean no one, ever argues that marijuana should be legal because it is good for you. People argue medicinal value, but that doesn't translate as "good for you" like vitamins - it means the medicinal benefits are worth the downsides, just like all those prescription meds that I'm sure you never protest half as hard, despite that fact that we have a prescription opiate problem in this country, for example.

The real question is: is it the business of government to regulate every thing in the world that might be bad for you? Or do we want to be free? I already have your pompous answer.