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Think it's harmless? Now nine in ten teens at drug clinics are being treated for marijuana use
The Daily Mail (United Kingdom) ^ | April 22, 2018 | STEPHEN ADAMS and MARTIN BECKFORD

Posted on 04/22/2018 10:31:32 AM PDT by familyop

Cannabis is responsible for 91 per cent of cases where teenagers end up being treated for drug addiction, shocking new figures reveal...The findings also back up academic research, revealed in The Mail on Sunday over the past three years, that skunk is having a serious detrimental impact on the mental health of the young. At least two studies have shown repeated use triples the risk of psychosis, with sufferers repeatedly experiencing delusional thoughts. Some victims end up taking their own lives.

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To: familyop

Maybe.

You can’t save someone from their own demon.

That’s a battle someone has to win on their own, and the only one who can help them is Jesus.


201 posted on 04/23/2018 8:50:38 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Noamie
Ken, so your point is that we cannot talk realistically about the bad/harmful aspects of pot ...because alcohol exists?

Solid argument. Go with that.

That's the main argument. I dismiss it. But then there's not much to talk about.

202 posted on 04/23/2018 9:27:49 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: Scythian_Reborn
"Total BS, these people are just lazy, their Millennials, it’s what they do."

Many of them are lazy. Each time we see the parent of a lazy one, the reason becomes obvious. Many other Millennials here and there, tough, clean and straight, are being taught to ventilate dope fiends without age discrimination if attacked.


203 posted on 04/23/2018 4:43:48 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Noamie

I said there are NO studies showing such a thing.

Yet for every OTC drug, you can immediately show direct damage.


204 posted on 04/24/2018 5:43:27 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga

Wait till the FDA finishes their studies on weed.


205 posted on 04/24/2018 1:56:33 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: Original Lurker

P.J. O’Rourke said that drugs are like a one-man birthday party; you don’t get any presents you didn’t bring. I like “mental paw-paw parch, “ though.


206 posted on 04/26/2018 8:28:10 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: NobleFree

“I’ve never been stopped and searched looking for untaxed alcohol or tobacco at the whims of law enforcement, nor do I know anyone who has. Do you?”

Google it. Tobacco, liquor, and pot in states that border legal states.


207 posted on 04/28/2018 4:59:27 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: CodeToad

They will be arrested on tax charges. California, for instance is finding that legal weed is not stopping the black market because it is so heavily taxed.


208 posted on 04/28/2018 5:03:18 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer
Think that you won’t be stopped and searched looking for untaxed pot at the whims of law enforcement?

I've never been stopped and searched looking for untaxed alcohol or tobacco at the whims of law enforcement, nor do I know anyone who has. Do you?

Google it. Tobacco, liquor, and pot in states that border legal states.

"States that border legal states" is a different issue than taxation. As for the tobacco and liquor - your claim, your burden of proof.

209 posted on 04/28/2018 11:54:35 AM PDT 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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To: familyop
But, but, it's harmless. The same as cigarettes! Better, because evidently POT smoke isn't as offensive, or bad for your lungs(even secondhand) as tobacco. Isn't that right? I don't get it. Why 'treat' pot heads? Why treat ANYONE who WILLINGLY takes a drug? Isn't that countermanding their free will?

I assume that anyone willingly taking a drug wants the drug to affect them. Let it. Who's picking up the tab for these pot heads? I wouldn't treat them OR give Narcan to anyone. You choose dope and do it to the point of addiction , I respect your choice.
210 posted on 04/28/2018 12:08:47 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: NobleFree

It’s all about taxes. It happens all the time with liquor,smokes and will also happen with pot....eclipsing pre-legalized pot possession.

Google it yourself. If you don’t believe that states enforce their tax laws on tobacco, liqour, and soon pot, that’s fine with me.


211 posted on 04/28/2018 12:24:44 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: ClearBlueSky

You made some good points. We’ll have to defend ourselves against various attacks from many of the zombies who will get maniacal at times, though. And for the time being, many of them are still in locally high places and other positions of public trust here and there.


212 posted on 04/29/2018 1:48:23 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: RFEngineer

There’s also this.

Drug use tops booze for first time in fatal U.S. crashes: study
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drugs-crashes/drug-use-tops-booze-for-first-time-in-fatal-u-s-crashes-study-idUSKBN17S2P5

Drug Impaired Driving
A Guide for States
GHSA
http://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2017-04/GHSA_DruggedDriving2017_FINAL.pdf

Nothing significant has been done about it, though. Many people in high places are potheads and very politically active. Few non-addicts want to get involved. Police answer complaints about incidents with, in essence, “So what? What do you want me to do about it?” Too many of them are getting high, too, and drug tests aren’t being done without announcements behind the scenes in advance in many jurisdictions.

That’s why it’s been spreading so fast. There’s no “war on drugs.” What we’re seeing is something more like local campaigns across the country to get as many addicted as possible while blocking efforts against it.


213 posted on 04/29/2018 2:17:12 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: RFEngineer

This is about one of the drug-addled replies from the MADD lefties to the drug problem on the highways.

Study on drug-impaired driving gets pushback — from other safety advocates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2017/05/01/study-on-drugged-driving-gets-pushback-from-other-safety-advocates/?noredirect=on


214 posted on 04/29/2018 2:22:47 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: RFEngineer
If you don’t believe that states enforce their tax laws on tobacco, liqour, and soon pot

I don't believe your claim that people are "stopped and searched looking for untaxed {goods] at the whims of law enforcement" - and you've offered no evidence for it. I call BS.

215 posted on 04/29/2018 10:44:49 AM PDT 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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To: familyop
Drug use tops booze for first time in fatal U.S. crashes: study

"The study included any substance that can impair driving, including illegal drugs, prescription medications, legal non-medicinal drugs and over-the-counter medicines."

Should we ban them all?

216 posted on 04/29/2018 10:47:26 AM PDT 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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To: NobleFree

No. But maybe consider banning the operation of vehicles on public roads while using them.


217 posted on 04/29/2018 10:52:08 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: bankwalker
But maybe consider banning the operation of vehicles on public roads while using them.

I believe all jurisdictions that have legalized marijuana also ban driving while impaired by it - and rightly so.

218 posted on 04/29/2018 10:54:26 AM PDT 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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To: RFEngineer
A Google search for tobacco OR alcohol tax "search" shows no evidence for your claim that people are "stopped and searched looking for untaxed [goods] at the whims of law enforcement".

Time for you to put up or shut up.

219 posted on 04/29/2018 11:07:11 AM PDT 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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To: NobleFree
"The study included any substance that can impair driving, including illegal drugs, prescription medications, legal non-medicinal drugs and over-the-counter medicines."

"Should we ban them all?"

Ban the users from driving and carrying weapons? That's already illegal. Ban the substances from use while driving and carrying weapons? That's already done.

It's a sticky culture with pit bulls, childish, homicidal traffic tantrums, conspiracy theory obsessions, paranoid plotting and scheming and much creeping.


220 posted on 04/29/2018 2:30:21 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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