I worry that legalizing marijuana throughout the country will create more people who are unfit to work or parent. OTOH, I don't want to put people in jail for harming themselves.
Do you think marijuana should be legalized?
For your interest.
I’ve not touched the stuff since 1977 and I think it’s stupid to do so.
And I think it should be legalized.
Interestingly, I just heard a Ben Shapiro speech a few weeks ago on Youtube where he addresses it. He not only agrees with me but he states it pretty much the same way, sans the reference to 1977.
It’s the libertarian in both of us.
The author of the article suffers from paranoia.
aww, hell. pot thread. we all know what happens next.
Association is not causation; it comes as no surprise that those disposed to ignore anti-pot laws (as exist at the federal level and in all but a few states) are also disposed to ignore anti-violence laws.
Anything + psychotics = bad outcomes
This article is pure WoD garbage.
Yes, I think it should be legalized.
It’s been known for decades that marijuana has psychotic effects. Users tend to resent and ignore any hint of negative side effects, however, as though they have some psychological denial of their own.
I definitely don’t think pregnant women should smoke it.
A lot do, for whatever silly reasons, and I think there’s a reasonable connection between this and the increase in autism.
Makes more sense to me than the silly vaccination hypothesis.
Whut?...................................
Over the past fifty years illegal drug use ( marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, opioids and barbiturates) have reached epidemic levels especially among young people. That includes women of child bearing age who continue to party in the early stages of pregnancy and even throughout. No mammalian fetal neurological system was ever designed to deal with such toxicity. Is it any surprise that it is now estimated that 1 out of 40 newborns are born impaired?
Everything in moderation.
Alcohol is extremely bad for you if you drink too much- we know that for a fact.
It’s the same for weed. A little bit has benefits, too much causes serious problems.
And I know because I had been an extremely heavy weed smoke- once I quit my brain started working again.
I ONLY use it very occasionally now, and mostly for medicinal purposes. It overcomes nausea, ad akes your hair stop falling out, and relaxes you and makes you more creative.
Too much makes you a paranoid schizo
I’ve had hired people on that krap and they were worthless.
No. One of my best friends in high-school was destroyed by it, and my son, years later in California, had a friend who became “perma-stoned.” I also had a lot of friends who lost a lot of time to it...because it was considered “harmless” and there were, in fact, no penalties for using it. Maybe selling, but still cool to use...and in fact, I knew people in the 80s in CA who were feeding it to their children in cookies. They thought it was “healthy.”
It’s not healthy, especially for adolescents, but social approval by the left has promoted it. We wouldn’t approve this use for alcohol, so why approve it for a substance which is quite possibly more dangerous?
Also, a family member who is a LEO in a state that legalized pot a few years ago said that in 100% of the fatal automobile accidents, there was marijuana in the blood of one of the drivers involved. It’s only fairly recently that they’ve developed a fast field test for marijuana use, but again, that’s because pot use is so PC that nobody has dared to go there and challenge the narrative.
I think it should be a states rights issue. But I also think that a couple states should go full legalization and the others should sit back and watch the results for ten years or so.
Having been to Washington State recently and seen hordes of shiftless stoned out young people waiting in line for free food, I have a pretty good idea where the results will come in, should they be honestly reported.
On the medical side, if one has a truly chronic or terminal disease, do whatever you want. My state recently passed medical marijuana laws and judging by the number of dispensaries that have opened, our state must lead the nation in chronic illnesses, or people and doctors are just cheating.
Seems like a lot of correlation but not much causation in this article.
Marijuana, tobacco and alcohol should all be illegal.
Probably has more to do with Americans' personal observations of marijuana use, IMO.
And what about the expensive lobbying campaign against marijuana?
I always thought the paranoia was caused by the illegal status of the drug and the possibility of being caught and punished for using it.
My main objection to legalization (as opposed to decriminalization) is that when the users have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability it will be declared a disease and they will go on the dole. Then you and I have to pay to keep them housed, fed and high.