Posted on 02/09/2020 7:15:56 PM PST by Trump20162020
Former New York City Mayor—and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate—Michael Bloomberg called efforts to legalize marijuana "perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done."
Speaking at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on Tuesday, Bloomberg said on the subject, according to WBNG-TV:
"We have a different kind of problem in America, for example. Last year, in 2017, 72,000 Americans [overdosed] on drugs. In 2018, more people than that are OD-ing on drugs, have OD'd on drugs. And today, incidentally, we are trying to legalize another addictive narcotic, which is perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done. We've got to fight that, and that's another thing that Bloomberg Philanthropies will work on it in public health."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Im taking back what i posted.
I havent been out much this winter. The local Pot Emporiums are outnumbering the Expresso Shoppes.
Except for Starbux that is...
‘Several years ago, Canada was treating patients with medical marijuana. The complaint was always the same: “This stuff is too weak”.’
Link?
Some reading material:
Google...
Canada patients marijuana. The complaint, too weak.
First search result says the opposite of what you claim, referring to “the marijuana products being sought by medical users – with lower levels of the high-producing THC and higher levels of the medically-beneficial CBD” (https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/medical-marijuana-users-feeling-marginalized-in-ramp-up-to-legalization-1.4123462)
Yet another FAIL for you.
This morning, the same search turned up Number 2, and includes a legal Canadian dispenser saying, “Gov pot is 20% weaker”, so the illegal side of his business will prosper, and receive his full attention.
Elsewhere, are two cases, “Marijuana killed my son”.
You read them this morning - so post the links.
That article has nothing to do with medical marijuana, which was the subject of your still-unsupported claim (post #200).
Elsewhere, are two cases, “Marijuana killed my son”.
Where exactly is "elsewhere"? I don't see them on the first two pages of search results.
And I bet I can find plenty of links saying "Guns killed my son." Does that mean we should support Buttgiggity and the gun-grabbers?
From your link:
‘the study doesn’t prove causality, cautions Dr. Diana Martinez, a psychiatrist and addiction researcher at Columbia University. “You can’t say that cannabis causes psychosis,” she says. “It’s simply not supported by the data,” she says.
‘Lisdahl agrees. In order to show causality, one would have to follow people over time — before they started using weed to years later when they have their psychotic episodes, she says. “You need twins in the studies, you need genetic information,” among all other kinds of data, she says.’
Would you want a marijuana user—from youth—on your jury?
If that's thought to be a concern, we can excuse from-youth substance users from jury duty without incurring the many harms of marijuana criminalization.
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