[Lokibob]

comments?

 

http://www.jackherer.com/comparison.html

 

HOW DANGEROUS IS MARIJUANA COMPARED WITH OTHER SUBSTANCES? Number of American deaths per year that result directly or primarily from the following selected causes nationwide, according to World Almanacs, Life Insurance Actuarial (death) Rates, and the last 20 years of U.S. Surgeon Generals' reports.
TOBACCO	340,000 to 450,000
ALCOHOL (Not including 50% of all highway deaths and 65% of all murders)	150,000+
ASPIRIN (Including deliberate overdose)	180 to 1,000+
CAFFEINE (From stress, ulcers, and triggering irregular heartbeats, etc.)	1,000 to 10,000
"LEGAL" DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental) from legal, prescribed or patent medicines and/or mixing with alcohol - e.g. Valium/alcohol	14,000 to 27,000
ILLICIT DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental) from all illegal drugs.	3,800 to 5,200
MARIJUANA	0
(Marijuana users also have the same or lower incidence of murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general non-marijuana using population as a whole. Crancer Study, UCLA; U.S. Funded ($6 million), First & Second Jamaican Studies, 1968 to 1974; Costa Rican Studies, 1980 to 1982; et al. LOWEST TOXICITY 100% of the studies done at dozens of American universities and research facilities show pot toxicity does not exist. Medical history does not record anyone dying from an overdose of marijuana (UCLA, Harvard, Temple, etc.).

[Tony Niar Brain]

Right, when it comes to smoking cigarettes, which is documented to kill hundreds of thousands, we all have a choice to do what we will and be free.

When we start talking about the evil demon weed, which hasn't got a single documented death, all of a sudden we're talking about Western Civilization collapsing in a dope haze.

Quite a glaring inconsistency, I'd say. Probably a symptom of the Reefer Madness.

[Illbay]

When in doubt, throw out a bunch of "statistics" that can easily be confused with facts. "Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure."

[Northpaw]

Your statistical chart is Bovine feces. You think that someone high on pot has never been involved in a fatal automobile accident? Pleeeeeeeze!

[Houmatt]

I have a comment: What is your point?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You think those substances are dangerous? Check out this website on the dangers of DHMO!

Among the many commonly-sited DHMO-related environmental impacts are: 

• DHMO contributes to global warming and the "Greenhouse Effect", and is one of the so-called "greenhouse gasses."

• DHMO is an "enabling component" of acid rain -- in the absence of sufficient quantities of DHMO, acid rain is not a problem.

• DHMO is a causative agent in most instances of soil erosion -- sufficiently high levels of DHMO exacerbate the negative effects of soil erosion.

• DHMO is present in nearly every creek, stream, pond, river, lake and reservoir in the U.S. and around the world.

• Measurable levels of DHMO have been verified in ice samples taken from both the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps.

• Recent massive DHMO exposures have lead to the loss of life and destruction of property in California, the Mid-West, the Philippines, and a number of islands in the Caribbean, to name just a few.