[robertpaulsen]

Obviously, this doesn't qualify as harming someone else in your book.

Then maybe you can help me understand the persistent and pervasive pro-drug question of, "Who does marijuana harm?" I point out some children that were harmed, and you just pooh-pooh it, saying, in effect, beer is......what? Just as harmful? Not as harmful? "I'm just trying to be funny"? What's your point?

Now, if your point is that beer is just as harmful, then haven't I made my case that MJ is harmful?

[Wolfie]

Depends on the baseline. Is using MJ (or beer) more harmful than NOT using it? Yes. But harm is relative. Does the harm justify imprisoning adults merely for using it? I would say no. You would say yes. We'll have to agree to disagree.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I point out some children that were harmed, and you just pooh-pooh it, saying, in effect, beer is......what? Just as harmful? Not as harmful? "I'm just trying to be funny"? What's your point?

Are you being coy? Or stupid?

The only "harm" that came to this child is the "harm" of seeing his parents arrested.

[EBUCK]

MJ is harmfull, for the last time, MJ is harmfull. It could probably cause cancer, makes people lazy and above all else it's illegal! Not safe, don't smoke it, not worth the risk!!

Now on to a non-strawman...

If anything this kid was harmed by his parents, I disagree, but that is the company line. The pot did not jump up and start kicking him in the groin repeatedly. Hell, the kid wasn't even smoking it.

You might try to say that pot caused the kids parents but that won't cut it either. Or that the pot somehow influeced the parents to leave it out, devil weed took possession of the house and all...don't work either.

[MrLeRoy]

Now, if your point is that beer is just as harmful, then haven't I made my case that MJ is harmful?

No, "just as harmful" can mean they measure both harms as zero. Please answer this yes-or-no question: If the kid had come to school with a 6-pack, would you say that was evidence that alcohol harms its users' children?