Posted on 08/13/2014 11:13:55 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
A few decades ago, marijuana was a topic that relatively few people, mostly counterculture musicians and comedians, spoke about in public. The comedy team of Cheech and Chong made films such as "Up in Smoke" that extolled the pleasures of smoking pot at a time the subject was still taboo.
"When trouble times begin to bother me," they sang, "I take a toke and all my cares go up in smoke." On the fringes of American society, it was usually possible to find activists who wanted to legalize it, as the reggae artist Peter Tosh famously sang. Efforts to legalize the substance in the mid-1970s failed.
Now marijuana has gone mainstream. Twenty three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana. Colorado and Washington have legalized pot for recreational use. The media has featured lively debate over the issue.
Joining other media outlets that have run articles supporting this cause, The New York Times editorial page published a number of high-profile pieces that call for making pot legal at the national level and outline specific steps that should be taken to ensure that the industry evolves in a safe manner.
How did we reach this point? How have we come to the brink of ending the national prohibition against a drug that has been roundly condemned for years as a grave danger to health and a gateway to drugs that can be devastating over time?
Here are eight reasons: [...]
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There is no direct relationship between percentage of likelihood accounted for by genes, and the range of values for the likelihood itself. It's entirely possible for one subgroup to have a 25% likelihood of addiction, a different subgroup (with different nongenetic factors but the same proportion of genetically susceptible people) to have a 1% likelihood of addiction, and for genetic factors to account for about half of the likelihood of addiction. (Details of calculation available on request.)
Adolescent users - who report that they can get illegal-for-adults pot more easily than legal-for-adults beer or cigarettes.
Other studies show that ingested marijuana is more powerful than smoked marijuana. There have been two deaths in Colorado that have been attributed to marijuana laced food, one a cookie, the other, candy.
I don't know about "more powerful" - easier to take in an unintendedly large amount, sure. "Attributed" as in direct effect of overdose, or as in did something fatally irrational while unexpectedly high?
We can look at calculations after you explain what percentage of the population it is okay to destroy. My answer is none, but as for you, like the old joke goes, "We've already figured out what sort of girl you are, now we are just haggling over the price."
So what's your price?
Of course, we're not talking about "destroying" anyone but about legalizing the means by which some might destroy themselves - which some already do today despite the (criminal-enriching) legal barriers.
Reading comprehension is not one of your strengths.
And comprehension in general is not one of yours.
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