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To: RC one
I don’t think marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and I don’t think drug addiction is any better than alcoholism.

There are about 18,000 deaths each year due to excessive alcohol use. There are no deaths, I repeat, no deaths due to excessive marijuana use.

From the CDC...

"Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths ... in the United States from 2006 – 2010"

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

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69 posted on 09/21/2014 5:24:19 PM PDT by JCG (Anti-medical cannabis = ignorance, hysteria, or worse ... [Haven't tried it but intend to.])
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To: JCG
Driving while high is just as dangerous as driving while drunk. The only difference is, there is no way to quantify the degree of impairment caused by marijuana at the roadside or even in an autopsy. Physiologically, it is known that marijuana contains four fold more tars than does tobacco smoke. It hasn't garnered nearly the amount of scientific research as has tobacco however so it's really difficult to say what specific long term health effects it causes, harmful or beneficial at this time.

It's also difficult to compare it to alcohol as alcohol is far more widely used. If marijuana became as widely abused as alcohol, we would likely see an increased incidence of health problems associated with that abuse be they direct as in cancer or indirectly, as in motor vehicle accidents.

Regardless of any of that, however you look at it, it is all drug addiction and can not be considered a healthy behavior in terms of biological health or social health.

And, again, the last thing our welfare society needs is more irresponsibility, more indolence, and more mental impairment. This is the kind of thing that destroys nations and, as I am a part of this nation and have an interest in not seeing it destroyed, I am not going to condone drug addiction. ever. for any reason.

71 posted on 09/21/2014 5:51:37 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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