Defies logic. Please provide your stat. If there are 10 liquor stores within a few miles of my home versus one pot dealer downtown, liquor is going to be more available. That was my experience. The fact that I was underage was a minor inconvenience because legal adults provided what I needed.
> I support legalization and I say the opposite.
Good. Most every pro person I have talked has made some pretty ridiculous claims. Everyone needs to hear the truth. Especially kids.
> Can you prove that? The clinical and epidemiological evidence against tobacco is stronger than that against pot.
http://www.lung.org/associations/states/colorado/tobacco/marijuana.html
Tobacco vs. Marijuana
Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals. There are 33 cancer-causing chemicals contained in marijuana. Marijuana smoke also deposits tar into the lungs. In fact, when equal amounts of marijuana and tobacco are smoked, marijuana deposits four times as much tar into the lungs. This is because marijuana joints are un-filtered and often more deeply inhaled than cigarettes.
Marijuana smoke is also an irritant to the lungs, and frequent marijuana smokers can have many of the same respiratory problems experienced by people who smoke tobacco. These include coughing and phlegm production on most days, wheezing, bronchitis, and greater risk of lung infection.
> And so should pot be - and is in the states that have legalized it. Should alcohol and tobacco be banned for adults to send a message to kids?
No, punish the heck out of the adults you give it to kids. 10 year mandatory.
> Irrelevant to your claim about kids using because of its medical properties.
My claim is there is a lot of BS out there about it and the “medical” benefits. I have heard people claim that it cures cancer which, of course, is total BS.
http://www.casacolumbia.org/download/file/fid/640, question 44.
Can you prove that? The clinical and epidemiological evidence against tobacco is stronger than that against pot.
when equal amounts of marijuana and tobacco are smoked
ROTFL! How many pack-a-day pot smokers do you know?
frequent marijuana smokers can have many of the same respiratory problems experienced by people who smoke tobacco. These include coughing and phlegm production on most days, wheezing, bronchitis, and greater risk of lung infection.
But note the absence of emphysema and lung cancer from this list.
And so should pot be - and is in the states that have legalized it. Should alcohol and tobacco be banned for adults to send a message to kids?
No,
Agreed. Should pot be banned for adults to send a message to kids?
punish the heck out of the adults you give it to kids. 10 year mandatory.
Ditto.
Irrelevant to your claim about kids using because of its medical properties.
My claim is there is a lot of BS out there about it and the “medical” benefits.
And some truth - and no evidence that either influences kids to smoke pot.