Posted on 10/28/2015 6:37:46 AM PDT by rktman
Myths about marijuana are apparent in college papers, online, and in the media. The users are eager to believe they don’t have a problem, so an entire mythology has grown up around the plant.
But here are the counterarguments
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’ve never understood why anyone would suck SMOKE into their lungs on purpose!
And how long do you think the nanny government will allow people to grow their own weed unhindered?
I suspect it will be very short. Once they figure out people are selling what they grow, the DEA will be flying helicopters looking for it.
I don't know where you have been but passing initiatives specifically for personal use is exactly what happened in Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Alaska & DC.
Not happening in states where it’s legal to grow.
Really a non-issue. Peace :)
“I’ve never understood why anyone would suck SMOKE into their lungs on purpose!”
As a former 3 pack a day cigarette smoker I have no desire to suck smoke into my lungs. Thankfully, we have edibles as an alternative :)
You posted your reply 3 times.
You must smoke marijuana! : )
One word: TAXES
Pot will be legal and heavily taxed in all fifty states. Bet on it.
A referendum recently legalized pot in my state and the local politicians are fairly salivating already over the prospect of additional revenue. Some have proposed county owned and operated pot stores to maximize that revenue. Apparently not satisfied with the taxes they propose to collect from growers and consumers (25% per oz per transfer at the county level), they want the profits too.
'Myth 3: “Marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol”.' The article doesn't address the claim under any common meaning of "dangerous" (such as, say, the likelihood of poisoning you: the fatal dose to effective dose ratio for alcohol is 10, but for marijuana it's over 1000 - it's 100 times harder to kill yourself from the proximate cause of ingesting too much marijuana).
Instead, the article talks about "the monetary costs to society", implies that legal marijuana would be used as often as alcohol, and states that legalizing alcohol was a "mistake". It also says that unlike alcohol, the purpose of using pot is always to get high - but that was true of alcohol when that drug was illegal, and alcohol is often used for that purpose today. And it laughably claims that "wine does not get a person inebriated" - I myself have been drunk on wine and known many other people to be.
'Myth 5: It’s my body, so I can do what I want with it without bothering anyone else.' The article's startling rebuttal is, "private behavior always seeps out into public." Ergo, there is no right to privacy in ANY respect, whether pot use or (say) sexual practice - a textbook case of an argument that proves too much.
Anyone who doubts marijuana use is unhealthy is an idiot. That said, I don’t give a damn what unhealthy things a person wants to do to themselves.
The real problem as an earlier poster mentions is the expansion of the police state, surveillance, and the ruining of young lives for relatively minor offenses. This is not to mention the enormous resources we dedicate to this prohibition, and the ridiculous and senseless loss of life that happens due to criminal, cartel, and gang influence in this business.
That’s a crock of horse-pucky. I have degenerative arthritis of the spine ranging from the middle of my cevicals to the bottom of my thoracic. Hurts to holy hell and I will not take prescription pain killers. I have enough problems in life without having to become an addict. Both my knees were ripped out in 1982 and degenerative arthritis thrives in both. I have neuropathy in both feet and a horrid case of diverticulosis. Pot helps a lot, and you people who continually diss on medical pot use need to be deprogrammed.
Have you tried the ACTUAL medicinal marijuana like Charlotte’s web? Or are you eating/smoking the stuff that gets you “high?”
Be careful what you wish for. Tobacco is now practically illegal. The over regulation is a joke. The liberals in all parties will do the same with pot. They’ll decriminalize while over regulating.
If cigs are being smuggled in due to over taxation by one state then the same will happen with legal pot.
It’s a lot stronger than the crap in the 70’s. More expensive too.
I’ll bet 100% of that started with booze.
Or raiding their parent's medicine cabinet.
The stuff that gets you "high" - THC - also has medical value; FDA-approved Marinol is synthetic THC.
Some people use opioid painkillers to get high - are those not really medicine/
...and make it more accessible to our kids.
Sorry, but your attempt to pollute our country with pot is misguided at best. You are, quite simply, wrong.
Maybe. If the end result is overturning Wickard v Filburn I'd take it.
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