Posted on 08/12/2025 9:37:21 AM PDT by texas booster
“It can be just devastating to watch a child in that state”
Marijuana lobbyists promised states like Colorado and California that they could legalize marijuana and make lots of money.
What actually happened is that the illegal businesses, especially those controlled by cartels and triads, soared, while the ‘legal’ taxable businesses struggled to compete because of high taxes and high prices. Social problems caused by a boom in marijuana use soared, boosting the homeless crisis in Denver, ground zero for drug legalization, and major cities where pot had been legalized.
There’s also another side effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
The toxicity of cannabis depends largely on the potency of the product and the size of the person. A high enough dose of T.H.C. can be so sedating that a person’s tongue blocks his windpipe, or it can trigger a seizure that requires intubation. But in general, an adult would have to consume a very large amount of cannabis to get that ill, doctors said: It might take hundreds or even thousands of milligrams of T.H.C. to cause severe side effects in a 150-pound adult — but far less for a child.
The foundational issue here is adult responsibility. It’s the responsibility of adults to protect children and to protect society.
A side of marijuana legalization that isn't often even mentioned.
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Alcoholism also causes myriad social and health problems much more so than marijuana. Do you want to go back to prohibition too?
I don’t mean to switch topics, but I think everyone is looking around at society and thinking that there is way too much mental illness. The Karens demanding to see the manager. The people we are all fatigued from. The homeless. There are lots and lots of psychotic people out there these days. And the “experts” will tell you: Cannabis rarely causes psychosis. Uh huh.
Put a cap on the allowed percentage of THC in the product, and make it lower than the current average.
Yes, I would prefer prohibition. Allow people to grow their own, but stop the cartels from grow operations, and shut down the stores.
I hate to hurt peoples feelings, but if you are an adult smoking weed at your age? You are an idiot stoner. If your brilliant brain is able to work at a high level, because you started out as highly intelliget. You could be a brighter bulb though, you are hazing your mind.
Article is spot on. Lived in Colorado my whole adult life until we moved in 2021 to FLA.
After thousands of years, the effects of alcohol are well understood. Social norms have developed that help to curb its abuse, and its toxicity doesn’t change. Even the harm caused by the introduction of distilled spirits was mitigated by the incapacity induced by abuse: if you took too much or at the wrong time, you lost the ability to function, which sooner or later all but the worst abusers came to understand as something to avoid. Marijuana is more subtly destructive, masking its harm because the user doesn’t pass out, with lasting mental damage even after the buzz is gone.
So lets just poison our kids for 50 years with Coca Cola, Twinkies, Moon Pies, McDonalds.
People have been smokin’ weed for centuries, and we landed on the moon.
Now, we can barely get enough fit recruits to defend the country.
Yeah, Evil Weed is the baddie.
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I don’t mean to switch topics, but I think everyone is looking around at society and thinking that there is way too much mental illness. The Karens demanding to see the manager. The people we are all fatigued from. The homeless. There are lots and lots of psychotic people out there these days. And the “experts” will tell you: Cannabis rarely causes psychosis. Uh huh.
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What we are witnessing here is a slow degradation of humanity. Recreational pot has so many downsides, just entertaining the notion to legalize is absurd, unless society wants to sink further into the dark abyss of civilization ruin.
Bkmrk
I’ve never understood the argument that legalizing recreational drugs of any kind will “put the drug lords out of business.”
That is just stupid. They’ll just find a way to continue in the market. After all, drug legalization comes with a LOT of government regulations which push the cost of those licit drugs up. Illegal drug kingpins aren’t constrained by those costs.
Wouldn't bother me in the least.
The state of California is a great example of what happened. They made a deal to legalize and tax marijuana. They forgot the prohibition policy of making sure illegal alcohol (marijuana in this case) production ended. So, businesses paid the state of California and had no protection from illegal operations under cutting them. That’s why it didn’t work! And that’s why there are poisonous chemicals used in the illegal grow operations.
At the age of thirteen, I remember my first six-pack of beer, camping out in a tent in the back yard. It went down hard and came back up even harder. After that I was “one beer, blackdog”
There’s benefits and risks. Long term use can reduce IQ 5.5 points and is not good for young people because it interferes with the development of the brains ‘white matter’ that continues developing into one’s 20’s. I started smoking at 14 and continue to this day to consume it daily. Much less damaging than abusing alcohol and it offers benefits to the aging brain. (and I can afford to lose 5.5 IQ points without missing a beat)
Cannabis can harm young brains but may improve learning in older age
There is growing evidence that cannabis use may disrupt adolescent brain development, but in older adults it seems to lead to more neural connections in brain regions associated with memory and learning.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2402391-cannabis-can-harm-young-brains-but-may-improve-learning-in-older-age/
This is why you have to be 18 years old to purchase cannabis products from a dispensary. People who sell on the black market have no such age restrictions.
The power to be want us like the humans in the movie Wall-E. Big fat blobs tied to our phones and every whim some celebrity comes out with... Majority of people are lemmings.
“Put a cap on the allowed percentage of THC in the product,”
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Really, none of them remember how well this concept went over in NY?
“Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the portion cap rule, a proposed amendment to article 81 of the New York City Health Code, that would require “food service establishments” (FSEs) to cap at 16 ounces (475 mL)”
Yeah... I’ll take two please.
And just like that, St. Bloomberg’s (protector of the mere peasants) life-saving crusade of “Nein zu 32-oz-Getränken!”
was gone!
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I don’t think there were 22,000 alcohol related poisonings of young children last year like there were for pot. The issue is edibles. They look like candy and when stupid adults leave them out, young children eat multiples of the yummy gummies.
I realize you can’t fix stupid but you can harshly prosecute it when parents or caregivers are negligent. A few internet horror stories about prosecuted parents getting 5 year sentences to pick up trash and having to take 2 years of parenting education might stem the tide a little bit among the mid IQ parents.
Personally, I would love to institute public caning for a whole host of misdemeanors. Streamed live, of course.
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