5 Lies You’ve Been Told About the US Legalizing Marijuana

[Kilgore Trout]

When I was young and smoked pot on a daily basis, I wanted it to be legal because I smoked it. Now that I'm older, and have long since outgrown it, I want it to be legal so I have less competition against motivated, clear-minded people in the real world.

 

[Lyndon]

What a Capitalist.
Let's make this all about money and let The Market work it's magic.

Tom

Actually if you read my blog in my signature you would see that I support taxing alcohol and marijuana to pay for free food available to especially the poor. But I guess you feel cheap marijuana is more important than food.

 

[columbus]

I don't drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke weed or cigarettes, or use any other kind of recreational drug.

No wonder you are reduced to eating pineapple pizza all alone in the corner.

Oh honey. Have you tried kinky sex?
Tom

 

[Quetzal]

But I guess you feel cheap marijuana is more important than food.

I have not seen one person supporting that position, that is one of the worst strawmen I have seen in recent memory.

 

[columbus]

Actually if you read my blog in my signature you would see that I support taxing alcohol and marijuana to pay for free food available to especially the poor. But I guess you feel cheap marijuana is more important than food.

Way to miss my point.
Tom

 

[Lyndon]

Way to miss my point.
Tom

How did I. You seem to be of the opinion that drugs and alcohol should be cheap, and the government should not be allowed to heavily tax them to provide essential services because that would be capitalism, actually it would be socialism.

 

[bobhikes]

I feel certain that most non-intoxicated people can understand that when someone says that "no one has ever died from smoking marijuana," the person is referring to the direct effects of the drug.

As far as driving while intoxicated, the evidence cited for item #4 indicates that "it doesn’t appear that the roads are any more dangerous than they were before prohibition was lifted in legal states." Do you know of any evidence to the contrary?

In fact, I would definitely prefer to meet someone on the road who is "intoxicated" from smoking marijuana than intoxicated from drinking alcohol. And legalization of marijuana may indeed lessen the incidence of driving while intoxicated on alcohol.

Provide your citations. I wasn't intending to provide a forum for people to express irrational fears and anger.

Gemma Moss will officially go down in history as the first woman whose death was caused by a marijuana overdose. British citizens may very well believe this is true. Americans, on the other hand, will probably think Hussain is just blowing smoke.

In 2004 a 36-year-old man from Pembrokeshire was believed to have become the first person in the UK to die from cannabis toxicity.

And its only a matter of time before some child dies of an overdose. Mostly from cannabis laden food. Children need a lot less to die. Not only that they tend to pass out first. In a multistory building, in a pool or anywhere they could fall to their deaths.
Marijuana-laced candy blamed for sickening 19 in California

Poisoning of children by accidental marijuana ingestion is rising in the United States, particularly where the drug is legal, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics, which analyzed childhood marijuana poisonings in Colorado relative to the rest of the country. Since 2009, US poison centers outside of Colorado have seen an average 19 percent annual increase in pediatric poisonings from marijuana; the increase was 34 percent in Colorado, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2014.

 

[columbus]

How did I. You seem to be of the opinion that drugs and alcohol should be cheap, and the government should not be allowed to heavily tax them to provide essential services because that would be capitalism, actually it would be socialism.

I said nothing of the sort.
You made all that up, and ignored what I actually did say. That the war on drugs just makes things worse.
Tom

 

[pearl]

The there are lies about medical uses for marijuana that are just an excuse to get high, not to downplay the real medical uses of marijuana, which are not as great as the stoners would like us to believe.

Speaking from nursing experience with hospice patients, that statement is not correct. The benefits from cannabis are very positive.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

No wonder you are reduced to eating pineapple pizza all alone in the corner.

Oh honey. Have you tried kinky sex?
Tom

I'm virgin due to being abstinent.

 

[pearl]

Poisoning of children by accidental marijuana ingestion is rising in the United States, particularly where the drug is legal, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics, which analyzed childhood marijuana poisonings in Colorado relative to the rest of the country. Since 2009, US poison centers outside of Colorado have seen an average 19 percent annual increase in pediatric poisonings from marijuana; the increase was 34 percent in Colorado, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2014.

That is a concern and the reason Massachusetts has delayed the selling of it until such safety precautions can be in place. As it stands now one may grow up to six plants for personal use.

 

[Father Heathen]

I don't drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke weed or cigarettes, or use any other kind of recreational drug. But I still am for legalization.

Right. Personal liberty is the crux of the issue, and I don't understand how that point could be lost on otherwise rational people.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It makes me wonder:
Why is it permissible and legal to get stupid, loud, and obnoxious with alcohol, yet not ok to chill, mellow out, and laugh at cartoons or play music with pot? The effects and harm from abuse are world's apart, one does have a fatal overdose rate and is chemically addictive, and one of those two ranks in at #2 in annual deaths while the other remains at not one single documented case of a fatal overdose.

 

[Father Heathen]

It makes me wonder:
Why is it permissible and legal to get stupid, loud, and obnoxious with alcohol, yet not ok to chill, mellow out, and laugh at cartoons or play music with pot? The effects and harm from abuse are world's apart, one does have a fatal overdose rate and is chemically addictive, and one of those two ranks in at #2 in annual deaths while the other remains at not one single documented case of a fatal overdose.

...because they heed the gospel of Daren The Lion.

 

[Brickjectivity]

There is a difference between risky behavior and behavior that must be criminalized. Bicycles are dangerous, for example. People who ride bikes on the side of highways are a danger to themselves and others. People who paint their houses bright pink lack judgment. People who don't drink 8 glasses of water per day are not following medical advice and are probably shortening their lives. What about Skiing? That's got to be criminal. Consider how many people die doing that useless activity. Baseball is a death trap.

 

[Nous]

Easy. Too many people like to get drunk and will do just about anything to keep it that way.

So, in your mind, having a drink of alcohol = getting drunk. Is that right? There is no honorable reason to have a glass of wine?

The mob was making more money than the Goverment.

And you support that?

 

[Nous]

I'm just as against alcohol

Link to your posts where you have advocated prohibition of alcohol. Show us where you've said the same things about someone who takes a sip of wine as you've said about those who take a hit from a joint.

 

[Nous]

I want it to be legal so I have less competition against motivated, clear-minded people in the real world.

You still won't win that competition.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

No wonder you are reduced to eating pineapple pizza all alone in the corner.

Oh honey. Have you tried kinky sex?
Tom

Looky at what I'm eating.

 

[Nous]

Gemma Moss will officially go down in history as the first woman whose death was caused by a marijuana overdose. British citizens may very well believe this is true. Americans, on the other hand, will probably think Hussain is just blowing smoke.

In 2004 a 36-year-old man from Pembrokeshire was believed to have become the first person in the UK to die from cannabis toxicity.

Geez, I wonder what drug it is that takes away one's ability to count to two?

So, that's two possible deaths from cannabis overdose . . . out of how many quadrillions of times people have smoked marijuana?

I wonder what is that physiological mechanism that causes death from cannabis overdose? I think death from alcohol is often due to people choking on their vomit.

And its only a matter of time before some child dies of an overdose. Mostly from cannabis laden food. Children need a lot less to die. Not only that they tend to pass out first. In a multistory building, in a pool or anywhere they could fall to their deaths.
Marijuana-laced candy blamed for sickening 19 in California

I do think marijuana candy is bad idea. If given the option, I would probably vote against legalizing prepared marijuana foodstuffs. I've known several people who were highly experienced marijuana smokers who had bad experiences with eating it. And far too often, kids eat it.

Poisoning of children by accidental marijuana ingestion is rising in the United States, particularly where the drug is legal, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics, which analyzed childhood marijuana poisonings in Colorado relative to the rest of the country. Since 2009, US poison centers outside of Colorado have seen an average 19 percent annual increase in pediatric poisonings from marijuana; the increase was 34 percent in Colorado, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2014.

The JAMA article refers to it as cases of "exposure," not poisoning. When I was a kid my parents let me have a sip of wine at family dinners. Was I poisoned?