Prop 203 Appears to Have Won

yeap the cannibis marches on.

i think it will win next time in Cali

Here in CA. we need to convince the christian moralists to move to St. Lake City and do us all a favor.
Unfortunately, all you end up exporting are the urban leftist moonbats....Just check out Douglas County, CO.

Maybe you could do Colorado, Montana, Oregon and Washington a big favor and take them back.
 
There is growing evidence that people with serious mental illness, including depression and psychosis, are more likely to use cannabis or have used it for long periods of time in the past. Regular use of the drug has appeared to double the risk of developing a psychotic episode or long-term schizophrenia. However, does cannabis cause depression and schizophrenia or do people with these disorders use it as a medication?
While this paragraph is constructed in a way that if not carefully reviewed will suggest that marijuana is known to cause depression and schizophrenia when in fact that is not true. What is true is that depressed or schizophrenic persons should not use marijuana, or alcohol, or watch certain types of movies or tv programming, and on and on.
Over the past few years, research has strongly suggested that there is a clear link between early cannabis use and later mental health problems in those with a genetic vulnerability - and that there is a particular issue with the use of cannabis by adolescents.
Here the key words are ". . .those with a genetic vulnerability. . . ." It's equally true that those with a genetic vulnerability to anything should refrain from doing whatever it is they are vulnerable to.

So what else is new?
A study following 1600 Australian school-children, aged 14 to 15 for seven years, found that while children who use cannabis regularly have a significantly higher risk of depression, the opposite was not the case - children who already suffered from depression were not more likely than anyone else to use cannabis. However, adolescents who used cannabis daily were five times more likely to develop depression and anxiety in later life.
While this paragraph starts off looking like an Abbot & Costello comedy routine ("One should not ever refrain from never not doing that") it ends up saying something the vast majority of responsible marijuana users agree with -- that the adolescent brain is not fully developed and so adolescents should not use any type of neuroactive substance which is not prescribed by an MD.
Three major studies followed large numbers of people over several years, and showed that those people who use cannabis have a higher than average risk of developing schizophrenia. If you start smoking it before the age of 15, you are 4 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder by the time you are 26. They found no evidence of self-medication. It seemed that, the more cannabis someone used, the more likely they were to develop symptoms.
Again, no argument. Any psychoactive substance is potentially harmful to adolescents -- not only marijuana. But this sort of rhetoric serves the interests of many powerful corporations that stand to lose if marijuana is legalized on either side of the Atlantic.
Recent research in Europe, and in the UK, has suggested that people who have a family background of mental illness – and so probably have a genetic vulnerability anyway - are more likely to develop schizophrenia if they use cannabis as well.
The research suggests but it doesn't affirm. So to be on the safe side, if one belongs to a nutty family it's best to avoid using any drug which might make one crazy, too -- including alcohol. Actually, especially alcohol, which is known to induce violent behavior. But this paper is about marijuana, isn't it?
In New Zealand, researchers found that those who smoked regularly, and had smoked before driving, were more likely to be injured in a car crash. A recent study in France looked at over 10,000 drivers who were involved in fatal car crashes. Even when the influence of alcohol was taken into account, cannabis users were more than twice as likely to be the cause of a fatal crash than to be one of the victims. So - perhaps most of us would also not want to be driven by somebody who had smoked cannabis in the last day or so.
I can't speak for New Zealand, or France, or the UK, and I'm not aware of any scientifically conducted studies about marijuana use and driving in the U.S., but there are two things that should be considered with respect to this issue. First is the fact that anyone who is inclined to drive while stoned on marijuana will not be deterred by any laws, which makes this a moot point in terms of whether or not to legalize it. Second; in lieu of any scientific study, I have heard from more than one experienced police officer that stoned drivers are not nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers. While their reflexes are diminished they usually keep to the right and rarely if ever speed. The majority of those who are pulled over are spotted for driving too slow rather than too fast.

But none of that excuses driving while under the influence of anything.
 
Wonder how many prohibitionist are really aware of the circumstances that lead to the ban?
 
Telling someone Keep smoking pot, is like saying keep drinking beer.
Moron Prohibitionist.
 

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