How safe is marijuana?

[Harry Dresden]

Pot is pretty safe as drugs go but that doesn't mean users aren't weak minded morons that can't cope with the real world.

Only idiots need drugs.

you mean like all those taking prescription drugs to keep them alive or for an ailment?....

Ah, the idiot's argument.
We're talking about illegal drugs.

words have meaning......Only idiots need drugs.....means all drugs.....

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

It's not very; people use it exclusively to alter their mental state and perception of their surroundings. After a while they lose qualms about driving, and being high alters their perceptions of their situations in driving emergencies. It can also cause them to routinize their reactions - like pull up to a stop sign, look left and see a car a seemingly safe distance away, look right and having fulfilled that routine obligation without a quick check back to the left - pull out in front of a moving car.

Furthermore, when asked about their use on a medical form when seeking medical care, not answer truthfully out of fear. That can be harmful to their health and they may get inappropriate treatment.

Never mind the cost of dope; what is it now $400 and more an ounce? That comes down to at least $50 a week for a daily user. Doesn't that do damage to a small family's budget? Will a user be honest with a spouse about that size expenditure? That leads to a deterioration of trust and damages a relationship.

I can think of a multitude of problems arising from its use that are usually NOT considered.

Are you also in favor of reinstating a ban on alcoholic beverages because some people will abuse it, act stupidly and put themselves and others at risk. The ones that are to irresponsible or stupid to know that they should not drive after drinking or smoking should not be allowed to spoil it for others.

 

[longknife]

Purely anecdotal - I smoked from it 1978 until 1999.

THAT explains your posts here!

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The problem is liberals will ignore that smoking it causes lung cancer.

The problem that conservatives will ignore is that cigarettes are much more likely to cause cancer because people consume far more of them, and they contain many more carcinogens that pot. Yet, I don't hear any calls to ban cigarettes because doing so might anger their friends in big tobacco, not to mention about 20% of their constituency - more in some red states where people are more likely to have poor health practices.

Another problem that conservatives ignore is the fact that banning a relatively harmless drug - and the war on drugs - is just more big government trying to protect us from ourselves with the nanny state mentality. I'm willing to bet that many of the people who want to maintain a ban on pot are the same ones who have a problem with Michelle Obama talking about nutrition and exercise. Do you see the hypocrisy? Either you want government concerning itself with our health or you don't.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

This is interesting!

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[TheProgressivePatriot]

The problem is liberals will ignore that smoking it causes lung cancer.

One more problem that conservatives will ignore. The pharmaceutical industry produces pain medications and the medical profession prescribes in hugh quantities that are abused and become the gateway drug to heroin that actually kills people, if the pills don't do that first.

 

[Jroc]

The problem is liberals will ignore that smoking it causes lung cancer.

The problem that conservatives will ignore is that cigarettes are much more likely to cause cancer because people consume far more of them, and they contain many more carcinogens that pot. Yet, I don't hear any calls to ban cigarettes because doing so might anger their friends in big tobacco, not to mention about 20% of their constituency - more in some red states where people are more likely to have poor health practices.

Another problem that conservatives ignore is the fact that banning a relatively harmless drug - and the war on drugs - is just more big government trying to protect us from ourselves with the nanny state mentality. I'm willing to bet that many of the people who want to maintain a ban on pot are the same ones who have a problem with Michelle Obama talking about nutrition and exercise. Do you see the hypocrisy? Either you want government concerning itself with our health or you don't.

Conservatives aren't for banning marijuana. That's a state issue. Only RINOS like Chris Christie are for that. If people want to grow marijuana, or smoke it, that's their business. Alcohol abuse is much more damaging to the body ,to the family and to drivers.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The problem is liberals will ignore that smoking it causes lung cancer.

The problem that conservatives will ignore is that cigarettes are much more likely to cause cancer because people consume far more of them, and they contain many more carcinogens that pot. Yet, I don't hear any calls to ban cigarettes because doing so might anger their friends in big tobacco, not to mention about 20% of their constituency - more in some red states where people are more likely to have poor health practices.

Another problem that conservatives ignore is the fact that banning a relatively harmless drug - and the war on drugs - is just more big government trying to protect us from ourselves with the nanny state mentality. I'm willing to bet that many of the people who want to maintain a ban on pot are the same ones who have a problem with Michelle Obama talking about nutrition and exercise. Do you see the hypocrisy? Either you want government concerning itself with our health or you don't.

Conservatives aren't for banning marijuana. That's a state issue. Only RINOS like Chris Christie are for that. If people want to grow marijuana, or smoke it, that's their business. Alcohol abuse is much more damaging to the body ,to the family and to drivers.

Well, attitudes bout it do not fall neatly along party or ideological lines but there is some differential. Attribute to RINOS or what ever.

Section 2: Views of Marijuana – Legalization, Decriminalization, Concerns