Can anyone still maintain this B.S. position...?

Question

So, every time I hear people speaking against medical marijuana, usually they're pretty stupid, redneck-types who have no idea what they're talking about. And they always shriek: "Think of the children!! What example are we setting for the children?" Well, they (UNICEF) just did a study of 21 wealthy, industrialized countries, and listed which ones were best for children (in terms of various factors like health, happiness, risky behavior, etc). America came up almost last. You know which country came up FIRST? Holland. A country where pot is LEGAL had kids least likely to engage in dangerous behavior like drugs or sex. As opposed to here in America, where people are militant and terrified of weed, the study showed kids are more in danger. So, can we at least stop making this retarded argument? My red-state friends?...

Answer 1

Yea, Dude like I'm hep and got all of it up to can anyone still maintain.....

Sure I can cope. In fact I couldn't cope til I smoked dope, now I cope good.

Is that what ya mean?

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Answer 2

My whole family lives in the Netherlands, and I love to go there. What you said is true, I agree. To quote Doug Stanhope " The sole arguement for the use of marijuana is this, I'm an adult, and I can do what I want as long as I don't put anyone else at risk." When the law says you can't, you do. Almost 90% of my large family doesn't even smoke pot. Common sense has been thrown to the wayside by the so called " moral majority "
Legalize and regulate.

Answer 3

Quit stereotyping people. I am a Republican and I have believed for years that pot should be legalized and sold just like cigs and alcohol. I don't believe it is any more dangerous than pot or booze so why not make it legal and get the tax revenue from it.I do not believe that people should be able to grow as much as they want and use it and sell it without it being regulated.

Answer 4

I'm not going to try to argue the B.S. position.

But a study like that is influenced by far too many things to single out legal marijuana as the reason why it's "best for the children"

When you just look at it, the connection seems a bit absurd.

Answer 5

I'm sorry, it's not that I disagree with you, but I can't let you continue to present a random correlation as proof of anything.

The fact that a country where pot is legal rates high on this survey does not mean these two factors are related. If you have questions of this, see the example at http://www.venganza.org showing how the decrease in number of pirates on earth is correlated to the increase in global temperature.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Don't rant about it. We all have the ability to push for change. Join a group and help the cause. Do you think the above paragraph helped the de-criminalization cause. I don't...I think someone that wants it to remain illegal is gonna print out your statement and use it as proof that marijuana causes brain damage.

Answer 8

Genesis 3:18 (Kings James Version): ” Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; “


Geneiss 1.29: Then God said, ” I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. “


Link to study: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html


Can read it here:

The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.

The new findings “were against our expectations,” said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.

“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”

Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin’s previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought.

Earlier work established that marijuana does contain cancer-causing chemicals as potentially harmful as those in tobacco, he said. However, marijuana also contains the chemical THC, which he said may kill aging cells and keep them from becoming cancerous.

Tashkin’s study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved 1,200 people in Los Angeles who had lung, neck or head cancer and an additional 1,040 people without cancer matched by age, sex and neighborhood.

They were all asked about their lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. The heaviest marijuana smokers had lighted up more than 22,000 times, while moderately heavy usage was defined as smoking 11,000 to 22,000 marijuana cigarettes. Tashkin found that even the very heavy marijuana smokers showed no increased incidence of the three cancers studied.

“This is the largest case-control study ever done, and everyone had to fill out a very extensive questionnaire about marijuana use,” he said. “Bias can creep into any research, but we controlled for as many confounding factors as we could, and so I believe these results have real meaning.”

Tashkin’s group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA had hypothesized that marijuana would raise the risk of cancer on the basis of earlier small human studies, lab studies of animals, and the fact that marijuana users inhale more deeply and generally hold smoke in their lungs longer than tobacco smokers — exposing them to the dangerous chemicals for a longer time. In addition, Tashkin said, previous studies found that marijuana tar has 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to cancer than tobacco cigarette tar.

While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The study was limited to people younger than 60 because those older than that were generally not exposed to marijuana in their youth, when it is most often tried.

Answer 9

I totally agree with u. Can anyone please name even only a single incident where people being high have done something frieghtingly stupid. Any car accident, murder, theft, rape...please just name one. I think people who smoke marijuana and then pass out are all gonna go to Heaven. (if there's one) cuz' u don't do any bad deeds.

Answer 10

Her is the easiest solution for you. Move to Holland.