Sounds good, and while we are at it let's just go forward with cocaine, heroine, all the oxy-drugs and date rape drugs and what the heck, when you get in high school just let 'em get booze too.
Submitted by WhitesCreek on August 1, 2012 - 7:32pm.
No Chel...Pot isn't addictive and all those things you named are. You are advocating addictions for everybody and I'm not. I also think adulthood should be necessary for pothood just like alcohol.
Not advocating any of it. I just think we have a heck of a lot of other things to do than legalize pot. The only way I would be for legalizing pot would be if it could generate enough tax revenue to knock a big hole in the deficit, but that will never happen.
Submitted by lawdawg1 on August 2, 2012 - 11:10am.
Pot is addictive, just as much as gambeling, alcohol, sex, tobacco, and any other drug you want to name. Even OTC drugs can be addictive. The defenition of a addict is one who addicted to one substance or or anything habit forming. Just like smoking cigarettes are addicitive as well as plaing onlone poker and using your credit card to get chips. So IMO anything can be addictive, however long term effects of the course can be a role on how addicted you can become.....
Submitted by WhitesCreek on August 2, 2012 - 11:43am.
Saying something doesn't make it true. There's no evidence that marijuana produces either tolerance or withdrawal in any but the most high quantity users and only a small percentage of those. A higher percentage get addicted to chocolate and coffee certainly produces the effects of clinical addiction, though at low degrees.
Tobacco is horribly addictive, on the other hand, far more so than heroin. Rationality seems to have no part in the legalization argument at present. Want to put a hurt on a huge percentage of illegal drug traffic and the associated criminal costs to society? End the criminal penalties for pot. It would destroy the for profit prison industry at the same time.
Just going off a little research when I read a great book and is actually IMO non biased and written by Leslie Iverson, The scinece of marijuana.....his study was clinical and and survey based if I remember correctly and I stress "IF" 10-35% become addicted and somehwere around 8 or 9% become seriously addicted.....
Sounds good, and while we are at it let's just go forward with cocaine, heroine, all the oxy-drugs and date rape drugs and what the heck, when you get in high school just let 'em get booze too.
No Chel...Pot isn't addictive and all those things you named are. You are advocating addictions for everybody and I'm not. I also think adulthood should be necessary for pothood just like alcohol.
Not advocating any of it. I just think we have a heck of a lot of other things to do than legalize pot. The only way I would be for legalizing pot would be if it could generate enough tax revenue to knock a big hole in the deficit, but that will never happen.
It might not put much of a hole in the deficit but it could help keep you from worrying about it. :)
Pot is addictive, just as much as gambeling, alcohol, sex, tobacco, and any other drug you want to name. Even OTC drugs can be addictive. The defenition of a addict is one who addicted to one substance or or anything habit forming. Just like smoking cigarettes are addicitive as well as plaing onlone poker and using your credit card to get chips. So IMO anything can be addictive, however long term effects of the course can be a role on how addicted you can become.....
Saying something doesn't make it true. There's no evidence that marijuana produces either tolerance or withdrawal in any but the most high quantity users and only a small percentage of those. A higher percentage get addicted to chocolate and coffee certainly produces the effects of clinical addiction, though at low degrees.
Tobacco is horribly addictive, on the other hand, far more so than heroin. Rationality seems to have no part in the legalization argument at present. Want to put a hurt on a huge percentage of illegal drug traffic and the associated criminal costs to society? End the criminal penalties for pot. It would destroy the for profit prison industry at the same time.
Just going off a little research when I read a great book and is actually IMO non biased and written by Leslie Iverson, The scinece of marijuana.....his study was clinical and and survey based if I remember correctly and I stress "IF" 10-35% become addicted and somehwere around 8 or 9% become seriously addicted.....
I'll look for it.
So that's what it was, they hovered over my house for a good while Tuesday evening.