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Nope. Telling it like it is.
That's a personal choice, you don't have to eat unhealthy foods. Where's your responsibility "conservative"? The pot made me eat it! Waaaah
Sooo... let me see if I follow your logic here: cheeseburgers are dangerous because they are unhealthy, but pot, which impairs people's brains and make them want to eat cheeseburgers (while filling their lungs with carcinogens) is LESS dangerous because LALALALALALALA!
This is common knowledge but I will help you anyway.
Let me google that for you
Ah, and you only provided half of your argument proving something I never doubted. You still need the comparison.
Marijuana is a risk factor for Heart attack and Stroke. While the total number of deaths attributed to aspirin is more than pot, the actual use of asprin in the population far exceeds that of marijuana.
Anyway, you provided a Google search that didn't actually compare aspirin to marijuana death rate, so you failed in your mission.
Pathetic, recycled strawman. Nobody is advocating driving stoned. Not to mention if I had a choice, I'd prefer someone stoned over drunk.
So driving stoned is more dangerous than driving? Hmmm... this marijuana you speak of ... it doesn't sound safe....
Again this is common knowledge but apparently not to you.
Let me google that for you
Again you have not actually compared deaths from football to deaths from marijuana (heart attacks, strokes), so you haven't proved your point. I know statistical proofs are hard but that doesn't excuse you from doing them.
Another failure on your part.
Oh god... anyone with even the slightest ability to think critically could see through this.
1. Marijuana stays in your system for up to 30 days making it the easiest to detect.
2. Having marijuana in your system when you are arrested doesn't mean anything. Correlation does not equal causation.
3. This article relies on what the "Drug Czar" says, his job is to not just fight drugs, but to drum up support for his cause. Biased? NOOO WAAAY
4. If you read the rest of the article it blasts the first half pretty convincingly. Apparently pot heads aren't the only ones who can't focus for more than 30 seconds.
5. Have you ever heard of someone robbing houses or stores or anything for WEED? What planet are you on. Some kid stealing 30 bucks out of his mom's purse to buy pot doesn't count as hardcore crime.
More hand waving excuses in lieu of an actual rebuttal. Bureau of Justice keeps a rather extensive set of statistics on the condition of criminals before, during and after committing the crime.
28.8% of all criminals admitted to using drugs at the time they were committing the crime. The most used drug during the commission of a crime? Marijuana in a landslide. 47% of all crimes that were committed under the influence of a drug were done under the influence of Marijuana.
The statistics.
Of all the criminals surveyed, 82% admitted to using drugs. 75% used Marijuana. Granted, that last statistic more indicates that marijuana users are an unsavory bunch... but again, not much of a sales pitch when combined with psychological disorders and low IQs.
Don't smoke pot and roam around in traffic, should be common sense. Want to regulate that too, "conservative"?
SHOULD be common sense, but alas pot has a way of robbing you of common sense... compounded by the evidence that those who choose to smoke pot don't have much sense to spare to begin with.
Wow... were you never a kid? You never heard or seen someone run with something, trip, fall, and impale themselves? I saw a girl running with a ruler and fell, it went in her mouth and sliced the roof of her mouth terribly... more dangerous than a joint lemme tell ya.
No, I don't live in the world where pot is the miracle drug of choice for well adjusted, intelligent people and scissors are the scourge of mankind. Wait here...
I just ran to the kitchen and back with scissors and I am still capable of operating heavy machinery. Case. Closed.
There are plenty of studies and some seem to find a link and others don't, the jury is still out. Besides, I don't advocate teenagers smoking pot anyways, legal age should be 21 like alcohol. In fact I don't advocate people smoking cigs, or drinking, or smoking pot, or eating bad food, or anything. However making things illegal and throwing people in jail is not the answer. Rehabilitation, support, education, these are the keys to helping make better people. Jail and prison are far more dangerous than pot... which is ironic that's where you want to send people for their and others "safety", lol.
All fine and good, but the legalization of pot at all will ensure more kids will have access to pot. So your moral stand on under age pot use is wholly pointless as you support the policies that will make it more prevalent.
