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Regardless of what Mr. Sound Science here will try and have you think, inhailing large amounts of smoke of any kind is not good for you and never will be.
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- That's why you can eat it, vaporize it, and drink it (in several different ways).
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I like your little references. As if it makes what you're saying to be more true.
I can find a reference to say almost anything I want, but I prefer to use personal experience.
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- Little references? Studies from the Harvard Institute of Health, New England Journal of Medicine, UCLA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and many reputable sources are apparently insignificant.
But the studies you and Sangetsu reference (but fail to cite) in which marijuana causes psychosis, brain cell damage, and health damage were commissioned by the federal government -- where they forced Rhesus monkeys to inhale the equivalent of 1000 joints in 5 minutes through gas masks, causing brain damage due to lack of oxygen, not Marijuana. And these facts are STILL being championed by anti-marijuana associations and idiots like YOU.
Also you guys totally disprove any medicinal use of marijuana, yet you stick up for the synthetic marinol pills? If it doesn't have any medicinal value, why support marinol (which often causes nausea and a very uncomfortable sensation)?
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Give us some good reasons.
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10 reasons prohibition is bad:
1. Prohibition encourages people to see the law as unrealistic and whimsical, instead of with the respect and obedience a real law deserves.
2. Prohibition creates organized crime.
3. Prohibition permanently corrupts law enforcement, the court system, elections, and politics in general.
4. Prohibition overburdens police, courts, and the penal system.
5. Prohibition causes physical harm.
Because alcohol was illegal, its purity was not regulated. While fruit, vegetable, and grain alcohol is usually safe, alcohol made from wood is not — but it is difficult to tell the difference until too late. The same happens today with illegal drugs — most overdoses are accidental, a result from not knowing the purity or strength of the drug. All of this a result of prohibition!
6. Prohibition prevents the treatment of addiction
It’s a lot harder to say you have a problem when it could land you in jail.
7. Prohibition is ridiculously expensive.
Experts estimate that legalizing marijuana would save $7.7 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. $5.3 billion of this savings would accrue to state and local governments, while $2.4 billion would accrue to the federal government. The report also estimates that marijuana legalization would yield tax revenue of $2.4 billion annually if marijuana were taxed like all other goods and $6.2 billion annually if marijuana were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco.
8. Prohibition (a.k.a. 'The War on Drugs') is a complete failure, and is essentially impossible to win
9. A regulated, legal market in marijuana would reduce marijuana sales and use among teenagers, as well as reduce their exposure to other more dangerous drugs in the illegal market.
10. Marijuana's legalization would simplify the development of hemp as a valuable and diverse agricultural crop in the United States, including its development as a new bio-fuel to reduce carbon emissions
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The question is really how is this different than alcohol?
There are no studies I have read here or anywhere that can prove without a shadow of a doubt that the physical or mental issues associated with the body outweigh the issues with tobacco or alcohol.
Sure there would be those who would abuse it, but the same can be done with alcohol.
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Well put.