re: Why is weed still illegal?

Difficulty eating, sleeping, less energy. Sorry if I’m hurting the weed brigades feelings but there are actually well documented withdrawal effects. Nothing compared to alcoholism or other drugs but they do exist

For someone that claims to be against dishonesty and reading "incomprehension", you seem to be promoting it.

Without even bothering to read your entire diatribe, I still noticed you mentioning the brains of developing kids in your rant. When you have to be 21 to even legally purchase it, why even bring this up?

Are you trying to make the argument that legalizing weed will make it easier for minors to obtain it? If so, I'm calling BS. Anyone that wants weed in a state where it is still illegal can get it with no problems.

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Difficulty eating

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usually the opposite effect in most

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But I will say that I'm 57 years old, have been smoking weed since 1977,

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Interested in the source of that chart/poster.

Clint ur bout da only pot head Poster I like Baw

Texas: Lobbyists from out of state filling politicians pockets to keep it illegal. We are now surrounded on all sides. It'll never be legalized here. Just like gambling.

Sorry to tell you, 57 is too young to be a hippie.

"We were too young to be hippies, missed out on the love. Learned from the teens of the late 70s in the Summer of Drugs." - Victoria Williams/Soul Asylum

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I'm not sure I've ever seen someone argue the toxicity of alcohol as a positive benefit compared to weed. That's certainly a novel approach, I'll give you that.

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Not quite what I’m arguing, though. I’m saying the intensity and immediacy of those short-term effects usually prevents stringing a bunch of those days together that would cause the long-term effects you mentioned. And I’m certainly not arguing “alcohol is good, weed is bad.” If I had choose a duality, I’d certainly be in the “weed is good, alcohol is bad” camp. But I think that’s a false dichotomy, yet it’s often posed like that, like we can just substitute weed for alcohol as our society’s vice of choice.

But we know that is not the case—there’s no putting the alcohol genie back in the bottle (no pun intended). So if we’re gonna add another legal vice and make it easily accessible—and to make it clear one more time for those in the back, I AM FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA—we need to be proactive in understanding, educating on, and preparing for the potential consequences of doing so, both individual and societal. And we can’t do that as long as one side treats it the same as heroin and the other treats it like a cup of coffee.