re: Study shows Pot is starting to effect healthcare and educational costs

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We have sold this as a harmless herb. As a miracle drug. Now we will have to deal with the cost of Pot babies in healthcare and in education due to learning disabilities.

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Sounds like some education would go a long way. I personally had no idea that prenatal marijuana use had been associated with low cognitive ability in children.

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You will not relate me to a liberal

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At their core, liberals are about controlling other people's lives. On this front, they've always been largely indistinguishable from the Pat Robertson wing of conservatives

Just liberals of a different color

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half the population being stoned all day long

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You think with marijuana becoming legal that half the population is gonna be smoking weed all day long?

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people will get high the same way they get "buzzed" by having a few beers every now and then, thats it.

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Luckily,that's the way it was for me. I haven't smoked any in a couple of years,and won't say that I wouldn't smoke some right now,with a friend.However,I know way too many people,who have made weed a lifestyle.
Many went on to harder stuff,and died from that. They didn't OD from the weed of course,but I guarantee you,they were using it together with whatever killed them.
I have been seeing it for 40 years,and I sure ain't no angel. I am in the middle of it every day,I know more than I should,because so many people trust me.
As a thinking Human Being,I must consider all aspects and weigh parts against each other though.
Most of the smokers I know are good people,it's just like they don't know that time is passing,and leaving them behind.
I hope there is an answer.

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This, and I've said it for a long time. Big government is big government

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Well, especially when the desired big govt is purely emotion driven.

He wants to call bringing up 20s prohibition a strawman but a strawman is when you try to throw in unrelated items OR, when you try to form another person's argument for them and argue against it.

It isn't when you bring up exact fricking corollaries!

You can't argue that you'd like to ban a substance just because it isn't completely healthy and then ignore that your argument 100% should apply to another substance with VERY VERY similar results.

ya, i know some people that are weed heads and stay high every day all day just like some are alcoholics. i have a cousin that acts stupid when not high but acts normal when he is high because he is always that way so his brain has adjusted to functioning that way. i know others exactly like him but do it with beer, they drink damn near a case every day all day and cant function without beer.

its not the weed or the alcohol that made them that way, they are just weak minded people and would be drunks or even winos if they didnt have weed. people who "choose" to stay numb to reality do it because they want to, not because the drugs made them that way

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Imagine a USA where another 25 - 40% of the kids being born have LDs and health issues

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To be honest with you man, intellegence and cognitive ability are largely genetic and environment based. If a dumbass mother is stupid enough to do copious amounts of any drugs during her pregnancy from caffeine and nicotine to weed and alcohol to meth, the kid is doomed anyway. There's a good chance he was already on the train to being a dumbass. And most of the studies you link share two common problems: 1. Causation vs correlation issues and 2. Their conclusions are unproven hypotheticals.

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The cost of and to the USA due to the current promotion of MJ. 

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Have you compared the possible cost projections of the health risks of children effected by pot addled mothers vs potential revenue from legalized marijuana?

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On this very board. Yes. In fact they have argued for all drug to be legalized.

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You decided to just ignore my post?

Who here is arguing for legalization without limitations or restrictions? That was your precise claim. Back it up.

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We are rushing to legalize something that we have not studied well enough t

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It's currently federally illegal to study it. So how exactly do you propose we study it, if not to legalize it and then study it legally?

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We pit it vs booze. And in the process, it's presented as way safer. 

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Well..... It is safer. Do you have a study or even just an opinion as to how it's more harmful?

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So now we are face with women being told and sold a bill of goods that we know is not true

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You have yet to post a single article that shows : 1. Marijuana combating morning sickness is false. And 2. The dose needed to combat morning sickness vs the dose needed to effect fetal development. If you link those two things, then you have proven your point, and I'll concede to you.

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That message can't get out because of people like you. 

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I've been begging you for proof of your message instead of just rampant claims.

Marijuana is currently illegal because of false claims spread by propaganda artists and believed as fact by the masses with 0 proof. Why would I just accept whatever opinon you throw out there?

They are addicts. Could’ve been booze or coke (if they had cash). MJ is not the demon....their issue is an addictive personality.

What’s truly scary is IF this quack is a real MD.....

Seriously, he is a hardcore, bible-thumping prohibitionist. His main argument is based upon dumbass women who smoke during pregnancy and that it’s the mainstream MJ industry that endorsed it.

Honestly, he’s a fricking weirdo.