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

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unhinged moonbat.

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Polite society? Lol

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It is safer than beer. By a mile.

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No.

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Never heard of that,

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I linked to a prominent news site promoting the idea or it as a treatment for morning sickness

I'm not really for or against legalization, but I think we need to be a little more cautious about the ramifications of legalization.

All studies on marijuana usage aside, we all know people who abuse pot and the effects it has on their life and personality. Is it cause or effect? Are they lazy pieces of shite because of the pot, or are they just lazy pieces of shite who smoke to ease their mental anguish?

Are there productive people who are regular users? I'm sure there are, just as there are drunks who are productive people. The problems I've seen, are some pot users get high daily before work and during the day. They spend the whole damn day high, and although they think they're functioning fine, they're fricking stoned and can't perform as they should if they were sober.

I'm basing this on someone I know very well and others who I'm familiar with. So this is not just bullshite stereotyping.

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prohibition is a failed policy and will continue to be.

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No. It wasn't.

The war on drugs is a different story. Society should not have to pay for your choices.

1- Learning impaired. Higher learning skills impaired. That effects me. Users will have to govern at some point. That effects my kids.

2- Health issues of pot babies.... Somebody has to payt for that.

3- Education cost to teach a with those disabilities or the drop out rate. Or we dumb down the standards.

All very real issues.

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You can't prescribe common sense. Legalize it and put the responsibility on people to use good judgement.

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I'd agree with you except for one thing.

We incintivize bad judgement. Until we change that, it would be a very bad idea.

You're trying to legislate stupidity out of the population. That's never going to happen. Those pregnant women were going to smoke pot whether it's legal or not. I've smoked pot regularly over 20 years, not all of us "potheads" sit around listening to the Dead while we eat cheetohs and have debates on which Spongebob character is funnier.

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I've smoked pot regularly over 20 years

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Is this why you are not "hearing" that it's promoted as a cure for morning sickness?

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Do you believe that the benefits of any recreational drug,outweigh the side effects? I don't. That includes legal or illegal.
It's all harmful,and everyone that is going to use it,better believe that going in.

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i'm talking to a wall.

You just stated that it was not promoted as healthy. 4 posts up.

LINK

In this very link, A report says it's not good and this PRO-WEED site says they are wrong...

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I don’t know, I’m never going to be pregnant, but if I were and my choices to stop puking every day were all these pharmaceuticals that might work sometime later, or to take a couple puffs of a cannabis vaporizer and stop puking now, I think I’d defer to the latter.

Besides, if there were any severe risk of birth defects from the moderate use of cannabis by pregnant women, don’t you think we’d see a dramatic difference in the children of Rastafarians?

Dr. Melanie Dreher published science on this very idea over two decades ago, finding no significant differences between the babies of ganja-smoking moms and their non-smoking counterparts.

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I think you're glossing over something.