Wow. it's like you are some kind of brainless mental midget with a bad case of moron.
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’
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AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Wow. it's like you are some kind of brainless mental midget with a bad case of moron.
Take a look in the mirror.
Take your own advice you mentally challenged, brainless dumbass.
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Address the topic, not other posters.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
If alcohol were invented last week, it would be illegal too. But it wasn't. Alcohol is something mankind has had worldwide as a beverage for over 10,000 years. Going dry doesn't work as prohibition proved rather conclusively.
With marijuana, I think the best solution is to quasi-legalize it--that is, make penalties for personal use minimal while regulating manufacture and sale of it heavily--while stigmatizing it the way tobacco has been done.
For decades now, government has tried to end smoking and use of tobacco. It is heavily regulated and stigmatized. Marijuana should be treated the same way.
Litmus
Verified User
Elton john is wrong.I have never been in support of legalizing psychotic inducing drugs and never bought into the bullshit from the left that Marijuana is harmless. We are getting more facts on this and the outcome has not been good for this nation.
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview with Time Magazine published last week. He claimed efforts to legalize the drug were a huge societal error. Apparently, he finally realized what anti-weed proponents have known for quite some time: Marijuana is harmful.
“I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs,” said Time Magazine’s “Icon of the Year” for 2024. “And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally. Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
John’s epiphany on marijuana represents, shall we say, the “circle of life” of many marijuana legalization proponents. First, they use the drug. Then, they support legalizing the drug. Then, after enough harmful things have occurred as a result of using the drug, they realize marijuana was terrible all along. Then, they acknowledge it should have never been legalized.
But while many marijuana enthusiasts might tell the rock and roll Hall of Famer to “don’t go breaking my heart,” they should heed his advice. Despite its rebranding in pop culture as a kind of benevolent drug, studies have found that the regular use of marijuana has been linked to many harmful health conditions. One of the first was published shortly after Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in 2012.
Consider this study by Northwestern Medicine in 2013, which found a link between regular marijuana use by adolescents and “abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory and performed poorly on memory tasks.” Moreover, damage to the brain includes memory-related structures that “appeared to shrink and collapse inward,” with a possible decrease in brain neurons, according to the study. Additionally, these abnormalities became synonymous with “schizophrenia-related brain abnormalities.”
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’ - Washington Examiner
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview published last week.www.washingtonexaminer.com
Weed makes you smarter.
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Lame
Litmus
Verified User
Do you think weed is new to mankind?
SmarterthanYou
rebel
1. i'm quite surprised that you would take the side of elton john in this, but then again, like you said, you're not in favor of that legalizationI have never been in support of legalizing psychotic inducing drugs and never bought into the bullshit from the left that Marijuana is harmless. We are getting more facts on this and the outcome has not been good for this nation.
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’ - Washington Examiner
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview published last week.
2. the gene pool needs serious cleaning, so let the drug addicted idiots kill themselves off. why should you care?
Daylight63
Verified User
That’s a lot of fancy dancing to justify your bias.
Try using consistent reasoning next time.
Yes, you are. But you're also incredibly stupid, suffering from a severely retarded IQ and a liar.
Litmus
Verified User
Why is it smart to send all jobs away?Evidence of what it does to one's brain.
I always ask this question because it makes people think about their unquestioned "knowledge".
Weed undoes brainwashing.
That's why propagandists and liars hate it...
Daylight63
Verified User
lol. How stupid are you irl?
Diogenes
1 account to rule them all
Daylight63
Verified User
You always ask that question because you can’t actually think
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
It largely is as a narcotic. Aside from that, it was never historically in widespread use. There are societies that had some use, but it wasn't nearly as common as using alcohol was.
I'd say the #1 problem with it is that THC stays in your system up to 30 days after use. The problem with that is if you use on say, Friday, you still have some level of THC in your system on Monday. This isn't true of alcohol. Your body processes that fairly quickly.
Where the problem arises is when you are doing something for an employer or in public. For example, if an airline pilot smoked a joint on Friday and flew on Monday and the plane crashed, a drug test would find THC in their system. You can bet that every passenger, and surviving family of a passenger that died, would sue the living fuck out that airline for the pilot being "high." Doesn't matter what the level of THC actually was, it's sufficient to give an opening to lawyers and survivors to sue on.
Same thing with an employee injured on the job.
Thus, employers would have to put a ban on use and perform regular testing to avoid being sued when an employee uses marijuana.
If it took a few hours or say, a day, to leave your system there'd really be little problem with it. It'd be no different than alcohol.
You can bet that at some point police departments will start having testing equipment for THC in a person available and using it to slap DUI's on users left and right. Big money maker there. You use and drive, you can bet at some point this will occur and you will be fucked because of that long period of residual effect THC has.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
There was no bias in that. That's reality. Alcohol is regulated and there are penalties in place for misuse. That should be no different for marijuana. Since marijuana and tobacco--smoked--are similar products, they should face similar stigma in society as well.
Daylight63
Verified User
Pot is already regulated.
Your justification for not considering alcohol as the same or worse danger than pot is pure special pleading.