Posted 19 August 2010 - 06:30 PM
I don’t smoke pot. I gave it an honest chance, 4 or 5 times, and it simply wasn’t for me. I have no desire to ever try it again. However, simply because it’s not my thing, doesn’t mean I should get on my high horse and preach fire and brimstone about how “evil” pot is. THAT is exactly what most of these anti-pot people do.
Most of these people who speak out about the dangers of pot are religous and social prudes. If it were up to most of these repressed morons, we’d change our name from America to Jesusland and anyone who didn’t believe would be burned at the stake. I don’t mean to rag on religion, but how can you say pot is so horrible for your body and then host pot-luck dinners and all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinners. Fried chicken is ok for you because it’s legal? No.
And as for these people that commit crimes while high, well they’re probably just idiots to begin with. They would have done it anyway, they just HAPPENED to be high at the time. For every moron that does something dumb while high, there’s 30 that know their limits and do it for fun. If you drink 3 cups of coffee, and then make an error in judgment that kills someone,Was it the coffee NO it wasn’t the coffee it was an error in judgment!
Part of being an adult is being responible for your actions. If you can’t handle your drugs (whether thats pot, heroine or potato chips), seek help. Otherwise, smoke on, shoot up or whatever else you want to do. I believe they call that freedom, don’t they?
People who smoke weed, then do stupid stuff may just be stupid people!.
Know your limits..
500 people a week die from alcohol related car accidents. Studies show that 38,000 people a year are in marijuana related car accidents, however 88% of those accidents were in parking lots and under 10mph. I think we need to concentrate on things that actually cause traffic fatalities.
Alcohol is legal, marijuana is not. This makes no sense to me at all.
Tobacco kills about 400,000
Alcohol kills about 80,000
Workplace accidents kill 60,000
Automobiles kill 40,000
Cocaine kills about 2,500
Heroin kills about 2,000
Aspirin kills about 2,000
Marijuana kills 0
There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history.
All illegal drugs combined kill under 20,000 per year, or a small percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco.
Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last one hundred years
Motor vehicle wrecks are the leading cause of death in the United States for persons under age 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Reports. Of those deaths, more than 40 percent are alcohol-related.
Alcohol-related accidents are so prevalent, an estimated 40 percent of all persons in the United States will be involved in a traffic mishap blamed on alcohol at some point in their lives
How Dangerous Is Drinking and Driving?
A driver with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.10 or greater is seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal motor vehicle crash than is a driver who has not consumed alcoholic beverages, and a driver with an alcohol concentration of 0.15 or greater is about 25 times more likely.
Driving after smoking even a small amount of marijuana almost doubles the risk of a fatal highway accident, according to an extensive 3 year study only 10,748 drivers involved in fatal crashes.
Alcohol and Trauma Driving related accidents are major cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Each year, more than 140,000 Americans die from injuries, and almost one person in three suffers a nonfatal injury serious enough to require medical attention or to cause temporary disability
Alcohol intoxication is associated with 40 to 50 percent of traffic fatalities; 25 to 35 percent of nonfatal motor vehicle injuries; up to 64 percent of fires and burns; 48 percent of hypothermia and frostbite cases; and about 20 percent of completed suicides.
SO YOU MORONS! KEEP THE BAR'S AND HOPE YOUR LOVED ONES ARE HOME SAFE!!!!
To the people who have never smoked.. and your against it.????
To the people who do smoke are in a cloud? NO!!.
___.........NOT EXACTLY....._____.
Why dont you try it then see what your outlook is??
MARIJUANA DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE . .....PROVEN FACT....
.........PEOPLE'S ACTIONS DO.....
whether they’re under the influence or not!
WebMD Health NewsSept. 18, 2003 — Marijuana smoking isn’t harmless, but at least it won’t kill you.
No Marijuana Deaths in 2 Large Studies. The studies the first is from (where else?) California. A large HMO looked at 65,177 men and women age 15-49. Over 10 years, marijuana users died no sooner than nonusers.
The second study looked at 45,450 Swedish army conscripts. They were 18-20 years old when asked about marijuana use. Fifteen years later, the marijuana users were just as likely to remain alive as nonusers.
And since marijuana smoking can’t kill outright — there’s no such thing as a fatal marijuana overdose — short-term use isn’t deadly. Long-term use can’t be good for you. But Sidney notes that most marijuana smokers don’t become long-term users.
I know of no one who could attribute their death to Marijuana. I know plenty of Alcohol and Pill provoked deaths however! Marijuana is one of the safest substances know to mankind, no one has ever died of an overdose, the fact is you can’t! Asprin kills over 2000 a year, Marijuana deaths = Zero!
Extent of the problem of alcohol's effect on transportation safety in the United States.
(1), 40 percent of all traffic fatalities (the leading cause of accidental death) are alcohol related
(2). Second, although alcohol has not been directly implicated in U.S. commercial airline crashes, typical estimates of alcohol involvement by pilots in fatal general aviation crashes range from 10 to 30 percent
(3). Third, a recent review of Coast Guard reports suggests possible alcohol involvement in 60 percent of boating fatalities (including persons who fell overboard)
(4). Finally, in postaccident testing of railroad employees in 1990, 3.2 percent tested positive for alcohol or other prohibited drugs
(5). The percentage of alcohol or other drug involvement may be higher when a fatality is involved.
POLLS
Gallup's annual drinking poll indicates that 67% of U.S. adults drink alcohol, an increase over last year and the highest rate of alcohol consumption since 1985. The poll also showed that beer remains the most popular drink in the U.S., followed by wine and then liquor. When Gallup first polled Americans about their drinking in 1939, the rate was 58 percent. The lowest rate was recorded in 1958 at 55%.
81 percent approve of medical marijuana
Eight in 10 Americans -- 81 percent overall -- support allowing doctors to prescribe cannabis for various medical reasons. That number is up from 69 percent in 1997, which is the last time ABC and the Washington Post have run a poll like this, and it's up from 75 percent when Gallup ran this kind of poll in 2003. Despite favoring medical marijuana, outright legalization is still a bone of contention among those polled. Gallup released a poll in October found that only 44 percent of respondents favored outright legalization, however an Angus Reid poll in December showed that 53 percent would like to see the prohibition on marijuana end.
The medical marijuana issue is not anywhere near as divisive as other political issues are. 68 percent of conservatives, and 72 percent of those who consider themselves Republicans favor medical marijuana legalization, while 85 percent of Democrats and Independents favor the same thing. Age is the biggest dividing line, with only 69 percent of people over the age of 65 supporting medical marijuana, compared to 83 percent of all people under that age.
Yes the only thing is that some people who do marijuana go on to harder drugs. WHY?! because it is
THEIR CHOICE TOO AND WOULD HAVE DONE HARDER DRUGS IF THEY HAD BEEN HOOKED ON MILK!
( GOT MILK?) (JUST SAY NO! )
Marijuana does not crawl into your brain and say. HEY OVERDOSE ON HERION TODAY.!? You Do.?
Marijuana is the most harmless drug. It is a Medical drug used for back aches, eye problems, stress, and even Seizures.
I know a person who has had over 50 seizures a year. Once he was put under medical marijuana the number got all the way down to 1,
1 sierzure a year. It didnt cure it, but it sure as hell helped. And hey, it is the most nautural thing out there.
You are smoking a plant. Not something altered by chemicals. But a plant. Yes the ones that grow from the ground.
So to be honest.....I Don't smoke weed, at anytime, BUT.. I know quite a few people that do.. AND IT HELPS THEM...
BUT.. I have a very stronge opinion about it when people say that it is BAD for you.
Never in the worlds history has there been a recording that a PERSON HAS DIED FROM WEED, OVERDOSED ON WEED, GONE CRAZY FROM WEED, OR ANYTHING ELSE, U CANT EVEN GET CANCER FROM IT.
Check the real statistics like from UCLA who spent 6 million dollars researching this issue. and in the end came out with a 1 digit number. 0
SO YOU FOLSOM PEOPLE THAT ARE MORONS I BET YOU JUSTED MOVED HERE ( within the last 10 years or so )
GO BACK TO WHERE EVER YOU CAME FROM AND STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY TOWN!! I CAN SAY THAT I HAVE LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE AND ITS IDIOTS LIKE YOU THAT HAS RUINED MY HOME TOWN!!!!
SMOKE ON ....
RIP.. My father passed on 04/12/2006 from Alcoholism I WISHED TO GOD HE WOULD HAVE SMOKED POT!!!!
HE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE!!
