Seriously, go away. Stop filling this thread with your asinine bullshit.Originally Posted by Latrinsorm
A drug that causes 5 in 1000 users to go blind would absolutely not pass the FDA, but it does not follow that we should incarcerate blind people. You have not applied my "logic", you have invented a straw man.Not all crimes are punishable by jail. I hope you can see the humor in your misrepresenting me... in a post specifically dedicated to saying I am not misrepresented. Ha! Ha! That is a good one, I think.Well, I'm not sure what specifically you're asking about but I'm happy to elaborate. Marijuana('s component) acts as an anti-psychotic; specifically, it acts very much like clozapine, but we already have clozapine, so we have no reason to decriminalize marijuana on that basis. Marijuana causes a devastating illness at rates far higher than any currently legal drug except tobacco, so both tobacco and marijuana should be illegal. The current risk of incarceration posed by using marijuana is much lower than the risk of schizophrenia it poses. It is often claimed that drug prohibitions empower organized crime, but the only relevant question for us is whether ending such a prohibition weakens it, and there is scant evidence for that.As I have said many times in the past, there are always holes in any empirical study; no one can ever control for everything. What you have to ask yourself is that if ten studies from around the world from 1969 to present all agree and zero disagree, is it more likely that every one of them had their results tainted by laced drugs, researchers straight lying, or any of the other things we'll never know? Or is it more likely that marijuana actually poses the threat? And if it's the former, just how much evidence would you have to see to agree to the latter? And I use the term "how much" rather than "what" very intentionally.
As for me, I once believed that marijuana was a safe drug: an intoxicant to be sure, but fundamentally no different than alcohol. Then I read an actual scientific study, realized the only thing supporting my easily accepted belief was common knowledge, and I changed my mind. That's what really gets me about the dissent here. People in this very thread have cheerfully declared that marijuana is safe because the majority believes it to be so: Colorado, decriminalization polls, Jeb Bush (apparently? I didn't really get that reference). Yikes! That kind of thinking isn't for me, and so people call me a Nazi. Things that make you wonder...
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