Quote Originally Posted by Mighty Nikkisaurus View Post
Honestly, I really struggle to understand your defense of alcohol given how a little potential for harm from marijuana causes you to decry it.

Well over 50 percent of people with PTSD end up abusing alcohol.

Maybe it doesn't destroy their life, maybe some are lucky like myself and figure it out and stop before things get too bad. But alcohol has a clinical, well defined horrific impact on mentally ill people and otherwise perfectly healthy people alike, and you're not saying we should make alcohol illegal.

Caffeine can kill people with heart conditions, but we don't outlaw coffee.

I don't want to see studies showing the harm of marijuana, I want to see studies and objective evidence showing it's more harmful than other drugs we have controlled and legalized. Show me studies that demonstrate the harm of marijuana is worse than alcohol.

This attitude is extremely frustrating because you think you're helping mentally ill people, but you really are not. Because it's these beliefs that keep various drugs from being able to be tested, experimented with, and synthesized into effective medicine. I'm probably biased because I'm going to be participating in a PTSD-MDMA study in 6 months in Vancouver, but it bugs the fuck out of me that people want to crusade on my behalf and people who are suffering like me and in doing so they're actually pushing effective medicine and potential cures further out of our grasp.
His mentality is that alcohol in small doses does no harm while cannabis in small doses is always risky.