| Kasz216 said: Sure there is. It slows bloodflow in your brain. Did you read the article i posted? It's not going to "kill" you. But it will lower your performance in everyday life if you smoke as little as 2 joints a week. Not while your high mind you.... but up to a whole month after you did it. Which is fine. If you don't plan to do your job for an entire month. However if you do.... It puts you at a bigger disadvantage then even a drug like cocaine where you can control when you feel the effects of it. So unless your smoking significantly less then 2 joints a week.... it's worse off for "controlled' use where your responsible then most other drugs. It ain't bad if your a highschool/college student, and lightly use during the summer. But in the real world it's going to negativly effect you even with light use. Isn't "lowers performance permanently until at least a month after you quit" a bit of a negative that is a bit harder to control then most legal drugs? |
So then why is alcohol legal? I can show you just as much evidence and just as many studies (and probably more) that it causes severe harm to your daily performance skills if abused and causes permanent damage to both your mind and your body. I'm not saying that marijuana doesn't have adverse side effects, but none of those side effects are bad enough to justify alcohol being legal and marijuana being illegal.
I can show you studies where video games increase aggression in people, and thousands of studies where foods high in saturated fat and trans fat literally destroy your body and will take 20 years off your life. A poor diet also decreases your functionality on a daily basis by making you more fatigued, less mentally acute, and more likely to get sick and suffer other kinds of injuries. Should we make going to McDonalds' illegal? I can show you thousands of studies that suggest we should based on your type of analysis.
You are bringing up completely valid arguments, but none of those arguments for why marijuana is harmful to the human body are stronger than the arguments for why alcohol and fatty foods are harmful to the human body. I'm just asking for an objective standard that we apply to everything. If that means making alcohol illegal, then so be it. At least we are being consistent.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
