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Kasz216 on 26 November 2008
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akuma587 said:
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 as many or more 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.

 

 

Yeah i specifially said "Self medication" there.  Was just throwing it out there.

As for the "It shouldn't be illegal" thing.

Well duh.  I'm actually farther on the make drugs legal track then you.  I'm with Rubang on that one.  Make freaking Heroin legal for all i care. (remember libretarian... well who wants universal government run healthcare.)

Taking drugs used to be considered a constitutional right.  It was once thought... and ruled in the supreme court that we have the right to put anything we want in our bodies.

The point though is that people should be educated about the shit Marijuana does do negativly.

For example some of this shit could actually effect you and your career drug tested or not if you smoked as little as two joints a week.  Which really isn't that much.

Whether or not it's more dangerous then Achohol is argueable.  They're probably both around the same level of danger in everything all things considered.

It's not that Marijuana isn't dangerous it's achohol is a lot more dangerous then people think.  So are cars.  They're tons of metal propelled at speeds faster then people can walk.  Responsible use for all drugs is fine.  It's just a matter of being informed about them.