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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
The stats for addiction treatment for pot are BS. In the US it's common to let people off of possession charges by making them take mandatory 'addiction treatment.' So those stats are not a reflection people going into treatment because pot smoking had ruined their lives. Watch the doc movie 'The Union,' it discusses the point that pot is really benign and it was only because Richard Nixon hated hippie protesters that any of this 'pot is evil and will ruin everyone's lives if legalized' BS came out.
All statisitcs that are based on law enforcement are utter BS because the changes in the numbers year over year vary greatly by the effects of new laws, how much enforecement is pursued, and issues of police funding rather than the actual variable that's being measured.
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Pro-legalization people always seem to tout that it doesn't ruin lives, and while I agree it's not going to outright kill you, I'd argue from my own observations it likely does throttle potential to some degree. Virtually none of the high functioning contributors to society I know smoke pot, while many of the pot users I do know are the ones on EI, have menial jobs and carry other vices. I see this in the ER too, as ~95% of pot users would fit in the low socio-economic status group. Obviously this is anecdotal & subjective, and correlation /= causation, but the trend is rather incriminating.
Now someone post that they know a Mr. 420 who happens to be a CEO and thus this is invalid. To you I'd say my observations are based on thousands of people, and probably more accurate in general than some outlier.