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Originally Posted by flamesfever
So Hoot, if we legalize marijuana, wouldn't most users just grow their own, and if they did, that would surely eat into the government revenue. Comparing alcohol, it would be a lot easier to grow a plant than to distill alcohol.
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Even if a child did get a hold of large quantities of marijuana, it would be nearly impossible for them to ingest a lethal, or even damaging dose. Compare that to almost every other drug out there.
Marijuana may very well be the safest drug there is, that is no exaggeration, no fatality from the drug has even been recorded. In fact, the lethal dosage is so high that only small rodents have been killed by it, the human overdose requires you to ingest massive amounts,
and even that will not kill you.
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And if users had marijuana plants sitting around the house, it would be easy for kids to grab the odd leaf and smoke it. I can even remember trying to smoke burdock leaves as a kid. Luckly we only had cigarettes and booze when I was growing up in the 40's and 50's. The drug culture didn't really start until the 60's.
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That is unlucky actually. Tobacco and alcohol are addicting and can be very damaging including disease and death. It would be far, far better to take up smoking marijuana than tobacco or develop a drinking problem.