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Originally Posted by #-3
Every pot activist I have ever heard speak has started with the statement, "Pot has never hurt anybody." and what I was really saying is we don't mock those people nearly enough, especially if we are going to mock the government for stating more realistic statistics.
No problem with anyone who wants to come down on either side of the legalize/don't legalize argument, I have no strong opinion either way. But I think before the argument is made we should be clear pot is not good for you, it is in fact not good for you especially if you are smoking it.
That said I do lots of things that aren't good for me, I drink sometimes, I don't work out enough, I eat way too much salt & sugar sometimes, I get the occational sun burn............I have not extensively studied any of these but I am sure they are all on about the same scale of how bad pot is for you.
So who am I to say that people shouldn't do it. On the other hand, in an era when the government is trying to take measures to reduce smoking, improve sun safety/fitness awareness, legislate against over use of salts and bad sugars in our food.
Why are the moving in to opposite direction on this?
And the only good medical argument for pot is the cost effectiveness. For some reason its the "It" treatment right now so doctors don't want to come out strongly against it, but coke was once and medicine and we have all seen old videos of doctors recommending cigarettes.
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Comparing cigarettes and cocaine to cannabis is just ridiculous though. Cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands every year, cannabis never killed anyone ever so the idea that the only reason it's looked at medicinally because it's cheap is purposefully ignorant.
Sure it can do harm but come on, comparing it to something that kills hundred of thousands annually is ridiculous. The reason it's so valuable medicinally is the side effects are so minimal in comparison to laboratory synthesized pharmaceuticals. Clearly you have a bias and it's irrational.