Extremist? No that's pretty much the consensus among scientific research
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death (has sources from the center for disease control and prevention)
Please please please show me where all these people are dying. Not fearmongering rhetoric but overdoses from marijuana, please, if you're going to slander me with rhetoric you better back it up. I never said it wasn't harmful, in fact I gave detailed responses about the science on specifically how it harms people. Nevertheless it's not an extremist point of view, the overdose numbers are less than 10 in recorded history. The toxicity from cigarettes kills more than that per hour.
"Indeed, epidemiological data indicate that in the general population marijuana use is not associated with increased mortality."
Source: Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999), p. 109.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn...71550&page=109
Harper wants to make the claim that marijuana is more dangerous than tobacco.
"Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Worldwide, tobacco use causes nearly 6 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030."
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_stat...ts/fast_facts/
6 million to zero, and people take him seriously. I'm not even being pro marijuana here, I'm anti-Harper anti-rhetoric anti-political bull####. Shouldn't something so profoundly ignorant and blatantly erroneous raise concern among the citizens?