When did this become about heroin? Yes, heroin, and its pharmaceutical derivatives, are ripping apart lower America because of over-prescription.
This became about heroin when the last chart showed a decline in prescription painkillers issued by doctors in weed-legal states. If those numbers are legit, this will also lead to a decline in heroin addiction. Because heroin addicts don't generally start out on street level smack. They start out on Vicodin, Percocet, Oxys, whatever their doctor gave them for their tennis elbow.
So it's not 'swapping one poison for another'. Your words. Nobody trades a weed problem for a heroin one. Nobody.
This became about heroin when the last chart showed a decline in prescription painkillers issued by doctors in weed-legal states. If those numbers are legit, this will also lead to a decline in heroin addiction. Because heroin addicts don't generally start out on street level smack. They start out on Vicodin, Percocet, Oxys, whatever their doctor gave them for their tennis elbow.
So it's not 'swapping one poison for another'. Your words. Nobody trades a weed problem for a heroin one. Nobody.
So, it is swapping one poison for another. The effects may be very diminished when compared to heroin, but it is pretty clear that marijuana has significant risk when used regularly - particularly for mental health.
So, it is swapping one poison for another. The effects may be very diminished when compared to heroin, but it is pretty clear that marijuana has significant risk when used regularly - particularly for mental health.
Not for the general population. There are 2.3 million users of marijuana in Canada.
Approximately 1% of the population of Canada has Schizophrenia.
351,600 people in this country who have schizophrenia. Now I have to assume that not all of them were completely normal until they started hitting the bong. I posted something several weeks ago from the UK psychiatric society that did acknowledge that in people at risk for schizophrenia, frequent marijuana use does increase their risk of contracting that affliction.
Even if we accept all 351,600 schizophrenics in this country are weed created (Which again, they're definitely not) you've got 2 million people who are fine.
I cannot understand how you wouldn't view more people on weed instead of heroin as a good thing. It's undeniably a good thing. You might think weed is evil. It's not, but you're entitled to that opinion. Heroin is ISIL. Weed is kids with hoodies doing BMX tricks off church railings.
Your suggestion is that we are trading one for another. We are not. We are vastly improving the situation. It's going from negative 1 million, to negative 10. I call that an easy win.
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