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Old 01-29-2016, 10:14 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh (via Chicago, via Pittsburgh)
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You got a link for that ?
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...gions_2012.xls

There's 2012...slightly lower that year at 42% of all posession arrests. looking for the link now for the decade

Here's 2013
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...rsons-arrested

1.5 million drug abuse arrests in 2013.
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Lost in Texas
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Ahh... ok then. You don't live in reality. Our conversation is over. Go ahead back to 1919 and see how that worked out.
Oh but I do live in reality.. You have an agenda... I don't support your agenda. I have seen what cannabis does to formerly productive people. No, I can't and won't support the legalization of marijuana. Sorry, but you simply don't have the ultimate argument here.. You just think you do..
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:19 PM
 
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The thousands of people a year put in cages for these substances that the tax payers are paying for in prison, the existence of gangs and cartels that murder people by the thousands each year to control a substance that should be legal, the research that these substances are not only benign, but may have several medical benefits but remain illegal...etc....

Do I need to continue? I sure hope not...I bet you clamor on and on about guns...




A Phoenix, Ariz., woman put her 5-week-old baby on top of her car in his car seat and drove away, apparently forgetting he was there, not even noticing when the seat fell off the car and landed in an intersection, police said.


Mother Drives With 5-Week-Old on Top of Car - ABC News
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:20 PM
 
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Oh but I do live in reality.. You have an agenda... I don't support your agenda. I have seen what cannabis does to formerly productive people. No, I can't and won't support the legalization of marijuana. Sorry, but you simply don't have the ultimate argument here.. You just think you do..
You keep on living in your teetotaling world. It doesn't belong in reality on the federal law level.

I see people die from alcoholism every week while providing anesthesia in a level 1 trauma center. I can't intubate someone at least once a month because of barret's esophagus from chronic alcoholism. Never saw anyone in the hospital for cannabis. Funny.
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:21 PM
 
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A Phoenix, Ariz., woman put her 5-week-old baby on top of her car in his car seat and drove away, apparently forgetting he was there, not even noticing when the seat fell off the car and landed in an intersection, police said.


Mother Drives With 5-Week-Old on Top of Car - ABC News
So you think alcohol should be illegal too, then? I see this same article every time a cannabis thread pops up. From 2012 hahaha. I could probably find 10 new drunk driving death articles a day. Funny how that works.
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:24 PM
 
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You keep on living in your teetotaling world. It doesn't belong in reality on the federal law level.
Let me see... You live your life in an altered state and question my reality?? Really??
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:26 PM
 
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Let me see... You live your life in an altered state and question my reality?? Really??
I smoke cannabis once a month. I wake up at 4am 5 days a week, so I limit my conscious altering occasions. As far as drinking, maybe twice a month, though I do love craft beer. Keep deflecting, though.
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:33 PM
 
Location: Lost in Texas
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I smoke cannabis once or twice a month. I wake up at 4am 5 days a week, so I limit my conscious altering occasions. Keep deflecting, though.
Who is deflecting here? You question my reality, when I don't live my life in an altered state, while you do. You say you smoke once or twice a month. I have known a lot of smokers and they say the same thing... Fact is, they don't. They smoke considerably more. My guess is you do too. I know a lot of functional alcoholics too.. They get up at 4am and go to work too... They were loaded the night before. There is nothing wrong with my grip on reality, but you may want to re-examine yours. You may also want to check on your integrity..
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:34 PM
 
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I smoke cannabis once a month. I wake up at 4am 5 days a week, so I limit my conscious altering occasions. As far as drinking, maybe twice a month, though I do love craft beer. Keep deflecting, though.
Most of my friends smoke it daily. Some do it for relaxation just like alcohol. But many do it because it relieves pain and anxiety. And they don't get high from it.
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:34 PM
 
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Huh... high efficacy in helping people quit using a highly addictive substance proven time and again to cause cancer

Pilot study of the 5-HT2AR agonist psilocybin in the treatment of tobacco addiction


It should be schedule 1, though...and no further research should be done....
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