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Prescribed medications have been abused since they've been invented--pain meds leading to the opiate crisis is one sad example. Other ones are addictive--benzo's. We don't know what antidepressants do to the brain long term. The list goes on ad nauseaum of side effects, untoward effects, etc.
Alcohol, addiction, physical disease, dui/loss of license and living, hurting/killing someone in a MVA, family dysfunction, ruined lives, etc.
It's hard to see how weed could measure up to either of these or do worse.
I'm not a big advocate of recreational weed if it's overused, but it is going that way in many states.
Is there anyone who did not smoke, sip, snort, swallow, or shoot the mind altering chemical of choice this past week?
Thus, it is difficult to imagine that that changing the laws will up the rate of bladder, lung, pancreatic, ... cancer.
I love how drug users try to make themselves feel better by making up a reality in which everyone else uses drugs too. Hint: not all of us are drug addicts.
I love how drug users try to make themselves feel better by making up a reality in which everyone else uses drugs too. Hint: not all of us are drug addicts.
I wonder: What is your definition of a drug user?
I ask because literally the biggest rush I get every day is sometime around noon when I take a 100mg caffeine pill (my stomach can't tolerate coffee). I just took one, in fact. It's not just a physical thing, it actually helps my mood too.
Does that make me a drug user? After all, the only reason I am taking it is to feel the "high".
Would I be less of a drug user if I drank coffee instead of taking a pill?
Would it make me more of a drug user if caffeine were illegal?
I love how drug users try to make themselves feel better by making up a reality in which everyone else uses drugs too. Hint: not all of us are drug addicts.
Get real.
The reality is that anyone who wants to smoke marijuana is already doing so.
They have looked into marijuana use and cancer risk. However, they have trouble finding enough people to qualify. There are not too many long term marijuana only users as compared to tobacco.
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