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Originally Posted by Locke9-05
That is not the case. Those are the more common side-effects.
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They are also rare which is what makes them side effects and not primary effects.
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The other side-effects still pose a threat to the safety and health of people around the user, and for that reason, it's illogical to simply allow it to be readily accessible.
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Then are you for decriminalization? Legalization makes it a legal product to sell decriminalization makes it a legal product to possess.
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Society has every reason to discourage an activity that can lead to the irresponsible harming of an innocent life
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Just because a person has a mental illness does not make them a violent person. The cannabis surfaces a dormant condition over time, how is this a threat to non-users?
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Yes, the activity is going on regardless. That gives society more of a reason to persist. Drug users want legalization, yet they continue to senselessly and purposelessly defy easy-to-follow rules set in place by society for the greater good of law-abiding citizens.
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ever heard of civil disobedience? Also many non-users are tired of their tax dollars going to irraticate a plant.
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Thoreau, you know better than to try and apply a reference from 100 years ago to present day. You criticized me for that at one point in time--and the reference I had used wasn't even that far back in time. Of course things were different in the early 1900s. Science changes over time, as does general knowledge. We know much more about marijuana today than we did in the early 1900s. Much more. I doubt we really knew anything about it then.
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It is the only time cannabis was not criminalized. Which brings up the fact that cannabis has been used by humans for thousands of years but only in this century has it been prohibited. If cannabis made non-users live such a hell as you claimed earlier then why was it not prohibited earlier? And no the claims made to make it illegal in the 1930s were not based on science.
The least this country should do is have scientists review cannabis scientifically and come up with a conclusion on how we should approach this issue. Oh wait we already did, the infamous schaeffer report that was buried by Nixon, the report recomended that marijuana not be criminalized.