Marijuana is drug most often linked to crime, study finds

Keeping drugs illegal stops kids from using them. More kids drink alcohol (which is a legal drug), than smoke pot (which is an illegal drug).

http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/advocacy/legalization-of-marijuana-and-the-impact-on-children

 

Say it three times with your eyes closed, click your heels together, and it might come true.

And how about those billions spent enriching organized crime, boosting the crime rate, etc. WHY do you never mention them? YOu even quoted me asking you about that dollar, and mocking you for ignoring it while pimping the penny, and by golly you turn around and do exactly what I mocked. Stupidity really has no limits.

 

Here, start reading outside your little irrelevant propaganda box. LEARN something:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/opinion/branson-end-war-on-drugs
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
http://hamptonroads.com/2013/04/futile-drug-war-has-cost-1-trillion-countless-lives
http://www.countthecosts.org/

And here's my bet: You will ignore EVERY ONE of these sources. And wonder why people don't take you seriously.

 

I believe we should tell our kids to just say No, to the abomination of hypocrisy instead of powerful, mood altering drugs; as long as they are willing to handle their drugs better than their drugs handle them.

 

My cardiologist who is extremely anti-tobacco and alcohol says marijuana has no bad effect on the heart. And, many medical specialists say it has medicinal uses. Should add if not abused.

 

"keeping drugs illegal stops kids from using them". I don't think so. Kids smoke and drink alcohol when both are illegal between the ages of 18 and 21. And, both cause more health issues and aggressive behavior than does Pot. All three would be illegal for these "kids". The fact the Government makes the use of "any" substance illegal, does not stop its use if a majority of the population wants to use it. That is why prohibition was a failure and why any prohibition will be a failure where this is a majority of near majority of the population that use or approve of the substances use.

 

Prior to 1907 all drugs were "over the counter". No questions asked. Opiate addiction rate higher
than today. However, there was no significant crime associated with the use or distribution of
said drugs. It is well established that the liquor industry funded the drive to make marijuana use
illegal. (1937)
No easy answers, but most would agree that the war on drugs is a failure.

 

Studies have shown that over 100 million Americans use alcohol on a regular basis. Only 15 million Americans use marijuana on a regular basis. Marijuana is illegal, alcohol is legal. Way more people use alcohol (which is a legal substance), than marijuana (which is an illegal substance).

 

What about these statistics?

http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/advocacy/legalization-of-marijuana-and-the-impact-on-children

[QUOTE]Alcohol use is double that of marijuana use among the state’s 5th and 7th graders and nearly double that of 9th and 11th graders, according to the 2008-2010 California Healthy Kids Survey.
Worse, the number of 7th graders who started using alcohol at age 14 or before is more than three times greater than the number who began smoking pot at those ages. For 9th graders and 11th graders, twice as many started using alcohol as marijuana during childhood. The actual numbers are staggering: one-third of California’s 7th graders (29 percent) and half of its 9th graders (47 percent) are at risk of becoming addicted to alcohol before they reach the legal drinking age because they had access and started drinking as children.
These statistics may be the same, or worse, in any state in the nation.
Keeping drugs illegal prevents commercial industries from emerging, ones that are free to advertise and market to increase consumption and free to target children.
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I wouldn't believe a single thing that comes from drugfree dot org. They have too much to lose to the idea of real freedom.

 

I believe we need to engender a "moral" of being able to handle our drugs better than our drugs handle us.