Ah, yes ... read the research and the long term effects of regular use. It's not as harmless as many want you to believe.Oh please. I don't smoke and I'm confused all the time. The occasional joint is no worse than the occasional beer. Too much money has been spent on fighting harmless recreational drug use.
At the same time, can ANYONE say (without being a total liar) the federal determination that marijuana is a schedule I drug appropriate? (As to the meaning of "schedule 1".)
Anyone?
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It obviously cannot fit within that definition. The only statement that is befitting is the first one. The second is obviously false. (Dronabinal is a drug permitted to be prescribed). The third statement is also not true. So, based on the fact dronabinal is an accepted medication, even the federal government has to acknowledge the incorrect classification as a schedule 1 substance.Schedule I substances are those that have the following findings:
The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision
The last I heard, LSD is less harmful than either marijuana or alcohol. Does that mean we should legalize LSD too?I am socially liberal and believe people have freedom to screw up in their lives. Marijuana seems a minor screw-up, especially when compared to alcohol. Not that we want more to screw up, but, the law is silly on its face. There is no reasonable criteria one can have to allow alcohol and make illegal marijuana. None. We can debate the harm. We can debate the societal problems if made legal or quasi-legal if you'd like. However, comparatively, current law is...silly.
What imbecile told you that? Trust me...if we had as many people taking Window Pane Acid as there are potheads or recreational drinkers, there would not be a population explosion in this country at all!It obviously cannot fit within that definition. The only statement that is befitting is the first one. The second is obviously false. (Dronabinal is a drug permitted to be prescribed). The third statement is also not true. So, based on the fact dronabinal is an accepted medication, even the federal government has to acknowledge the incorrect classification as a schedule 1 substance.
The last I heard, LSD is less harmful than either marijuana or alcohol. Does that mean we should legalize LSD too?
What imbecile told you that? Trust me...if we had as many people taking Window Pane Acid as there are potheads or recreational drinkers, there would not be a population explosion in this country at all!
My feelings regarding freedom extend to all drugs. However, it is a far more difficult thing to talk about other drugs than marijuana because the issues are not as obvious or clear. Obvious in the percentage of the population who have experienced or seen someone who has experienced the drug and its effects and clear in determining the harm to society from casual use. While the statistical "harms" from hallucinogen use are far less, so is the the incidence of use. Even among those who are users, it's not like they come home and drop a tab each night and go to productive work the next day as a general rule. With alcohol, nicotine, caffeine or marijuana the likelihood is far greater and a better incidence of problems can be cited.It obviously cannot fit within that definition. The only statement that is befitting is the first one. The second is obviously false. (Dronabinal is a drug permitted to be prescribed). The third statement is also not true. So, based on the fact dronabinal is an accepted medication, even the federal government has to acknowledge the incorrect classification as a schedule 1 substance.
The last I heard, LSD is less harmful than either marijuana or alcohol. Does that mean we should legalize LSD too?
I actually think that crime would lessen dramatically if mariguana was legalized...on top of that it would be regulated and taxed, the way alchohol, nicotine, etc is regulated and taxed. There will still be many dangerous drugs to be fought against, but I do think that too many resources are fighting against marijuana.My feelings regarding freedom extend to all drugs. However, it is a far more difficult thing to talk about other drugs than marijuana because the issues are not as obvious or clear. Obvious in the percentage of the population who have experienced or seen someone who has experienced the drug and its effects and clear in determining the harm to society from casual use. While the statistical "harms" from hallucinogen use are far less, so is the the incidence of use. Even among those who are users, it's not like they come home and drop a tab each night and go to productive work the next day as a general rule. With alcohol, nicotine, caffeine or marijuana the likelihood is far greater and a better incidence of problems can be cited.
At the same time, the lack of such regular use may show a decreased incidence of problems as well. Go figure.
Put it this way...would you rather let your son/daughter smoke a joint or take a hit of orange sunshine (LSD) if they had to do one or the other?so willyjo, how about some numbers. Show me how bad lsd is.
I cannot give you numbers...but being older than many/most of you I can tell you that it was much more prevalant when I was young than it is now, and it was considered to be far more dangerous than pot, even back then. Nobody ever had a "bad trip" on pot and killed themselves or others as a result of that bad trip.so willyjo, how about some numbers. Show me how bad lsd is.