>>>You're stating that marijuana -- in its illegal, unregulated glory -- is medically safer to smoke than tobacco?<<<
Yes. One doesn't consume as much smoke smoking marijuana as they would smoking cigarette after cigarette of tobacco. The stimulant effects of marijuana are achieved from inhaling one or two puffs, providing quality control exists, i.e., good grass--LOL.
As an aside, relative to quality control, your policy would leave teen-aged children regulating the additives which get put into illicit substances. For example, more cocaine-related deaths result from the "cut" put into the substance, rather than from the substance itself. Why's the "cut" put in? To increase its quantity, thereby increasing profits for those who deal such substances. You understand this? Probably not.
>>>Can you find *any* source (aside from the stoners at NORML) to back up such a patently false idea? NO ONE dies from smoking pot?<<<
Yes, I can. But before I embark on such a search, tell me who you know who died from smoking marijuana. Tell me who you know who knows someone who died from smoking marijuna. Tell me when you last read a news account of an individual who died from smoking marijuana. Fact is, you don't die from smoking the substance.
Rather than go through a time-consuming search, I'll quickly refer you to the writings of Lester Grinspoon, a medical research from the Harvard Medical School, who has extensively researched the effects of marijuana.
>>>You don't think pot causes lung cancer, huh? Can you explain what element of cannabis/THC somehow mystically and magically removes the carcinogens from the smoke?<<<
Again. Seriously consider this, will ya?
Marijuana: A half a dozen puffs of marijuana a day, an insufficient quantity as to cause cancer.
Tobacco: Ten or so puffs on each tobacco cigarette, of which as many as 40 cigarettes a day can be consumed by an addict. Worse, the chemicals within the filters also are harmful. And all of this in an overly sufficient quantity so as to cause cancer.
>>>Put down the bong and exercise the precious few brain cells you may have remaining... Legalized, unregulated pot would pose the same type of public health risk as tobacco or alcohol (per-user capita)...<<<
You're falling for popular misconceptions and not basing any of your comments what exists within the medical literature. Fact is you'll never legislate folks into not smoking pot. NEVER!!! And such sanctions only create disfavor among young people as they view laws against marijuana use as hypocritically based. |
