Risky Business

There is a very large difference between using drugs and smoking. The wierdos that want to legalize pot but ban smoking are the perfect example of the results of drug use – no touch with reality.

Re: Aaron Houston, their director of government relations: “Efforts to curb cigarette sales to teens have been wildly successful, and it’s past time we applied those lessons to marijuana.”
What planet is this guy from? Marijuana is illegal, a halucinigenic drug! It should have been first on the list along with all the other illegal drugs – oh, I forgot, its legal in california.

this article and the responses are the silliest bunch of balogney Iv ever read… tobacco use is dropping because kids dont want to get cancer like their grandparents, booze use is going way up, pot use is way up (mabey not admitted to but way up) and the article doesnt even bother to mention pharmacudicals which are the biggest killers of kids out there……. anouther article brought to you by your beloved makers of toxins for tots.

Jenn
Missused pharmacudicals generally. Any drug, pharmacudical, natural or illegal can harm. Its all in the use. Alcohol in the right dose is good for you, exceed that dose and its bad because like most stimulants, increased amounts become depressents. Even the old time stimulant, coffee, if drank in sufficient quantity can make you sleepy.

How is this a “Science & Technology” article?

For the people who have been brain washed by DARE programs and other ridiculous fabricated evidence of marijuana use—no one has ever died using this drug.thats a fact. cigarettes kill hundreds of people a day

rick
Euphorics affect judgement by changing your mood. Under the influence you can do things that you would not normally do. Continued heavy use can cause permanent brain damage.
brandon – Spoken like an Angeleno.

Marijuana is the most demonized drug out there. The reason it is that it is the least dangerous of all drugs mentioned in this article. It is a bold faced lie for the FDA to say marijuana has no medical value. Is public protection a war cry only when it suits the political persuasion of the government? I ask because the FDA is protecting the names of the factories responsible for the Hepren contamination that killed 200 people. The FDA has refused to release the names of the Chinese manufactures that caused these deaths of our tax paying citizens. This is undeniable look it up. In fact the FDA is not even aloud to inspect Chinese facilities. This is the government organization that every marijuana reform critic cite. The FDA will not even allow fair and balanced study of marijuana. How can we make a judgment with no scientific evidence of serious side affect, and in fact evidence points to positive results when used for treatment of many conditions including cancer, breast and lung and Alzheimer’s. Do I trust them(FDA), do you trust them? Are we putting Americans in jail or at risk by making people get their intoxicant from the same dealers that push coke instead of a regulated outlet? Why are we doing this? I need a better answer than “because its against the law” because its against the law to poison thousands of Americans prescribed medications. I also don’t want to hear it causes brain damage because it requires a sophisticated MRI to find “brain damage” caused by marijuana where as the affects of alcohol are apparent when comparing size and geometry of an alcoholics brain to a non drinkers brain. Its smaller and weighs up to 15% less than a non drinkers brain. All you people that scan the headlines or don’t mute your tv during commercials are brain dead. Your government is taking advantage of your inherent will to make moral judgment against others that you don’t agree with. And let’s not forget that drug laws were never voted into being by the people. Its no coincidence that the same people that pushed for drug law were the nylon textile manufactures, the political police groups, big pharmaceutical and alcohol industry lobbyist. They all have substantial investment in keeping marijuana illegal.

They should legalize all drugs and tax the hell out of them… Then we wouldn’t need so many prisons..Also I think if they were legal drug use would go down further because they would lose the “outlaw” feel.. This is a choice and we as a free country should be able to use whatever we want as long as it doesn’t affect our neighbors. Maybe I’m just to libral but that is the way I see it.