The only real objection I have to legalization is that there is no standard for intoxication. For alcohol, a driver can be pulled over and given a breath test or taken somewhere for a blood test (better in court), but for cannabis, although a roadside test exists, there is no standard of intoxication since it stays in the body for so long. It gets stored in body fat for long periods of time.
No, there isn't and there should be. But if I had thought if that anyone in the US Government was going to take the first step to legalize pot nationally, the last person I would ever expect it to be would be Trump. Nearly everything he's done as President was either about what's in it for him or his rich donors, for him to do something that a majority of Americans want, even partially, is a shocker to say the least.
I can't understand how Willie Nelson has been a pothead most of his life according to what they say anyway.
Because he knew something from personal experience that you don't, because you don't have that experience. It's as simple as that. Look at it logically, Willie Nelson is 92 years old, and has been a "pothead" as you put it since 1954. He quit in 2019 due to breathing issues. (And cigarettes played a major part in that.) Other that that, and a lot of people making a lot of unnecessary noise about it for years, as far as I know, it never caused him any other problems. Don't you think it would if even a tenth of the BS you hear about pot was true. 65 years is a long time. This nonsense was part of why I believe they the "News" is fake
I never liked pot and thanbks to 2 ER room doctors I didn't even want to be i nbthe same room with any other drugs the hippys liked.
Did you ever see this 1972 Life cereal on TV?
Just making a humorous comparison here, because this makes me wonder... Have you ever
tried it, so you could see
for yourself whether you like or not, and if you don't, it would be from
your own opinions, not two ER Doctors that you most likely only saw once, whose opinions have been debunked years ago? I learned a long time ago that you shouldn't make decisions based on other people's opinions. Specially those that are not based on facts? So it became a habit of mine to look things up. Sometimes that's easy, other time the formation is hard to find or is just somebody's BS.
At 15 I was in Er for a arm injury, to er doctors were fighting to save a Georgia Tech bll player.
They snatched me up from my waiting room chair, took me to the room where he was screaming said see what drugs do, you wanna do some drugs, this look fun to you and on and on, one of the doc's had tears coming down from under his glasses.
Said all they could do was watch him scream himself to death.And he did just that.
Could you be more specific? I can only find information for a "Georgia Tech bll player" that OD'd, and that was in 2008. Who was it? What year was it? I would like to know specifically they would say it was from pot or some other actually dangerous drug that actually
should be Schedule One.
That poor young mans screams didn't sound human, horrible. I was cured from ever wanting a drug, those doctors may have saved me from addiction or worse.
I imagine that would scare the stuffin' out of most people, myself included. Specially at 15 years old. But I would want to know the facts about this, not opinions. Yes, it is possible that those doctors may have saved you from addiction or worse. But based on how I think, it had more to do with you being scared than anything else. You made the decision to not like pot in spite of not knowing all the facts, which when I started in 1970, almost nobody did.
On the other hand, why would a majority of states and Washington DC legalize it for medical use if it had no medicinal properties? As I said, I started smoking pot in 1970 and quit in 2000, and I mean I just stopped doing it, because I decided it was better for my kids if I didn't do it anymore. Someone told me back in the 1970s that "Quitting pot is harder than quitting heroin." If that was true, how could I just stop smoking it? No withdrawal, no clawing at the walls or any of that other nonsense you see in movies. I just stopped because one of my kid's teachers at school said he smelled like pot smoke.
People that are against something based on their own opinion, not known facts, are at times quite funny. Also in the 1970s, someone told me that smoking pot makes you grow breasts. IF that was true, after 30 years I would have been able to give Dolly a run for her money.
This website now has some outdated material, after Trump's EO, but it still has a lot of interesting information on it.
One of the things I found interesting was this:
In response to California's Prop 215, the Institute of Medicine issued a report in 1999 that examined potential therapeutic uses for cannabis. The report found that: "Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs, primarily THC, for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation. Smoked marijuana, however, is a crude THC delivery system that also delivers harmful substances.
As I said, I smoked pot for 30 years, at first to be like everyone I spent any time with, but after 10 years of playing on the road, it was more about pain relief than anything else.
