....does anybody want to talk about what Kim Ogg did?

I'm a proud Texan and have lived here my whole life. I'm seriously considering moving after my kids go off to college because of people like Dan Patrick and his followers.

The benefits of decriminalization/legalization far outweigh the negatives but the holier than thou crowd in power will never see it that way.

 

Yeah I am generally a Republican but can't stand Dan Patrick, either.

 

These Christian Conservatives don't realize that Jesus would roll the biggest and fattest blunts if he lived today. On a serious note, there is some very thin historical evidence that Jesus may have healed with mixtures of Olive and Cannabis oils and Cannabis resins.

 

I've always thought the idea of "Christian Conservatives" was odd in that they aren't really conservatives at all given that they are always calling for the federal government to strip power from the people in order to enforce their ideas about morality upon them.

 

He might just be really popular -- you are stereotyping people again for no good reason.

 

Generally?

I am surprised by this. If you don't mind me asking, what is your issue(s) with him?

 

It's common misconception,
It impact health exactly like smoking cigarettes but with extra complication, it acutely impairs a variety of neuropsychological functions in a dose-dependent manner, especially attention, concentration, episodic memory, and associative learning,& increase/trigger most of mental health issues and introduces addicts to other intemperance substances by the margins of 260% , and for those medical benefits,its highly overrated

 

Yeah, he's really popular with the cops too considering how many times he's been arrested.

 

I have seen enough to the point I decided whenever I see an adult admitted due to substance abuse intoxication, I would insert 16" NG tube with the least amount of lubricant through their nose so they stay clean for awhile

 

Ah ok. But it's still safer than Alcohol, right? So there you go. Decriminalize it.

 

Don't know about legality, if its like blowing bubbles and making small cute clouds why not!

Cannabis abuse: 1 out of 8
Alcohol abuse: 1 out of 13
Sequential gateway : very likely

 

Use and abuse aren't the same thing. Do we say that 15% of the US population "abuses" tobacco? Do we say that 100% of the population "abuses" water?

Alcohol is a substance that can absolutely be abused, but not everyone that drinks abuses alcohol. I'm honestly not even sure mar1juana is a substance that can be abused.

 

When you grow up in a country that has a Ministry of "promotion of virtue and prevention of vice", you can take those statements as you see fit.

 

Smoking all day everyday is bad no matter what word you use. Preventing drug use is supposed to be tripartite. Education, legal deterrent, rehabilitation. Our anti-drug education is a joke, and deterrent now gone.

 

Buck

 

Preventing harmful drug use is important, but you don't get there by lying to people about certain substances and that's what they've done when it comes to mar1juana since the beginning. When you lie to people like that, at some point they figure it out and then you have no credibility anymore when it comes to what you said about legitimately harmful substances. If I told you chocolate and heroin were incredibly dangerous horribly addictive things that would kill you if you try them, how seriously would you take the heroin warning after finding out the chocolate warning was BS?

Doing anything all day every day is bad no matter what we're talking about, that's not a reason to ban something. mar1juana isn't physically addictive and is practically impossible to do an amount that would kill you. When you ban that but allow the use of alcohol which is far more dangerous and on top of that is physically addictive, you send the message to people that you don't know what the hell you are talking about or that your bans are arbitrary and baseless.

That's why we need change.