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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how the pro-marijuana sleeps at night hearing story after story like this.[/quote]

It's seriously ruining so much. [/quote]

I’ll tell you why.

Because illegal marijuana destroyed millions upon millions of lives in the war on drugs - I was a prosecutor, I saw it firsthand. All those funding streams voted in by prudish politicians to feed the prudish public meant decades of law enforcement attention busting pot smokers while claiming not enough resources to root out violent crime like all the unsolved murders and rapes etc.

Because legal marijuana is saving hundreds of thousands of lives, particularly in the addiction community where folks have been able to get off opioid drugs and manage their pain with marijuana instead which won’t kill them, including tens of thousands of veterans, men and women we sent to hell and do very little for when they return. Millions of people with chronic physical and mental health conditions whose pain responds well to management by marijuana therapy which has far fewer side effects than benzodiazepines, SSRIs/SNRIs, tricyclics, etc.

And beyond that I’m grateful that instead of being over in the dry January thread talking about my struggle to put down the booze for 31 days, booze that has zero health benefits but is rather linked to several cancers, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, brain atrophy etc. and is at the root of so very many social ills, I could pop down to my local dispensary tonight and buy some high quality, tightly regulated marijuana to unwind a little from my week.

I’m truly sorry for people who have family members who developed psychosis linked to drug use. Teens aren’t supposed to be using drugs in any case, where is your outrage at the negligent parents as arises in so many other threads?

But I digress.

Yes a very small fraction of people at any age could have a serious negative reaction to using drugs that alter brain function. Same with alcohol, opiods, psychedelics. That is no reason to remove all those substances from availability to the vast majority of people who can use them responsibly and will not have serious adverse reaction. Illegal marijuana ruins exponentially more lives than legal marijuana. Psychosis is treatable and people can and usually do recover from it. Anyone with serious concern about the potential for serious negative consequences of using marijuana can just say no.

Pregnancy and postpartum triggers psychosis in some people who have wombs and use them. Should we ban the use of wombs?

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This is the best the pro-marijuana lobby can muster? It’s only a small fraction of people who are negatively impacted by marijuana? Comparing marijuana use to pregnancy?

You are definitely confirming your heavy use of marijuana with this half-baked logic. [/quote]

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