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originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: Krazysh0t
Fact is the hypocrisy that surrounds Marijuana and the consumption of such is based on lies, fear, and ignorance.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: rickymouse
What do you think is worse? People potentially smoking pot at work because it is legal or people being arrested for smoking pot because it is illegal?
originally posted by: hombero
From USA today this is the stance one can expect. If you read it regularly then your views are likely aligned. Therefore your mind is already made up for you and there is no purpose to discourse.
originally posted by: slapjacks
How many people have died from Marijuana? What are these "dangers" ?
The estimated LD-50 (lethal threshold) for marijuana, established in 1988 by the DEA’s appropriate fact-finder, is 1:20,000 or 1:40,000.
“At present it is estimated that marijuana’s LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: Kryties
NONSENSE, if YOU hook up a BONG to a vacuum and mate to a GAS MASK you CAN suffocate from NO oxygen...
originally posted by: Kryties
originally posted by: slapjacks
How many people have died from Marijuana? What are these "dangers" ?
Zero. Zip. Zilch. None. It is literally impossible to die from over-consumption of cannabis.
originally posted by: spliffster
I don't agree, it's true there's nothing like a THC overdose but there are dangers and deaths or accidents in which cannabis was somehow involved.
There's obviously disease from smoking, vaporizing might be less harmful but it's still not healthy and can lead to an earlier death. Also electronic cigarettes for adding the nicotine are less harmful, but same story.
And traffic accidents, even though people shouldn't be intoxicated while participating in traffic, or doing anything serious/nonrecreational.
And there have been enough people who mentally died, the stereotype stoner who doesn't want to interact with others and becomes a hollow shell with little expressions, less social activities which is a danger too like neglecting oneself and difficulty to get a job and ending up on the streets, although after legalization I assume they'll fit right in working at the many farms.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: rickymouse
Utter poppycock.
Alcohol is legal, but you cannot turn up to work drunk every day, sipping from your hip flask every quarter hour to keep your buzz going without being fired, and no court in the land would fail to support an employer who fired someone for being drunk on the job, leave alone actually DRINKING on the job. By the same measure, someone turning up stoned, or GETTING stoned at work, should be fired, not because there is anything necessarily wrong with smoking or drinking, but because there IS something wrong with failing to respect the workplace, and failing to adopt the workmanlike mindset that employment requires.
There is nothing wrong with a fellow having a drink in the evening after work, and there is nothing wrong with someone coming to the end of the working day, stepping out of the premise in which they work, and sparking up a joint. There IS something wrong with someone stumbling through the working day either drunk, or high however, so it is upon employees to ensure that while they are at work, they are not actively engaging in becoming either drunk or high, and that they arrive at work in a fit state to complete their work to an acceptable standard. Work time is for working.
originally posted by: Kryties
The dangers from "smoking" are actually in the radioactive carcinogens that are present in tobacco because of the method of farming. Nicotine itself is also not cancer-causing or dangerous beyond being the addictive portion of the cigarette.
There is no danger whatsoever, from a medical sense, in smoking cannabis. Multiple studies have proven that cannabis smoking does not cause negative medical effects like tobacco does.
I agree to a point, but will note that several studies have been done testing the effects of cannabis on driving and in the majority of cases it actually improved their driving rather than hindered it. Being stoned makes you more careful, not reckless. Of course, more study needs to be done to confirm these findings.