"Just one question to all the defenders of legalized marijuana: Do you defend smoking tobacco with as much fervor as you do smoking marijuana?"
There's no need to do so. Despite the 450,000 deaths it causes in the US every year, tobacco is legal. Apparently, if US citizens choose to kill themselves with cigarettes, it's fine with the government as long as the tobacco taxes get paid.
Marijuana, on the other hand, has not killed a single human being in 5,000 years of recorded history of its use. Marijuana doesn't cause cancer (http://ccrmg.org/journal/05aut/nocanc...). In fact, people who use marijuana have fewer instances of lung cancer than people who don't. Cigarette smokers who also smoke marijuana have fewer instances of lung cancer than cigarette smokers who don't.
Yes, I defend people's right to smoke tobacco. It's a matter of personal freedom, though I wish people were smart enough to not do it. If Americans have the right to use a drug (tobacco) that will kill a third of its users, shouldn't they have to right to use one that is far, far safer (http://www.saferchoice.org) than our current legal recreational drugs, alcohol and tobacco?
I'm having a hard time understanding a politician with better than a third-grade education can consider voting for medical marijuana to be "political suicide" when 78% of voters polled favor it.
Hagan ‘delayed support’ of new marijuana bill
"Just one question to all the defenders of legalized marijuana: Do you defend smoking tobacco with as much fervor as you do smoking marijuana?"
There's no need to do so. Despite the 450,000 deaths it causes in the US every year, tobacco is legal. Apparently, if US citizens choose to kill themselves with cigarettes, it's fine with the government as long as the tobacco taxes get paid.
Marijuana, on the other hand, has not killed a single human being in 5,000 years of recorded history of its use. Marijuana doesn't cause cancer (http://ccrmg.org/journal/05aut/nocanc...). In fact, people who use marijuana have fewer instances of lung cancer than people who don't. Cigarette smokers who also smoke marijuana have fewer instances of lung cancer than cigarette smokers who don't.
Yes, I defend people's right to smoke tobacco. It's a matter of personal freedom, though I wish people were smart enough to not do it. If Americans have the right to use a drug (tobacco) that will kill a third of its users, shouldn't they have to right to use one that is far, far safer (http://www.saferchoice.org) than our current legal recreational drugs, alcohol and tobacco?
April 13, 2010 at 4:45 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Youngstown’s Hagan seeks to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio
I'm having a hard time understanding a politician with better than a third-grade education can consider voting for medical marijuana to be "political suicide" when 78% of voters polled favor it.
April 11, 2010 at 9:59 p.m. permalink suggest removal