Legalize Marijuana...Drinking with Bob

[Chai]

I don't think it should be illegal. Because if you get high then go driving you can kill someone

When's the last time you heard of someone overdose on marijuana or kill someone while high on it?

I think we have more deaths from alcohol which happens to be legal.

As a former drug treatment professional I personally know of several thousand deaths that are related to overdoses of Pot. It is a sad fact that the Treatment programs in America are so badly run many needless deaths occur each month.

So I went to work with Alzheimer's participants...better success rate.

Below is a link to a program that does work. It is a faith based program that rejects the conventional thinking of Drug addiction as a disease process.


http://www.soberforever.net/index.cfm

Although I am only becoming a Dr the above statement is not scientific for such a topic , rather personal. For even the government admits there is no evidence of what you suggest. I have been with many patients in the mental ward and thc does not even kill brain cells it does cause a motivational syndrome however to some. (laziness)
However, heroin and cocaine may kill. I am curious the people you know that died how was the mechanism of death initiated from the cannabis?  The smoke is indeed carcinogenic which may lead to cancer but that is not an acute death.



my evidance is also from
An exhaustive search of the literature finds no credible reports of deaths induced by marijuana. The US Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) records instances of drug mentions in medical examiners' reports, and though marijuana is mentioned, it is usually in combination with alcohol or other drugs. Marijuana alone has not been shown to cause an overdose death.

Source: National Academy Press, 1999), available on the web at http://www.nap.edu/html/marimed/; and US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition" (Docket #86-22), September 6, 1988, p. 57.  retived from www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm 

[Chai]

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[Cato]

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You may be right, or you may not, but that doesn't negate the argument that when you start using marijuana you cross a barrier which may lead to things much worse. I daresay that many marijuana takers stick with marijuana, but I would also bet that most hard drug users started on marijuana. Personally I couldn't care less except for the crime thing and the schools brimming over with drugs, for which our politicians need hemp put to a different use to smoking, if you follow me.