I'm fine with people who want to put toxins or drugs or whatever into their own body in their own home. What I have trouble with is the pro-weed group saying weed has no negative at all. That's complete horseshit. I've been stoned a few times and it killed my brain processing power. Things I could normally process immediately, took much time to do.

Hell, one example. After a hit, I impatiently said "Where's your nose, I need to blow my bathroom". He casually raised his arm up, placed an extended finger on his nose and said "right here". I looked at him, glared at him annoyingly saying "wheres your bathroom?". He goes "Ohh, you wanna know where the BATHROOM is... down the hall, 2nd door on left".

I didn't even realize I completely butchered the phrase. I sat back down and said "what the hell was that about" he looked at me and laughed and told me what happened.

Maybe everyone else handles it better than me, but that was the last time I even considered experimenting with it.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Also while I don't think anyone should smoke marijuana and drive studies have shown its no where near as dangerous as alcohol. i.e stoned drivers drive slower and more cautiously and drunk drivers drive more recklessly.

Originally Posted by: isocleas2 

I guess I should have put a “sarcasm alert” sign in my post. I NEVER meant they should be allowed to drink on the sidelines.
Yes, Mary Jane might have some positive uses medically. But 99.9% of users use it to get HIGH. Which is just as bad as getting drunk and then going out on public.
If the NFL allows the use, how long would it be before someone got hurt in a game, and then sue the NFL for allowing someone that ended up being positive for drug use to be on the field?
Odont believe ANY business allows its employees to be under the influence while on the job.
All the talk about the “opioid abuse” problem, now you want to make it legal to get high?
Arnt Americans brain dead enough already???

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

But 99.9% of users use it to get HIGH. Which is just as bad as getting drunk and then going out on public.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

Yet what about how harsh smoking pot is on your lungs? That stuff makes cigarettes seem like fresh air.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

There's definitely side effects to be concerned about, pregnant women who use cannabis can have babies with lower birth weight and can lower iq in developing brains, I would recommend to everyone not to use cannabis recreationally until they're age 21+. But there's a difference between recreational use and medical use, namely that most medical treatments use the non-psychoactive form CBD. CBD doesn't get you high at all.

Also while I don't think anyone should smoke marijuana and drive studies have shown its no where near as dangerous as alcohol. i.e stoned drivers drive slower and more cautiously and drunk drivers drive more recklessly. Which if you've seen how slow people drive on the highways here in denver you could attest to.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/politics/marijuana-study-drivers-impact/index.html 

Originally Posted by: isocleas2 

So opioid use has sky rocketed. You don’t think that legal pot will also cause skyrocketing drug use? It will.
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The problem is that once it’s made legal to smoke pot, you will have lots more deaths on the roads by high drivers, and for a large amount of people leads to stronger drug use.
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People can’t pay their bills now. Can you imagine the crime rate once millions more get hooked on pot?
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And from my teens, I did smoke it a few times, and I can tell you there is no way I could have safely driven a car under that influence.
It will end up a slippery slope.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

Why wasn't it a slippery slope for you into becoming a pot -> opiod -> other hard drug user? Why didn't you drive while high, why didn't you blow all your money on pot and then turn to crime to fuel your habit?

Why is it so hard for you to fathom that if you smoked pot a few times and managed to not turn it into a life-consuming addiction, that millions of other people might be able to do the same? Yes, there's definitely people out there addicted to pot. Yes, there's plenty of people out there on hard drugs that started out with pot (which is not the same as cause and effect). Yes there's clowns out there that drive while high. But there's millions more that don't let it consume their lives.

Over 10,000 people die every year from drunk driving deaths. The estimated economic impact of alcohol abuse is $250 BILLION annually. And yet alcohol is so embedded in our culture that nobody seems to have a problem thinking of having a glass of wine with dinner most nights as being perfectly okay, or getting drunk but not plastered with the guys on Sunday as something that's normal and not a slippery slope into alcohol abuse and eventually shooting up heroin and smoking crack and robbing old ladies for drug money. The attitude is that people are responsible for their own actions and that there's a concrete difference between alcohol use and alcohol abuse, and yet for some reason people want to pretend the same thing can't exist for pot.

I personally have only smoked about 6 times in my life - I wouldn't mind doing so maybe a few times a year but it's super low on my priority list and frankly, I need a lot of it to get an effect and I'd rather spend my money elsewhere. But I find it preposterous that you can have a bar for every 1000 people in some cities in Wisconsin and it's not a public health crisis but people act like legalizing pot is going to cause mass societal breakdowns.

Originally Posted by: Porforis