USA : Is marijuana a health issue, a legal problem, or a victim of bad publicity?

**Frylok** · 07-23-2009, 12:28 AM

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Compared to other causes of death, marijuana use is fairly small (reported to be 0%): tobacco - 435,000; poor diet and lifestyle - 365,000; alcohol (including vehicular deaths) - 85,000; prescriptions - 32,000; guns - 29,000; all illicit drug use - 17,000.

Yeah, ZERO is "fairly small".

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Other products with a potential for addiction are alcohol and tobacco, both regulated by government.

Who said anything about a potential for addiction?

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As anyone with a predilection for addiction (alcohol, tobacco, gambling, food, etc.) can attest, there are problems the addicted person, friends and family endure. Drug addiction can lead to criminal activities, break up families and ruin lives. If you are currently experiencing an addiction problem, therapies and medical intervention are available.

...which doesn't apply to Cannabis because it's potential for physical addiction is very, very low...

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Early in the 1900's, the controversy started regarding illicit trafficking.

A more accurate statement would be "Early in the 1900's there was much fear of the Mexicans and their evil devil-weed which caused murder and rape". In fact you can't really call the movement of Marijuana "illicit trafficking" unless Marijuana were illegal, which it wasn't until the 1930's.

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The largest demographics for incarceration are young African American and Latino males - and a large number are housed in for-profit prison industry institutions run by companies such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In much the same way that for-profit health care inherently carries no incentive to reduce illness, a for-profit prison industry would not have an incentive to reduce the prison population as their shareholders would lose money.

In other words, we have created a system where people make more money when they have more people locked up. Am I the only one whom that scares the living shit out of?

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One factor people often do not realize is that many states strip felons of their right to vote - some for a number of years after release, others for their lifetime. In some states, this means that up to 40% of African American men are currently disenfranchised.

I think that was the plan...

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Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank and Texas Republican Ron Paul, along with some others, have co-authored a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 5843) that would "eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes". In a recent video, Ron Paul debated this subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufekh_SwZd0

Man, it must really piss the Republicans off watching their plans of total control go right down the drain...

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Early arguments for criminalization had more to do with politics and financial empires than hard science and medical research.

No, it was simple racism. The scare stories and propoganda campaign of teh time make that quite clear.

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Canada and many other countries view marijuana use as a public health concern and address it as such. No other health issue is dealt with by the American criminal justice system.

That's because it's a political issue in America. The Republicans all took a solemn oath back in the early 70's that they would never, EVER, EVER let the "goddamn hippies" (-Nixon) win and give them their damned pot, especially when it was such a useful tool in harassing otherwise law-abiding citizens.

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How have you been impacted by marijuana's health or legal issues?

If only I could count the ways.....I'll let someone else tackle that question...

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