Thread: Driving and Cannabis - Not so safe after all (queue common sense arguments)

Originally Posted by CivilWars

So in your opinion all the doctors in Canada, Switzerland, Amsterdam, California, Colorado, etc just said fuck it?

Nope. I think the people voted and the majority won as they should. I also think it might be usefull and i even think placebos work beautifully at making people think something is working. In either case that would seem to be a possitive to me but it doesn't negate the fact every expert i have ever read on the topic all say the same exact thing. I believe i gave you a quote on that one earlier.

What don´t we know about weed?

Meanwhile in British Columbia.

Four former B.C. attorneys-general -- Colin Gabelmann, Ujjal Dosanjh, Graeme Bowbrick and Geoff Plant -- are calling for the legalization of cannabis."No, I'm not smoking anything," Dosanjh cracked when contacted."It's just time - 77 per cent of Canadians are telling us it's time to change the law."The former provincial justice ministers, who cross party lines, on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of academics, four Vancouver mayors, the Health Officers Council of B.C., the Liberal Party of Canada and others who say the 89-year-old marijuana prohibition has failed.

Read more: Legalize marijuana, former B.C. attorneys-general say

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

OMG i really wish people would save the its natural from the earth crap. Opium, arsenic, uranium, and a shit load of other deadly shit is natural as well. Being from the earth doesnt mean something is good for you.

Absolutely true. But lots of the things that we know are bad for us weren't researched in a lab. People figured out they were bad because they had short-run effects (nausea, death, penis falls off) or long-run effects (everyone who ate a particular thing eventually went insane). The long-run stuff was hard to figure out in the days before data and statistics, but even then we eventually got it.

Using lead for plumbing was AWESOME, until (after a very long time) someone noticed that everyone who had lead water pipes turned into a retard. Arsenic was hard to figure out, because in small doses it's not a big deal. But it builds up over time, and when you die it's not because you just ate a huge slice of arsenic pie, so it's hard to tell what it was that killed poor Horace.

Plants in the nightshade family are poisonous, but only parts of them. Potatoes are fine, but the fruit of the plant can kill you.

People knew about the dangers of consuming too much alcohol, or of drinking heavily over a long period of time, long before they knew what "alcohol" was.

The point about cannabis isn't that it's natural and so it's safe. It's that it grows naturally, it's been used by lots of people for a very long time, and no one has yet found there to be any serious problem with use. If there really were serious health issues, wouldn't someone have noticed by now?

Of course, that's not proof that there isn't some serious problem. But it's decent evidence.

Cheers,


AetheLove

yea, thousands of years of evidence.

lol i can even hear the voice saying it:

Originally Posted by Toker

Can't you wear tie dye and not be a hippy?

no

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

Everyone..feel free to use the stamp at your discretion.

Awesome, saved for future use