Comments on: Oxycodone addict and member of notoriously drunken rich clan with fortune built on bootlegging opposes decriminalization of pot

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:01:57 +0000

KC–that’s a good point. The medical application will lend itself to more plausible marketing for “health” reasons.

I will probably still continue to abstain, even here in green Colorado. (At least until I have cancer or glaucoma!)

By: Knitting Clio

Knitting Clio — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:29:54 +0000

I don’t oppose decriminalizing marijuana, but I think there is good reason to treat use as a public health issue as has been done with cigarettes and alcohol. There are legitimate medical uses for marijuana but like any drug there are significant health risks as well. My fear is that as marijuana becomes a commodity like tobacco, we will see it being promoted as “healthy” for everyone at any time (like those cigarette ads from the early twentieth century with doctors endorsing the health benefits of various brands)

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:01:20 +0000

Eh, it’s better than finding crack vials, which used to be glass & which could be easily broken under foot. Memories of Philly in the 1980s!!!

By: mandor

mandor — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:18:26 +0000

Indyanna pretty much describes the way a lot of mj dispenseries in California operate. Cutesy strain names, promotional items (free joint with purchase!) and even a (heavily armored) vending machine are all real things.

I would rather live near stoners than chain smokers. Tobacco smoke lasts much longer and clings to everything. You know someone smokes tobacco in their home once you walk into it, but unless the smoke is fresh, I don’t notice anything like that in stoner homes.

One of the things that does annoy me are the empty green plastic bottles I find strewn about. Usually along with empty cheetos flaming hot bags and gatorade bottles. Were there no weed bottles to throw on the ground, I’m sure the other garbage components would remain.

By: Z

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:34:23 +0000

Even here in Louisiana, which is not healthy and full of cigarette smokers, the vaporizer is really big and pot smoking does not necessarily lead to worse things like nicotine addiction.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:05:19 +0000

And maybe this is a Colorado outdoorsy, healthy-living thing, but most people here seem interested in eating or vaporizing pot, not smoking it.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:04:24 +0000

Yeah, but that’s true of cigarette smoke too, Shelley. I think it stinks (literally), but I don’t think that’s a reason to continue criminalizing pot.

I’ve never been a pot smoker, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think most people smoke pot all day long, whereas cigarette smokers do in fact smoke throughout the day. Pot is for most people one or two shared joints a week, far from the equivalent of a 1/2 or full pack a day of cigarettes.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:01:08 +0000

Marijuana is a public health issue because if it’s legalized, everybody who lives in an apartment building will be forced to smell the smoke of their neighbors.

Do we want more people–more asthma sufferers, more senior citizens, more children–to be inhaling others’ smoke every day? All apartments/condos have common air flow.

By: Tenured Radical

Tenured Radical — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:49:13 +0000

There is also a huge industry built around the idea of “pot addiction,” and the concept of pot as a gateway drug. It taps into the substantial sums available inparents’ health insurance policies for residential treatment for kids — which I can tell you first hand are mostly a shuck. Those that provide real psychiatric care are really expensive and beyond the reach of most people.

By: Z

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:04:52 +0000

koshembos speaks true.