I don’t have kids, but if I did, I would worry more about drinking in front of them than smoking a joint. If I had a teen who came home smelling of alcohol, I would ground them for a month. Smelling of cigarette smoke, I would ground them for three months. Smelling of weed? I would sit down and have a long heart-to-heart talk with them about the responsibility that goes along with marijuana use and how we need to respect it as the gift from God it is. I see people talk about how marijuana should remain illegal and then go home and drink themselves to a stupor and yell at their kids. What great parenting! Would this happen with a marijuana using parent? No, because marijuana doesn’t effect a person like that. It makes a person more loving and caring, while drinking makes a person think of only themselves. To everyone who has any experience at all with marijuana, the stigma attached to it’s use is a joke.

We need to release the stigma attached to smoking marijuana. Only then will we be able to open our minds enough to let the truth get in. Marijuana will and should be legal, but it’s people like you who so blatantly throw the truth off to the side only to lap up the lies and propaganda. It’s going to be hilarious fifty years from now when kids today are sitting down with their own grandchildren and telling tales of when pot was illegal and all the idiots who fought it tooth and nail when, in the end, it will end up being the best thing that ever happened to this country.

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By the way, if I ever get cancer and have to undergo chemo, I’ll be all over the reefer like a bum on a baloney sandwich. It’s what saved my buddies life when he had Hodgin’s Disease.

Pot doesn’t really fit the category of a “dangerous” drug.

That may be true of the less potent forms, but the whole point of this study is that the newer breed is something different. It’s like the difference between beer and grain alcohol. You can do something stupid either way, but the hard stuff gets you there quicker and may (if the study is verified) have more lasting effects.

In response to Jillian:

And one last thing, marinol’s 100% THC and it’s LEGAL.

It is legal, with a doctor’s script. But, Marinol is not 100% THC in strength. It is made completely out of a synthetic THC (perhaps this is your “100%”?) compound known as delta-9-THC. The RX doseage is only given in 24% and 8%, so it is those percentages that you should be referencing when drawing comparisons to skunk’s 18%, not the use of 100%.

I wonder if there are studies linking psychosis to Marinol? Since the 24% RX dose is stronger than skunk mentioned above, you would think we’d be able to find a correlation if there is one.

PR, do you have kids? Just curious.

1 due in less than 3 months.

I think this is a factor on how one views this issue. I used to view this much as you do, but with a teenage son, I now appreciate the efforts of law enforcement to keep drugs off the street as much as possible.

Wait for it…

I know it’s a lost cause, and a tremendous expenditure of resources. (And a source of a lot of violent crime.)

There it is.

You’ve gotta decide which you’d rather have: a money pipeline for violent criminals or decriminalization. Do you have a daughter? These guys take their drug money and expand into other operations (kidnapping, sexual slavery, etc). You’ve gotta make a choice.

But I fear how our society would further devolve if we openly sanction the use of dangerous and/or addicting drugs.

Our society can’t devolve anymore than it already has. We’re at rock bottom already.

Pot doesn’t really fit the category of a “dangerous” drug. It is the major cash crop for the cartels. They’re growing it all over the place in California. Why should we let them make money through our insane drug policies.

I guess I don’t feel as strongly about marijuana, but at the same time I’ve never met a pot smoker that’s inspired me in any way to take up their cause. And this thread has only reinforced this for me.

I would agree. They’re generally brainless. “Legalize it, don’t criticize it!” LOL.

You don’t need to support decriminalization for the reasons they mention, though. Depriving violent animals of a major revenue stream is reason enough. The government can’t and won’t protect you from these people once they get more powerful. Look at Mexico now.

Isn’t the point of this article, though, about the difference between regular cannabis and skunk? FWIW, I can’t see any administration legalising cannabis.

But I fear how our society would further devolve if we openly sanction the use of dangerous and/or addicting drugs.

I guess I don’t feel as strongly about marijuana, but at the same time I’ve never met a pot smoker that’s inspired me in any way to take up their cause. And this thread has only reinforced this for me.