I know I know, yes, the war on drugs is business, and a large one, but I want to basically make a fool of the "drugs awareness" that is in my area, without being a dick, or anything. I want to show the facts to people in a kind and calm way, and professionally. So is there anyway or advice you guys can give me?
Mostly, on the weed, not cocaine, or alcohol, those are dangerous areas. Alcohol, big business. But I want to show alcohol is a very harmful drug, and weed isn't so much. So please let's not get into heroin being good, because someone told me that,.
I also like this quote, "We definitely don't think that minors should be using marijuana any more than they should be drinking or using tobacco, but arresting people for doing that never stops minors," said Morgan Fox, a spokesman for the group. "If we remove marijuana from the criminal market and have the market run by responsible business people that have an incentive to check IDs and not sell to minors, then we might see those rates drop again." -CBS News New York
Put them in a headlock and then repeatedly punch them in the nose while yelling out facts. Trust me, I used the exact same strategy on my grandmother and now she never says anything bad about marijuana users while I'm around. I think it's safe to say it works.
See that first link in my sig? CLICK IT! Or Better yet, check out the bottom of my sig and send me an email for the full version! Here's some that are fairly new- Popular intoxicants: what lessons can be learned from the last 40 years of alcohol and cannabis regulation? (abst – 2011) Popular intoxicants: what lessons can be l... [J Psychopharmacol. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI Latest Studies Imply That Cannabinoids Are Protective Against Alcohol-Induced Brain Damage (news – 2011) Latest Studies Imply That Cannabinoids Are Protective Against Alcohol-Induced Brain Damage Why Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Traffic Deaths (news - 2011) Why Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Traffic Deaths | Healthland | TIME.com Alcohol as a Gateway Drug: A Study of US 12th Graders (abst – 2012) [FONT="]Alcohol as a Gateway Drug: A Study of US 12th Graders - Kirby - 2012 - Journal of School Health - Wiley Online Library[/FONT] Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk (news – 2012) Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk // Current TV If you are doing almost any sort of paper on cannabis- I've got your research! Granny
You could point out that alcohol kills 80,000 people in the U.S. every year and that a lot of the violence, disease and harm currently caused by alcohol could be prevented by allowing drinkers to switch to marijuana. And you could focus on how the harms of the marijuana prohibition far outweigh the benefits that it creates. The federal marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers $40 Billion a year and causes 10,000 brutal murders and 800,000 needless arrests every year and yet it doesn't even stop CHILDREN from getting marijuana. Any policy that causes more harm than good must END! Drug Dealers Don't Card, Supermarkets Do!
Yes the worst thing is children getting any drug, whether it be alcohol, marijuana, or any soft drug, caffeine is too hard to stop, imagine being ID'd for a coca cola... But I agree, but switching is not an option for them, it's two different things. Minor lung damage vs permanent liver damage. And chronic tobacco smoking, the big problem with that, is it's addictive, if you start to have problems, quiting is tough. "Drug Dealers Don't Card, Supermarkets Do!" is probably the best line I've heard on the topic. Also thank you for the research links, I'll be sure to check them Thank you guys!
All of these are very good, just read a few, feel they are a great thing to show to them, but since they are paid to do what they do, I do not believe they will change their acts, just their judgments.
Here's something else for you LinuxJ: I kept wondering why the government always says that "marijuana has to be illegal". I mean it's not like they're constantly doing research and concluding that it has to be illegal, they just keep saying over and over again that it has to be illegal and they refuse to question this belief. So I did a little research to see what really keeps marijuana illegal in this country and what made it illegal in the first place, and I found that it all came down to a man called Harry J. Anslinger. The reason why Congress can't legalize marijuana is because we signed a United Nation's treaty called the "Single Convention" that forbids us from EVER legalizing marijuana. And who put marijuana into the Single Convention and then pressured the government to sign it - Anslinger! Anslinger was a paranoid and ignorant man who decided that it was his mission to eradicate marijuana from the face of the planet - and if he couldn't do that then to make it illegal FOREVER. So he got marijuana placed into the Single Convention and then got our country to sign it and now there's no real way of ever removing marijuana from the Single Convention or getting our country out of it. I guess Anslinger, the high-school drop out, is going to get what he wanted. Federal Narcotics Czar | The Nation Anslinger, Harry Jacob, and U.S. Drug Policy - eNotes.com
Good thread replies, I always find it sad when alcohol can tear apart families and kill people and cannabis sativa hasn't killed anyone in the past 10,000 years.
Very well, nothing we can do now. His anti-narcotics, was when he saw a woman scream and scream until she got her morphine. I see people do the same with hamburgers. We should illegalize that. I know Morphine is addictive, so don't do it. Stick to good old Mary.