Joey B. takes first steps to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level

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  1. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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  3. Seattle Valued Senior Member

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    It will make him more popular with a certain segment of the population. I don't know that it will change the election results very much. I don't think there will be many Republican pot smokers who decide to now vote Democrat.

    It's a good idea, IMO, to reduce prison populations by making this sort of thing no longer a crime that can put one in prison. IMO, violent, repeat offenders should stay in prison and many other people shouldn't end up there in the first place, particularly not unless the whole prison system/culture is drastically reformed.
     
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  5. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Stand by for more car accidents and suicides in younger population

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    Probably true. I'm not a big fan of making it legal but decriminalizing it is probably a good thing. No need to go to prison for using it. I don't think we need a nation of potheads but we don't need a nation of alcoholics either. It's hard to legislate discipline and good judgement.
     
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  8. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Like alcohol I really don't care if you kill yourself with pot or any other drugs

    Just don't kill others. There is a minor cost to the health system (those of us who were tasked with stopping you from killing yourself and nursing you back to a condition suitably healthy enough for you to look after yourself

    The physical side of that fairly straight forward, the mental side really guess work

    Pot will kill you in much the same way as tobacco with cancer but h as added risk of brain scrambling with suicide side effect

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    I think there's more underlying those actions than just some drug,

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  10. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Sure many reasons people drink alcohol to excess

    And many reasons people use pot

    However use of pot appears to increase thoughts of suicide into doing the deed

    I'm dropping out āŒ to depressing

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    Much better, now where is my coffee

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  11. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    And how does that work?
     
  12. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    everything is truly possible when you just make shit up
     
  13. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    If I knew for certain I would be rich

    However extrapolating from the cases I nursed (failed attempts by alcoholics and the doctors explanations) it appears pot, like alcohol, is not a "make you happy" drug, it is more a depression causing drug

    Get to depressed and suicide becomes the way to solve your depression

    Geeze do I need coffee now

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    Using something that is a depressant as opposed to a stimulant wouldn't cause clinical depression. If you are already clinically depressed then sure it "could" push you over the edge if you were already thinking about suicide (or it could not).

    Alcohol is the same. I don't see many people pushing for the non-use of alcohol because it may lead to some suicidal people committing suicide. People who are set on committing suicide generally are successful.

    I think it is clear however that smoke in the lungs is damaging to one degree or another.
     
  15. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    I am glad you have discovered that there is not that possibility. I am sure the medical profession is relieved

    Nothing like being firm and not equivocating

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    It's true that I'm not a on the job trained nurse and an expert but I haven't read the medical community coming to the conclusions that you have. These are just my takes on what I've read though.
     

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