A Post from Captain Obvious
DENVER (AP) -- The opening months of Colorado's first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug's intoxicating oil in crude home-based laboratories.Since Jan. 1, when sales began, the state's only certified adult burn center has treated 10 people with serious injuries they suffered while making hash oil, compared with 11 in 2013 and one in 2012.
So, since the legalization they have had children "accidentally" ingest brownies, kids selling at schools and a rise in injuries and overdoses. Yes you can overdose on Marijuana. What happens is the person's heart races, and the paranoia kicks in and they call an Ambulance because they think they are going to die.
The issue with Marijuana is that everyone thinks of the Marijuana portrayed on TV/Movies and the stuff of the 60's. That Marijuana had a THC concentration of about 3-6% per ounce. Todays stuff that has been cultivated and nurtured and grown in grow houses has a THC concentration running at least 50% and some 70% per ounce. This is the equivalent of the first time you try alcohol and instead of drinking a beer, you try Moonshine, but shoot it straight into a vein. Not only that, most of the stuff on the street today can be laced with PCP, Cocaine, or Ecstasy. "But, now that it is legal it can be regulated?" sure, but do you really think people who have been breaking the law are just going to stop and go to the corner weed store? No, your home growers are going to continue to grow without a license. Why would they want to cut into profits with Government licenses and regulations, Hell, they might get shut down for unsanitary conditions.
"But pot is safe, its not addictive" Really? REALLY!?, OK ask a pot smoker to stop smoking pot for just one week and see what happens. Like any mood altering, mind altering drug, it may not be physically addictive, but psychologically, yes. The vast majority of your heavy drug users started off smoking Marijuana.
"But pot smokers aren't harming anyone" Ok, how about their employers, Families? What about the other people on the road? Cannabis affects the brains ability to problem solve, it also affects Learning, short term memory and coordination.It slows reaction time, and perception of surroundings. Would you want someone who has a lack of coordination, difficulty solving problems, and memory issues driving a car, taking care of your kids, fixing your food?
Do I believe Marijuana should be legal? No. Will it be? Yes, eventually. The reason won't be because politicians will see it like alcohol and "everybody" does it. No they will see it as a revenue generator. Colorado has already seen an increase in the number of traffic crashes and fatalities caused from Marijuana smokers driving. The bad part is they don't see themselves as impaired, so they drive (same goes for prescription drug users, but that is a whole other rant). I myself have seen an increase in multiple drug and alcohol impaired drivers. They have a few drinks and smoke some pot, or pop a few Xanax and hit the road. Thinking that since they only had one or two they aren't "Drunk", but the combination is deadly. As with most Narcissists (and Liberals) damn the consequences, I want what makes me happy now.
posted by davis14633 at 06:31
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I could make an argument that all legal drugs got that way because they're revenue generators. My personal position is that I just don't care. I recently stopped smoking cigarettes after a 30 year pack-a-day habit. Why? Well, it wasn't social pressure or money or health. It came down to this: I finally decided that I didn't like being deliberately addicted by an industry whose sole reason for existence is to keep me addicted to their product. It was a control thing.
People will do what they will do, legal or not. If someone is bound and determined to do something, no amount of regulation or legislation will stop them. If they can't get marijuana, they'll smoke something else. I know a guy who smoked dried morning glory leaves. If they can't get coke or heroin, they'll huff paint. We can't make the world safe and we can't remove temptation. Not unless we're willing to live like ascetics or Puritans. Don't know about you, but that's not an option for me.
I'm nominally in the "legalize everything and tax the hell out of it" camp and have been for a very long time. The problem with taking a moral position on whether or not drug "X" should be legal and drug "Y" should not is that one first has to give a shit if other people kill themselves or ruin their lives. I've come to realize I really don't give a shit.
America is an empire in decline. Neither wishful thinking nor legislative morality can stop that decline. Our descent into hedonism and self-destruction is as inevitable now as the fall of Rome. It's just The Way Things Work.
This blog got its name for a reason, you know. =)
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