A letter to my congressional representative on medical marijuana

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Reverend Joe 16:30 08-31-2009

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla:
The psychois alone is reason enough to keep it illegal. What you call "Type C" people are far more common than you think. The fact is that Cannabis is not less dangerous than alchohol because it is extremely dangerous in small quantities. You have to drink a lot to suffer any real longterm damage, and the damage is progressive and predictable.

Pot, will screw you up really quick, just like E will kill you first time. Booze, you have to abuse yourself for a long time to really mess things up.

There is a significant population of people who have a physical intolerance of alcohol, and can die very easily from drinking. Just like the people predisposed to cannaboid psychosis or mental impairments, they should choose not to use the substance; but at the same time, they should not prevent those who can use it safely from using it.

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Further, smoking tobaco or cannabis is dangerous because it's carcenogenic.

And drinking causes liver damage -- and BRAIN damage, something that cannabis does not, despite what a lot of people seem to think.

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You argument about alchohol and traffic accidents/poisening is totally irrelevant because of the sheer amount you have to consume, and because you should not drink anything if you are going to be taking responsibility for something important or dangerous.

I never drive, shoot, or opperate heavy machinery under the influence and I have only been ill twice in the whole time I have consumed alchohol. In both instances the quantity I consumed was best measured in litres.

Doesn't matter; people who use alcohol are more likely to do this. Just because you are smart enough not to doesn't change the fact that a lot of people aren't.

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Pot can cause psychosis, long term memory damge and paranoia without taking anything like the same quantities. Further, it stays in your system for up to 6 months, it can still be found in your hair at that point. Alchohol is flushed in 24 hours.

Psychosis: read above. Long-term memory damage: that's just false, except in extreme cases of abuse, and considering that marijuana causes no direct damage to the brain, I suspect it comes from brain atrophy rather than the cannabis itself. As for paranoia, I have several friends who, while drunk, suddenly thought that their friends were going to kill them, or developed similar pathological obsessions, and that's not to mention the blackout, which happens to all my friends, all of whom are seasoned drinkers who can hold their alcohol.

Arguing about quantity is useless, because it's the intoxication itself that matters, not the quantity of substance being consumed.

And THC staying in your system is a pointless argument, because it exists in such minimal quantities that it has no effect, or people would be high for days.

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