Quote Originally Posted by AlexanderSextus View Post
Cannabis is not harmless, lets not forget that. It should still be Legal, however, and tobacco should NOT be made illegal.

Also, Long term Memory Damage? whoever you saw that had that, either was one of the "type C" people i just talked about, or they smoked A HELLLLL OF A LOT OF CANNABIS. More than a self proclaimed pothead such as myself would recommend anyone consume.

The psychosis is rare, as well. Once again some people are predisposed to it, and shouldn't be smoking it anyway. If it were legal to smoke pot then people would be able to be tested to see if they have this or not. I'm sure they can do this now, but given Cannabis's legal status at the moment i would think people are too afraid to admit they use it.

The point of my previous post is that those symptoms are not really commonplace, and that largely, marijuana is not a dangerous drug. It is vastly safer than Alcohol. It is even Safer than aspirin, and if you use a vaporizer then it is EVEN SAFER as there is no lung damage whatsoever.

For your consideration: In 1988 Administrative Law Judge for the DEA, Hon. Francis L. Young, stated that "Cannabis, in its natural form, is one of the SAFEST therapeutically active substances known to mankind" (emphasis mine)

he also said this:

"At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around
1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in onemarijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response."
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.