Why does it seem there is no middle-ground in opinion on marijuana?
I’ve been trying to look for websites that show both good and bad on the drug. What you get (because crazy people are the ones that would care enough to actually have websites!) is a bunch of extremes. You get either the people who want to keep it criminalized (illegal=EVIL mentality) and think it is terrible. Then you get the full stoners who go to full lengths to justify marijuana (smoking is bad too, obesitiy is worse, it is the wonder cure!)
Here are some facts;
More people are likely to suffer from alcohol abuse than marijuana abuse.
Marijuana can be used to alleviate pain when conventional drugs do not work
In terms of carcinogens, while they do contain some (what doesn’t cause cancer?), there are less harmful than what are found in cigarrettes.
However, there have been studies suggesting problems with psychosis, mental stability, cardiovascular health, and others.
People can and do build up an addiction to it and sometimes have hard times beating it.
Many people are being misinformed of the drug and using it as cure-alls for everything, when it may do nothing or exasperate the problem. Also, people are being misinformed about the drug about it’s actual risks (some people believing it will kill you as soon as you smoke it once!) making it hard to believe what is truth or fact. Both sides have sabotaged innocent studies by only taking parts of what they say to further their cause.
Do you guys know of any website(s) that catalogue information, but stays neutral? Why do you think this is such a polarized debate? Thanks!
I’ve tried to keep how I wrote it neutral. But I guess that depends who reads it!
Yeahhahayeah posted: 23 Aug at 6:22 am
It seems like you’re not “middle-ground” on your stance thus far. Sites, for the most part, will try to glorify marijuana, and then there are ones that will say it’s bad because its a momentary lapse of reason, and once you start, people don’t particularly stop.
SF kid posted: 23 Aug at 6:32 am
Another thing on carcinogens, you can eat marijuana, you dont’ have to smoke it.
prince neo hippie posted: 23 Aug at 6:58 am
http://www.erowid.com
it’s run by scientists who’s theory is ‘drugs might be illegal, but people are still going to use them. so, they might as well get the real facts.’
i could care less about the argument. i’d like to see it at least decriminalized, but in reality, i’m going to get high whether the man says i can or not….f*ck him, it’s my life.
Sunny posted: 23 Aug at 7:16 am
Here is an interesting one while it helps people to quit it seems quite rational http://www.quitcannabis.net
The Blackhearts posted: 23 Aug at 8:12 am
Legally no, but in practice it’s a different story. A lot of judges and attorneys take a lot of philosophy for credits while they’re in school and I don’t get the impression that they believe that marijuana is the public health risk it’s made out to be by the DEA and the ONDCP.
halsca posted: 23 Aug at 8:14 am
Ask Harry J. Anslinger. Remember reefer leads to pacification and communist brainwashing.
mhw posted: 23 Aug at 8:52 am
It is not a cure-all, that’s for sure. But it does help a LOT of ailments. There has never been a death from using it, overdose or otherwise (with the exception of driving impairment) – so it is much safer than 99% of pharmaceuticals. It does impair – but nothing like alcohol does. And it is the drug of choice for many Americans. The “war on drugs” has been totally lost – now we have to decide if we want to continue to fund this unwinnable war. Those who livelihoods depend on it (police, attorneys, courts, judges, jails, etc.) say to keep it illegal. Those who would like to legalize it realize the potential money maker it could be (rather than a money drain) as well as no scientific reason where it is harmful.
So, our decision is: do we legalize it and collect taxes, end some of the violence in our neighborhoods, keep families together rather than jail Mom and/or Dad, grandma and grandpa for possession, or do we keep the expensive status-quo?