emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
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Casual pot use causes brain abnormalities in the young: study
Any comments or corroboration on this study or related ones?
[MENTION=41527]Pogo[/MENTION] [MENTION=35995]KevinWestern[/MENTION]
I think I did come across that the other day, thanks for sharing. Isn't legal marijuana going to be restricted to just adult use?
I'm pretty sure alcohol/caffiene/nicotine causes harm when consumed by young people too, you know?
Well the tobacco industry was sued for their misinformation campaigns tied to deceptive trade practices in lacing cigarettes with more addictive substances.
And MADD has pursued alcohol companies for misleading or fraudulent claims in their ads.
Are the pro marijuana campaigners going to be held responsible for pushing the concept that pot poses no risks?
If we haven't solved this problem with alcohol and tobacco, being pushed for profit regardless of consequences to health that the public has to pay for, are we going to repeat the same mistakes with pot?
I agree it is strange that the push for accountability was not established for alcohol and tobacco IN ADVANCE as with pot; I think there must be some karmic reason, that out of this reform movement and the connection with research on medicinal benefits, the same research could be expanded to do more than just address the pot issue. I find the same strange inconsistency with the prochoice arguments for abortion that are not being applied to free choices of health care in general. So I think there is some other karma involved that explains the public or political bias, and is compelling resolution to "deeper issues" than just the pot or health care. There is some other process going on here, or it doesn't make sense why people legalize one thing and demonize another.
A good friend of mine pointed this out with the prochoice/abortion issue vs. legalization/drugs issue, but I did not agree; however, I do get what he was saying when you compare the prochoice/abortion issue with free choice/health care debate.
So I can just imagine that is the equivalent of what he was saying about legalization of drugs.
I believe these debates serve to expose political biases in beliefs -- not that they can be resolved by arguing and trying to prove or disprove points, which I don't think is the issue.
The real issue I see is whether people accept financial and legal responsibility for the consequences, and what we are willing to dump on the public or taxpayers regardless.
Very disturbing, and I hope the resulting dissonance leads to a common understanding, if we can find the leaders committed to separating funding if people would rather pay for abuses or costs of having certain freedoms and liberties, or crafting a common agreement how to prevent the abuses, but not keep the status quo which nobody seems secure with.
I spoke with Dean Becker of the Drug Truth Network and Drug Policy Forum Texas, and asked about two points of focus: A. uniting with the church ministries on promoting spiritual healing (and medical research studies to prove it is universally effective and not restricted by faith or religion) to end abuse and addiction related to drugs, crimes, and other ills whether physical mental criminal or social B. uniting with health care reform to propose changing policies on drug criminalization and capital punishment to invest in medical programs and health care assistance that would cut costs of both crime and care to cover more people without the need for additional mandates fines or taxes.
I think if we ensure that the key concerns are addressed more effectively, then the issue of either legal or illegal drugs, or the issue of mandatory or voluntary insurance WILL NOT BE AN ISSUE. If we solve root problems anyway, there won't be a debate on the side issues. Those things will take care of themselves. Instead of approaching this backwards, by messing with the symptoms and fighting over regulations, we need to address the root causes and reduce the costs and problems there. By the time we agree what we are dealing with and the best way to correct or cure it, of course we can figure out the rest.
If the math doesn't add up, and people won't even look at the figures, something is wrong with how the problem and variables are set up. We need to go back to the very beginning, and find out where we made different assumptions and went on different paths in our conclusions. That is just the path of logic. Something is WAY OFF if people push to keep legalizing abortion while penalizing free choice of health care; and if we can resolve that, then the issue of legalizing or decriminalizing drugs falls in the middle of that spectrum and should be resolved with the same solution to the other conflicts of political bias in policy.
I think there is a golden opportunity here to address and resolve a multitude of issues.
Greater good can come out of all the suffering these conflicts have caused.
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