Reefer Madness: Marijuana dangerous; don’t legalize it
Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am | By: Radical Russ
The Arizona Republic newspaper ran a story about medical marijuana and the push to decriminalize its use in Arizona by sick and debilitated people. While overwhelming majorities support medical marijuana, there are still some people who buy in to the reefer madness. Witness this one letter to the editor:
Marijuana dangerous; don’t legalize it
Marijuana should not be legalized and it is not medicine. It is a dangerous, addictive substance, which can cause physical and mental-health problems, traffic accidents, and can lead to worse addictions, such as heroin.If people want to cure cancer, they should look elsewhere and not try to legalize marijuana, even for such purposes. – Susan Bengston, Phoenix
Got it? Even if marijuana turns out to be the cure for cancer, it shouldn’t be legalized, because people might get addicted to heroin. Sorry, cancer patients, you’re just going to have to die, because we don’t want there to be any traffic accidents. Here, have a beer instead!
This is the mindset we are up against. Good luck, reformers!
Topics: Arizona, cancer
Just stating a question how many violent pot heads have you seen compared to drunks? I mean I grew up in a small town where there were drinkers and pot heads alike and it seems as if you were going to go to a party with alot of drunk people there was going to be some type of fight male or female alike and going to hang out and smoke weed everybody would just be in silence and just relaxing watching tv or munching away. I mean I think some people are just really close minded they rather smoke something that is man modified to create an addiction that is closer to herion then marijuana is I mean if you have to be eased off nicotine by using patches or gums you are still recieving small doses to come off the same way a herion addict has to come off by recieving small doses. Marijuana is a single planet that the most it has been modified is potency where I have no idea what is in nicotine which we all know does cause cancer I think the worse side effect of marijuana is it affect the speech over time as well as response time but technically wont kill you. These are all just my opinions
One problem I have with many of the efforts to legalize marijuana, is that most people envision that retailers will be able to get current street prices for it. They say things like “legalizing marijuana will bring the state economies billions”! But again, they are thinking in terms of selling pot at $40 an eighth of an ounce. In a legal market, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to charge that much. Not only that but it would cause the whole project to fail.
One of the primary reasons for legalizing weed is to get it off of the street. If it were being made available at $40 an eighth in the stores, a person growing their own would be able to sell it for less than a fourth of that and still walk away with a sizable profit. With that in mind we should be looking at charging at most $10 an eighth for “the chronic” in our stores. While we’d have to sell a little more, it would dissuade potential “black market” activity.