Reply #8: Just did a little quick research [View All]

[droidamus2]

Not that I really needed to do research to know this guy is just spewing a bunch of BS. The article I found explained the marijuana related 'emergency room visits'. Now I will acknowledge that it might be possible that somebody could be allergic to pot (don't know if that really is possible but you never know) but other than some weird reaction or adulteration of the pot why would somebody need to go to the emergency room after smoking pot (no matter how good the smoke was). Well, the article I found explained that what is reported is not 'emergency room visits that were determined to be because of marijuana and its effects'. What happens is that when somebody comes in for a drug related emergency room visit they are asked what drugs they have done or are doing at that time. Since a lot of people that do coke, speed or heroin also smoke pot the pot answer shows up on the report. The article stated that usually they report the first 4 drugs mentioned. So for example, if a person goes to the emergency room because they are oding on heroin or prescription drugs and they mention marijuana during questioning then this goes down as a emergency room visit with a marijuana 'mention'. The BS is that this doesn't mean the emergency was due to the 'use' of marijuana just that it was merely mentioned.

One of the big reasons it is so hard in this country to move forward with the legalization of marijuana is that these idiot drug warriors are so self righteous about their position that they have no problem with lying, bending the truth, making things up just to 'prove' their point. So either they have deluded themselves into really believing their own crap or they realize their position, as far a pot and it's effects, are so weak that the only way they can convince those with no personal experience with pot to be against it is to lie.