None of those were ever facts. Those were assumptions. Scientific study proved otherwise.

Excellent quote!

So, the effects are irrelevant, just as long as there is profit to be made?

Nice.

Let's legalize crack, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, etc.

Assumption, albeit a correct one.Another assumption, but since you didn't say whom I know less about it that, hard to say. I am certain I know more than the average joe.4
You want every source I have ever referred to> Could take a few months to compile.Don't really know where you were going with that one, but I assume you are considering me as one who is not liberal. Plesae disabuse yourself of that notion. I am quite liberal.

Listen, if facts aren't enough to change someone's mind, then they are to be distrusted and dismissed; facts are exactly that. Everyone's got an opinion, but facts don't change. If they are guiding their life strictly by emotion or opinion, they are not someone I care to share much time with.

That's not what I wrote, but thanks for twisting it to suit your agenda.

1-3 drinks when they drink. 1-3 times a month.

Extensively. I am fortunate enough to be healthy enough to not require much medication. If I weren't so damn lazy I could probably reduce my asthma to the point that I didn't require any medication to treat that. However, I am quite aware of what the medicines I have and do take affect me. It was the reason I switched from one medicine to another.
Similarly with alcohol, I have done extensive research on its effects on me. I drink on average 2 a month. When I drink, I drink an average of 3 beers. I dare say that my alcohol consumption is a significantly less concern that the average marijuana smoker's usage.
That statement is based on my research.

I have known many marijuana users throughout my life. I have not known a single user that has a joint twice a month. Or who limits their usage to only those times when they can be certain the effects are reduced to near non-existant before they will be driving and/or working. Most of them have even bragged of their ability to drive and/or work unimpaired by marijuana's effects.

Your average alcohol drinker might have an average of 1-3 drinks on average 1-3 times per month. Your average marijauna user might have an average of 1-3 joints 1-3 times per week.

Overlook a serious lack of judgement?

Amusing.

Good luck with that!

Well hell boy, you're gonna be rich! Able to come to conclusions all on your own! Doctors, scientists, politicians; they pale in comparison to your skills of deduction!

Seriously, anyone can "reach their own conclusion" but without facts, which you can't possibly get without research, your "conclusions" are nothing more than speculation.

I'm not merely telling you that "weed is bad". I haven't spent my entire life hearing that it's bad and based my decision on that. I have done extensive research on the subject so that when my children reach the age I should be concerned about their potential use I have already given them relevant data.

I am aware that there have been documented cases of improvements in various aspects of health. Yet, the totality of these cases pales in comparison to the number of documented cases of deteriorated health as a result of usage.

The point you just proved that you missed is that you have been doing research, which has been written with a particular judgement. Your research has been clouded by those judgements. Your judgement has been clouded by that clouded research.
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Like, for instance, the idea that marijuana has no adverse affect on you? Or the idea that the government created the illegal drug trade?

You have completely ceased to make any sense...

How exactly do you go about learning things on your own without having someone else's judgement to cloud it? Read books? Author's judgement. Read the newspaper? Author's judgement. Listen to the radio? Announcer's judgement.

And don't get me started on the companies and corporations that employ said authors or announcers.

Please, explain how you learn without sources of information that aren't "tainted" with judgement?

How's that apply? I'm discussing illegal drugs and/or illegally obtained prescription drugs.

I don't know. But can you say without a shadow of a doubt that your usage did not create and/or contriute to the problem? That your continued usage is the reason for your continued misspelling?

And TV is the only source for information?

Are you familiar with the position that there is some truth to every lie? Yes, the government has had a hand in creating the illegal drug trade. Does that make it more acceptable? Does it excuse users who continue to support that trade?

No.

The perfect example of the poor and/or lack of judgement that natrually accompanies drug use; I can stop doing it long enough to get hired.As it clearly did not impair your spelling.Sorry, that's patently false. Their is significantly more evidence that disputes your position than arguments to support it.

Yes, but also look how much they are raked over the coals. Who remembers how much Clinton went through for "not inhaling". Shrub has a known alcohol and cocaine past. These things weigh on voters minds, although seemingly heavier when it's a Democrat than reTHUGlican.

The point is, yes people do it and succeed, yes some successful people used to do it, etc. But how many of them have you EVER heard defending their decision to ever have done or continue doing it?