Why Do Liberals Advocate The Legalization of Marijuana When It Claims So Many Innocent Lives Each Year?
Here’s a little factoid that you liberals might not’ve considered. Marijuana REMAINS the number 1 killer of Males between the ages of 16 and 35. In light of this fact, do you still think it should be legal?
Ok, Ok. You Liberals want me to provide a link? Well, your wish is my command.
http://christians.against.marijuana.use.org
I don’t believe your little factoid. Sources?
Please state a place where you have gotten this information. This is the most ridiculous statement I HAVE EVER READ! TROLLLL!!!!
I’m a liberal and I do not advocate the legalization of marijuana.
Next question?
EDIT: However, to play devil’s advocate, how about this as an answer: Marijuana doesn’t kill people. People kill people.
Alcohol is soooooo much safer
Marijuana does not kill.
I see no fact in your statement. Provide a source.
Yes. I would also like to see proof to back up Your claims.
I believe Cardiovascular disease is actually the number one killer.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/5115.php
“Marijuana REMAINS the number 1 killer of Males between the ages of 16 and 35.”
You must be stoned.
Thanks for the link. The “Server Not Found” page was fascinating.
hahaha.
What’s your source for that “factoid”?!
That was funny. Thanks.
and to answer your question: YES.
???? and you proof of this assertion…..is?????? LOL…. I thought so.
The domain “christians.against.marijuana.use.org” is invalid.
Cuz these pot smoking hippies get so high that they don’t realize that ANY smoke causes cancer. Oh well, I don’t care if they legalize it because I still wouldn’t smoke it. This will open up several opportunities in the job market for conservatives who are clear-headed… Also, less security clearances will get rejected and more drug tests will be passed by people who actually deserve a REAL job.
I’m a conservative and I think your a damn liar. show your source! Marijuana is the least of our worries in this country. why even bother with the research.
You’ve obviously confused your statistics for alcohol and marijuana. I’d be surprised if you could find a single death certificate than listed the cause of death as marijuana related.
Where are these so called facts?
So far I have heard of no deaths occuring to the use of marijuana alone.
I’m not even a liberal but I understand that making marijuana illegal is bullcrap of the highest order. It’s government control because they don’t want you to grow your own and avoid paying tax.
You may suffer a mental illness through too much use but to say that it kills you? Get out of here with your lies.
And No! I don’t smoke it.
I don’t support the legalization of marijuana, but there are studies that contradict what you have said.
A large HMO looked at 65,177 men and women age 15-49. Over 10 years, marijuana users died no sooner than nonusers.
http://www.webmd.com/news/20030918/marijuana-smoking-doesnt-kill
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
I’m a conservative and I advocate legalization. The only real problem I see is that you have to buy it on the black market.
Being a black market item is only reason why it’s a gateway drug. It’s the fact that you have to go to a dealer to buy some who will most likely have other drugs to push.
The majority of problems and death among users is drug deals gone bad and being gated to a harder drug via a dealer thus, making it legal would solve many more problems than its prohibition has ever prevented.
In the current system we cannot even grow hemp (the THC free version) for rope, clothing, acid-free paper, and bio-diesel fuels.
No one has EVER died from a Marijuana overdose.
cause of death: marijuana
If we’re outlawing substances that claim lives, let’s tackle Alcohol & Burgers.
Well do you suppose the guy who was one month from masters in homeland security at San Diego State was a liberal? He and his fraternity brothers just got busted with pot, cocaine, and other drugs and a personal arsenal of guns. His partner was a candidate for a criminal justice degree.
I don’t see your source yet!
You’re going to have to provide a source. Your link isn’t working. But from the title I see it is a propaganda type source.
That factoid came right out of your butt.
Who claims 50 times more lives than all the illegal drugs combined? Who costs the American people 130 billion dollars every year to mop up it’s blood-bath of human slaughter? Who destroys 1 in every 4 families in America? Who kills over 200,000 Americans each year? Is it crack? Is it cocaine? Could it be heroin?
No, the undisputed heavy-weight champion of the drug world and number one killer of Americans is KING ALCOHOL!
And nobody dares utter a peep!
THANKS TO KILLER ALCOHOL . . .
There are over 18 million alcoholics in America
Cirrhosis of the liver kills over 30,000 each year and rising
50 percent of the people on welfare are due to killer alcohol
80 percent of all fire deaths are due to killer alcohol
65 percent of the drownings
22 percent of home accidents
77 percent of falls
36 percent of pedestrian accidents
65 percent of all murders
40 percent of all assaults
35 percent of all rapes
30 percent of other sex crimes
30 percent of all suicides
Over 80 percent of all arrests are linked to killer alcohol!
And one of the most disturbing statistics of all – 60 PERCENT OF ALL CHILD ABUSE IS DUE TO KILLER ALCOHOL!
Let’s wage a war on crack, on cocaine, on heroin, and marijuana! BUT DON’T DARE EVEN MENTION KILLER ALCOHOL!
During the Viet Nam war, 57,000 Americans gave their lives fighting for this country. A wailing wall was built in Washington with each soldiers’ name engraved. But in that same 9-year period, when 57,000 died in Viet Nam OVER 2 MILLION AMERICANS were killed by killer alcohol! During the Viet Nam War, thousands of protesters were all over this country. What I want to know is where are the protesters against killer alcohol?
WHERE IS JANE FONDA WHEN WE REALLY NEED HER?
Nobody opens their mouth against killer alcohol! Nobody makes a sound! Who speaks out for over 7 million young children that live a life of child abuse, incest, and torture? Their little life is a hell on earth because of killer alcohol!
THE KILLER IS GLAMORIZED AND GLORIFIED!
Yeah…one joint has the equivalent tar of a pack of Marlboro’s…when are we going to start seeing anti-marijuana ads on tube???
here’s a little fact, your fact is totally wrong. The number 1 killer of males in that age group is testicular cancer, any doctor will tell you that. The number 1 killer among black males in that age range is homocide some of which are caused by drugs being illegal.
Marijuana does not kill you, it may give you cancer like cigarettes do except marijuana is not physically addictive like cigarettes. The #1 killer in America and what causes medicare to cost so much is heart disease which is caused mainly by our fast food diet so Mcdonalds and other fast food chains should be illegal before marijuana is. Liver disease caused by alcohol causes more deaths than marijuana usage actually more people die from drunk driving accidents every year than marijuana usage.
Of course all drugs laws should be reviewed by everyone liberals and conservatives because of the fact that most drugs were made illegal because black people used them. Congress said that marijuana made white teenagers hang out with black people and they did not like integration so they banned it, heroine was made illegal because southern white congressmen said it made black men go insane and rape white women.
I am an original conservative except in social reform areas and all drugs should be legal because gang violence would decline, police corruption would decline, political corruption would decline, it would give Americans jobs, people who were caught using drugs as minor as marijuana would not have their lives ruined.
Your source sounds very unbiased and scientific, oh wait no it doesn’t. it also does not link properly.
Again not a liberal on any issue except social reform, original conservatives are all anarchists, because the first liberal legislation was creating legislation to run peoples lives.
You are so full of BS.
Marijuana is safer than aspirin
When Bayer introduced aspirin in 1899, cannabis was America’s number one painkiller. Until marijuana prohibition began in 1937, the US Pharmacopoeia listed cannabis as the primary medicine for over 100 diseases. Cannabis was such an effective analgesic that the American Medical Association (AMA) argued against prohibition on behalf of medical progress. Since the herb is extremely potent and essentially non-toxic, the AMA considered it a potential wonder drug.
Instead, the invention of aspirin gave birth to the modern pharmaceutical industry and Americans switched away from cannabis in the name of “progress.” But was it really progress? There can be no doubt that aspirin has a long history as the drug of choice for the self-treatment of migraines, arthritis, and other chronic pain. It is cheap and effective. But is it as safe as cannabis?
History:
Marijuana has been used for over 5,000 years.
No one has ever overdosed on marijuana.
Aspirin has been used for 108 years.
Approximately 500 people die every year by taking aspirin.
http://www.onmarijuana.com/2007/03/24/marijuana-is-safer-than-aspirin/
Annual Causes of Death in the United States
Tobacco 435,0001
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity 365,0001
Alcohol 85,000
Microbial Agents 75,000
Toxic Agents 55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes 26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs 32,000
Suicide 30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms 29,000
Homicide 20,308
Sexual Behaviors 20,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect 17,000,
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin 7,600
Marijuana 0
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
By the way, I`m not a liberal.
Marijuana Compound May Fight Lung Cancer
04.17.07, 12:00 AM ET
TUESDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) — While smoking marijuana is never good for the lungs, the active ingredient in pot may help fight lung cancer, new research shows.
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/04/17/hscout603764.html
Maybe the liberals like to smoke it.
I’m not a liberal but your source is obviously biased and skewed. Try researching actual, intelligent sources. Marijuana is less harmful than tobacco. Alchohol kills teenagers at a more rate than marijuana does. The legalization of marijuana won’t harm our country. Prohibition hurts our country and there are other substances out there that are legal but deadly.