Cannabis debate in US rages with legalization claiming more states

Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

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Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the US capital Washington voted on Tuesday to legalize marijuana in key victories that could fuel the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream. Read full article

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golfcronie
Drip,drip,drip, soon the Americans will all be zombies if this goes on, the children will be the ones to suffer.
Nov 06th, 2014 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Do you think they're all whisky drinking alcoholics?
Nov 07th, 2014 - 01:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 2 Capt.

A lot of westernized nations have populations of which a large proportion could be considered to be alcoholics.

The definition of alcoholism is very severe in the UK and turns around the phrase ‘dependent on alcohol to function in society’. It has NO relationship to how much anybody consumes. If anyone needs a drink ‘to settle their nerves’ or any other excuse to have a drink then they ARE alcoholics.

Once someone meets this breakpoint their overall health is already at risk, if not already impaired, and the risk of becoming a ‘true drunk’ increases by an order of magnitude.

Whisky or whatever, if it has alcohol in it it, is dangerous for an alcoholic to consume it.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
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I doubt it. Not everyone enjoys being stoned off their gourd 24/7. Just like not everyone gets drunk every day.
Marijuana is a lot less harmful than alcohol. People will still have mortgages to pay and kids to support. The world won't end if someone smokes an after dinner joint on a Sunday afternoon.
This just takes criminals out of the equation.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Heisenbergcontext
@3 ChrisR

Just to add to your point, in AA, recovering alcoholics will not even eat cake if alcohol is part of the recipe. I have known of recovering addicts refusing to take morphine despite being prescribed by a doctor, as well as anything containing codeine ( cough medicine, Panadeine Forte etc... ) for the same reasons.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
The people voted for a change in legislation. So be it. If after a few years they don't like the outcome, they can vote it back out.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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