Legalized Marijuana -- The way is clear

[Northwestcoug]

Robert Kirby is a pothead:

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/kirby...arijuana-user/

[Donuthole]

Robert Kirby is a pothead:

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/kirby...arijuana-user/

That guy writes some good stuff every one in a while, but most of his stuff is drivel. That might be his worst effort to date. “Make it legal because in my experience, it’s not bad.” Anecdotal much? FYI, this is coming from a guy who voted for the legalization of marijuana in my state.

[Northwestcoug]

That guy writes some good stuff every one in a while, but most of his stuff is drivel. That might be his worst effort to date. “Make it legal because in my experience, it’s not bad.” Anecdotal much? FYI, this is coming from a guy who voted for the legalization of marijuana in my state.

I don’t mind the anecdotal stuff. His is the perfect experience that should be legal everywhere. But it was pretty lame when he referenced all his other beefs with the church.

[All-American]

Robert Kirby is a pothead:

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/kirby...arijuana-user/

I could have told you that.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I could have told you that.

Haha. Yeah. Least surprising thing ever.

Can’t believe Kirby still has a job.

[frank ryan]

Haha. Yeah. Least surprising thing ever.

Can’t believe Kirby still has a job.

Take a look at the other Trip and Desnews columnists, they're all shit.

[frank ryan]

I wonder if he is talking about CBD oil. If he is, that doesn't contain any THC, and doesn't make you high. It does help with inflammation, but it's odd for someone to use CBD and call themselves a "marijuana user."

[Non Sequitur]

Haha. Yeah. Least surprising thing ever.

Can’t believe Kirby still has a job.

The Church should cherish its iconoclasts, even the foolish ones. If the Church ran Apple, we'd all still be using iPhone 2's.

[Lost Student]

I wonder if he is talking about CBD oil. If he is, that doesn't contain any THC, and doesn't make you high. It does help with inflammation, but it's odd for someone to use CBD and call themselves a "marijuana user."

He specifically said he uses "in the form of a THC-based oil."

[All-American]

He specifically said he uses "in the form of a THC-based oil."

That's assuming he could remember exactly what it was.

[myboynoah]

America’s Invisible Pot Addicts

Public-health experts worry about the increasingly potent options available, and the striking number of constant users. “Cannabis is potentially a real public-health problem,” said Mark A. R. Kleiman, a professor of public policy at New York University. “It wasn’t obvious to me 25 years ago, when 9 percent of self-reported cannabis users over the last month reported daily or near-daily use. I always was prepared to say, ‘No, it’s not a very abusable drug. Nine percent of anybody will do something stupid.’ But that number is now [something like] 40 percent.” They argue that state and local governments are setting up legal regimes without sufficient public-health protection, with some even warning that the country is replacing one form of reefer madness with another, careening from treating cannabis as if it were as dangerous as heroin to treating it as if it were as benign as kombucha.

But cannabis is not benign, even if it is relatively benign, compared with alcohol, opiates, and cigarettes, among other substances. Thousands of Americans are finding their own use problematic in a climate where pot products are getting more potent, more socially acceptable to use, and yet easier to come by, not that it was particularly hard before.

For Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, the most compelling evidence of the deleterious effects comes from users themselves. “In large national surveys, about one in 10 people who smoke it say they have a lot of problems. They say things like, ‘I have trouble quitting. I think a lot about quitting and I can’t do it. I smoked more than I intended to. I neglect responsibilities.’ There are plenty of people who have problems with it, in terms of things like concentration, short-term memory, and motivation,” he said. “People will say, ‘Oh, that’s just you fuddy-duddy doctors.’ Actually, no. It’s millions of people who use the drug who say that it causes problems.”

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Academics and public-health officials, though, have raised the concern that cannabis’s real risks have been overlooked or underplayed—perhaps as part of a counter-reaction to federal prohibition, and perhaps because millions and millions of cannabis users have no problems controlling their use. “Part of how legalization was sold was with this assumption that there was no harm, in reaction to the message that everyone has smoked marijuana was going to ruin their whole life,” Humphreys told me. It was a point Kleiman agreed with. “I do think that not legalization, but the legalization movement, does have a lot on its conscience now,” he said. “The mantra about how this is a harmless, natural, and non-addictive substance—it’s now known by everybody. And it’s a lie.”

[MartyFunkhouser]

I got the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints email asking me to vote no on Proposition 2. I will be declining to do what the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ is asking me to do and will be voting yes.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Pro-medical MJ crowd getting to be insufferable on social media. Ugh.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Pro-medical MJ crowd getting to be insufferable on social media. Ugh.

This is definitely one of these issues that both sides are insufferable on. Both sides are being dishonest. Both sides are overselling this as a moral issue. Both sides are annoying.

Just legalize it. Tax the hell out of it and regulate it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is definitely one of these issues that both sides are insufferable on. Both sides are being dishonest. Both sides are overselling this as a moral issue. Both sides are annoying.

Just legalize it. Tax the hell out of it and regulate it.

The anti- crowd is relatively quiet in my feed. The pro-crowd is whipped into a frenzy with the recent church statement. ymmv.