THE ROCK inquired:


HERE ME THROUGH ON THIS.

ok, theres a lot of info in here, so dont answer until i say its alright

first of all, I AM NOT A POTHEAD! i am a 3.5 student who has never touched, smoked, or done anything with pot. This is all strictly facts that i have put together from numerous websites, and sources will be provided when needed.

Ok first, some facts about alcohol, tobbaco, and marijuana

Tobacco:
-47 million in us. use it.
-438 thousand deaths every year (1 in every 5 deaths)
-More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.
- Deadly Diseases: Lung Cancer, Heart Cancer, Chronic Airway Obstruction, Bronchitis, Emphysema.

-Pluses: Umm…it was the cool thing to do in the 60’s

Alcohol
-175.6 million life time users in us
-9.4 million abusers.
- 64,000 deaths from harmful drinking (Accidents, Poisoning)
-Brain Damage,
, Liver Cancer.

-Pluses: euphoria

Marijuana
-163 million worldwide
- Very little deaths from the actual marijuana, 120,000 ER appearances from bad judgement from marijuana.
-Affects memory
- 1 joint may equal 4 cigarettes, but most smokers smoke way more than 4 cigarettes between the time a casual pot smoker smokes 2 joints.
- Causes some similair effects to smoking

Pluses
-Euphoria
-Helps depression, Eye problems
- No recorded death in history.

So..why hasnt the government realized that marijuana is a safer drug then alcohol and tobacco. I hear people say “oh, well less people do alcohol and tobacco, so its better” You know what else less people use that kills more people? Cocaine, Memphanphetamines (spelling sorry), Heroine, all other illegal drugs. Marijuana is the safest out there.

I’m not saying the government should legalize marijuana or illegalize alcohol or tobacco, but i think they need to rethink this. If pot was legal, they can make millions off
the tax from it.

Thank you for letting me say this….please debate….im am considering writing this up for real…
thank you for waiting, you can answer now.
to dj_cnja. My original question is if marijuana is illegal, why is alcohol and tobacco, and i ended up getting all this “oh, the U.S. government will lose all its money”

xxtrmskier1 inquired:


I currently represent myself (pro se) to preserve my rights but I am not an attorney. I suffered a closed-head injury to the hypothalamus that went undiscovered and the symptoms ignored by Drs when presented. Drs. never evaluated and head, spine , c-spine after traumatic high speed crash. They only treated obvious injuries, i.e. ruptured achilles heel, ruptured hamstrings complete destruction of quadriceps, complete destruction of gluteas maximus muscle, complete separation of sciatic nerves from spine and significant, obvious from CT Scan, frontal impact damage to brain. previous to this accident I weighed 172 lbs and now weigh 96 lbs and continue to have difficulty keeping food/water down, extreme homeostatic temperature changes varies from 89.4 to 104.7, I need help that is beyond my reach. Accident happened 5/5/05 and I need all the help I can get. I do not qualify for Tn Asst. because I am white, single ,have no dependants a category for my position does not exist. Help PLZ