You guys have no clue how dangerous legalization is. Its not the smoked pot - it's the edibles made from refined MJ oils. They are making candy, cookies, chocolates, brownies, drinks - you name it. Largely unregulated. The rates of cannabis psychosis are skyrocketing.
My cousin that I went hunting with last weekend is a psychiatrist in Denver and he's buried two patients from it in the last year and he has put many young people in long-term institutional care because the edibles cause a lifetime of psychosis because it rewires the brain if first time or casual smokers take a huge dose of edibles. Before moving to Colorado, he'd never seen a single case a cannabis psychosis but deals with it regularly now that it's been legalized.
Ridiculous. You guys have been watching too much Reefer Madness.
Actually I am very leary of edibles and feel they should be limited to medical use only. In general the more refined and concentrated a natural drug is, the more dangerous and addictive it becomes. Examples:
Opium, heroin, morphine
Coca leaves, cocaine, crack cocaine
Marijuana, hashish, edible oils
for the record your not comparing apples to apples here...
opium = something like 10-16% morphine by weight, most the rest being codine and water BUT heroin is a whole new synthesized drug...
the cocaine thing isnt exactly what your after either.... from the leaves to cocaine you basically just concentrating, nasty way to concentrate which is why the high purity stuff smells like diesel but it is the exact same drug as raw from the leaves....all crack does is lower the vaporization point of cocaine so you can smoke it but the body is still just getting cocaine aswell, not a new drug like comparing morphine to heroine
but with pot, there is no chemical change at all, hashish is just marijuana plants rubbed on a screen leaving you with just the crystals and no leaf, edible oils and the like is just hash suspended in glycerine, cooking oil of some sort or alcohol but it is the EXACT same thing as the raw plant....no different than alcohol, only real difference to your body between beer and whiskey is the amount per drink but it is the same drug either way.....difference being unlike cocaine/crack/opium/morphine/heroine it is not addictive....
can it [bleep] you up? yes....can it push a small minority over the edge? yes but if thats your reasoning you better take alcohol off the list as legal same with most decent over the counter cold medications....
and quit comparing marijuana to cocaine or meth, the feds say both of these have legit medical uses and are therefor are less harmful than marijuana.....yeah, the nastier chit is legal for me to use according to the feds......
