Vet's kids taken away because he smoked medical marijuana

Does it or does it not inhibit/alter brain function? Can one operate a motor vehicle under it's influence? I mean I tend to think of something like lean protein as harmless and I can certainly drive after eating a turkey sammich but after torching a bowl? Nope.

Is it good for kids with developing brains? If not, then what age is good for them to start? Is it universally harmless for people with issues like ADD/bi-polar/PTSD/M-D? How should society or the law deal with that situation?

It has not been permanently damaged in the least. It is becoming more pervasive and acceptable. That trend will continue. In addition to folks who don't support legalizing drugs, the next group of people doing the harm are the whackadoodle libs who like to claim it's no different than peanut butter.

 

You can drive fine after smoking pot. If you couldn't I would long dead because my closest friends often drive me around while stoned.

Also even it was awful and nothing but danger it should be legal.

 

Yeah if you consider driving 4 miles an hour a problem.

 

Actually peanut butter has killed more people than weed has. Even weed butter is good for you, and safe. You are buying into the propaganda and the lies that have been spoon fed to us for decades.

 

See, this is where pot proponents look silly. I have not once said it should remain illegal. I didn't even say I think people shouldn't do it. I don't give a rat's ugly behind if you want to smoke your facking brains out.

Death by peanut butter? Seriously? I bet you'll let your kids eat a peanut butter sammich but you wouldn't give em pot brownies for a treat....amiright?

I did not say pot is evil, harming the nation, killing folks, or anything along those lines. The fact still remains it is a drug. If it didn't do anything at all to your brain or your frame of mind, you wouldn't smoke it. And it DOES have what most people would consider harmful effects on certain people. I've already told you that with the brain chemistry of someone who has ADD for instance, drugs like pot that normally act like a sedative, can have the complete opposite effect.

Smoke it, sell it, give it to the neighborhood kids if you want but get some clarity in your discussion....it's not "nothing".

 

A couple of years ago I read about the deadly effects of peanut butter. A 15 year old boy kissed his 14 year old girlfriend after eating a PB&J sandwich. She was allergic to peanuts and it killed her.

 

That's her problem.....isn't it? Two things....time flies when you get old. That happened over 10 years ago and as it turns out it wasn't the PB that did her in.

"A Canadian coroner confirmed Thursday that a teenager — once believed to have died from a peanut allergy after kissing her boyfriend — died from an asthma attack.

Coroner Michael Miron said Christina Desforges, 15, died from cerebral anoxia, or lack of oxygen to the brain, triggered by a severe asthma attack.

In a preliminary report in March, Miron rejected a peanut allergy as the cause of death, saying he suspected cerebral anoxia. But he provided no further details."



But seriously.....I would like to know which parents here would give their 7-year old child a pot brownie over a peanut butter sammich. And if not, why not? And then we can talk about how "harmless" it is.

 

I'm definitely not a liberal. I come from a long line of law enforcement. I have myself been in the military and worked side by side with law enforcement in the civilian world. The misinformation sorrounding weed reminds me very much of the brain washing done in Iraq, Iran Afghanistan and Syria where Muslims actually think the US is the bad guys. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but they're so convinced that they will strap a bomb to themselves and walk into a crowded mall of civilians. They are no more misinformed than the anti weed crowd. Take it from someone that was very much into the weed culture during and right after college. Yet somehow all of those college weed buddies are doctors, dentists, pharmacists, school teachers and engineers. Believe what you've been told, but weed is harmless. Kids shouldn't smoke weed, drive cars, fly air planes or become President. That doesn't mean any of them are bad, just that kids aren't ready to try them.

 

I'm NOT anti-weed! Are there lots of folks who have managed success despite smoking pot? Sure, just like there are successful drinkers. Not alcoholics mind you, just drinkers. And there are successful people who take regular meds for a variety of reasons. I don't have one friend whom I would consider "successful" by normal standards, who is also a regular dope smoker. Anecdotal info is just that.

Why isn't a child at home under the supervision of their parent not "ready" to try pot? Driving and flying puts others at risk but if they are merely at home with their mom and/or dad, what's the problem? Would you give a pot brownie over a PB sammich to a 7-year old? Why or why not? If it's harmless, then the answer should be easy.

The truth is, pot has a physiological impact on the brain. There is no arguing that point. If it didn't alter something, then why partake? You can call it harmless but IMO, if it fucks with your brain, the potential for harm exists each and every time. I don't care if someone is a doper. I don't care if it becomes legal. But people pushing legality cannot continue to act like it should be the new 6th food group.

 

On your point about peanut butter, there is no question it is far more dangerous than weed. Some schools even ban kids from bringing it to lunch for fear of massacre.