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Breathing oxygen is harmful when taken to excess. Try breathing 100% oxygen at 33ft underwater and you very likely won’t live long. The point I’m making is some

Breathing oxygen is harmful when taken to excess. Try breathing 100% oxygen at 33ft underwater and you very likely won’t live long. The point I’m making is something can be BOTH very vital to our health as well as a cause of death if misused. Hence outright prohibitions of things that “can be bad if misused” is just silly.

throwanem 8y ago
The argument isn’t in favor of prohibition; the argument is that marijuana has risks. The argument also isn’t, I think, that marijuana, or television, or social media, is “very vital to our health”. So I’m not super clear on what you’re arguing against, here.
- jsjohnst 8y ago
  > The argument isn’t in favor of prohibition Then you didn’t do a very good job of communicating your argument, as it could easily be assumed you were against it existing. > the argument is that marijuana has risks. As does almost everything in the world, especially when misused. I gave one concrete example of this, happy to provide a lot more. Sugar has significant health risks when consumed in excess, there’s a world wide obesity pandemic in fact, should we ban sugar or otherwise inhibit it’s consumption? > The argument also isn’t, I think, that marijuana, or television, or social media, is “very vital to our health”. This shows your lack of knowledge on the subject. For those with Crohn’s disease (a debilitating auto-immune disease), CBD is more effective at controlling symptoms than any Rx drug or diet plan. The most commonly prescribed drug is Humira and costs patients / insurance $11,500 per month (assuming weekly injections). The company behind Humira has made more money on Humira sales (it’s closing in on $100B in sales) than any other prescription drug in history (including Viagra). Yet it’s not as effective as taking CBD when it is properly extracted and can be done so at a significantly lower patient cost. I’m not advocating for the “CBD head shop” explosion we are seeing, as many sell utter crap, and in rare cases crap so bad it could be dangerous. I am advocating instead for us ending a century old racism influenced law and getting proper labs and real scientists working on quality products for all.
  - throwanem 8y ago
    You are responsible for the assumptions you make. You also make a good argument for CBD as a prescription drug.
    - jsjohnst 8y ago
      > You are responsible for the assumptions you make. Very true! But the one who leads someone to make a false assumption with vague statement on a thread with other folks advocating for that, also share some culpability. > You also make a good argument for CBD as a prescription drug. Yup, I am. But until we can overturn almost a century of regressive policies and public perception based on a terribly corrupt “war on drugs”, not likely to happen. Sometimes we have to go radically the other direction before we can then correct course into the middle ground that always should’ve been.

throwanem 8y ago

The argument isn’t in favor of prohibition; the argument is that marijuana has risks. The argument also isn’t, I think, that marijuana, or television, or social media, is “very vital to our health”. So I’m not super clear on what you’re arguing against, here.

jsjohnst 8y ago
> The argument isn’t in favor of prohibition Then you didn’t do a very good job of communicating your argument, as it could easily be assumed you were against it existing. > the argument is that marijuana has risks. As does almost everything in the world, especially when misused. I gave one concrete example of this, happy to provide a lot more. Sugar has significant health risks when consumed in excess, there’s a world wide obesity pandemic in fact, should we ban sugar or otherwise inhibit it’s consumption? > The argument also isn’t, I think, that marijuana, or television, or social media, is “very vital to our health”. This shows your lack of knowledge on the subject. For those with Crohn’s disease (a debilitating auto-immune disease), CBD is more effective at controlling symptoms than any Rx drug or diet plan. The most commonly prescribed drug is Humira and costs patients / insurance $11,500 per month (assuming weekly injections). The company behind Humira has made more money on Humira sales (it’s closing in on $100B in sales) than any other prescription drug in history (including Viagra). Yet it’s not as effective as taking CBD when it is properly extracted and can be done so at a significantly lower patient cost. I’m not advocating for the “CBD head shop” explosion we are seeing, as many sell utter crap, and in rare cases crap so bad it could be dangerous. I am advocating instead for us ending a century old racism influenced law and getting proper labs and real scientists working on quality products for all.
- throwanem 8y ago
  You are responsible for the assumptions you make. You also make a good argument for CBD as a prescription drug.
  - jsjohnst 8y ago
    > You are responsible for the assumptions you make. Very true! But the one who leads someone to make a false assumption with vague statement on a thread with other folks advocating for that, also share some culpability. > You also make a good argument for CBD as a prescription drug. Yup, I am. But until we can overturn almost a century of regressive policies and public perception based on a terribly corrupt “war on drugs”, not likely to happen. Sometimes we have to go radically the other direction before we can then correct course into the middle ground that always should’ve been.