Isn't this why the war on drugs is bad??

Question

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A Md. Mayor's home was mistakenly raided by officials who were in search for marijuana and their dogs were killed inside his house! This is yet another reason to end the war on drugs... It clearly is a message being sent saying "Do not mess with us" by the gov't. It has nothing to do about protecting the well being of individuals.

Answer 1

well thats a fraction of the whole problem.

but in core the war on drugs is bad coz its just a con-op to get all large scale competitors off the market, so the US can be pretty much the single largest retailer for anything, just like back in the days, when they pretty much used our fine piece of continent just for smuggling opiates from eastern asia via america to europe, which was cheaper for them than to let the russian tsar in on the deal, today its just different people same goal, being the sole provider of anything druggish.

think about it, it be the best businessplan in the world and usually gangs or single dealers work their way up the food chain til they get sticked by the dea or finally the cia just coz theyve gotten to big too greedy or both, so they just have to let him go and replace him with someone else inside the same organisation but less a threat, same way we deal with foreign countries, buy em out, or overthrow them

for instance just look up how many different types of marijuana have been patented by the government, why would they do that? coz they already know within the next 50-100 years, european and north american countries are gonna go legal on alot of "softer drugs" they just wanna make sure the well doesnt run dry, like they have been since the late 1600s.

Plus drugs are "progress resistant": people have been on coke on weed or on opiates for thousands of years, its part of our culture but outlawing it has always created the opportunity for certain interest groups to make a secure living

if you think this is far fetched, do your own research, but dont be buying their drugs! and if you read this far: thanks for your time

Answer 2

We lost the war on drugs in the 60's,and the Government knows it.They are just putting on a mask to hide reality.People are gonna do what ever they do ,reguardless of the laws that a bunch of drunks make in Washington.

Answer 3

How rediculous!  Users always protest it is safe and the authorities are wrong!  Perhaps it is because of the effects of the drugs on them!!

Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade with serious implications for users with the average amount of THC having more than doubled.

In the same period the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life.

Teens using marijuana to alleviate feelings of depression just compound the problem.

As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.  Even worse it is linked to cancers.

Cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhibition) and attentional deficits similar to those found in schizotypal or schizophrenia patients.

Regular use can shrink the parts of the brain which control memory, emotion and aggression. The hippocampus, which is thought to govern emotion and memory averages 12 percent smaller and the amygdala, which has a part in controlling fear and aggression, 7 percent  smaller.  This suggests that heavy daily use may be toxic to human brain tissue.

Blood flow velocity is significantly higher in users and they have higher values on the pulsatility index (PI), which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow. This is thought to be due to narrowing of the blood vessels that occurs when the circulation system's ability to regulate itself is impaired.  This leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain.

The active chemical in MJ called delta-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC) binds to cannabinoid (CB) receptors located on several cell types in various organs.  This greatly increases the risk for heart attacks and strokes in addition to impaired learning and memory.

It can also effect physical health.  Three to four cannabis cigarettes a day cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day. Thus there are rising levels of lung diseases such as emphysema.

In comparison to cigarettes marijuana smoke has significantly higher levels of toxic compounds, including ammonia and hydrogen cyanide.    Ammonia levels are 20 times higher while hydrogen cyanide, nitric oxide and certain aromatic amines occurred at levels 3-5 times higher.

It can also effect the unborn child. Scientists have identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains are functionally similar to THC from cannabis and play significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other.  Maternal cannabis use allows THC to travel through the placenta and impair fetal brain development and impose life-long cognitive, social, and motor deficits in affected offspring.

Low doses of Ä-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker facilitate infection of skin cells and can cause these cells to turn into malignant sarcoma!

That ignores those killed in car accidents by drivers on pot and all the suicides!!