Frum - You're too stupid to make an informed choice about smoking weed.

[heavenlyboy34]

Can anyone really argue some regulation isn't necessary? As an example, just look at some the images AF has posted on this forum.

The mods/admin regulate that. Take it up with them if you don't like it. Voila! Self-regulating!

 

[Anti Federalist]

Can anyone really argue some regulation isn't necessary? As an example, just look at some the images AF has posted on this forum.

Puritan.

Prude.

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Silly mundane. WAR IS PEACE. SLAVERY IS FREEDOM. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

2+2= 99 Luftballons

 

[kcchiefs6465]

2+2= 99 Luftballons

You know, I can't tell you how many times I've thought this myself. Excellent post! Must spread some rep around and whatnot.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

But what we do want to do is send a clear message: Marijuana use is a bad choice.

There are many excellent reasons to avoid marijuana. Marijuana use damages brain development in young people. Heavy users become socially isolated and perform worse in school and at work. Marijuana smoke harms the lungs. A growing body of evidence suggests that marijuana can trigger psychotic symptoms that otherwise would have remained latent.

It's possible to imagine a marijuana rule that tries to respond precisely to such risk factors as happen to be known by the current state of science. Such a rule might say: "You shouldn't use marijuana until you are over 25, or after your brain has ceased to develop, whichever comes first. You shouldn't use marijuana if you are predisposed to certain mental illnesses (most of which we can't yet diagnose in advance). Be aware that about one-sixth of users will become chronically dependent on marijuana, and as a result will suffer a serious degradation of life outcomes. As yet, we have no sure idea at what dosage marijuana will impair your ability to drive safely, or how long the impairment will last. Be as careful as you can, within the limits of our present knowledge!"

On the other hand, if Frum and his buddies just want to make public service announcements about the side effects of marijuana (paid for by them), that's fine. They are free to talk all they want. Like alcohol, cigarettes, prescription drugs, over eating, HFC soda and anything else, they are welcome to an opinion as to the dangers.

Just don't make any laws about it!!! Why can't these people get it? The Nanny-State disease is spreading. Mayor Bloomberg is another prime example.

 

[twomp]

Frum is smarter then all of us and knows the dangers of marijuana. He has deep conversations about this with his colleagues every friday night when they drink their expensive whiskey and do bumps of cocaine to take the edge off a hard week's work.