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Title: Hate Crime Turns Out to Be Death by Marijuana
Source:
Accuracy in Media
URL Source: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hate- ... -out-to-be-death-by-marijuana/
Published: May 12, 2016
Author: Cliff Kincaid
Post Date: 2016-05-23 07:36:54 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 5141
Comments: 24
So marijuana is harmless and doesn’t kill people? Consider the case of black Muslim teenager Hamza Warsame, who took a toke and plunged to his death. His friends from the hood blamed it on a non-existent white man who allegedly pushed the kid to his death. The headline in last December’s New York Times story was certainly ominous: “Assertions of Hate Crime in Seattle After a Somali-American Teenager Falls to His Death.” The paper said, “The death of the boy, Hamza Warsame, has prompted outrage among members of the Muslim community here, amid assertions—it is not clear from whom—that he was beaten and pushed to his death by a white man.” Notice how a “white man” was blamed, despite the complete lack of evidence. Where did the allegations come from? The Times seemed not to know. We now know that the black Muslim teen, a student at Seattle Central College, died from a fall after smoking dope for the first time. In fact, “relatively high levels” of tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive constituent in marijuana, were found in Warsame’s system, The Seattle Times reported. It said that after smoking the legal dope on a smoking device called a bong, the teen “started talking in agitation about his religion and how he might have put himself in bad standing,” and then said he “needed air.” The Muslim youth “opened the door and was off the balcony before his schoolmate could react,” a report found. “Hamza Warsame became frantic in the immediate aftermath of smoking marijuana for the first time and fell to his death while likely attempting to jump from the balcony of one apartment to an adjacent building…” the local Fox TV affiliate reported, citing the results of a police probe. It is not unusual for marijuana to incite mental illness in those who use it. In Colorado, where dope is also legal, husband and father Richard Kirk began hallucinating after eating marijuana candy, and shot and killed his wife. A lawsuit on behalf of her three sons says the marijuana industry packaged and sold a product that produced hallucinations and other psychotic behaviors but did not tell consumers about the potential dangers. [...] Click here for the rest of the story.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Study finds teenage weed use leads to early death. There is no shortage of studies surrounding the effects of marijuana use, but a recent one has discovered that fatal symptoms may take effect even earlier than previously thought. A study in Stockholm took a look at 45,000 men who underwent military training between 1969 and 1970. Between the beginning of the study and the year 2011, 4,000 of the men had died. When analyzing cause of death, researchers found that men who smoked a significant amount of marijuana around ages 18 and 19 were 40 percent more likely to die by age 60 than those that did not smoke. However, it appears that other factors, in conjunction with the marijuana use, were also correlated to the early deaths. Researchers have pointed out that weed smokers were also found to have a higher likelihood of tobacco use and poor diet. Other studies have also concluded that weed smokers have a higher likelihood of suffering from mental health issues and more trouble initiating and maintaining relationships. With all the morbid evidence, there doesn't seem to be any reason to touch the stuff.
When I read stores like this Im reminded of reefer madness! LOL Those that have never tried pot will always fall for these story lines.
The adjacent building being 50 feet away.
The adjacent building being 50 feet away. That made me laugh ...
Researchers have pointed out that weed smokers were also found to have a higher likelihood of tobacco use and poor diet. So either we ban pot and tobacco and unhealthy foods - or we let adults make their own choices. I favor the latter approach. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. when you post to tater, be aware that he is pretentious about the world around him. He chit-chats about marijuana laws because marijuana laws agree with his moral scope of behaviour. He love government to enact laws because government is "good" and individual behaviour, exercising individual choices is "bad." He clings to government authority because of the "goodness" government delivers to the vast minions that require taming and direction, or so he thinks. But ask the asshole this question: if government is so good, why is homosexuality legal?
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The adjacent building being 50 feet away. He must have got ahold of some realy good stuff! Tough shit!
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An honest and ethical adult must responsibly apply his belief of individual liberty with consistency. Individual liberty should cover all aspects in life or he doesn’t believe in it at all. Why stop at pot, tobacco and unhealthy foods? A person should not pick and choose the areas he wants to support freedom in, while favoring oppression or tyranny in other areas. If adults are to make their own choice about using marijuana, then should they make their own choice about meth, crack, heroin, morphine, codeine, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, Methaqualone, Benzodiazepine, Amphetamine and Methamphetamine? If adults are allowed to make their own choices in the use of drugs, then why should pharmacists be required to have a prescription from a doctor to dispense them?
Yes. But discretion dictates we start with pot and see what lessons there are to be learned. With certain exceptions in which others are placed at risk - such as antibiotics, whose overuse makes the user a breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant infectious agents - people should be able to buy whatever medication they want. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Ditto for protecting adults from their own bad choices; the slope slips both ways. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Gatlin is old enough to have seen the movie when it was released in theaters. To this day - he swears it's a factual documentary. Hmmm. Let's start with alcohol and see what lessons there are to be learned. Well, the lessons learned are that legal alcohol causes misery and death and we'd be insane to legalize more drugs to add to that misery and death.
And we should take care of them when they thoroughly fuck up their life?
Only to the degree that criminalizing alcohol was successful in reducing alcohol use - which I recall you stating was a modest degree. Another lesson learned was that criminalizing alcohol caused misery and death of its own. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. We should not be coerced by government into doing so, no. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Perhaps we should stop coercing people into supporting drug users before we legalize more drugs?
And the wall never gets built.
I don't believe in holding one natural right hostage to another ... let's do them both. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. I don't believe both will get done. Since we both agree people should not be coerced into supporting other people, let's do that first.
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#2. To: Gatlin (#0)
Consider the case of black Muslim teenager Hamza Warsame, who took a toke and plunged to his death. His friends from the hood blamed it on a non-existent white man who allegedly pushed the kid to his death.
#3. To: Gatlin (#0)
"... and fell to his death while likely attempting to jump from the balcony of one apartment to an adjacent building…”
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
"... and fell to his death while likely attempting to jump from the balcony of one apartment to an adjacent building…”
#5. To: Gatlin (#1)
it appears that other factors, in conjunction with the marijuana use, were also correlated to the early deaths.
#6. To: ConservingFreedom, gatlin the potatoe peelin' fool (#5)
#7. To: buckeroo (#6)
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#8. To: BorisY (#7)
#9. To: Gatlin (#4)
... and fell to his death while likely attempting to jump from the balcony of one apartment to an adjacent building…”
#10. To: buckeroo (#8)
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#11. To: BorisY (#10)
#12. To: ConservingFreedom (#5)
So either we ban pot and tobacco and unhealthy foods - or we let adults make their own choices. I favor the latter approach.
#13. To: Gatlin (#12)
If adults are to make their own choice about using marijuana, then should they make their own choice about meth, crack, heroin, morphine, codeine, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, Methaqualone, Benzodiazepine, Amphetamine and Methamphetamine?
If adults are allowed to make their own choices in the use of drugs, then why should pharmacists be required to have a prescription from a doctor to dispense them?
#14. To: Gatlin (#12)
Individual liberty should cover all aspects in life or he doesn’t believe in it at all.
#15. To: Justified (#2)
When I read stores like this Im reminded of reefer madness! LOL
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#16. To: ConservingFreedom (#13)
"Yes. But discretion dictates we start with pot and see what lessons there are to be learned."
#17. To: ConservingFreedom (#13)
"people should be able to buy whatever medication they want."
#18. To: misterwhite (#16)
the lessons learned are that legal alcohol causes misery and death
#19. To: misterwhite (#17)
And we should take care of them when they thoroughly fuck up their life?
#20. To: ConservingFreedom (#19)
"We should not be coerced by government into doing so, no."
#21. To: misterwhite (#20)
Perhaps we should stop coercing people into supporting drug users before we legalize more drugs?
#22. To: misterwhite (#20)
Perhaps we should stop coercing people into supporting drug users before we legalize more drugs?
#23. To: ConservingFreedom (#22)
"I don't believe in holding one natural right hostage to another ... let's do them both."
#24. To: Roscoe (#21)
"And the wall never gets built."
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