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Title: Legalizing marijuana is a hazy question once you've seen addiction up close
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LA Times
URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e ... ation-20160603-snap-story.html
Published: Jun 5, 2016
Author: Kerry Madden
Post Date: 2016-06-05 11:06:55 by Gatlin
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Views: 2092
Comments: 4
“I’ve spilt more than you’ve smoked,” my brother-in-law, let’s call him Marty, bragged to my husband in the throes of his addiction. A measure to legalize recreational marijuana is heading toward the California ballot in November. Marty would have been thrilled — but then, he didn’t bother much with voting. My vote, too, would have been a no-brainer some years ago. Legalize it, tax it, make it safer, I would have said then, back when I felt more certain about everything, when I viewed addiction as a lack of self-discipline and personal weakness. I never dreamed it could take down an entire family. My husband helped his older brother move frequently in the 1990s. He’d load up our family minivan with Marty’s stuff, always late at night, and transport him to a new place in East Hollywood or Echo Park. The neighborhoods grew sketchier, each apartment tinier than the last. Marty always asked him to smoke one with him for the road. Read the rest of this article here.
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
It's a fluff article with no attempt to explain the connection between decriminalization and addiction. Since decriminalization, Colorado has seen no epidemic of cannabis.
He was getting older too. Without his addiction he could live for ever.
I've seen alcohol addiction up close - should the legality of that drug be blurry for me? It's gun-grabber 'logic' - "My sister got shot, so ban guns!" A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. The best testimony on the use of marijuanna is the obsession with it on the part of people using it and the other detrimental effects upon their their quality of thought.
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Legalizing marijuana is a hazy question once you've seen addiction up close
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