Thread: Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009

Originally Posted by SecretAgentMan

marijuana is a dangerous drug...It's illegal for a reason.

I have a challenge for you. Research whatever you want to research and come back to me with the answer to the following question. In the history of the world, how many people have died from marijuana overdose?

I know marijuana has some bad effects, but how exactly is it "dangerous", according to you? Do you similarly think alcohol and tobacco should be illegal? Look up the death statistics on those. Look up the violence statistics on alcohol. Look up the drunk driving death statistics. Are you ready for alcohol to be banned again?

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

Well this pretty much is just lip service/trying to get positive attention in a crisis, instead of really allowing true medical/drug freedom. If 99% of all marijuana cases are at the state and local levels, then why even bother? Sure i would only support this bill for the one reason that it would take restrictions off at the federal level, but please people do not praise barney frank for being the drug hero for this.

It gets the ball rolling. States will be more likely to legalize marijuana if their bills are not pressured and overridden by federal laws.