Are You an Anti-Drug Czar?
Question by It’s Kippah, Kippah the dawg: Are you an anti-drug czar?
From a Yahoo article…
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Adminstration, marijuana was involved in 242,200 visits to hospital emergency rooms in 2005. This means that the patient mentioned using marijuana and does not mean the drug directly caused the accident or condition being treated, SAMHSA says.
If the patient only MENTIONED that he or she had smoked weed, which could of been up to 30 days prior with today’s drug testing, how does that make a hospital visit pot related? See how you czars twist words and facts to fit your agenda?
Give it a rest already. Alcohol and tobacco cause far more deaths than weed, yet they remain legal. Why? Guess the gov’t got addicted to the tax revenue eh?
Best answer:
Answer by minus
I never seemed to have a need for any of the mind altering drugs such as weed and booz. It was around me most of myu life so far and I never even wanted to try such things. I saw what it was doing to great people and I didn’t want to be like that.
What others do most of the time is not my affair at all.
I do believe that if people really know who they are and accept themselves as they are and are willing to change all through life they will have no need for mind altering substances.
Answer by snowdrift
You think that’s bad, try MADD statistics. “Alcohol-related crashes” are defined as including any accident in which a beer can or alcohol container is found in the crash area. Apparently, it doesn’t matter whether a driver was impaired or not for such statistics.
I am a prosecutor, and I think that is ridiculous.
I have to point out the flaw in your argument, however. You mention that alcohol and tobacco remain legal despite causing far more deaths than weed because the government is addicted to tax revenue.
If tax revunue was really the issue, the government would have already legalized marijuana for tax revenue purposes.
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