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Tom Davis Mixes It Up With Medical Cannabis Critics
How is pot prohibition working out for the Palmetto State? Not so well …
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It’s well known that MAGA politicians love their booze and drugs. Now that they have overrun the GQP, places like SC might stand a better chance of some sort of cannabis legalization.
So Senator Davis thinks the decision on medical weed should be made between patient and doctor. Same guy who eventually voted to pass SC’s infamous six-week abortion ban, depriving women control of their own bodies, and physicians of the ability to meet women’s needs. As the senator said then: “At some point in time, the right of the state to see the unborn child born does take precedent over the woman’s right to her body.” Some champion of individual rights, eh?
FN idiot, Davis and Folks both. It’s not about medicine or patients. It’s all about kicking the door open for full blown rec use. We have enough drunks and stuipid people in SC now we are gonna add mentally compromised dope heads to the mix. Hey Will lets add mushrooms, heroin and fentanyl to those substances you think should be legal, how about some crank mixed in there too……smdh
Research shows cannabis is about HALF as intoxicating as alcohol, and vastly less harmful. Alcohol directly causes the deaths of more than 150,000 Americans every year. NO ONE has ever died from consuming cannabis. That makes it safer than aspirin, caffeine and peanuts!
Lumping near harmless cannabis in with the hard drugs is a common, dishonest, prohibitionist deception. This clouds the issue and attempts to cast the harms of the hard drugs onto cannabis.
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We don’t have the same alcohol policy, as we do tobacco policy, as we do caffeine policy. Each drug has different levels of harm and requires a different regulatory approach. No one thought it necessary to discuss opium when they were debating ending alcohol prohibition.
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With TWENTY-THREE legal states, and more on the way, it’s clear the issue before the country is the fraudulently enacted cannabis prohibition. While cannabis is near harmless, the prohibition is MASSIVELY harmful. In all its 86 miserable years, it has never accomplished one positive thing. It has ONLY caused vast amounts of crime, violence, corruption, death and the severe diminishing of everyone’s freedom.
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Science and widespread experience have shown cannabis has no notable harms. – Every person who chooses near harmless marijuana over addictive, very harmful alcohol, improves their health significantly – as well as the lives of their family and community.
From your article:
>>>”In response to our praise for [SC Senator Tom Davis], the S.C. Law Enforcement Officers Association (SCLEOA) – a group we generally admire and agree with – fired back with a blanket statement implying that all law enforcement officers opposed legalizing marijuana.”
Science and widespread experience have shown cannabis has no notable harms. And the preponderance of the research shows the consumption of cannabis is not a significant cause of auto accidents.
In 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Crash Risk research found that while drunken driving dramatically increased the risk of getting into an accident, there was no evidence that using cannabis heightened that risk.
Clearly, every person who chooses near harmless cannabis over addictive, very harmful alcohol, improves their health significantly – as well as the lives of their family and community.
However, police profit massively from the fraudulently enacted, cannabis prohibition. – It gives them millions of dollars in asset forfeitures, millions more in the federal bribe of “drug war” grants, easy overtime, easy arrests, easy convictions and easy promotions – all at the expense of everyone’s freedom!
That’s why, in regard to cannabis, the police are the enemy of freedom and reason. They should not be given ANY input on cannabis policy. Their huge conflict of interest makes them the foxes in the hen house. The fraudulently enacted prohibition has corrupted the police to the point where they simply cannot be trusted on this subject.