http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_215123845.html
It is sickening to see so much hatred and irrational/misinformed opinions about marijuana, while most Americans turn a blind eye to the dangers of alcohol, and the immaturity of our populace with regard to safely taking intoxicants. Binge drinking is up, and alcohol-related deaths are up. I propose making marijuana legal as a safer alternative to alcohol.
The anti-Marijuana-Rights crowd turns a blind eye to the dangers of alcohol, using propaganda, disinformation and lies to undermine the legitimate and recreational uses of marijuana, which is easily argued to be the safest popularly-used intoxicant.
You will not find articles like these about marijuana, only alcohol. Meanwhile, underage Americans die at a rate of 10 a week, directly and indirectly related to consumption of alcohol.
It is time to not only do something about binge drinking and irresponsible drinking in this country, but also it is time to decriminalize marijuana, for it is a much safer alternative to alcohol, a DRUG that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Prohibition didn't work then, and it doesn't work now, and 1000s are sent to jail every year due to the archaic drug policies formed by conservatives in this country 50 years ago.
The prohibition of Marijuana is about
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1) Controlling the population, and how they think
2) Alcohol lobbies, wanting to preserve market share
3) Conservative and religious lobbies demonizing marijuana, imposing their opinions on the nation
4) Dow and other chemical companies trying to undermine hemp production
5) The man trying to keep a brotha' down...
Another article...
Deaths 'Just the Tip of the Iceberg' By Robert Davis
USA TODAY
September has been deadly for binge-drinking college students
Five underclassmen in four states appear to have drunk themselves to death, police say, after friends sent their pals to bed assuming that they would "sleep it off."
Some college presidents are promising to crack down on underage drinking — four of the students were too young to drink legally. Others have shut down fraternity houses where bodies were found.
But one expert calls those moves too little, too late. "It's locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen," says Henry Wechsler, a Harvard University researcher who has studied campus drinking. He says schools with weak enforcement of drinking rules put students at greater risk.
"The schools that have the greatest problems take the easiest solutions," he says. "They have educational programs and re-motivation programs. But they don't try to change the system. These deaths are just the tip of the iceberg."
In some college towns, drink specials at bars and loose enforcement of liquor laws make it easier and cheaper for students to get drunk than to go to a movie, Wechsler says. The result, research suggests, is 1,400 student deaths a year, including alcohol-related falls and car crashes.
