Every time there's a debate about legalizing marijuana, especially on ballot initiatives, they always gives reasons that are just rediculous because they already apply to alcohol and tobacco but 10x as worse. Some classics include:

-Tokers will kill people while driving stoned.
As opposed to alcohol which kills WAAAAAYY more people while drivers are drunk?

- Smoking weed gives you cancer.
As opposed to tobacco which is the nation's leading cause of lung cancer? and of course anybody who does some real research knows weed barely poses a cancer risk at all and suppresses many cancers.

- It makes people violent.
lol, yeah, remember that angry football-game riot fueled by marijuana? Oh wait, that's right, riots are usuallu fueled by alcohol! Fights break out between drunks all the time, how many people get stoned and start swinging? The notion is just so rediculous I can't believe they try to justify it.

- It kills brain cells.
Well actually, it moderately destroys glioma cells that only serve as packing around the brain and have the greatest potential to turn cancerous. It also selectively destroys cancer cells, and assists in programmed cell-death where old cells need to be pruned out. Meanwhile THC saturates healthy cells and prevents mutagenic molecules from getting to them, as well as acting neuroprotectively against physical trauma. So yeah, it destroys brain cells, in the best possible way:jointsmile:.
Not that alcohol kill's brain cells!

- More and more teens are going into rehab for marujuana addiction.
Of course they are, the judicial system and their parents are forcing them into rehab! Funny how it's teens that are overwhelmingly entering rehab, but not adults. It's almost as if... tokers don't need to go to rehab when not legally coerced!


oy I could go on and on... it saddens me that so many people are gullible to buy into the reefer madness. The (small) majority that still wants to keep it illegal just take the propogandist's word for it when they espew this crap, not actually checking the science themselves. It truly makes me wonder if non-tokers do have a higher prevailence of ignorance and stupidity when people have actually argued to me "marijuana makes you stupid, it's been scientically proven!". The second somebody argues with "it's been scientically proven" you know they don't understand the scientific method at all.