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Simplepowa
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Even this Fox News pundit thinks marijuana is safer than alcohol
#18735074 - 08/20/13 11:27 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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The U.S. government might officially consider marijuana more dangerous than alcohol, but at least one Fox News personality thinks otherwise.
On Tuesday night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was fretting about children smoking marijuana now that Washington state and Colorado had legalized it Columnist Charles Krauthammer, however, informed him marijuana was safer than alcohol.
“If I were starting a society from scratch and had to choose the intoxicant, I would outlaw alcohol and I’d allow marijuana,” Krauthammer said. “It’s benign compared to alcohol. The problem is this, Bill, you never start society from scratch. Alcohol is engrained in the culture. We learned that in prohibition. You have to regulate it. My question is, do we really want to add a second intoxicant onto that? Because who knows, it leads to other things.”
O’Reilly continued to complain that American culture — and rap music in particular — was actively harming children by promoting the use of marijuana.
Krauthammer responded by voicing his support for the noncontroversial view that children shouldn’t be stoned.
“The worst thing about a stoned child is that they’re missing out on periods of learning,” he said.
Eric W. Dolan Raw Story August 20, 2013 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/even-this-fox-news-pundit-thinks-marijuana-is-safer-than-alcohol/
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resonant111
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Re: Even this Fox News pundit thinks marijuana is safer than alcohol [Re: Simplepowa]
#18737001 - 08/21/13 11:24 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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it's all relative though.
someone who smokes weed 24/7 all day every day might be hindered in alot of social aspects of life. now let's say there's a guy who likes to have a few drinks maybe once or twice a month. in this situation, which drug is having a more negative impact? the 24/7 weed smoking or the social drinking?
it's more about the user and his INTENTION and frequency of using the drug, as opposed to the drug itself. "the difference between poison and medicine is in the dose"
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Synthe
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Re: Even this Fox News pundit thinks marijuana is safer than alcohol [Re: Simplepowa]
#18737830 - 08/21/13 02:33 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Simplepowa said:
Krauthammer responded by voicing his support for the noncontroversial view that children shouldn’t be stoned.
“The worst thing about a stoned child is that they’re missing out on periods of learning,” he said.
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stoned children
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Rockhound
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Re: Even this Fox News pundit thinks marijuana is safer than alcohol [Re: Simplepowa]
#18738258 - 08/21/13 03:49 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Legal bud is almost happening.I have been waiting my whole life for this.
-------------------- Rocks speak to me, and tell me this: The Hell Creek formation is a gigantic slab of rocks that covers several western states. It contains an account of the dinosaurs' demise. In the late Cretaceous period, the first Cannabis species appear, and soon after, all the non-bird dinosaurs disappeared. Obviously, marihuana killed the dinosaurs. That giant meteor that smacked the yucatan peninsula right afterwards, coincidence.
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