Legalized recreational and medical marijuana use is being more accepted and more states are considering it. It’s gonna be legal almost everywhere in the near future. Is it a good thing? What do you think? The younger liberal generation will love it and the government will get more tax money to spend and give away and there will be more stoned people behind the wheel on the road… ya think there will be more killed under the influence of marijuana when it’s finally legalized everywhere?

A police officer can test you and find traces of pot 3 or 4 weeks after you puffed at a party and they can still arrest you for being under the influence. More people are finding that out because they use pot for medical reasons and are stopped weeks later and get arrested for driving under the influence.

We can lose 34,000 people in highway deaths a year and we want to make marijuana legal? I am really not against medical marijuana… If it’s well regulated and controlled. If the doctor says you need dried doggie doo-doo for your health… the doctors should know best.

I am just saying there are probably enough people smoking grass without us throwing it wide open for anyone, any time!

It is pretty well known that pot has some health benefits, like helping people with Multiple Sclerosis, Glaucoma, Analgesia and probably some other things, but cannabis use can cause small but significant impairments in cognitive function, altered emotional and cognitive performance, and there was that 38-year study of more than 1,000 New Zealanders found that adolescents who used marijuana at least four days per week lost an average of eight IQ points between the ages of 13 and 38…DAH! Do we need more people smoking pot AND talking on a cell phone on our highways? And with a loss of 8 points IQ, they would be getting closer to the IQ of the politicians who want to make this stuff legal.

With the amount of mental illness we suffer in our nation would it be in our best interests to turn a mind altering substance into a recreational drug?

In Europe, three million people use cannabis every day and more than two thirds of those drive after having smoked cannabis. Over 50% of drivers in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom suspected of driving under the influence of drugs have been found to have pot in their bloodstream. Numerous studies have shown that driving under the influence of marijuana use results in a significant increase in motor vehicle accidents, especially those resulting in fatalities or serious injuries, even with low blood concentrations of THC. These studies have been done around the world, including Canada, Norway, and France.

I rest my case.