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Originally Posted by timalkin
I'm not willing to trade the lives of criminals for the lives of innocent people who are killed by stoned drivers.
I don't care why marijuana was banned in the 30s. It should have been banned long before that, except for medical use.
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You do realize that studies have found that marijuana users are, in fact, either just as likely or less likely to be in accidents as non-impaired people, right? (Well, those credible studies that actually take into account when the person involved hasn't been well over the legal BAC level, anyway.)
The bigger threat is cell phone use while driving. More than 4,500 people die and more than 330,000 are seriously injured due to accidents caused by cell phones every year.
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Originally Posted by timalkin
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana for medicinal purposes, which I support. George Washington did not sit around the fire with his command staff at the Battle of Yorktown to smoke a J and play X Box. Thomas Jefferson did not smoke a doobie to get inspiration to write the United States Constitution.
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FYI: at that time, marijuana was grown for its industrial value as hemp and as a soil stabilizer. I think you need to at least run a quick google search from now on before blasting out whatever random "facts" pop into your head so you don't keep ruining your arguments by proving yourself to be consistently wrong.