You would be wrong. Go watch super high me, totally high me, the physical side effects of smoking pot are nothing like smoking cigs. The doc told the 17 year smoker he had NO health side effects from smoking pot.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:32 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Smoking non-tobacco products (was Re: states rights) I would hope that we are smarter than that. I gather that the smoke is just as carcinogenic and everything about secondary smoking probably applies. Not only that, but there's the issue of a contact high. So no, I don't think it would be favorably viewed. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No one minds people smoking tobacco at home (away from their kids), or >> outside (but not near me). >> >> It isn't any of my business. > > The problem with you response is that it's internalized. I asked how > society would view it. > > Today we have people that want to tell smokers where they can and > can't smoke. We fund anti-smoking campaigns with tax dollars from the > general fund and yet we fund cancer research with cigarette sales tax > money. States have sued tobacco companies and won or settled based on > medical issues that arise from smoking. > > If non-tobacco products were "legalized" in all 50 states would that > not lead to the commercialization of such products? Might it not lead > to the same cycle as the tobacco industry fell into, where over the > course of 50 years smoking went from glamorized to demonized? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287354 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
