On 4/19/2014 12:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 19 Apr 2014, at 00:52, meekerdb wrote:
On 4/18/2014 7:13 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
What society thinks has nothing to do with it, because weak correlation-based
scientific evidence is used selectively to create laws that were desired a priori by
some interest group.
That implies some nefarious motive and corrupt use of data known to be wrong. In fact
there was no nefarious 'interest group' that wanted to ban marijuana or to ban alcohol
or to ban heroin.
What? For marijuana, there were a lot. Anslinger was asked to find eveidence that
cannabis was worst than alcohol. he destoyed the results which showed that cannabis is
much less dangerous than alcohol. Nixon, Chirac (in France), adn also people in the UK,
will destroyed such records too.
It is a made up since the start. That is why some people still speculate on dangers, for
which there are no corresponding complains, with very few exception by person who abuse,
and would probably not in case it would be legal.
All these bans were initiated by people who believed in the ill effects of these
substances for individuals and for society.
I have no clue why you say this.
Because it's true. The people may have been mistaken - particularly about the net ill
effects on society - but there is plenty of evidence that some people become addicted to
pot just as they become addicted to alcohol or tobacco and this has bad consequences for
them. For example, my wife's first husband became a habitual pot smoker and lost all
ambition and interest in other things. And even aside from such effects, there has been a
strong Puritan ethic in the U.S. that thinks of any kind of sybaritic pleasure as sinful
and bad for one's character.
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