Comments on: Finally, Something the President Doesn’t Want to Tax http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/03/26/finally-something-the-president-doesnt-want-to-tax/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Fri, 25 May 2012 06:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: suekhttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/03/26/finally-something-the-president-doesnt-want-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-682963 suek Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:45:09 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=8223#comment-682963 Use of pot has never been an issue for me - never used it and sort of don't care if someone else does. My husband feels very strongly about it - he dealt with young men in the military and is absolutely convinced that it's a gateway drug, leading to use of the hard drugs. Putting that aside though, how is it that tobacco smoke is considered 100% carcinogenic, but marijuana smoke is just find and dandy? Smoke is smoke - do we just not _know_ about it as a carcinogen because the studies haven't been done? Do pot users die of other things before cancer has a chance to strike? I really wonder how the culture that accepts pot smoking can accept it as totally harmless while at the same time condemning tobacco smoking which is also a completely natural product. I don't even know if the question is a science question or a cultural question! Use of pot has never been an issue for me – never used it and sort of don't care if someone else does. My husband feels very strongly about it – he dealt with young men in the military and is absolutely convinced that it's a gateway drug, leading to use of the hard drugs.

Putting that aside though, how is it that tobacco smoke is considered 100% carcinogenic, but marijuana smoke is just find and dandy? Smoke is smoke – do we just not _know_ about it as a carcinogen because the studies haven't been done? Do pot users die of other things before cancer has a chance to strike? I really wonder how the culture that accepts pot smoking can accept it as totally harmless while at the same time condemning tobacco smoking which is also a completely natural product. I don't even know if the question is a science question or a cultural question!

]]> By: Krupohttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/03/26/finally-something-the-president-doesnt-want-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-682954 Krupo Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:51:15 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=8223#comment-682954 That *is* pretty surprising. Though the reality is the tobacco and liquor lobbies would have a fit if they allowed user-made competition to intrude on their market. I guess it's not surprising if you think he's still willing to support prohibition and the efforts of lobbyists rather than introduce some real change. That would no doubt do something to lower the ridiculous high prison population in the US to boot! That *is* pretty surprising. Though the reality is the tobacco and liquor lobbies would have a fit if they allowed user-made competition to intrude on their market.

I guess it's not surprising if you think he's still willing to support prohibition and the efforts of lobbyists rather than introduce some real change.

That would no doubt do something to lower the ridiculous high prison population in the US to boot!

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