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Comparing Marijuana to venom is assinine. Unless of couse your making some semantic argument (or something silly like that!) Furthermore, we ingest many thousands of substances considered drugs in the medical sense (what other sense is there?) on a daily basis. Cannabis is different from Venom in many critical ways. So is every 'Poison' unique. I do not deny that Marijuana is a drug in the medical sense.  This statement is not my entire argument.

The statement that "Marijuana is not a drug, it is a leaf" is perhaps a flawed semantic argument, but its only aim is to call into incredulity of the scheduling system as per DEA policy that ranks Marijuana in the same category as Heroin and Acid. I don't see Medical Acid card-holders. I don't see anyone arguing that Heroin is helpful to people. If Marijuana is so horrible and dangerous, why do so many people use it so successfully as members of society for decades on end? Marijauna is not Venom either.

scottmil, what about my argument about Alcohol? Alcohol is a drug(though I was not taught these fine semantic boundaries in D.A.R.E.) However, critical thinking, research, science, and common sense (personal experiance and anecdotal evidence) find that Alcohol is a far more dangerous Poison than is Marijuana, even though they are both drugs in the medical sense.

How will you dismiss this argument?

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I would like to point out that Prozac, Airplane Glue, Cough Syrup and Tobacco, Marijuana, Alcohol, and Heroin are different from each other in many critical ways. Marijuana is not a drug, it is a leaf. Anyone who thinks it should be criminalized is annoying. It is a shame that some see cancer patients as being stepping stones to citizens' rights to relegalize marijuana. But whose fault is that? durrrrr... 

Not to beat a dead horse (though it sounds fun), the position that Alcohol should be legal while Cannabis should be criminalized is bat-shit insane. The position is entirely based on economic and judicial exploitation. Alcohol is a key factor in around half of murders, rapes and other violent crimes including child molestation. (don't relegalize pot!) Alcohol is responsible for too many fatalities, destroyed lives, and obliterating addictions.

So whose pushing a pleasurable escape here? Sounds like only the Cannabis Dogooders. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Ooh, too bad - your position won't allow it!!!

Seriously. Stupid horse...

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