Careful now. If you get general enough with your biology and chemistry, the simple act of breathing for the sake of O2 intake could be construed as ingestion of a drug. It just so happens we are all addicted to it.
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I voted NO. I have seen marijuana use go up dramatically by our 12 to 18 year olds since medical marijuana was allowed. Most of the weed the kids are smoking these days is medical marijuana and not from a drug cartel. I believe that marijuana is a terrible drug to be used by our youth in this age group since it does impact brain development. It's bull crap that nobody looked at the impact of marijuana use on our young people when they put this out and until they do its a no for me. If this passes today then I will be lobbying pretty Damm hard to insure some measures are put in place to make sure this stuff does not hurt our young people than it already does.
I'll say this- and OneGuy hit the nail on the freaking head! I'm not against pot, I technically agree with the scheduling description, just not the scheduling itself, that legislation and LE go by- if it has "no medical value whatsoever" (pot, MDMA, hell even LSD have been proven to actually have some medicinal uses) then it needs to be illegal. The scheduling needs to be revamped or redesigned to include expert medical opinion from various kinds of medicine (not like now how doctors are split on MJ)... I am against HOW they're proposing to legalize MJ here... and I don't want to be the experimental state that "paves the way" for the rest of the country- let the pacific states start it off.
and kids never used illegal substances before? you cant stop human nature. we dont need more laws legislating morality. This is why the Republican party is going down. We need LIBERTY!!![/QUOTE]
I have worked in safety in k-12 for 25 years now and see the impact of drugs on kids everyday. Medical marijuana increased the use of the drug dramatically. Marijuana does not help with the learning environment nor does help the kids developmentmenily or socially. All I see is some wasted lives as some of these kids toil it away and don't become productive members of society down the road. Sad to see some marijuana users now in their twenties homeless and laying about in front of a store panhandling or being arressted for crimes the committed to feed their drug habits started by marijuana use.