[91] in libertarians
Re: Atlantic Monthly on Marijuana
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Fri Jul 15 03:57:51 1994
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 03:51:21 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: solman@MIT.EDU, vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU, seelig@MIT.EDU
Look, I generally agree with your post, but there are some minor corrections
specific to pot.
>Lets not get confused here. The marijuana that is sold on the streets of the
>US today is substantially more dangerous than tabacco. The problem is that
>the potency of marijuana has increased by a factor of between 5 and 50 over
>the past 30 years (depending on who you talk to)
Where marijuana is concerned this is actually a plus. Since the drug is
not physically addictive, nor is there any likely "overdose" of THC
(the physchoactive element), the user uses less smoke to get the same high.
This is similar to the problem faced by "lights" cigarettes users. To get
the same level of nicotine satisfaction, they actually end up smoking more.
I beginning to get the impression people will think I'm in to this or
something. Really, I haven't even tried the stuff. (Can't handle smoke at
all.) Clinton's done more than I have. I just know a few old friends in
CA and some new ones here that are into marijuana as a sort of normal
everyday thing.
Vernon
