Jeus wrote:

> Yep, no doubt. Not clear on why you brought this up in the context of our discussion when you already acknowledge it really wasn't cannabis that caused this incident?

> I was not saying it's a big concern. Anyone who cannot monitor their intake of any substance is going to get hurt.


Jeezus H Goddamn Shit-Eating Christ, why do you keep saying I said things I never said? Maybe I'm not the best writer in the world and maybe you could brush up on your reading as well. There must be a communications problem.. Maybe you want it that way. I don't know.

Yes, I mentioned an incident reported in the news (more than once), about someone ODing on edible cannabis - with deaths involved - which does mean I believed it word for word. I am able to read between the lines and am aware that headlines are designed to lure readers in.

It was a news article. A bunch of words. The truth delivered all packed up in lies. Two separate incidents of people dying from edible weed overdoses were mentioned - one guy who killed his wife and then committed suicide. The other one jumped off a building or something, can't recall exactly - doesn't matter.

After getting into the article a while they start to unleash more facts, such as mentioning that the guy who killed his wife and himself was also blasted out on booze and pills and had a history of mental illness. I never said I believed the article word for word. If you think I said that, you must be referring to a comment from someone else.

I'm sick of arguing. I never said pot could not be good for some people's ailments. I said, as did Gary and a few others in this thread, that examples of weed's medicinal benefits have been and continue to be over-stated by the pro marijuana lobby. I never said I believed it is useless medicincally, only that it is over-stated. And I still believe that regardless or your issues or those of some other individual you know or others you may read about.

I would prefer to see it legalized period, without the medicinal aspect being promoted all the time. It is only my opinion - I admitted that - and so what, my opinion is as good as that of the 'experts' who oddly are never in agreement and can be bought by attorneys on both sides of the argument. But if it helps one person, that's good enough for me. Let them use it on that basis. As for me, I don't need a bunch of reasons.

The same thing applies to capital punishment. I am opposed to it but am not actively involved and will not be. The anti capital punishment crowd loves it every time an execution is botched as maybe that will sway the 'undecided' to their side, in the same way that those opposed to legal weed can't wait for people to die from pot edibles so they can jump all over it.

Some people claim to be opposed to capital punishment on the basis that an innocent person could get executed. But that person is not against capital punishment, in the same way that people who cry because a bunch of body bags are coming back from war. They are not really against the war, they're just bitching because it didn't end as fast as they thought it would. All these issues bring out the liar in people.

TJ