A conversation about California’s Prop 19, which would legalize marijuana in the state, took an interesting turn on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night when guest Zach Galifianakis lit up a joint. “It’s a tricky thing politically to jump on that bandwagon ’cause I think that maybe people see it as taboo still,” Galifianakis said before pulling out his lighter. A rep for Galifianakis, however, was less certain when contacted by EW, saying, “I believe it was a prop.”)
In the meantime recent study claims alcohol more dangerous than heroin or crack. Is this the beginning of a new prohibition?
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Goldbug, NY actually has a clause in the law that allows smoking on stage for theatrical purposes. I have no idea if CA law has such a clause.
Besides, it was obviously a protest act, and last time I checked true protest did not care too much for niceties.
spsffan, quit posting all those pesky facts.
GOOD FOR HIM! Let’s get back to rationality and fact based science on this issue and not magic and superstition. Alcohol is VASTLY more dangerous by orders of magnitude. Compare the number of driving deaths due to alcohol vs marijuana. Compare domestic violence fueled by alcohol compared to violence fueled by “only” marijuana. Compare shootings and bar fights fueled by alcohol compared to fights broken up by the cops caused only by marijuana.
Anything that alters you (an intoxicant) will have an impact on your body, but marijuana is simply HUNDREDS of times safer than vodka, scotch and gin. And lets not even get into cigarettes which are KNOWN to directly cause cancer at a rate nearly infinitely higher than marijuana (which isn’t carcinogenic but some studies have indicated a risk from inhaling in smoke form, but at thousands of times less of a risk than tobacco).
There just is no science or rational reason for the government to say ONE PERSON can go to CostCo and legally buy crate of Merlot, keg of beer, 5 bottles of gin, and a cartoon of cigarettes, but not have a joint on them. That’s irrational. That’s superstition. That’s not fact based. That’s not reality based. That’s F**KING stupid.
P.S. Where are the “small government” libertarians on this issue? Shouldn’t Palin and the Tea Party be on this…it’s extra government regulation and spending on something that doesn’t need it…they should be on board with the science community. The main stream Democratic and Republican parties are just as bad on this issue.
For that matter, where are all the “state’s rights” defenders here? What is it, the states can only have rights on fascist legislation?
Alcohol kills more people because it’s more easily detected and, because of its legality, more prevalent. If there was an easy test to determine a person’s intoxication under marijuana then the numbers might be different.
Driving intoxicated at any time is stupid. And it doesn’t matter is they are stoned on booze, legal pain killers, or cough syrup.
I don’t encourage or recommend smoking anything. But what I’d like to say is that, the Tobacco industry succeeded in defeating a legal alternative to their product. Legalizing MJ, would likely have reduced its use, with those who used it because of the thrill of a forbidden thing. And of course, others would try it, and likely (for the most part) reject it. And a small percentage, would continue to use MJ. But I doubt there would be this huge MJ usage onslaught. However the Tobacco industry is just paranoid enough to believe their own hype, that it would kill cigarette sales. If they can control and profit the use of MJ weed. They’re not gonna allow anyone else to profit from it either. That’s what the whole controversy really was about. But the media refused to mention it. That’s how Tobacco-Wipped they are.
Isn’t this the same punk whose panties were in a wad over being in a movie with a Mel Gibson cameo? What a 1st Amendment defender!