LastGreatBlasphemer said:
1: It is literally impossible to overdose from smoking tobacco. People die of a cyanide overdose, but only when the cigarette is enough to push them over the cyanide OD ledge. You will vomit uncontrollably before smoking can put you at that point. Meaning they have to have drunk some recently.
Tobacco does not cause lung cancer. Inhaling smoke into your lungs does. Weed can cause it, hookah can cause it, cigars, can cause it. Idiot.
2:It is also a placebo. You don't put a band-aid on cancer. There are countless harmless non-addictive painkillers out there, that are cheaper and easier to use than marijuana. They also don't cause lethargy and sudden increase of appetite.
3: Your point is still invalid.
4: This is a slippery slope fallacy.
5: Yeah, then why ban cigarettes?
The quote is is incorrect. Remember the sudden increased appetite? You know what happens to people who eat a lot? More than they should? The kind of over eating of junk food marijuana is known to cause? Diabetes, heart attack, heart disease. Things that tobacco can be linked to having an effect on as well.
Marijuana is not harmful by itself, neither is tobacco. Smoking both of those, are equally harmful. Why do you think Firefighters who don't smoke have lung troubles?
Yet another completely meaningless quote by a nobody who is filled with bias.
Regarding 1, you're missing the point. So was the other poster, admittedly. You cannot overdose on THC, the primary 'ingredient' of marijuana, even through injection, unless you essentially replace your blood with pure THC. It's just not doable in ANY real sense short of an extremely determined lab test.
The active ingredient in tobacco, nicotine, however, is comparatively insanely easy to overdose on, with patches or pure extract or whatever.
2) Lethargy is not a problem if you have pain and are already going to be sitting around the house waiting for the pain to ease (or waiting to DIE, in the case of inoperable cancers). The increase in appetite is DEFINITELY not a problem for people that are dying, as they need all the food they can get. It's also not a problem for people with eating disorders if it helps them eat and keep their food down. Even if it were a problem, that'd be something for users to deal with themselves, like with tobacco users having to deal with the loss of weight generally associated with it.
3) ...er, what?
4) Not quite. The law should always be fair and unbiased. That marijuana is illegal while alcohol is legal is massively hypocritical, and must be fixed if the justice system is to be, well, just. It's not so much a slippery slope as it is a call for fairness, though I'd agree that his wording was a little fallacious. I'd take out video games, but I'd leave in 'dangerous' activities that can actually kill you, like dirt biking, etc, which are demonstrably far worse than marijuana as far as direct risk goes, and should thus be illegal if marijuana is illegal.
5) The point of the thread is to point out hypocrisy and incongruity in the justice system, not to actually suggest that cigarettes should be banned, only to suggest that cigarettes are far worse than weed (and they are).
First, your assertion that increased appetite will lead to a significant increase in heart disease, etc is unfounded and clearly biased. Second, you completely ignore the addictive effects of nicotine both on the body and on the mind, and the fact that THC is not chemically addictive while nicotine certainly is.
It's ironic, then, that I'll have to quote you: "Yet another completely meaningless quote by a nobody who is filled with bias."