(Photo: Frank Eltman, AP)
The car crash graphic was an interesting choice for USA Today.
The comments are getting smarter:
- harmful
- incarceration not a real issue
- big problems in Colorado
- we already have medical mj [should be cannabis based medicines only, however]
But the pro-legalizers are still very much in the rhetoric. “most people think its ok”; “people shouldn’t go to jail”
We have to resist being part of the dialogue on how much pot is good for you or OK for you. The answer is, with everything science is telling us about the harms, generalized pot exposures should be eliminated as much as possible.
Simple public health message:
- if it means more pot, pot promotion and more pot use, its a bad policy for Americans.
- Commercialization is a bad answer and harms more people.
- More pot means more harms.
- It’s a lousy choice.
- It’s not OK to collude with pot profiteers.
- It’s not about one person. It’s about increasing harmful exposures across 315 million people.
Epidemiology should be easy for people to understand these days. Pot use can be contagious. And the harms follow for too many.
This new “freedom” message is bunk. Should marijuana users/sellers be free to hold the rest of us hostage to their promoting pot use to the most vulnerable for profit?
There is no freedom to inflict harm on innocents.
But the tide does seem to be turning. Evitable.
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Check out the referenced article from USA TODAY: