Marijuana supporters say lawmakers miss point of teen use study

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• Arizona Willie posted at 9:04 am on Sat, Jan 5, 2013.

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  Looks like Kavanaugh must be tired of public service and wanting to make sure he doesn't get re-elected.

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• piepaw posted at 12:55 pm on Sat, Jan 5, 2013.

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  You got that right, Willie. When the conservatives in this state realize that it's really in their best political interest to support the legalization of Cannabis their support base will be stronger than ever. They say they're for smaller government so now they have a chance to put their signatures where there mouths are at and start supporting the full and complete legalization of Cannabis in this state just as Colorado and Washington states have done. Everyone already knows that Cannabis is less harmful to the individual and society in general than, say, alcohol and/or tobacco, let alone most all prescription drugs.

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• JunkKicker posted at 3:49 pm on Sat, Jan 5, 2013.

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  B/S, I know several kids (under 21s) that smoke weed and they all get it from guys who have cards. Again B/S. This whole law was a big dupe on the voting population of AZ. Smoking weed to cure anything is just about as effective as drinking to cure anything. Look at the statistics, most of the cards given out were to men 25-55 and for "chronic pain"... What the Frac is that!!!

  The real reason weed smoking has gone down around a point, kids are now going to illegal scripts, Heroin and Meth... Yes, attitudes like this has given the kids a passe attitude toward weed, which is still dangerous, addictive and unpredictable.

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• Ateam1 posted at 8:20 pm on Sat, Jan 5, 2013.

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  The same people that are trying to stop GUN'S are the LIBTARD weed smokers!!! Keep going with your foolishnes! KEEP IT UP OBAMA FANS! PUFF PUFFF PUFFFFF,WOW ! GREAT DECISION!!!!!!!!!!!![thumbdown]

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• malcolmkyle posted at 4:16 am on Sun, Jan 6, 2013.

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  Here follows an extract from "Notes on Democracy" by Henry Louis Mencken, written in 1926, during alcohol prohibition (1919-1933):

  The Prohibitionists, when they foisted their brummagem cure-all upon the country under cover of the war hysteria, gave out that their advocacy of it was based upon a Christian yearning to abate drunkenness, and so abolish crime, poverty and disease. They preached a [crime, poverty and disease free] millennium, and no doubt convinced hundreds of thousands of naive and sentimental persons, not themselves Puritans, nor even democrats.

  They cannot stop the use of alcohol, nor even appreciably diminish it, but they can badger and annoy everyone who seeks to use it decently, and they can fill the jails with men taken for purely artificial offences, and they can get satisfaction thereby for the Puritan yearning to browbeat and injure, to torture and terrorize, to punish and humiliate all who show any sign of being happy. And all this they can do with a safe line of policemen and judges in front of them; always they can do it without personal risk.

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• Azi posted at 8:13 am on Sun, Jan 6, 2013.

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  I believe the issue is not marijuana, but the availability of any controlled substances to a small percentage of youth.

  Mr. Cavanaugh (and those of his ilk) seem bound and determined to dictate to the people their own ideals with little or no regard to their constituents and the citizens of Arizona. You can beat that dead horse all you want, but I do know it didn't work for Russell Pearce.

  If my children were to have access to marijuana, I would want it to be something locally grown, controlled and financially beneficial to the State, not a drug cartel.

  Quit wasting the State's time.

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• DataMan posted at 9:36 am on Sun, Jan 6, 2013.

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  Will Kavanagh now try to shutdown all prescription medicines, as kids often get those from their parents medicine cabinets?

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• Arizona Willie posted at 9:45 am on Sun, Jan 6, 2013.

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  JunkPoster: here are the facts straight from D.H.S

  Patient Age-groups
  Less than 18 years 24 0.07%
  18 to 30 years 8,518 26.5%
  31 to 40 years 6,685 20.8%
  41 to 50 years 5,807 18.07%
  51 to 60 years 6,826 21.24%
  61 to 70 years 3,670 11.42%
  71 to 80 years 517 1.61%
  81 and older 95 0.3%

  Totals 73.44% of users over 30
  53% of users are over 50

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