Annual Deaths in America from:
•Alcohol: 140,000
•Tobacco: 480,000
•Marijuana: 0

The pearl clutching over marijuana legalization & decriminalization is not grounded in facts—but in fear mongering propaganda & racial injustice that arrests Black people 3.7X more than white people, despite similar rates of use.

@QasimRashid I get your point but the numbers are not going to age well as more people use cannabis. My coworker and his dog were killed instantly by a man driving on cannabis who crossed the center line. Humans will misuse it

@Orange_light @QasimRashid

Yes deaths directly and indirectly from cannabis are NOT zero. My nephew offed himself from some bad combination of grass and his mental issues. And there's what smoking and vaping does to the lungs. And the people jumping out of buildings thinking they can fly, etc etc.

Alcohol will always be worse by far because in its essence, it is poison, but marijuana and derivatives are not totally harmless.

@DeborahForPlus @Orange_light @QasimRashid With all due respect, people don’t jump out of windows thinking they can fly. That’s not at all how cannabis works (at least not outside of some ridiculously dramatic afterschool specials in the 80s.) But that actually leads to a relevant point: people conflate what all sorts of substances do, based purely on pseudoscientific nonsenses they were fed during the “war on drugs”, not realizing a lot of that stuff was completely pulled out of the asses of people trying to scare folks into compliance (or to weaponize it against communities of color by equating the rise of certain drugs with specific minority communities to justify excessive legal force against them.)

@turboquokka @Orange_light @QasimRashid

I read a very specific case in which this was the cause. It was legal cannabis but perhaps not in an advised dosage. Not an old horror story.

Alcohol is infinitely more toxic than pot but saying zero deaths is inaccurate.

@DeborahForPlus @turboquokka @Orange_light @QasimRashid Ok I'll bite, please link or provide a single detail about this incredible case where *legal* weed, available only in the last handful of years, genuinely caused someone to believe they could fly, and to jump off of a building causing their death. A name, a location, an article, just any ol detail will do.

@thisistheAM @turboquokka @Orange_light @QasimRashid

In addition to this one, there was someone else with a more reasonable dose who jumped out of a window but lived... And then I stopped looking.

Again I'm not talking about the horrors of legal MJ, I'm pushing back against the BS of suggesting there's zero harm or deaths. Driving under influence and damage to lungs will hurt more people than jumping out windows....

Alcohol infinitely worse, cannabis not w/o danger.

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/04/17/man-who-plunged-from-denver-balcony-ate-6x-recommended-amount-of-pot-cookie/

Man who plunged from Denver balcony ate 6x recommended amount of pot cookie

Man who plunged from Denver balcony ate 6x recommended amount of pot cookie

The Denver Post
@DeborahForPlus @turboquokka @Orange_light @QasimRashid More people die from water than Cannabis. Does water make your list of dangerous substances?

@thisistheAM @turboquokka @Orange_light @QasimRashid

Ok I'm going now. You're going nuts because I pointed out that saying marijuana has never harmed or killed anyone is factually incorrect. Maybe you should find something that chills you out?

Bye!

@DeborahForPlus @turboquokka @Orange_light @QasimRashid Yes, this is traditionally when I would expect someone in your position to exit the conversation under the guise of superiority, and resort to random ad-hominem attacks. Enjoy your "victory!" ✨