Here is some factoids from the Website of Nationwide Treatment Centres for Alcohol and Drug Addictions

I went to sources who have to deal with the RESULTS of pot-smoking and the damage it does.
All you have to go to is your nearest AA meetings or to ALANON to get a perspective on what it does to people and relationships. Real people can tell you, too.

Your using a website advocating marijuana legalization as a source and proclaiming it as fact?

Pardon me, spageti - link
http://www.addict-help.com/index.asp

Did you really think that I made all of that up?

If you want to smoke pot on occasion, fine. Then do yourself a favour, first. Read up on it and it's real effects. Read up on real stats out there.

I could not find any such information, overdosed on marijuana? Look at it factually, in order to have an over dose of THC, the active chemical in smoking marijuana you would have to smoke over your own body weight. That means if I wanted to OD on marijuana I would have to smoke, in one sitting, over 150lbs of marijuana that is equivalent to about 300,000.00 dollars. Not to mention the human body will pass-out and no longer be able to consume any marijuana long before OD. Not only is it almost financially impossible to OD on marijuana it IS impossible to OD on marijuana unless you have some way to continue sending it into your body after you have lost consciousness.

I am sure people have smoke marijuana and thought they have OD'd on it and have called the cops. I have even heard of police recordings where people have freaked out while being high, called the cops claiming that they are "dying," "dead," or that time itself has stopped. These are usually people that have never smoked before and assume the worst. I would not be surprised that the Government uses these instances to claim people have "OD'd" on the drug and had to have had some sort of medical treatment. (Legally even if someone isn't ODing but calls the cops they must respond to it as any other over-consumed chemical, leaving the police to report that an OD has occurred)

No matter what though, there has never been a documented death of over consumption of THC.

I can't go live like the Indians, "go buy land" heh, the areas that the tribes controlled were larger than most states, even if I wanted to buy land I could never have as much land and as freedom to roam as the Native Americans. That means my food supply is greatly diminished as when they didn't have enough to eat they moved to a new part of their territory and hunted.

They didn't evolve? If you knew anything about history, especially of the Native Americans you would know that the Plains Indians were one of the first cultures to have an AGGROCULTURAL CULTURE, as in NOT HUNTER GATHERS. They lived more closely to how we do now then you would believe. They didn't have horses, they were forced to build actual houses, grow their land year to year and wait on the harvest. They had irrigation ditches, hand held tools, houses, in fact they were advanced enough in the way of growing things that the Colonists needed their technology to survive.

Darwinism and Natural Selection has everything to do with a shortage of resources and the adaptations animals have in order to survive during times of drought, it has absolutely nothing to do with people on people interactions.
What you are saying is if anyone comes up to you with a gun and kills you ,then he is more evolved than you and Natural selection of survival of the fittest has just taken place. Illogical.

Yeah that is the most basic explanation of it used to teach those of lower level education. If you knew anything more you would know that what Darwin observed on the Islands is that birds with the different beak sizes ate the same type of seeds when food was plentiful, no need for a larger beak or a smaller one, then later observed when food actually became scarce, during these times is when the size of the beak mattered, the larger beaks were able to eat the larger seeds that the smaller beaks couldn't.

Scientists today now know that evolution happens sporadically, and quickly, during small sections of a long time line.

and the addictive ingredient comes from the same drug in legal (governmental income producing!) cigarettes

Strong opinions on pot smoking here and abouts; why?

If someone needs a crutch when with me, then in all honesty they just aren't that interested are they?!

Ive been around drug users all of my life and had a family member OD at the age of 45. Quite frankly, im sick of it, and absolutely will not date anyone who partakes. Im also pretty tired of hearing how it relaxes them after a hard days work (yeah ive had that excuse told to me more times than i care to count). Like smoking a joint is the only thing that relaxes a person?? Pfft.

Im also pretty tired of hearing how it relaxes them after a hard days work (yeah ive had that excuse told to me more times than i care to count). Like smoking a joint is the only thing that relaxes a person?? Pfft.

...but you need to recognize that one of the penalties is that some people won't want to be a party to it.

Still waiting on how that list of sources I supplied was bias too (General question, towards poster accusing my source of being bias.)

Iverson, Leslie. “Long-term effects of exposure to cannabis.” Current Opinion in Pharmacology 5(2005): 69-72.

United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. DASIS Report Series, Differences in Marijuana Admissions Based on Source of Referral. 2002. June 24 2005.

Puritanism is strong in the roots of the US, and it can still be seen in a lot of our culture and politics.

Nothing refutes my original stance, it all boils down to personal preference. And just because it isn't right for one person, doesn't mean that it isn't right for all persons.

So I take it you would be in support of bringing back the old style Opium Dens?

Oh, and I am non-political. So the republican/democratic insults/remarks are falling on deaf ears.