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<blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2410884" data-attributes="member: 24446">When I was in school I knew a lot people who used marijuana pretty often.&nbsp; I knew a lot of people who drank alcohol pretty often.&nbsp; I never saw a friend crash a car because they were high (not promoting that, its a dumb thing to do).&nbsp; I saw more than a few crash cars while drunk.&nbsp; While I feel bad the woman in this story lost family in that crash, saying it was marijuana&#039;s fault because the driver admitted to having smoked some earlier that day is one really, really long leap and one the creators of &quot;Reefer Madness&quot; would be proud of.&nbsp; Should high people be driving? Of course not but when you separate fiction from fact the big &quot;marijuana the gateway to heroin and cause of mental illness&quot; propaganda falls apart real fast.I don&#039;t use the stuff, never have so I have no dog in this fight but the facts are the facts and as much as the government has disagreed over the last several decades, marijuana is not the demon it&#039;s been made out to be.&nbsp; There&#039;s a very well documented medical use for marijuana and it&#039;s components but being labeled as a schedule I narcotic has kept researchers from pursuing some extremely promising leads.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brandi, post: 2410884, member: 24446"] When I was in school I knew a lot people who used marijuana pretty often. I knew a lot of people who drank alcohol pretty often. I never saw a friend crash a car because they were high (not promoting that, its a dumb thing to do). I saw more than a few crash cars while drunk. While I feel bad the woman in this story lost family in that crash, saying it was marijuana's fault because the driver admitted to having smoked some earlier that day is one really, really long leap and one the creators of "Reefer Madness" would be proud of. Should high people be driving? Of course not but when you separate fiction from fact the big "marijuana the gateway to heroin and cause of mental illness" propaganda falls apart real fast. I don't use the stuff, never have so I have no dog in this fight but the facts are the facts and as much as the government has disagreed over the last several decades, marijuana is not the demon it's been made out to be. There's a very well documented medical use for marijuana and it's components but being labeled as a schedule I narcotic has kept researchers from pursuing some extremely promising leads. [/QUOTE]

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