CNBC Rob Kampia vs. Kevin Sabet, Ph.D.

Marijuana Policy Project's Rob Kampia goes head-to-head with Kevin Sabet on CNBC Reports.

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• Marijuana
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• ganja

[DarthNole]

How many people have died from injesting marijuana???

ZERO

That's right... ZERO... if you did your research you would know that it would take a human being ingesting 1500 POUNDS of marijuana within 15 minutes to cause death.

Deaths Per Year in the US:

Alcohol = 85,000

Prescription Drugs = 32,000

Asprin = 7,600

That's each year....

In the 3000 years of recorded history deaths caused by Marijuana.... ZERO...

AND MARIJUANA IS DANGEROUS, DEADLY, and EVIL????

[DarthNole]

BTW - it is the Prohibitionists that continue to add the wording "SMOKED" marijuana to the discussion. This is simply done so that they have some sort of leg to stand on in the debate.

Everyone by now should understand that inhaling any smoke causes damage to your lungs. The smoke is due to combustion and it is the combustion that brings the carcinogens into the body.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SMOKE WEED TO GET HIGH!!! Therefore you do not have to injest carcinogens to get the effect...

[Matteous5]

111losangeles - You should do more research on marijuana. People crash their cars while they are texting, putting on make-up or driving drunk too. Marijuana is not harmful; driving your car while stoned can be... just as the circumstances listed above can be also.

[111losangeles]

Marijuana is harmful people. That woman who crashed her car and killed her kids was high - also education has done nothing to lower the social costs of alcohol in the face of legalization.

The legalization argument is a joke.

[Lonewolf1126]

Right on DarthNole!

[DarthNole]

Marinol.... you woudl prefer that people use Marinol? This is a prescription that contains 100% THC (the active ingredient) while in plant form Marijuana contains at best 20% THC...

If Marijuana is so dangerous it would be due to it containing THC (the ingredient that causes the "high") so why would you propose taking a more potent drug?

Every single point that you make in opposition is rooted in the misinformation being pushed for the past 72 years!!!

[DarthNole]

and for that matter the damage is being done to themselves no tto you... so why should you care anyway?

[DarthNole]

Why do you think that pills are better for you than something natural? "Legalizers" want to see the prohibition repealed due to the years of misinformation that has come from our government. Marinol and Satavex are prescription drugs and we are discussing the legalization for recreational use. In its natural form there are still no negative affects to using. The ONLY negative comes from those that choose to SMOKE rather than use an alternative delivery method.

[TrueActivist]

If marijuana doesn't need to be smoked, then why are legalizers trying to legalize SMOKED marijuana. Why not a pill form such as Marinol or Satavex? See the agenda?

[DarthNole]

Marijuana does not need to be smoked!!!

By using a vaporizer you heat the flower to a point below cumbustion...THC and other cannabinoids are turned into vapors which are collected and inhaled. The vapors allow the delivery of the medicine directly into the blood stream via the lungs much like those people that use nebulizer treatments (asthma). Since the plant material isn't burned you don't bring the carcinogens into your body.

This is why we push for EDUCATION as well as REGULATION!

[TrueActivist]

Comparing one drug to another. Here's the moronic argument.

Well, cigarettes are a drug and it's legal, why can't we legalize pot?

Smoking anything is harmful, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.