Julie Foehr Power of 10 - $100,000 Question (weed)

Julie Foehr and Bob V from Bloomington, Illnois, hosts of the Magic 100.7 FM Morning Show, appearing on CBS Power of 10 with Drew Carey

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[nnadi]

whooooo hooo let the truth be revealed!

[danbrown4life]

4 minutes to answer one question?

[KRAZE87GMODDER]

Ohimigain.

[eggiex1]

@6billiondeaths And fair enough, I guess I probably shouldn't have said that it would increase it by "a lot more" in my initial comment months ago, but I was just making a point. I didn't expect someone to bust my balls over it nitpicking my choice of words (which I guess is true for my analogy as well, but w/e)

Last thing I'll add, I actually don't have a problem about legalizing it (except for concerns I have about second-hand marijuana smoke) so it's not like I was attacking its legalization.

[eggiex1]

@6billiondeaths My point was that it would make sense to see an increase in those undesirable effects. I never made any claim that it should be kept illegal on those grounds, just as driving privileges should not be revoked simply because of an increase in car accidents. I simply stated what logically followed. You are free to argue "how much" of an added negative effect it would have to legalize it, or whether that would justify legalizing it or not, but I think my initial statement was sound.

[eggiex1]

@6billiondeaths Well it looks like there was nothing more than a simple misunderstanding here then. I'm glad you agree that legalizing it will increase its usage, and I doubt you would argue that an increase in usage will lead to some increase in undesirable effects at the aggregate level. (e.g. increase the number of drivers in a city and it will invariably lead to an increase in car accidents. Insurance companies know this.) (to be continued)

[6billiondeaths]

@6billiondeaths is not that harmful to you*

[6billiondeaths]

@eggiex1 not at all i agree with what you say - legalising something increases the amount of people willing to try it. my argument would be that marijuana is that harmful to you (at least according to the latest scientific studies that are available) so why should it be illegal anyway? it isn't any more dangerous than smoking a cigarette or having a beer so its illegality seems unnecessary. if anything the biggest negative on an individual using marijuana is when they are actually caught

[6billiondeaths]

@eggiex1 that statistic wasn't BS... it may of been vague but given the amount of surveys, studies, reports, etc etc that have been conducted in relation to marijuana the statistic i provided was quite accurate. of course the instances of use everyday are significantly lower than alcohol but they are still not insignificant. my point was there is enough people using marijuana for there to be statistics on usage related to car accidents.

[6billiondeaths]

@eggiex1 ok i will address all your points seperately.... first of all what you say about an analogy is correct, i could argue about itagain here and say "well you've brought it up again..." and we could go on forever, but i will not - its a quasi-important part of the much bigger argument so we'll leave it here?

[eggiex1]

@6billiondeaths Oh, and since I know you're going to argue this point about my "common sense" statement: The fear of getting in trouble with the law is a deterrent for at least some people, so to claim that this is not a common sense point is ignoring the obvious. If X is illegal and X becomes legal, people who would be willing to do X but were afraid to get in trouble will now be able to freely engage in it. If you don't see the common sense in that there's no point in arguing with you anymore.

[eggiex1]

@6billiondeaths Also, you make the the "no evidence" argument about something that makes sense while at the same time using a BS statistic of 100 million marijuana users. It's not about how many people have used it but how many instances of uses there are every day. 10 people driving drunk 1 night = 10 possible accidents, 1 person doing that every day for a year = 365 possible accidents. I bet most of those 100 million people you pulled out of your ass have done it "at least once" and that's it.