@paulg define "disaster". It looks like most people consider economy as the single concerning factor.
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@smsohan Everyone upgrading to heroin. -
@paulg In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html … -
@paulg people using the logic that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. Not sure how I'd justify either.
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@paulg Stand by; Canada is about to throw another 35 million test-cases at the conjecture.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@jasonhorner but it might still, so we should still ruin people's lives over a joint. -
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@paulg if anyone even bothered to look at the science this was never remotely a concern.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg spent the last few days in LA but when I left Colorado on Monday, it had not yet descended into anarchy. -
@zackkanter@paulg descending into anarchy would require putting down the Doritos and getting up off the couch first.
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@paulg To the contrary, all available evidence suggests that legalizing marijuana *has* been a disaster... for organized crime, that is.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg I'd call eating three bags of Cheetos in one sitting potentially disastrous.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg is there any sufficient empirical evidence that it would? That should be the basis for a law against it. -
@leemaier showing legalization increases availability to youth. But there's also evidence that prohibition is even worse -
@igerner that sounds like a circumstance, not a disaster but point taken. -
@leemaier we're on the same side here, but I know one well-regarded study that showed an 8 point IQ decline among heavy users -
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@PrecariousPhoto@leemaier I was referring to study that looked at people who started in adolescence: http://m.pnas.org/content/109/40/E2657.full … -
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