Patrick Kennedy spouts nonsense on Amendment 64 (Legal Cannabis in Colorado)

[RainDog]

7. People know that marijuana is more potent now

And anyone who would commercially sell marijuana would likely have it tested to note its THC content - therefore providing MORE information to a cannabis consumer.

Providing information about your product is the way someone in honest retail sells the product so that the purchaser will have a positive experience... that's just basic shit for anyone who knows anything about marketing. You sell your ability to provide a trusted provider, which is why, among x number of people who offer many of the same products, a person would choose you to be the provider of that product.

Like alcohol, I think cannabis should be restricted to adults.

This is more likely in a regulated seller's market, not one that goes into high schools with illegal product. If you remove the glamour of illegality, you also remove the incentive to buy for people who would be attracted by that idea - those who want to rebel against their parents, for example.

The study dealt with teenagers, and with HEAVY use. Yes, I saw that it had been disputed in another study.

In a 2002 study that was published in the Canadian Journal Medical Association, light cannabis use showed an increase in IQ.

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/166/7/887.abstract

Results: Current marijuana use was significantly correlated (p < 0.05) in a dose- related fashion with a decline in IQ over the ages studied. The comparison of the IQ difference scores showed an average decrease of 4.1 points in current heavy users (p < 0.05) compared to gains in IQ points for light current users (5.8), former users (3.5) and non-users (2.6).

So, if I wanted to talk honestly about the issue, I would have to say the issue of IQ tests has to do with frequency and amount consumed, not with cannabis itself, and I would have to note that LIGHT use of cannabis may have a positive effect on IQ testing that was statistically higher than that shown in non-users....

I know of no study that demonstrates that cannabis kills brain cells. We do know, however, that alcohol can kill brain cells.

This, to me, is how you know this is nothing but a propaganda group. They are cherry picking "evidence" to present to make themselves sound serious - but they're just another iteration of reefer madness.