Marijuana users do not generally become violent while alcohol consumption seems to lead to violent behavior...imo

Alcohol is very reasonably argued to be a poison. When you're drunk, it's because you've poisoned yourself. And chronic abuse of it is deleterious to pretty much every cell in your body in some way, obviously your liver in particular, but there is almost no part of the body that is not at least annoyed and irritated by alcohol. It is literally terrible for you. Obviously that effect is highly dose-dependent and regularity-dependent, just like the health effects of everything. It's always about "concentrations".

OTOH, the only thing about THC is that it can make people with certain body/brain chemistry pretty uncomfortably "paranoid", whereas that doesn't really happen with alcohol. So then if you react badly in that way, you just don't use it because it's not fun (recreationally, any way). And there are some studies that suggest people with underlying mental health issues (chemical imbalances in the brain IOW) may have those be exacerbated with THC use, but that's probably also true of any drug that gets people high, including alcohol

But THC use is associated with virtually zero statistically-provable health problems, esp. if taken orally. Which is wildly different than alcohol, which absolutely 100%, is bad for your body and brain, with many, many known acute health problems associated with regular use, some of them leading to early death when its abused for a long period.

On a related note, if you could somehow take away the risk of acute overdose and their addictive properties, opioids (if pure and not used by IV, I mean) are also far safer health-wise than alcohol. What I mean is there's no known/proven harm to one's health caused by using opioids, they're almost entirely innocuous in terms of harming your organs, including your brain. UNLESS you take too much (acutely), or you get addicted and your behavior becomes hazardous to your well-being, you could take opioids all day every day, and it would never kill you directly (though you would be well-advised to take in some daily fiber if you were doing so). UNLIKE alcohol.

The threshold for panic varies over a huge range. You are refering to people who get paranoid from smallish amounts.

Acute paranoia, often with inexperienced users was what I meant. And yes, it's the only 'documented toxicity', if you even want to use such an extreme word as 'toxicity'. I'd call it more of an unwanted side-effect, myself

However, its definitely not unheard for extreme/chronic users to appear to develop paranoid thought patterns from that chronic use. This is a different phenomenon though vs. acute paranoia that's more common to inexperienced users.

And in fact, I'd suppose it *may* be that the people who seem to develop this sort of long-term paranoia may have already had the underlying problem before they even started using, which they then self-medicated with marijuana, and rather than improving it, it makes the pre-existing condition more acute over time. Simply because, it's not at it's heart, "a good thing for everyone to use in excess". No drug is.

Won’t change how I vote, but I’ll take whatever ground they’ll cede.

is that he was bribed by someone(s) to do it.

With a possible component of him thinking it will cause more people to say nice things about him, which he is clearly addicted to, like all malignant narcissists

It's a "populist" / "Libertarian" thing. So adherents to orgs like the Cato Institute, are probably calling in some chips to get the legalization process moving.

maybe

Rand Paul of KT wanted to be stripped out of the BBB.

..who the hell knows what this ass wipe is gonna do.

That's dementia talk right there.

He couldn't come up with "negatively affects" or "harms".

GMTA

"On the one hand, marijuana joints have been shown to deliver at least four times as much tar to the lungs as tobacco cigarettes"

farther down,

Subtopic heading: "WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S HARM."

but at least (IF he passes this) I can walk into the local mom-and-pot store and not be carrying wads of cash

He pardons a cocaine kingpin but wants to regulate weed? Idiot.

Although i don’t know how they can maintain their level of hate while on it.

That wing of the party are "Libertarians" (like the Paul family and Bill Maher). The are for "deregulation of everything" - meaning they don't want anyone or anything telling them what to do and how to think (which makes them "anti-Civil Rights" ).

Republican’s want to tell you who you can marry, what women can do with their bodies and so on.
They are primarily about controlling others because it’s hard for them to cope with the changing times.

That's another wing of the GOP. The Libertarians are "pro-choice", again not because they care about women, but because they don't want "the government" to tell them what medical treatment they can or cannot get.

The GOP has -

1.) The religious RW loons
2.) The QAnon (or other CT) freaks
3.) The so-called "Fiscal Conservatives"
4.) The "Neocons"
5.) The "Isolationists/Nativists"
6.) The so-called "Corporate" and "Big business" pushers
7.) The "anti-regulation" Libertarians

Each one is a faction and whoever shouts the loudest gets their policies implemented.

Dave Smith just went on a “what a loser Trump is” rant. Excepts are on X.

Another top Libertarian, Clint Russell just called it the Republican podcasters Civil war. Very nasty over in Republican podcast land. ( I like to follow them on X to see who is basically hating who.) They barely direct any hate now to Dems as they are so busy hating each other Now the fight has escalated big time where Candace and Erica Kirk are at big odds. CNN & Fox have put Erica Kirk on daily where she extolls how wonderful Israel & Turning Points” are while attacking Candace who is beloved by many Republicans. Candace believes “ Turning Points” had lied about Charlie’s death. I swear it’s like a daily soap opera over there with pmillions waiting daily for Candace’s podcast.

Name calling is gross - Republican podcaster men calling Republican women they disagree with “c**t” and “ignorant black bitch” plus even worse racist and sexist stuff - saying this stuff on their podcasts.

Many think it’s the end of the party. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃. Good riddance!!!

It’s all about the grift.

I can't believe that I agree with Trump on something!

He never fucking did and every inch of progress on that front in this country is because of Democrats.

That didn't stop those assholes from pretending Hillary was going to take your stash and Trump was for legal marijuana. Even though the Republican party didn't bend an inch and Trump never did a damn thing but authorize a few rumors. In fact, Republicans went out of their way to freeze or slow down any ballot initiatives on pot.

So, no. He's not going to fucking do anything at all because his entire party is geared towards keeping it criminalized so they can jerk off to their police fantasies.

It's amazing how even here there are PLENTY of people who fall for it despite Trump not doing a single thing to help.