Precautions have to be taken since Marijuana clearly increases the risk of such problems. By not taking steps to cover such risks or to increase precautions by taxing them to try and prevent smoking or to increase revenue for the health care system, we shoot ourselves in the foot.
There are many risks associate with allowing people to live freely. Taxation may be a precaution, but it's an immoral means to an end which should be achieved through cooperation and agreements.
We shouldn't decrease the number of smokers by forcing them to pay taxes or by forcing them not to smoke. We shouldn't force smokers to look at pictures of dead bodies, rotting lungs, and sick infants. We should, as a society separate from the government, encourage people not to smoke through peaceful means. We should focus on education our youth so that they are aware of such dangers. We should focus on making sure our children are satisfied with their lives so they do not feel the need to rebel by picking up horrible habits. We can even use the market to help make people healthier, such as a competitive electronic cigarette market.
Marijuana increases the chances of many problems in the same way video games increases the chances of malnutrition, or fatty foods increase the chances of having a heart attack.
Marijuana increases heart rate by 20-100 percent shortly after smoking; this effect can last up to 3 hours. In one study, it was estimated that marijuana users have a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.
Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke.
I don't see what the point is? Of course there are risks. This doesn't mean we should tax marijuana to pay for health care when not everyone who smokes marijuana gets cancer. An
increased risk isn't the same as
absolutely going to happen. Remember, I'm against all sin tax, including those for cigarettes.
Taxing isn't criminalising, in that case is driving illegal since you pay road tax? Either way, by legalizing marijuana, it isn't criminalizing it, since it would be a legal activity.
My point is that people use taxation as an excuse to deter smoking, whereas road taxes are used to pay for repairing the roads. The point is, if you're going to deter something through force, taxation is just a "compromise" between gong to jail, or paying a small fine each time you buy a particular product.
In that case, then everyone should be able to own guns as well since we can't take precautions for irresponsible people since it hinders the other more responsible folk.
Everyone should be able to own a gun unless they have already proven themselves that they can't be trusted. We have a right to bear arms, and the only reason one should be denied this right is if they are seen as a risk for denying other people their right to life, i.e., people who have a history of violence towards others.
The difference between denying a person a gun and taxing marijuana smokers is that the person being denied the gun has already committed their crimes, whereas marijuana smokers are being treated as cancer patients with a bad respiratory system before anything even happens to them.
Yes, but the products you have listed, video games, etc, don't kill people on the same scale as this.
The number of confirmed deaths caused by marijuana?
Zero.
However, this shouldn't matter because fatty foods have also been known to cause death. It's inconsistent.
Everything in excess or abused causes negative effects, so should we ban broccoli too?
No, we should let pot smokers have their broccoli and eat it too.
Well, if they did a good job of reinforcing the tax, and gave a really high tax for it, it would probably reduce the amount of marijuana used... Also licensing growing and selling plants and the drugs to keep more control over it.
There's no reason for the government to control marijuana.
