Here's an NPR listener's response that I wish I had written:
I just wanted to correct some misleading information in your story I heard today. There was a part that insinuated that a rise in potency of marijuana would lead to trips to the hospital. It seems that someone hasn't done their research. It is physically impossible to overdose on Marijuana or THC in general. The more potent it gets...the less of it you tend to smoke. Once you are sufficiently under the effects you cant really push it through to another level by taking more. No one in history has ever been killed or injured by marijuana consumtion. I think that in an attempt to be well balanced in your story you have balanced some truths with some falsehoods and myths. If you believe that marijuana makes someone less interesting just look at Carl Sagan (maybe not very interesting to many, or most every musician alive. But the thing that always gets left out of these stories on pot is that we live in a supposedly FREE country....we can buy fire arms, alcohol, tobacco, coffee.....so from what position can you argue that the American people can not be trusted with the freedom to take the safest, oldest, least-toxic narcotic in the world?
Their online poll shows that 91% of NPR's listener's favor legalization.
It must be the trolls.
