Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people killed by pot

[Katashi_itto]

In a hearing on the legalization of medical marijuana in the state of Kentucky, Republican state Rep. Robert Benvenuti said that the risks of allowing medical marijuana in the state are too high. He cited Kentucky’s high rate of illegal and prescription drug abuse as reasons why the plant is too dangerous to be sold legally.

Legalization of medical marijuana will inevitably lead to the legalization of recreational marijuana use, said Benvenuti.

“I do not believe in the recreational use of marijuana,” he said, “and I could likewise fill this committee room with first responders, law enforcement officers and parents of dead children based on the effects of marijuana.”


As a protest rose from the assembled crowd that marijuana is not a lethal substance, Benvenuti continued, “In driving intoxicated, in child abuse, we’ve already heard today from folks who talk about intoxicants and its role in child fatality and child abuse.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/kentucky-republican-offers-to-fill-this-committee-room-with-people-killed-by-pot/

[NightWatcher]

1. Hey Dingleberry, cannabis is safer than the prescription drugs that you say are abused.

You should HOPE all those abusers try cannabis instead.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Proceed Representative Dumbass, be a neat trick since a room the size of a closet

might as well be Giants stadium for as empty and cavernous it would be with such a population.

I suspect a room the size of an atom would be overly spacious for the crowd he is discussing.

[Aristus]

3. He possesses the unshakable, self-satisfied confidence

of the irredeemably ignorant...

[Demo_Chris]

4. We need to start the rumor that regular weed use curbs homosexuality. nt

[jmowreader]

6. If you could make it stick, they would be ISSUING you weed then!

[Demo_Chris]

15. It would be compulsory in school. nt

[jmowreader]

5. I'll take that challenge...

He can fill one committee room with first responders, law enforcement officials and parents of dead children based on the effects of marijuana...

and I could fill the entire Kentucky Statehouse with first responders, law enforcement officials and parents of dead children based on the effects of Bourbon whiskey.

[napkinz]

7. from bartcop ...

[11 Bravo]

8. One of his major donors must manufacture backhoes.

[jmowreader]

10. There aren't any bull semen producers in Kentucky, are there?

They've got to be doing SOMETHING with the waste products...

[Initech]

9. He'll be staring at an empty room then!

[Warpy]

11. Another Pillsbury Doughboy talking through his asshole

about things he knows nothing about except what some backwoods, uneducated, crackpot preacher has thundered down from the pulpit.

Someone needs to tell him to put up or shut up.

[Le Taz Hot]

12. That reminds me of a Molly Ivins story from one of her columns.

She told a story about the Texas State Legislature doing some business having to do with disabled persons. Several wheelchair-bound disabled persons were in the galley that day in support of the legislation when one of the geniuses in the Texas state leg. asked those who were here to support said legislation "stand up and be recognized."

[Jesus Malverde]

13. My brother once injected 5 marijuanas and died instantly

[napkinz]

14. alcohol v weed ...

https://www.facebook.com/beingliberal.org

[ryan_cats]

16. I see violent, murderous enraged potheads on the news all the time, Wait!

I see violent, murderous enraged potheads on the news all the time, Wait, that would be never.

How many people killed by cigarettes?

How many people killed by alcohol?

How many people killed by DUI?

Is he talking about finding people killed by a DUI and they found pot in their system because you could smoke a pound of pot and still be OK? Try that with a gallon of Tequila and see how long before you die of alcohol poisoning.

I'm not even aware of studies about pot causing lung cancer and heart attacks like cigarettes do and pot smokers hold in their hit a lot longer than a cigarette user does.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. He might be able to fill "this dixie cup" with them

but probably not much more.