Which is why I said "rarely if ever" as opposed to "never".
And I would argue that anyone who makes the conscious choice to smoke themselves into hospitalization is probably not completely, mentally healthy.
I would say a combination of a contextual fallacy and a circular cause fallacy.
For one, my argument wasn't that "there are no dangers to marijuana use".
For two, I said that "It's obvious that when you have to resort to spreading such atrociously inaccurate lies about the dangers of a substance, you don't have any real dangers to talk about."
While my statement used a royal you, the specific you - in the application of my statement to the referenced instance - would have been the bigwigs of the tobacco industry. My applied statement therefore implies that they resorted to spreading lies about the dangers of marijuana because they had no real dangers to spread. That doesn't mean that there aren't any dangers at all. It also doesn't mean that they weren't aware of a single, actual potential danger. What it does mean is that they had no actual potential dangers which either they and/or their intended audience would have considered to be real dangers.
See above.
I agree. I think a big part of the issue is sort of a feeling of entitlement to information - on the part of fans and news-people, especially, and the public in general. If we don't hear about it, it didn't happen, doesn't count, etc. We don't care so much about - or perhaps don't like - a policy that secretly suspends a player in an attempt to give them the best chance to correct their behavior and decision making processes because we don't get to see the process in action. We're much more comfortable with a press conference announcing a suspension.
