| Should marijuana be legalized....
Posted: 7/29/2005 12:32:13 PM | Me too ^^ LOL
NO ONE has ever died from smoking pot. There is no reason why it should be illegal. Booze causes far more problems. The worst thing a person does when they smoke pot is laugh thier fool head off, get the munchies, pig out, and go to bed. | |
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| Should marijuana be legalized....
Posted: 7/29/2005 12:33:30 PM | I like reading the pro hemp posts that pump up the virtues of the plant. Since it is a plant, you can claim that wearing it will cure athlete's foot if you like. It's a natural herbal remedy and , as such, is not regulated until it is classified as a drug. Now that it is for obvious reasons, you want to tell me about the other virtues?
Why not just look at the long term effects of this drug. Slow brain function, poor responce time. Hormonal suppression, man boobs. Extremely high concentration of carcinogens int he unfilitered smoke. To claim that there are no draw backs is to want to believe in that.
Not one has even died from alcohol in the same way. Disease kills them or they kill someone behind the wheel.
Keep it illegal. I don't want to see it on the shelves. | |
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Posted: 7/29/2005 11:22:24 PM | American imperialism strikes again
Canada's Three National Television Networks all cover the raid of the BC Marijuana Party and arrest of Marc Emery
Global News:
www.canada.com/toronto/video/GN050729reeb.html
CBC News:
www.cbc.ca/clips/national/thenational.ram (Scroll to 16:55)
CTV News:
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/112
(Video clips linked from page) | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 4:15:11 AM | very funny stuff. Go DEA! Hands up ! (slowly) up against the wall (slowly) What will happen to the marajuana man? Why did it take 5 years for the Vancouver constable to take action ?
"It just comes in terms of resources and priority. We get information and we act on it and we deal with it at that time. You can expect that anybody who engages in criminal activity on a high profile, such as Marc Emery does -- you're not going to expect to do it forever before you have to account for your actions." - Vancouver Constable
In 2004, Emery served a 90-day sentence in a Saskatoon jail for passing a marijuana joint.
- Candian imperialism strikes again. | |
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| Should marijuana be legalized....
Posted: 7/30/2005 7:34:30 AM | | Legalized it. The British Labour Government (who I have always supported) have been trying to get the backing to do just this, but it's a hard struggle convincing most of the opposing Conservative Party and our GP's to comply. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 10:03:09 AM | | Like the movie about the dude who was in prison in Turkey, other countries are very strict on drugs. The Australian girl got caught recently with a bunch of marijuana in her luggage. The problem in a liberal justice system in this country. Look at Insonesia. they are no-nonsense about drugs. We have liberal judges. We need tougher punishments like these other countries which have a much smaller problem because they don't put up with it. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 10:10:37 AM | | Uhh... that's right. Many other countries don't put up with it. Many of those same countries don't put up with things such as civil or human rights, either. (I'm not at all saying that I think smoking pot is a civil or human right. I just don't think that modeling ourselves after many of those "other countries" is the way to go.) | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 5:11:52 PM | Sure - feed it to children in brownies if it's so harmless and only causes positive heath effects. Most people (and most parents) are actually quite sensible. They will almost certainly use drugs in moderation they way they use gambling, alcohol and cigarettes and other potentially addictive habits.
Let's all groove like Bob Marley who limited himself to 3-5 Hookahs a day. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 5:16:39 PM | Are there really any positive effects of marijuana? Ask a cancer patient, fighting nausea from chemotherapy.....or an AIDS patient who needs something to stimulate their appetite. Or talk to a person in chronic pain . . .or a sufferer of multiple sclerosis. Both the American Medical Association and American Cancer Society recognize the positive effects of marijuana and its medicinal properties. Get the facts and debunk the myths. Learn more about the positive effects of marijuana! | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 5:17:14 PM | lol Actually Ive never tried it but as a Libertarian I believe it should be decriminalized and used as a mild analgesic and tranquilizer in tea or food. Smoking is harsh on the lungs and circulatory.  | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 5:36:21 PM | There are still seven people who get medical marijuana from the Federal Government ! They are grandfathered in and when they die that will be the end of it.
Federal law.....which makes marijuana illegal in all states ...overrules state statutes. As a result, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency can arrest people for using marijuana for medical purposes...even in states that allow it.
It’s time the politicians realize this is a medical issue not a legal issue Stop fighting the war on drugs against sick people. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 5:37:57 PM | | But American federal or state law has nothing to do with Canada. But everybody will know this soon, the marijuana issue will come to a huge crossroads over this. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 5:42:49 PM |
But American federal or state law has nothing to do with Canada. But everybody will know this soon Psst! Everyone knows this now! | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 6:34:37 PM | | Thats funny but a sad reflection on our governments modus operandi when it comes to dealing with our southerly neighbors demands.The U.S. , D.E.A. asks the Vancouver city police to arrest Marc Emery and start extradition proceedings against him and the coppers listen?Does anyone else see the problem with this picture? I'm thinkin it might be a whole lot better as a sovereign nation to police ourselves with our own laws.The man sells seeds and pipes and t-shirts man.Give him a break. | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 6:49:58 PM | Well, the way I see it is that unless they caught him in the states selling weed or other illegal products and he escaped to canada, then they have no business or legal rights to be doing this.
He runs his site in canada on canadian servers and sites. If amercians order from him and are violating their local laws, they should be arresting them. For them to arrest him for running a legal (no matter how controversial) business in canada because of actions taken by their own citizens opens up a huge legal battleground.
They can use the same argument for any product or service that is legal here and illegal there to arrest pretty much any business owner that doesn't follow the american laws. Considering this is Canada, thats more than a bit of a farce. Whats next, if we dont extradite him they are going to invade so as to better maintain their own laws? | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 6:53:41 PM | Please take this question in the spirit it's meant... very seriously.
Has anyone come across this story from any news source other than a pro-pot website? I'm not doubting that the event took place. I'm just wondering if there's any more information available. Sometimes, organizations with a political agenda (whatever it may be) tend to report in a light most favorable to their position. Understandably so. But I would be interested in learning more, from various sources. Anyone? | |
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| CBC reported on this
Posted: 7/30/2005 7:04:02 PM | Here's the link: http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_pot-seed-20050729
Also, there seems to be a rather extensive bio on Marc at this site: http://www.answers.com/topic/marc-emery
Just call me helpful.... | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 7:04:37 PM | I first found out about it watching CBC National News. As mainstream and 'reputable' as you could want.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/30/pot-050730.html
Simply Moi's is a much better link though... lol
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Posted: 7/30/2005 7:08:44 PM | Thank you, helpful. Thank you 'chronic' ~of course I found the original article reputable, as well... ;-)
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Posted: 7/30/2005 9:08:02 PM | | nope was born with a medical condition,, but had cancer a few years back and bro has MS and both found that marijuana worked wonders!! | |
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Posted: 7/31/2005 4:54:08 AM | I don't think anyone reasonable has a problem with use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. No one likes to see anyone in pain needlessly. I don't think decriminalizing is the way to deliver it to these people.
To claim anything other than pain relief out of this is irresponsible. Those who advocate for it's use go too far in the claim that it cures everything and is a benefit to all man kind. Does everything from make better paper to making hair shiny. Reminds me of the old "Doctors Good" remedies.
If marijuana man is allowed to see into the states due to differences inthe law and the internet, why shouldn't anyone be allowed set up shop in Amsterdam or Madagascar and sell heroin, coke or kiddie porn? The internet is not a medium for selling contraband. | |
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Posted: 7/31/2005 7:32:12 AM | Well, what you seem to be missing is that what they are selling isnt against the law in canada. He wasnt arrested on Canadian charges. They were arrested by Canadian officials for laws that were broken by american citizens, not by them.
As for your little quip about heroin, coke and kiddie porn, those things are illegal here and a person selling those here would be charged under canadian law. You didnt hear (or read) me ****ing about the fact that they were arrested for violating Canadian law. Because, at the risk of repeating myself, these are Canadians being arrested in Canada, by Canadian officials, on the behalf of american officials for breaking american laws.
Get this straight in your mind, there is no confusion over it. Americans were violating thier laws by ordering his products, Emery and company were not violating Canadian Laws by selling it to them.
Hell, you wouldnt have heard me **** about it if they had traveled to the states and been arrested down there for violation of amercian law. What I;m bithcing about is the fact that canadian officals acted on the behalf of americans to arrest a Canadian who want breaking canadian law (well at least not on the issue they arrested him for).
If you think what happened is okay, does that mean you'd be okay if Canadian cops showed up at your door (assuming your canadian) and arrested you for breaking an american law? Even though you may have never been in the states and what you were doing isnt against the law here? Like if one of the states where the drinking age is 21 were to ask for the canadian police to arrest you for drinking while underage when you were 20 even though where you were drinking (ontario) the age is 19??? | |
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