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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 2:39:53 PM | Prosecuting marijuana users and dealers COSTS more money to the government than they get out of it in fines.
Sorry...
It would make more sense to tax the product (just like they do with Cigarettes.... which have appx 80% of thier retail price being taxes) if it was all about money.
The government has NOT banned cigarettes simply because the taxes make the government more money than cigarettes make for the tobacco companies.
(thats the only justification fro NOT banning them)
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 4:20:06 PM | Im thinking that if you wanna call off a relationship just because she might or has smoked weed in the past/furture then your obviously not in the right relationship. Its not a deal breaker, its not even a little deal let alone a big deal. I mean do you stop the relationship because she drinks? or smokes? both are 10000 times worse for you, plus you can be physically addicted to both booze and smokes NOT weed. However, I thnk that if you cant look past something as petty and insignificant and marijuana use, then you are a hypocrite.
You tryed it and wheather it did anything for you or not is not really the point, the point is that your telling someone not to do something that you yourself did... how is that fair?
plus if you are already thinking about "deal breakers" then you are already out of the relationship, once you think a relationship is over, it is | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 4:31:30 PM | | I agree with thislooksfunny 100%. For goodness sake is everyone that blind they can't see alcohol and cigs are far worse then marijuana. People crack me us sometimes. Get the log out you your eye before you take the twig out of her mouth lol. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 5:05:01 PM | thislooksfunny said ..the point is that your telling someone not to do something that you yourself did..
no the point is dont get involved with someone who does it to begin with if you dont like it.
thislooksfunny said....However, I thnk that if you cant look past something as petty and insignificant and marijuana use, then you are a hypocrite.
that statement is just ridiculous. its called PREFERENCE not hypocirte. learn the difference. but if u feel its being a hypocirt than i guess we all are hypocrits including yourself becuase we all have things we accept and dont accept about a person. Just cause u accept it does not mean everyone else should. now that I have educated you im going to watch a movie. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 5:06:41 PM |
the only logical point on the use of dope is that its no good for a person. no matter what it does. its bad news. where is the logic in anyone trying to defend the use of dope? is it just not logical in any way shape or form. How can you defend somethign that is not only illegal but damaging to the brain? I understand its not as bad as cocaine, acid and all that kind of stuff but that dont mean it aint bad and could have permanent concequences such as with the lady I spoke of earlier.
Lv2, you are right on one thing.I am against making marijuana legal.
First of all that's painful as it's one of the most illogical statements I've ever been subjected to. I don't care how many times you squeeze the word logic into a sentence, it doesn't make you a student of it, nor proficient with it.
I know you're all about saving the childrin. Let's say one of your offspring has some sort of brain issue. Let's say the only surgeon skilled enough to pull off the required operation that'd save his life, yet leave the best chance he won't be left retarded, has Parkinson's. If he smokes a joint he'll be 100% at his best for the duration of the operation. Wouldn't you hold the light for him, or would your reasoned response be one of "if it's the Lord's will...".
Unfortunately, it's not entirely accepted as medication, being the evil marijuana and all, and he knows if you smell weed on him you'll sue him for all his worth even if he did save your boy. As a result, he refuses his help, the operation is done by a less skilled surgeon who's also probably on legal anti depressants given his insane student loans, so nice and legal like, your boy is left brain damaged. I guess you'd be saying marijuana caused your boy's braindamage. (It's starting to hurt up there, innit?)
How can I defend something that's not only illegal but brain damaging?
Long story short, I don't give a damn that it's illegal, and you've offered less than convincing evidence of it being any more brain damaging than drinking a glass of water, using the microwave, or standing under incandescent light. Your unfounded belief is _not_ my scientific proof. Links to biased and polar, bought and paid for research results, is not my scientific evidence. I have other experience, first hand, and my damaged brain? It's running circles around you and your ilk.
I know you feel if you keep repeating the illegality and potential brain damaging effects of it enough that in the end, someone will think it truth, especially when all the sane have left and you're the last standing still repeating it. However, all these posts will remain, and you'll be nothing but a jester mixed in with them. So please do continue your repetition to exhaustion, it's good comic relief.
If the illegality of it didn't impinge on my basic unalienable human rights, the laws against it would not have TWICE been struck down by the supreme court of Canada, which as far as I know is where they currently stand. You know there are parts of the world where it's illegal for you to show your face, and doing so could indeed be brain damaging.. paper or plastic?
Drinking water can actually kill you too, maybe you shouldn't wash anymore in case a drop falls in your mouth. Is it safer to brush your teeth with gasoline? I know you smoke but, since injesting water can kill you, maybe that's a better alternative? It's not illegal either, so I can advocate it for you in good faith!
People have survived falling out of airplanes and landing with no parachute, leaving 10 foot deep craters. Therefore, jumping out of a plane with no 'shute won't kill you? What if they only have 10 feet to fall instead of 10 000 feet, and the plane was motionless, suspended by wires, done for a movie? All encompassing statements are pretty stupid when they're not really all encompassing, more so when the circumstances are overlooked completely? I'd offer you some Tylenol right now, but I know you're all anti dope.
Also since we're on the brain damage topic, smoking causes a lack of oxygene.. your brain is starved for it. Hypocrite in a glass house, like a bull in a china shop.
This retarded lady you spoke of, assume she exists and you're not simply fear mongering as such a thing is above you, was she hit by a bus while driving drunk, and looking for the joint she dropped between the seats? Perhaps there's parts of the story missing? Perhaps it's just something you invented? Let's assume you speak truthfully, and that she did smoke weed and wound up retarded. You mistake sequence for causation. Simply because two subsequent events occurred, is not evidence the later was caused by its predecessor. (shot of whiskey? I know you'll numb your pain with booze, it's legal after all, even though using it to self medicate in such a way is abusive)
To conclude, my defending dope, as you put it, potentially just saved your boy from brain damage, so I'm doing it to save the childrin too. I wish I could see the look on your face right now... maybe I'll smoke a joint and manifest it.
BTW, pot smokers eventually grow out of their mullets, usually 'round the age of 17 at the latest, but we'll defend your right to sport one yourself, to the bitter end.
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Mister Fred,
Sorry...
It would make more sense to tax the product (just like they do with Cigarettes.... which have appx 80% of thier retail price being taxes) if it was all about money.
The government has NOT banned cigarettes simply because the taxes make the government more money than cigarettes make for the tobacco companies.
(thats the only justification fro NOT banning them)
Your arguments hold no more water than pumpkin's do. You allude it's not all about the money, therefore they don't just tax them. This cherry picking overlooks the points often repeated and always ignored, that they could not profit off of what they are not selling since it is so readily available anywhere, better, and cheaper. Meaning they have no market for such a product to begin with.
It further overlooks that if they did try such a daft move of legalizing and taxing, all the revenue they'd lose due to it directly competing with their other big money ventures. It's a complete fallacy to think they could make a single dime by taxing it. It could replace oil tomorrow, but then, what of the war, the weapons....
Also your comments are mutually exclusive. First it's kept illegal as it's not all about the money, leaving us to conclude it's about something else, though you conveniently left out what. Let's go with whatever propoganda you'd spout given the chance, say, the unproven health issues or supposed addictive nature of it? There's really no other reason it could be, and since we're not talking about the WHY of it being illegal, you can't just answer with IT'S ILLLLEEEGAL.
Tobacco in all its forms has been unsurmountably proven to be completely addictive, and completley leathal, with ZERO beneficial aspects towards its victims, it's even proven to have wide reaching collateral damage. This makes it exponentially worse than weed could ever hope to be even if only a sliver of their propoganda against it holds true. So it must be just about the money after all.
Happy New Year peanut. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 5:18:32 PM | | tobacco is bad and so is marajuana. one is no better than the other with the exception that one is legal and one is not and the effects of doing each. marajuana is illegal for a reason. You are not willing to state the truth about it even though u know what im saying is true. You are simply in denial. u can drive after smoking cigarettes but u cannot after marajuana use becuase ur brain cannot function properly and pay attention as u should. thats one diff between the two. number two...smoking dope makes you laugh out of ignorance and smoking cigs do not. number 3 smoking pot makes ur body shake and cigs do not. number 4 smoking pot makes u paranoid and cigs do not. smoking pot makes you have no memeory while high ..well cigs do not have that affect wehn u smoke them. im talking about right after u smoke them. so tobacco use and marijuana use are quite different. smoking marajuana with booze can make a person see things that are not there. smoking cigs and drinking will not cuase that. You might say it cannot make u see things but I know people who have seen things that were not there due to alcohol nad marajuana use togehter. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 5:21:59 PM | Posted By: kittenshere41
no the point is dont get involved with someone who does it to begin with if you dont like it.
Thats the definition of a dealbreaker...
As soon as someone meets some condition... you won't date them.
People have smoking as a dealbreaker.
People have drinking as a dealbreaker.
And people have illegal drug use as a deal breaker.
Its thier deal... its thier choice as to what is a dealbreaker.
If you can't understant that it is valid to have it as a dealbreaker... you are brain damaged.
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And to the idiot saying that an argument "holds no more water than a pumpkin"...
cut open a pumpkin and get at the truth... they hold water quite well. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 5:43:31 PM |
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And to the idiot saying that an argument "holds no more water than a pumpkin"...
cut open a pumpkin and get at the truth... they hold water quite well.
...... lol peanut, no you didnnn't! *CRACK ..... sonic BOOOMB.....shhhh...shhh..sh.
Need I dumb it down for you? Dun eww r n sum keeensheep weth kitternsher pump kin? Circles I said. Tsk, it's ok, I expected nothing less. Goes to show the validity of your ignorance.
Newyorktomboy,
Thanks, but the only reason I'd take a bow is for a certain few to kiss my ass. (Pucker up, peanut). | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 5:50:59 PM | | Look woman dont down people who are non drug users. you are showing much ignorance in ur own statements. if u dont have anyting beneficial to add here then no need for you to stay becuaes your only here to bash. if u ask me that shows real ignorance on ur part. so before u call somenoe else ignorant ...take a look in the mirror. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 6:14:55 PM | | I myself am a recreational user. I have gone long periods of time (years) without it. I can take or leave it. There are reasons I choose to do it though. It either does it for you or it doesn't. I happen to be someone that it enhances whatever I am doing. I am not a couch potato on it. It helps me keep concentration on menial tasks like house work. If I really want to whip through my house I take a wee puff, like one or two puffs and zoom through the house and do the best job ever. I occasionally puff when I am drinking but that usually ends up with me being a little more messed than I like to so I try and avoid those situations. The other time I like to puff is in the bedroom but only if my partner is puffing as well..........I won't go into those details but its definitely a plus. Thats my tidbit. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/29/2008 9:16:55 PM |
Look woman dont down people who are non drug users. you are showing much ignorance in ur own statements.
She's not. If you read carefully, she's "downing" stupidity an ignorance - yours. Besides that, you told us all you're through posting on this issue any more. Did you forget? Is your brain fried? Are you on drugs? | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 2:39:56 AM | | bluesman ...grow up. I guess you felt the need to show ur ignorance as well as her huh. takes all kinds. i have the right to be agasint dope if I want to and that is not ur place to down me for it. she has the right to be for it. one takes dope one dont..wonder which one is really ignornat? the dope head. end of story. so bluesman you and her should get together and fry ur brains worse than they apparently alreayd are. I think what i should do is ask that thread be deleted if all u can do is bash non drug users. its not ur place. if u wnat to fry your brain more power to ya. But i choose not to. like it or not. and if you think I care what your opinion is about the fact that i dont want to associate with a drug user well guess what .....i really dont give a damn. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 4:34:47 AM | pumped kin what's to could yeall with drr "she" stuff der? peanuts n pumped kins werent to cuold like der terms of indeerment, yee'wl ? Muster could dun been the didnnnn't..... har harrr harr. Yee'awl'zz ddddum, rally speatial dum.
EE''alls numdess dun blu my funny fuse. knot sher if it ye'awlz leterrs, or purity of stpidity butt dang yee'awls make my eyes bleed.
imm r go now but uzz to could just recall, yaw'llz spesale tea pot.
PS: ty fer yee'awlz post txt der , but truly weren't me to could took yee'll florew by chickn pen... could to would be my pappy tho.... MAH!! | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 7:14:47 AM |
bluesman ...grow up. I guess you felt the need to show ur ignorance as well as her huh. takes all kinds. i have the right to be agasint dope if I want to and that is not ur place to down me for it. she has the right to be for it. one takes dope one dont..wonder which one is really ignornat? the dope head. end of story. so bluesman you and her should get together and fry ur brains worse than they apparently alreayd are. I think what i should do is ask that thread be deleted if all u can do is bash non drug users. its not ur place. if u wnat to fry your brain more power to ya. But i choose not to. like it or not. and if you think I care what your opinion is about the fact that i dont want to associate with a drug user well guess what .....i really dont give a damn.
Once again, you missed his point. Yet still proving mine! | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 8:06:03 AM |
Posted By: partof1
...... lol peanut, no you didnnn't! *CRACK ..... sonic BOOOMB.....shhhh...shhh..sh.
Need I dumb it down for you? Dun eww r n sum keeensheep weth kitternsher pump kin? Circles I said. Tsk, it's ok, I expected nothing less. Goes to show the validity of your ignorance.
Newyorktomboy,
Thanks, but the only reason I'd take a bow is for a certain few to kiss my ass. (Pucker up, peanut).
I am looking for some semblence of intelligence in your post... and it doesn't exist.
Put the bong down
Put the crack pipe down
And get away from the meth. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 8:16:48 AM | Kitten, I admire your strong will in the face of adversity, unfortunately you overcompensate with ignorance. Marijuana is no more brain damaging than green beans. Please note the following excerpt:
Oakley Ray, Ph.D. and Charles Ksir, Ph.D. note in their textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior (NY: McGraw Hill, 10th Edition, 2004):
"There have been...incomplete or poorly controlled reports of potential brain damage from animal research, and it has been possible to dismiss most of them as inconclusive.
However, two experiments on rats, one appearing in 1987 and the other in 1988, gave stronger evidence that THC causes permanent changes in the structure of neurons in the hippocampus.
The doses used were in the range of what a very heavy marijuana smoker might obtain, and the treatment was given to the rats every day for ninety days. It's not clear what the implications might be for human beings smoking less heavily and only occasionally.
Ironically, some of the non-psychoactive ingredients in marijuana, including cannabidiol, have been shown to have powerful antioxidant properties that protect brain cells from toxic effects of other chemicals. This effect was strong enough that the NIMH [National Institute of Mental Health] filed a patent in 1988 entitled 'Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants.'"
I will not do your research for you but please understand marijuana has more advantages than most legal medications. Marijuana has helped thousands who suffer from Glaucoma, Cancer, AIDS, Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy and Seizures, and helps stave away Alzheimer’s disease. It is non-addictive in nature and has zero opiates eliminating your theory of hallucinating while under the influence.
Now FredHH, to claim that prosecuting drugs cost more than it yields is preposterous. The lawyers and judges do not make nearly that of the street drug dealer and lawmakers hit hard when it comes to prosecuting these “criminals”. The cost of prosecuting a single drug case runs about $15,000. The dealer will face fines in excess of $50,000.00 or more depending on the amount of drugs seized; that does not include revenue from the confiscation of property or the estimated taxes owed to the government. Partof1 stated it perfectly; the government will not legalize marijuana because it is found everywhere. “Weed” literally is a weed and will grow in most every climate. Since the government can not control marijuana they can not tax what they can not sell so it is of no benefit to legalize it…not even when it saves lives. At the end of the day…it’s all about the “holy dollar”…it always has been. After-all why legalize a drug as dangerous as Fentanyl or Morphine (which have there place but there are several other medications which offer the same results and are less dangerous) and not legalize Marijuana? For sake of repetition...the holy dollar! | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 8:54:45 AM | You are definitely making this into far bigger of a problem than it is. First and foremost, does she do any drugs besides marijuana? if she does then maybe you should think about moving on. if not then her and i seem alot alike. Marijuana is not a habit forming drug like most others, in fact its addictive in the same way chocolate is(im only using chocolate as an example because its only psycologically addictive and not physically). it is no more harmful for her or for you than asprin. you need to realize the facts about marijuana.
Do you drink? if you do, do you think she worries about you and what you do when you are drunk? i submit that she does. did you know that marijuana is many times less addictive and many times less dangerous than alcohol?
you said you think it should be legalized which probably means youve done the research already and know anything i may want to say to you. if you havent done the research, do it! youll realize its not that big of a deal. there are very few ways that this could develop into a real problem and ill go through them right now:
1) the only way she will get "addicted" to it is if she smoke pretty much non-stop, day-in and day-out, every day. considering she hasnt smoke since youve been together and shes been honest with you about it(shes alot like me) it doesnt seem like shes bound to do that.
2) if the second she does do it. you freak out and make it a big deal. its not a big deal so dont treat it like one. like i said its not habit forming, and you cant OD on it. and considering she hasnt smoke its however long youve been together, she wont be inclined to smoke a lot.
3) if you continue to listen to her friends. obviously they dont like the fact that shes not smoking cause of you. but you know what, if she really likes you (which i think she might considering she basically has quit for you, so far) she doesnt care what her friends say or think. trust me i know where shes at right now. my friends that smoke are the same exact way about me not smoking anymore. they just need to learn how to deal with it and if they cant then too bad for them. right?
ways to deal with it:
1) sit down or cuddle up with her and have a real heart to heart about the situation.
2) if really neccessary make up real loose rules like for example - let her smoke up to 2 days a week and have her let you know everytime. this worked for me and my ex(she broke up with me for far different reasons than this, we are still seeing each other and she still doesnt have a problem with me smoking)
3) hang out with her while or after she smokes. maybe being around her in that state will help you realize its not that bad.
4) last but not least, if you havent already. DO THE RESEARCH!
um, thats it for now. i suppose i could go on but ive already written a novel, haha. hope i helped you in some way. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 8:58:15 AM | | lv2b.. if that were true then why do people do it ...for the high, which changes their brain. thats why people do it. you cannot possibly be serious about it not affecting the brain. it does which is why people are stupid after smoking pot. and if u honestly believe smoking dope is not ignorant than that shows true ignorance on ur part. talk to someone who just smoked pot and see how they will laugh for no reason. it is because their brain is not right at that time. when u got a group of them togheter at a house, the house looks a loony bin for the retarded. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 8:59:06 AM | Lv2bcre8iv
You obviously have no clue about the costs of prosecution and housing an offender.
You have the police oficer to catch the criminal
The procecuting attourney
The defense attourney (90% of the time assigned by the court because the pothead can't afford one... so the state pays for this)
The cleck of Court
The court reporter
Many times a jury gets involved...
Then to "warehouse" the prisoner costs $30,000 to $90,000 (or more) a year depending on the security level required... (and then there's the free medical care while in jail/prison...)
By the time you deal with one pothead going before a judge on an "infraction" where the judge just assigns a minor fine... you have run up that $15,000.... to collect less than a $500 fine.
And often... the pothead doesn't have the money to pay the fine... so they assign jail time instead. (rememeber the old $20 or 20 days? I'm sure you have heard of it)
You have to be insane (or high on pot... and thus brain damaged by definition) to think that its a money making proposition to have cops chase potheads
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 9:23:58 AM | first off, Hooray for weed!
secondly, If you think smoking some pot in her past (or future) makes her a bad person than move on... anything can be a deal breaker - in your case, I think it's not so much her pot smoking, as your judgement. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 9:51:17 AM | OH MY GOD!!! i cant believe how ignorant you really are about marijuana. where did you get youre facts from? yes tobacco use and marijuana use are extremely different but what you fail to realize is that one is far greater than the other. the greater being marijuana. do you know why marijuana was made illegal in the first place? it was because mexican immigrants(no offense to anyone mexican its just fact) used to sit around smoking all day and not do work. also it remains illegal because of the money. marijuana is a natural plants and needs to special work done to it. hence, there are no patents. hence, there are no rights. hence, there is no money for the government. there finally the truth! no denial. now onto your other ridiculous statement.
1) you can drive after smoking marijuana, i know from experience. FACT: driving under the influence of marijuana is LESS dangerous than and talkin on a cell phone.
2) you dont laugh when under the influence of marijuana because of ignorance. the fact that you suggested that to be true is ignorance itself. you laugh because its one of the side-effects. just like dizziness and diarhea is a side-effect from certain prescription drugs. hmmm...if i had my choice i would definitely choose laughing over dizziness or diarhea in a heart beat.
3) Smoking marijuana DOES NOT make your body shake. trust me, i know. while on the other hand NOT smoking ciggaretts does make some poeple shake. can you say addiction?
4) smoking marijuana only makes you paranoid if youve got something to be paranoid about. i, personally have never gotten paraniod, thank you very much.
5) smoking marijuana and/or being high DOES NOT take away all your memory. yes, it has been proven that marijuana does effect your short term memory and yes i just said that so dont even try to call me ingorant. but you regain this once the THC is out of your system. the THC in marijuana attaches itself to some of the receptor sites in your brain. therefor slowing your cognitive funtions. in turn this doesnt not make you stupider, less able to remember or cause brain damage. in effect what it does is make you think of less things all at once and let you concentrate on one or a few specific thing. in essence making you a bit more focused and let scatter brained. while on the other hand ciggaretts just give you cancer and destroy your body and mind.
6) i have never heard of a case where a person has halucinated from marijuana and alcohol use. maybe they just had too much of one or both. maybe the marijuana had something else in it. it happens. your friends experience something very rare and unheard of. either way, i dont condone the mix of mariuana and alcohol so think about how ignorant your friends are for doing it themselves.
so lets see, you were wrong about just about everything. you must feel just peachy now. next time you wanna start spewing out "facts" make sure they are in fact, facts. it drives some people crazy to see others be so ignorant about the things they dont like. you can hate marijuana all you want, i have no problem with that but please do your research and learn what you hate so you can more effectively hate it.
more facts...
FACT: marijuana is less addictive than both ciggaretts and alcohol. if you wanna deny that alcohol is addictive ive got 2 words for you, alcoholics anonymous. thank you.
FACT: the only way to OD on marijuana is to smoke more than a pound of high potency marijuana in less than an hour. and if youve ever seen a pound of marijuana you would know that that is close to impossible. not just is it an unbelievable amount to smoke in just a short period of time but you lose some of the potentially "lethal" THC from excess smoke and other factors aswell. also your body wouldnt be able to handle the task and you would probably fall asleep before you ever got close. then wake up to find that youve got more weed to smoke.
FACT: Marijuana is the most medically active plant on earth. There are medically beneficial uses for Marijuana and its active chemical THC but since it is a natually occuring plant form it cannot be patented. making it impossible for the pharmicutical companies to make any money from it. and we all know the FDA wouldnt approve of a non-habit forming, non-detrimental, multi-use drug that they cant get some scratch from.
OF THE SUBJECT FACT: LSD is not an addictive substance. im not going to get into the details even though i do know them. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 9:53:20 AM | | By the sounds of it you had a bad expierence, but you have to realize that although one may be addicted doesn't neccesarily make them a bad person. We are talking about marijuana here, and I've met alot of people who wouldn't give some one the time of day who don't smoke, and people who are willing to push you out of a ditch, for free, who do. Addictions are always a bad thing but it alters from person to person, and drug to drug. I don't mean to be any disrespect, I just feel that I'm being attacked as I have accepted my marijuana addiction, but I know one thing I would never put a child through hell and I try my best not to hurt others, and that's not my addiction speaking thats me. And if my addiction got in the way of my life I would quit but I'm happy until then. | |
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| Should marijuana use be a deal breaker?
Posted: 5/30/2008 10:23:43 AM | Touché Fred…housing criminals can be quite costly and I concede that my estimates for prosecuting may have been off. So why not legalize Marijuana at least for medicinal purposes? It is shown to have widespread health benefit and minimal to no adverse side effects. It is such a shame of humanity that something seemingly created by God himself would be considered evil and wrong. Legalizing marijuana would not only save lives of those who require it’s benefits medically, but also those who are killed in drug trafficking.
Kitten…the euphoria experienced by marijuana is caused by THC acting on the brains “reward” system. It releases small amounts of a natural chemical in the brain called dopamine which is responsible for the enhanced sensations experienced when under the influence of marijuana. The amount of dopamine released is inconsequential no matter how much you smoke. More dopamine is released in the body when you enact the “fight or flight” response such as noticing a state trooper pulling you over for a speeding ticket. The only way to get enough THC to actually do any harm is by injection and that would require chemically altering the plant into something other than marijuana.
The facts are the facts and they are indisputable. Marijuana is a harmless agent created by God. Man has turned this agent into a multi-million dollar industry. People die every day due to the trafficking of marijuana and the inability to use it as a medicine. Indirectly FredHH helps me make my point; if it is so expensive to prosecute these “criminals”, and scientific research proves the medical benefits of the “drug”, and legalizing it at least for medicinal purposes would save lives, then why not legalize marijuana? … … … I’ve already given you this answer. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. | |
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