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The terrible truth about cannabis: British expert's devastating 20-year study
dailymail ^ | 7 October 2014 | Ben Spencer

Posted on 10/06/2014 11:55:53 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

20-year study into the effects of long-term cannabis use has demolished the argument that the drug is safe.

Cannabis is highly addictive, causes mental health problems and opens the door to hard drugs, the study found.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: burnouts; cannabis; colorado; dope; drugs; libertarians; libtardians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; mrleroymourns; pot; rockymountainhigh; unitedkingdom; wod
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Dope Fiends are an angry bunch.

One would think that all that dope would mellow them out... but that's another myth.

21 posted on 10/07/2014 2:22:30 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Dope Fiends are an angry bunch.

My apologies - you've won the argument. How could I possibly respond to such a brilliant contribution? From the thread starter no less.

22 posted on 10/07/2014 2:24:54 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: AAABEST

Just sharing information dude. Carry on with your paranoia...


23 posted on 10/07/2014 2:29:38 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I used to smoke pot — back in that decade between the sixties and the eighties. Pot is not addictive, but it is a complete waste of life if too much is smoked. These days, if you are smoking pot, you are probably slumming with trash, and not achieving what you might. It is a bad habit. But it is not addictive.

There are far worse things happening, for example, redistribution of property. I’d gladly suffer pot heads roaming the streets, if they and their allies were not consuming my property and liberty.

Let them have their lifestyle, and shoot them if they try to take yours.


24 posted on 10/07/2014 2:32:45 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)

I clicked it. Nice profile pic.


25 posted on 10/07/2014 2:32:46 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
What other "studies" do you put unwavering faith in? Hmmm?
26 posted on 10/07/2014 2:34:18 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Just sharing information dude. Carry on with your paranoia...

I'm not paranoid... d00d. Irrelevant expats who consider inanities "information" don't frighten me.

27 posted on 10/07/2014 2:37:16 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: AAABEST

Take your immature whining to Drudge, where this article is posted, and see if he cares what a drug-pushing paranoid burnout thinks about anything. I am headed out to mail my election ballot.


28 posted on 10/07/2014 2:48:17 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
As a fellow resident of Germany, I no less than you am a proponent of drinking beer so long as it is German beer. But I do not deceive myself, alcohol when consumed is potentially harmful, even deadly, and statistically causes infinite cultural, societal, personal, and legal pain. Alcohol can be taken as beer or as straight vodka the latter is more dangerous than the former because it is more concentrated. Likewise mind altering drugs can be taken as pot or as "crocodile." The degree of harm varies but the fact of harm does not. In other words, crystal meth is far more dangerous than vodka but both can be deadly.

Society has concluded that it will not make alcohol illegal, even though statistically causes far more societal harm than illegal drugs because, on balance, the prohibition is worse than the abuse.

We have come to the same conclusion regarding pot. A study which shows that the harm of legalizing pot is worse than the harm caused by the war against pot might be of some instruction. Otherwise, drink up or light up, the study is BS-that means besides the point.


29 posted on 10/07/2014 2:58:32 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: sargon

Some people will tickle a crowd’s ears because they want to USE them. People who care are willing to say things that are unpleasant.

Yes, there is exaggeration when criticizing pot, but the intentions are good.

Our nation is going to hell in a handbasket. If all pot smokers have a superior sense of right and wrong, we wouldn’t have elected President Ebola.


30 posted on 10/07/2014 2:59:19 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Ebol-ee will collapse the system." Is that what President Ebola is thinking?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Bookmark... thanks.


31 posted on 10/07/2014 3:01:38 AM PDT by LowOiL ("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
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To: AAABEST
I clicked it. Nice profile pic.

Speaking of evolution and pot-smokers, Francis Galton was an avid partaker of dope. He invented eugenics.

32 posted on 10/07/2014 3:16:08 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’m afraid the pot-heads and advocates of “medical” marijuana aren’t going to like this.

The information is corroborated in many studies. And it will be corroborated in many more, as more people start to focus on marijuana research.


33 posted on 10/07/2014 3:29:48 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: nathanbedford

If prohibition failed, then the war on some drugs is an egregious failure as well. It’s pathetic that controlled substance laws designed to protect people are not applied to the deadly and addictive drugs nicotine and alcohol as well.

I guess Phillip Morris and Anheuser Busch give too much money to their congressmen to let that happen.


34 posted on 10/07/2014 3:40:32 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: Politicalkiddo
It took 20 years to gather common knowledge into one comprehensive study?

Perhaps the researchers were stoned?

35 posted on 10/07/2014 3:43:30 AM PDT by grania
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Getting high does alter the brain. Can’t be good in excess on a daily basis.


36 posted on 10/07/2014 3:46:04 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: MikeSteelBe
Huh?


37 posted on 10/07/2014 3:47:05 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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If in this study one substituted alcohol for pot the results would be the same. IOW heavy usage of either especially when young will have bad outcomes including people becoming addicted.


38 posted on 10/07/2014 3:48:08 AM PDT by Leto
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Every item listed can also be said of the LEGAL use of alcohol and/or tobacco.
Keep it away from kids and prosecute those that endanger others. It is a choice for adults to make.

Let’s make your “Makers Mark” and “Marlboro”s illegal, then we can talk. What I put in my body is my concern not yours.

And don’t tell me about the cost of social dependency caused by use. Then I tell you about the generational THEFT that is taking place for all those who saved NOTHING for their “golden years”? “Why should I pay” is not an argument. If we followed the Constitution you wouldn’t have to pay.

I’m still cranky, haven’t had my “medicine” yet. A weee taste of poitin!


39 posted on 10/07/2014 3:51:45 AM PDT by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: nathanbedford

I’d rather have a beer with my pizza, thank you. I don’t want the carcinogenics that pot has in it, 3 times what 1 cig does.


40 posted on 10/07/2014 3:55:15 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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