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The terrible truth about cannabis:...20-year study...demolishes claims that smoking pot is harmless
Daily Mail ^ | 10.6.14 | Ben Spencer

Posted on 10/06/2014 6:05:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A definitive 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: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cannabis; colorado; dope; freedom; itsharmless; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; mrleroydisagrees; pot; potheads; rockymountainhigh; thc; wod
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I am all for freedom. I understand the notion that ingesting dangerous chemicals into your body is, in some respects, a personal decision.

Just wanted to pass this along--maybe it'll temper the enthusiasm some of us have for dangerous habits.

I am certain that as time goes on, it will become clear the path laid bare by the Supreme Court today regarding marriage will be mourned by society. The evidence will show that redefining marriage as "whatever we want to call it" hurts, deeply, the human condition.

1 posted on 10/06/2014 6:05:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Exhibit A: Look whose in the White House.


2 posted on 10/06/2014 6:07:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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highly addictive, causes mental health problems and opens the door to hard drugs

Kinda sounds like beer....

3 posted on 10/06/2014 6:08:20 PM PDT by Bobalu (Hashem Yerachem (May God Have Mercy)
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To: SoFloFreeper

4 posted on 10/06/2014 6:09:59 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Bobalu

opened the door to my sister alright, but when you point that out to the druggies they then point the finger at her instead of their drugs they so much like


5 posted on 10/06/2014 6:10:16 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I never heard a peep about scientific studies before pot was legalized.


6 posted on 10/06/2014 6:10:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Bobalu

When reached for comment, Cheech Marin responded; ‘wait, what?’.


7 posted on 10/06/2014 6:10:34 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pot smokes your Brain.


8 posted on 10/06/2014 6:12:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m still on the fence. My dad has horrible back pain and nerve damage. His first back surgery was in 1981. That is many, many years of constant pain. Because of this, he is on strong pain relievers and will be for life. I’ve learned that some of them, like oxycodone, contain artificial heroin. I’ve seen what decades of prescription painkillers does to a person. Could medical marijuana really be that much worse?

I recently had a minor surgery and Vicodin was prescribed. I chose to suffer for a few days rather than take that drug. I’m grateful that, for me, the pain was temporary. If I was looking at years of debilitating pain I would be looking for relief.


9 posted on 10/06/2014 6:14:01 PM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: Bobalu

There’ve also been definitive studies proving that eating too much sugar makes you fat and impairs her cognitive abilities overtime.

I’d rather the government not criminalize or control anything it’s none of their damn business. If your actions are not hurting others or denying others their rights then it is no business of government.

You either have tyranny or you don’t. And when you start out with soft tyranny you end up with a hard tyranny overtime as more and more people in power try to “help the children .”


10 posted on 10/06/2014 6:14:16 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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Using sugar isn’t a moral weakness.


11 posted on 10/06/2014 6:16:21 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: NorthstarMom

I don’t think many would oppose its use for true pain relief. That’s not how it’s being used, of course, by most.

I don’t oppose the use of opiates for true pain relief, either. Of course they have their bad side effects, but it’s always a cost/benefit analysis.


12 posted on 10/06/2014 6:16:59 PM PDT by Persevero (Come on 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There are two types of brain damaged addicts wandering outside my office building right now.

The first are the methheads. They generally are twitching, swearing, acting psychotically.

The second are the dopers. They no longer can put together a coherent sentence and their brains are running at 15 rpm. You can tell them by their slurred speech and difficulty understanding and responding to another person. They sit around all day doing nothing.

The methhead tweakers are probably more dangerous, but the dopers are just as screwed up.


13 posted on 10/06/2014 6:16:59 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: WMarshal

And this guy was paid by the anti-drug people. Having looked at studies, especially for doctoral papers, etc, invariably they are written to support the initial assumption. All results are built to support the assumptions and any data which would interfere with this is discounted as outliers, even if,the preponderance of the proof.


14 posted on 10/06/2014 6:17:48 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: DJ MacWoW

Lotta stoners on FR it seems.


15 posted on 10/06/2014 6:17:59 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

It can be.


16 posted on 10/06/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Catmom

And they can just not stop posting about dope. Like moths to a flame


17 posted on 10/06/2014 6:20:18 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Catmom

Unfortunately. Many claim that they don’t “use”, they just object to government control. The truth is if mankind cannot control themselves, laws will.


18 posted on 10/06/2014 6:20:33 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Gil4

You people make me laugh.


19 posted on 10/06/2014 6:21:16 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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I gotta tell you that the lefties are already trying to make being fat to be a moral weakness. In the future if you eat too much sugar and you get fat the bureaucrats in Obamacare are going to judge you not worth the money and turn you down for any surgeries and let you die. All for your own good of course.


20 posted on 10/06/2014 6:22:37 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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