Machinery Of The 'Marijuana Munchies'

Science Daily ^ | December 26, 2005

[Know your rights]

They made me do it! They made me post like that!

WODdies aren't big on personal responsibility.

[Woman on Caroline Street]

I think his tagline says it all.

[El Gato]

Yet more Liberaltarian palaver...the 10th amendment trumps the 9th.

Horsefeathers. No amendment of the Bill of Rights can trump another, they were passed at the same time, as a package.

Now the real question is whether the 9th amendment binds the state governments. Rights reserved to the people verses powers reserved to the states. Oh, and to the people. People have powers and rights, governments only have powers.

Several states have passed laws semi-legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The Feds have overridden them at every turn. So much for both the 9th and 10th amendments, as far as the drug warriors are concerned.

[bassmaner]

bump for later

[freepatriot32]

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here

[ppaul]

(And if used from a vaporizer rather than smoked it doesn't have the ill effects of smoking.)

And, you still get stoned. :)

[ppaul]

Everybody must get stoned...

[Know your rights]

And, you still get stoned. :)

There are worse side effects for a medicine to have.

[308MBR]

If the morbidly obese had willpower to do anything besides overeat, they wouldn't be morbidly obese.

[M203M4]

Um...I think something in the OTHER direction is needed. Suppression of the appetite.

Administer as needed.

[elbucko]

"If you can show that the numerical increase in drug users is not substantially larger than the number of persons released by the Community Mental Health Centers Act,

That's a silly question to attempt to answer 40 years later. Nevertheless, the drug problems in the USA and its creation of a world wide market in drugs is the result of both the USA, Canada and Western Europe attempting to treat the mentally ill on a community based, out-patient basis. From Sarah Jane Moore to Mark Chapman, to David Hinkley and Patrick Purdy, of the Stockton School yard Massacre, all were mental patients being treated at a community clinic.

[El Gato]

Mostly because if a person is drug tested and there is presence of marijuana they are considered DWI. Even if that intoxication occured last week sometime, it still shows in your system.

Fortunately, like with alcohol, there would be a level test. Heck a large fraction the population could probably get a positive indication for MJ, just by second hand smoke in the halls and public areas of businesses and residences such as apartment buildings.

[Know your rights]

If you can show that the numerical increase in drug users is not substantially larger than the number of persons released by the Community Mental Health Centers Act,

That's a silly question to attempt to answer 40 years later. Nevertheless, the drug problems in the USA and its creation of a world wide market in drugs is the result of both the USA, Canada and Western Europe attempting to treat the mentally ill on a community based, out-patient basis.

So you have no evidence but you'll make the claim anyway. Typical Drug War 'logic.'

From Sarah Jane Moore to Mark Chapman, to David Hinkley and Patrick Purdy, of the Stockton School yard Massacre, all were mental patients being treated at a community clinic.

And they were all pot smokers? Or are you dragging in red herrings?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Moron is as good as any for hose who propose the legalization of drugs before the national problem of the homeless and mentally ill on the street is addressed.

Keep hitting that one piano key, my friend.

[Know your rights]

Could be ... but I'd rather have a medicine be available than have lack of willpower be a death sentence.

[sandbar]

>>>So shove your, "Why are you here?" where it belongs, you friggin ignorant moron!>>>

I have reported you for abuse.

Questioning your reason for being on a conservative website when you obviously have a thing for limiting freedoms of private citizens is not quite the same as calling you an ignorant moron.

[elbucko]

WODdies aren't big on personal responsibility.

Actually, I think the War on Drugs is a bad policy. Money spent and wasted on a futile effort. Better the money had been spent on mental facilities.

[vin-one]

why even bother with some of nutty responses, Like spitting into a tornado.......stay safe

[elbucko]

Keep hitting that one piano key, my friend.

I will. It's the only one in tune.

[El Gato]

The mentally ill are the reason that the 2nd Amendment is being infringed. Or is that too high a concept to wrap your drug addled brain around?

Again, horsefeathers. The second amendment is being infringed because the notion of an armed populace scares many politicians, and for good reason I might add. Now, they use the rise in crime and drug abuse as an excuse, but it's not the real reason. In fact, as we know, crime drops when the law abiding are armed.

The attacks on the second amendment started well before the '63 law that you cite. The first major attack at the federal level came in the 1930s, with the passage of the ('34) National Firearms Act, and the ('38) Federal Firearms Act. For those, especially the former, they used the crime caused by the prohibition of alcohol as the excuse, even though by then, prohibition had been repealed, although the crime syndicates remained. Then there was the 1968 Gun Control Act, which was passed using as the excuse events that happened after your '63 law, but not so much after that the societal effects had yet had enough time to grow enough to be really be noticeable.