Machinery Of The 'Marijuana Munchies'

Science Daily ^ | December 26, 2005

[Know your rights]

Please provide evidence that drug use has gone up.

Why didn't you ask me to provide evidence between the increase in drug use and the increase of gun control?

If you'd like to provide that evidence as well, feel free. Do you have any evidence that drug use has gone up?

[Know your rights]

if pot were legal, there'd be whole above board support industry, for those who chose to grown their own

The legal market might come up with an easier way to prevent fertilization of female plants than what the black market has ... but that would still have to be done, which makes growing good marijuana still significantly more difficult than simply sticking plants in the ground.

[Know your rights]

I saw the spew here and wanted to jump in, but you responded before I did in such a wonderfully logical, unemotional fashion, one that I could not have managed given the sheer vitriol poured out.

Thanks for the kind words. I see every ounce of bile spilled by WOD supporters as a gain for the anti-WOD position.

[Know your rights]

Hemp is a very durable plant that requires little maintenance or chemicals.

Hemp also has low THC content; growing cannabis plants with high THC content takes more effort. (That's why "ditch weed" is a derogatory term.)

[elbucko]

Do you have any evidence that drug use has gone up?

As drug use has gone up, gun control has gone up accordingly. The graphs are identical. Liberals would prefer to have their drugs, than the right to be armed. That's why they are trading our gun rights for legalizing their drugs.

The cities with the highest drug use, such as San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, D.C., also have the most strict gun control.

[Know your rights]

Do you have any evidence that drug use has gone up?

As drug use has gone up, gun control has gone up accordingly. The graphs are identical.

You have yet to show that the drug use graph has in fact gone up.

[elbucko]

You have yet to show that the drug use graph has in fact gone up.

You wouldn't believe it if I did, or you would repudiate its source. On a drug thread, logic is futile. It's also an oxymoron.

[Know your rights]

You wouldn't believe it if I did, or you would repudiate its source.

And this makes it OK for you to repeatedly post unsupported claims? You Drug War cheerleaders are a hoot.

[elbucko]

And this makes it OK for you to repeatedly post unsupported claims?

Of course, turnabout is fair play. Those of you who want to legalize pot constantly post unsupported claims from disreputable sources all the time. Why should I waste my time trying to convince you through all your own smoke?

[LibertarianInExile]

Elbucko, you're the one making the claim that drug use has gone up. Could we at least clarify your claim? Do you mean that the number of drug users has increased, or the percentage of the population using drugs has increased? From what year do you contend the rise began?

[Know your rights]

Of course, turnabout is fair play.

So you make a habit of sinking to the level of others? Interesting. I prefer to keep to the high road, myself.

Those of you who want to legalize pot constantly post unsupported claims

Give one example of *me* ... not unnamed others ... doing so and refusing requests for support as you are doing.

[mother22wife21]

Health care professionals may prescribe MARINOL® to help stimulate an HIV/AIDS patient’s appetite so he or she will want to eat again.

Would a dr. need to get 'special permission' from ?whomever? to perscribe this for a nonHIV/AIDS patient?

[robertpaulsen]

"That medication already exists: it's called marijuana."

Who, besides you, recognizes smoked marijuana as medicine? Certainly not any major medical organization.

[robertpaulsen]

"Some people are so stupid and selfish about denying others their RIGHT to use a substance grown freely ..."

Actually, the stupid people are those who wish to legalize smoked marijuana as medicine because they, personally, know of one instance where it had the appearance of helping someone they knew.

[robertpaulsen]

"Marinol is a pill, so is hard for some nauseous patients to keep down, and is slow-onset and therefore hard to titrate"

Hmmmm. Seems like a minor consequence compared the consequence of death when an immune-suppressed chemo patient smokes contaminated, home-grown marijuana.

Hey, what the hell. They were going to die anyways, right?

[robertpaulsen]

"whose current party line is that marijuana has no medicinal value"

Which coincides with the conclusion reached by the medical community.

[robertpaulsen]

"That's too bad for them."

Worse for us. He's admitted on this forum that he's taught them they don't have to obey the laws they disagree with.

[robertpaulsen]

The tenth amendment only deals with powers NOT delegated to the federal government. Are you saying the federal government does not have the power to regulate the interstate commerce of marijuana? Go ahead, say it. Don't dance around.

Also, are you saying the ninth amendment dictates that the federal government must protect all of your rights? Is that what you're saying?

[robertpaulsen]

"If anything, it appears to be considerably more difficult to grow high-potency marijuana than to distill alcohol."

As evidenced by ... what? The plethora of alcohol stills in basements as opposed to marijuana plants?

[robertpaulsen]

"What decreasing drug laws?"

Decriminalization and "medical" marijuana laws coincide with the recent rise in overall marijuana use.