Posted on 08/06/2006 6:04:24 AM PDT by Wolfie
Actually, just last year two dutch dock workers got hit by a falling crate containing 1 ton of Jack Herer. They probably were the first to die from weed overdose, but can you safely say they were the last?
We must be from the same era.
My friends and I would pitch in $5 apiece and get a lid fo $20.
Once in awhile, we could scrape together the $40 for a bag of *gasp* Columbian.
Would you call "fatally overdosing" a characteristic of a drug? I guess so. Yet you favor the legalization of heroin.
"Actually, Ken H has shown that drug addiction is higher in war-on-drug meccas like Singapore than it is in the USA."
KenH being the foremost expert on the subject, or a way for you to make a claim without taking responsibility for it? The latter, I'm guessing.
KenH is comparing two different cultures and claiming significance. That's like saying saki use in Japan is higher than in the U.S. because of Japanese laws.
It was written by someone who obviously has never done a bong hit.
You know that.
Dosage is of course irrelevant. The "worst case scenario" is the baseline, and it only gets worse from there.
I'd call the (im)possibility of producing a fatal overdose a characteristic of a drug.
I guess so. Yet you favor the legalization of heroin.
How is that relevant to the author's moronic claim that "The characteristics of cannabis are no longer that different from those of other plant-based drugs, such as cocaine and heroin"? Do you agree with that claim?
Actually, Ken H has shown that drug addiction is higher in war-on-drug meccas like Singapore than it is in the USA.
KenH being the foremost expert on the subject, or a way for you to make a claim without taking responsibility for it?
Ken H having collected and presented the data. (Doesn't make him the "foremost" expert ... but more so than either of us.)
KenH is comparing two different cultures and claiming significance.
I think Ken H is pointing out that cross-cultural evidence does not support the idea that "drug control works." But unlike you, I don't presume to put words in Ken H's mouth.
Dirt Weed Man!! Now, for nostalgia, how about $35 for a 5 finger lid of the Columbian......dat wuz sweeeet!
This one brought out the usual freeper suspects and marijuana users. LOL.
Gosh , I guess the BC & Amsterdam pot smokers must be flooding the emergency rooms & morgues, smoking all that powerful weed.
What? Their not? I did hear that piazza delivery orders are up in both locations!
I'm saying that I'm confident that "This will put you in pieces, then reduce you to rubble -- maybe quicksand if you go too far" is laughable hype, not a basis for a sound pro-pot-ban argument.
Naw ... A CA Guy hasn't chimed in yet to proclaim the article's brilliance.
and marijuana users.
Which of the posters to this thread are marijuana users, and how do you know? Or are you just smearing advocates of liberty?
Have anything to say about the article, or are you just here to insult people?
UN bureaucrats claiming the sky is falling get their due.
It was a joke. Please go take a GIANT toke on your bong and mellow out. Loosen the wedgie up a few notches also.
As my husband says, it's pathetic that at our age, when we talk about offering our guests some great Colombian after dinner.... it's just coffee. :)
Which might be significant if the author stated, "The characteristics of cannabis are no longer that different from those of other plant-based drugs, such as cocaine and heroin."
Go away.
"I think Ken H is pointing out that cross-cultural evidence does not support the idea that "drug control works."
How do you conclude that from "drug addiction is higher"? Drug control in Singapore could very well be working, just that drug addiction in Singapore is higher than in the U.S.
Heroin addiction is higher in Baltimore than in Chicago. What does that have to do with our drug control laws?
P.S. No one authorized you to be Thread Nanny Cop. When I feel I need a little 'scold' nipping at my ankles, I'll ping you. Till then, butt out!
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