lol
Speaking as an aging baby boomer, I never thought I'd be nostalgic over a $20 baggie of Mexican.
Who wrote this piece - Count Floyd?
SCTV Flashback - "Monster Chiller Horror Theater".
"Scary, huh, kids?"
Yep. All the advertising hype is gospel, and all the cannabis out there is hydroponically grown superweed. Got it.
This starting statement is utter bullshit. I didn't bother to read any further.
Antonio Maria Costa? Gender identity crisis.
> The distinction between "soft" and "hard" drugs is, at best, artificial, especially with such a damaging psycho-active substance as modern-day cannabis. Even some advocates of cannabis as a "soft" drug are now reconsidering as they observe the devastating health consequences of abuse.
Why is it that fanatic drug haters always ridicule themselves by showing an absolute lack of knowledge about the subject? Not that I recommend getting high on dutch killer everyday for everyone, but devastating health consequences...do these people want to be taken serious?
Yeah, right.
More than a century of universally accepted restrictions on heroin and cocaine have prevented what would otherwise have been a pandemic.
< whiney voice > "It would be so much worse if we didn't have 'drug control'." < off whiney >
This is the same "It woulda been worse.." excuse liberals use for everything they try to fix. If demonrats get control and gas goes to six bucks...
Sheer idiocy. Just for starters, nobody has ever fatally overdosed on even the strongest marijuana.
North America is the world's largest cannabis market and most of its cannabis is homegrown. The U.S. market alone has been valued at more than $10-billion. As Canadians are starting to discover, a market that size inevitably attracts organized crime. So cannabis is a security threat as well as a health risk.
No, LAWS AGAINST cannabis are a security threat. When the drug alcohol was illegal, that market attracted organized crime.
People who drive under the influence of cannabis put others at risk.
People who drive under the influence of alcohol put others at risk ... is that sufficient reason to ban that drug?
Global levels of drug addiction -- think of the opium dens of the 19th century -- have dropped dramatically in the past 100 years.
Actually, Ken H has shown that drug addiction is higher in war-on-drug meccas like Singapore than it is in the USA.
It is a security threat and a magnet to crime precisely because it is illegal. Duh.
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!
"Sellers of the world's most popular illicit drug know better. Trawl through websites offering cannabis seeds for sale and you will find brand names such as Armageddon, AK-47 and White Widow. "This will put you in pieces, then reduce you to rubble -- maybe quicksand if you go too far," one seller boasts. This is much closer to the truth."
"Evidence of the damage to mental health caused by cannabis use -- from loss of concentration to paranoia, aggressiveness and outright psychosis -- is mounting and cannot be ignored."
They left out the part about it making your white daughters sleep with negros....
For those with an hour to kill, 'Reefer Madness' is online as a Google video:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236&q=reefer+madness
Awright! Another pointless drug war thread.
Listen to the Drug Warriors (Armchair Division). Such experts. Never mind that drug control policy has never worked anywhere at any time. And never will. Drugs are more available than ever. Drug War policy is an utter failure. I believe that drugs, including many legal medical drugs, are a scourge, but what point is a useless enforcement policy? Except maybe to provide a second income for members of the Drug Squad (a subdivision of your local Police Squad).
I guess if we repeat these Drug War policies that we'll get different results this time, eh?
The very same thing could be said of alcohol, which is legal to buy. If that's the first thing that comes to mind against the Libertarian point of view, your truly reaching. Unless you want to be intellectually honest and call for the ban of alcohol as well.
Lost all credibility with that one sentence.
Thanks for posting this.
Its amazing to see how defensive some people are of their vices. "I have a right to destroy myself if I want as long as I don't hurt anyone else." and refuse to recognize the bad affects their habits have on others or on society. That defend their vice--here, marijana, by saying that all science lies, it doesn't harm the brain, ignoring both testing and statistics that suggest a link between use and schizophrenia. Or, by dismissing and ignoring non-users sometimes painful personal experiences and observations of users self justification and self destructive behavior. Finally, by ignoring those whose lives have been damaged or destroyed by its use and point to their experience to try to warn others.
