Posted on 09/15/2002 8:38:29 AM PDT by JediGirl
"Legalizing pot" and changing the drug war paradigm may seem like a waste to you, but it is the single biggest obstacle in getting the right to denounce and disavow the policies and doctrines of the New Deal. We cannot hope to stop the liberals abuse of the Constitution as long as we are complicit.
On The Smokey Backroom Sep 15 10:20 AM #130 of 386
Um. What the hell is your point? My journal doesn't have to be filled with profound observations about the state of the world. Sod off.
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Sod off.
Don't get it!
(from Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)
Sod's Law British, humorous
the way in which plans fail and bad things happen where there is any possibility of them doing so
It's Sod's Law that on the one occasion when the train arrives on time, I'm late!
Maybe I have one for you!
The following is the entire radio address from 1979. It can be found on pages 396-399 of Reagan In His Own Hand. This is from my own personal transcription.
Marijuana
August 1979
There is more evidence in on marijuana and it should ring an alarm bell particularly for parents.
I'll be right back.
From time to time I've used these commentaries to report an update on the continued research into marijuana. Medical Science has come a long way since the 1972 report by the Nat.Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse which gave the weed a relatively clean bill of health.
Everyone who had the urge to light up a joint somehow became aware of the report and could recite it as a litany ---exhaling smoke on every line. Strange to say however (or may be not so strange) the confident & happy pot smokers overlooked a follow up report by members of the same commission which in effect said "Oops we overlooked a few things in the 1st report".
Further research has continued to repudiate that first report, research by increasing numbers of scientists here and abroad. And yet none of these subsequent findings seem to have caught the attention of the estimated 16 mil. regular users in our land ---4 mil. of whom are between the ages of 12 and 17.
Those who have no axe to grind except to report the scientific facts they have uncovered say that marijuana has a far greater potential for harm then was previously believed.
The toxic ingredident which provides the effects pot smokers want has a jawbreaker name which I may not pronounce correctly --- Tetrahydrocannabinol which I will henceforth refer to as T.H.C. This THC lodges in the bodoes fatty tissues and that includes the brain & the reproductive organs. Now for those hard to sell souls who liken a joint to a martini the difference is our body eliminates the martini in 24 hours. THC satys in the body for amonth. A person who only lights up a couple of times a week is keeping his most essential bodily organs permanently soaked in this toxic drug.
Does this have an effect? You can bet on it. Science now knows that it reduces the ability of the brain to transfer information from short term to long term memory in adition to other adverse & irreversible effects on the mental processes.
It slows the bodys production of white blood cells which play a major role in fighting infection. And it lowers the male hormone & pserm count in men which if I may be blunt leads to sterility.
But there is another effect, which in this day & age of warnings on cigarette packages about the danger of cancer from smoking tobacco, should give any pot smoker pause to think. The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer causing substances then tobacco. And if that isn't enough it leads to bronchitis & emphysema.
If adults want to take such chances that is their business. But surely the communications media and public figures whose words get some attention should let 4 mil.youngsters know what they are risking when they light up a "joint" and pass it around because they think its the in thing to do.
This is RR. Thanks for listening.
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Reagan's disdain for marijuana is clear and evident. But I agree with Reagan. If adults want to be stupid in public and break the law by using pot, that chance they take is their business. However, its still illegal.
Stoners always think that.
It is very questionable.
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