The Cannabis Catastrophe (Pot softens brains: Stoners don't care)

The Daily Mail [UK] ^ | January 26 2003 | Melanie Phillips

[Monty22]

I was smart enough to watch other people folly and use critical thinking to avoid it myself..

[hosepipe]

[ ethics? Like beating and killing their women? Like killing the converts that leave islam? What are you talking about? ]

Yeah but pot or hashish has nothing at all to do with it.. it is the teaching..

Apostasy(leaving Islam) is punishable by death. Mohammad said, "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him." Quran.. Sara Vol. 9:57

The majority of people in hell are women. Mohammed said, "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women. " SURAH..Vol. 1:28, 301; & Vol. 2:161; & Vol. 7:124

"as to those women on those part ye fear disloyalty and ill conduct, admonish them,refuse to share their beds and BEAT THEM"...Qu'ran.4/34

Mohammed said,"After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women." Qu'ran 7:33

SURAH(Koran)-->>Torment to Non-believers->4.56 *Only Islam Acceptable-> 3.85 * No friends from outsiders->3.118 *No friends with Jews, christians->5. 51 * No friends with non believers->4.144, 3.28 * No friends with parents/siblings if non-believers->IX.23 * Fight non-believers->9.123 * Kill non-believers->6.89

Quran SHOULD be studied until ALL THE COMEDY COMES OUT...

[Xenalyte]

I'm sure to a cokehead I would, and of that I'm proud.

I have no idea how, from a joke about the price of cocaine, you concluded that I'm a cokehead. I'm not. I can't stand the stuff.

Careful reading and fewer assumptions would serve you well.

[Monty22]

I know that stuff comes from the founder of that 'religion'.

I didn't say pot made anyone do that, but I sure don't think it reduces it either.. Which was my original point. They use there, and still do that stuff.

[Huck]

Thanks, CJ. That's mighty neighborly of you. An apology from Monty wouldn't do much for me, though, but who knows? It might do something for him!

[Huck]

Quran SHOULD be studied until ALL THE COMEDY COMES OUT...

You are a visionary, my friend.

[Monty22]

Well I'm a little sorry for the comment. However, I do not tolerate drugs or pro-drug attitudes. It's like tolerating pro-child rape for me. It sickens me.

(I'm not equating the two things. I'm just saying my reaction is similar)

[Huck]

None of them wishes to be mistaken for a Yemeni mountain tribesman.

Which goes to show their intact good sense!

[humblegunner]

However, I do not tolerate drugs or pro-drug attitudes.

Well I hope you don't drink coffee, Ace, or cokes either.
Knee bothering you? Take an ibuprofen?

[missyme]

You need to watch Cheech and Chong"s "Up in Smoke" and smoke your self a major DOOBIE! ok just kidding...

Sister Mary? hmm I cannot think of her name??anyone know?

[Monty22]

Don't give me that crap. You know better, I hope.

[mac_truck]

From the article you exerpted:

In fact, there has long been evidence that cannabis is associated with mental illness. Some claimed, however, that it wasn’t clear whether cannabis caused people to become mentally ill or whether such people were already ill when they turned to the drug. Now, Professor Murray says a number of recent studies have proved beyond any doubt that cannabis is a cause of mental illness.

[mac_truck]

Bill Gates has done ok with a soft brain! And Carl Sagan.

And Newt Gingrich.

And Clarence Thomas.

And....

From the article:

"Many people associate pot with the flower-power sixties. But since then, it has become at least ten times stronger, with the most toxic varieties such as ‘skunk’ or home-grown marijuana becoming increasingly popular. According to some psychiatrists, this increase in strength along with rising use has produced an explosion of cannabis users displaying psychotic symptoms such as schizophrenia, paranoia or manic depression. "

[muawiyah]

Well, not actually since many of them do remind me of Yemeni mountain tribesmen.

It's when they've been in an MJ famine for a couple of months that they begin to worry about this sort of thing.

It's like potheads live life a segment at a time ~ like Kurt Vonnegut's characters, right?!

Only it's all interspersed with periods of the "munchies".

[Trailerpark Badass]

If heroine was as common as these two we would have a major epidemic on our hands.

I don't know, heroin's pretty darn common. You can find it virtually anywhere in this country, even rural areas. The only reason you haven't seen it is because you haven't been looking for it. If you were to look for it, you would find it, surprisingly easily.

[mac_truck]

Specific cannabis receptors in the brain mean that the drug particularly affects logical thought, reasoning, judgment and memory, sensory perception, co-ordination and the production of emotions including pleasure.

Based on many of the responses to this thread, I'd have to agree.

[humblegunner]

Don't give me that crap. You know better, I hope.

Your statement was rather sweeping.
I'm a tobacco addict, I guess, and a caffeine addict too.

These are all drugs, nay?

I took 2 ibuprofen today.

These are all drugs. I know what you mean.. illegal proscribed
"drugs"... but where is the line and who is to define it?

[Huck]

(I'm not equating the two things. I'm just saying my reaction is similar)

I understand and appreciate fully what you mean, Monty. In order to keep intact your hostility towards drugs and pro-drug attitudes, you must project hostility towards me, else risk facing a bout of cognitive dissonance.

[.cnI redruM]

Wow. You must have posted this while stoned. It showed all the earmarks of a softened brain. I imagine you don't care a whole lot, but that's OK. I'd sure hate to meet you if the spliff ever made you get paranoid and hung up.

[Huck]

Well, not actually since many of them do remind me of Yemeni mountain tribesmen.

Isn't that a hygiene issue?