Posted on 01/26/2004 2:36:49 PM PST by quidnunc
As David Blunkett contemplates the chaos and fury triggered by his decision to downgrade the law on cannabis, he could do worse than consider the case of Dominique Lansdowne.
Eleven years ago, when she was 18, the former care assistant from Swindon started smoking cannabis once a week. ‘After a couple of weeks, I found it was addictive’, she said. ‘As soon as you start you get the feeling you’re completely relaxed and calm, but then you crave it. I used it more and more until I was smoking it every day. Then I couldn’t work because I was too stoned all the time. I was so paranoid I couldn’t leave the house.
‘I haven’t worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldn’t afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldn’t cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didn’t stop completely until two years ago.
‘I still take anti-psychotics, antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, and will probably have to take medication for the rest of my life. I’m positive cannabis was the cause; I became paranoid as soon as I started smoking it. I’ve known hundreds of people who smoke it; all of them have some kind of paranoia or a problem, whether they recognise it or not.’
All of which makes it truly extraordinary that this Thursday, cannabis will be downgraded from a class B to a class C drug.
The Home Secretary’s move has delighted the drug legalisers — but astonished and horrified those like Dominique, who know the truth about its effects.
Tory leader Michael Howard has boldly declared that a future Conservative government will reverse the policy. Yet Mr Blunkett’s so called ‘reform’ has already caused many people mistakenly to believe cannabis is now legal or safe to use.
Despite ministers’ desperate insistence that it remains illegal and dangerous, putting cannabis in the same category as slimming pills, painkillers, tranquillisers and anabolic steroids sends the inescapable signal that it is not very dangerous after all.
Dominique Lansdowne knows what nonsense this is. Before she used cannabis, she had not even smoked tobacco; afterwards she also tried speed, LSD and ecstasy. ‘I would never have touched hard drugs if I hadn’t taken cannabis. Reclassification is really dreadful and sad because the government is saying cannabis isn’t that bad and so people are going to take it thinking it’s not going to do them any harm.’
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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...
You are a visionary, my friend.
Which goes to show their intact good sense!
Well I hope you don't drink coffee, Ace, or cokes either.
Knee bothering you? Take an ibuprofen?
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.
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. "
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".
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.
Based on many of the responses to this thread, I'd have to agree.
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?
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.
Isn't that a hygiene issue?
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