Posted on 12/01/2004 1:38:50 PM PST by DouglasKC
Remember "Screaming Yellow Zonkers"? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The goold old 60s.
I am reminded of a study back in the late ‘60’s. It was used in the official “Officer Friendly” anti-pot lectures. It seems that a large percentage of teenage pot users had pimples, therefore pot causes pimples!
Henry Anslinger?
Marijuana has no medicinal value; it is a toxic weed. Parts of it can be made into a useful fiber known as hemp; therein lies its only value.
Well actually it has been used in Chinese and East Asian medicine for 2,500 years.
Now it is being used in Western Medicine as well.
I t can also be used ot make clothes, paper etc etc
It's all related, dude. A butterfly flaps it's wings in Nebraska and causes a tornado in Kansas. A plant growing in a flowerpot on your patio or a tadpole living in a puddle in your back yard substantially affect the interstate commerce of the nation.
And it is being harvested by Pharmaceutical companies around the world for use in many different areas.
You can already get cannabis based mouth sprays for use medically.
Damn those pot smoking butterflies!
The people who build house trailers have a secret breeding facility.
I get psychotic when I don't have any weed.
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Huh... you think you've got problems?
I get weedy when I don't psy my chotic !!! ;-))
When you combine it with Ozzy CD's the effects can be devastating.
MORE LIKELY? Now that's a scientific evaluation... I say, "Each to his own!" And, "Everything give white mice cancer!"
Odd that botulinum toxin (Botox), which most certainly is a lethal toxin, is considered safe and medically approved to inject into your face, and yet a natural plant which has been used for thousands of years is not.
If we are going to have illegal plants, then poison ivy should be right at the top of the list .
Lets have a war on poison ivy !!!!
THAT took me back. Indeed !
And if we're going to have Endangered Species, ticks, chiggers and mosquitoes ought to be on the list.
I don't believe you can call a substance toxic when it is
virtually identical to one produced by our own body.
Though, certainly some substances, like adrenaline, in too
high a dose could kill you, it is a fact that nobody has
overdosed on herb.
"Weed" is an ignorant dysphemism! as are "pot" and "dope."
It is simply ignorance to believe that this herb is just a weed to be eradicated when its seed contains the most complete and absorbable combination of amino acids required by the human body for sustenance of any plant on the face of Earth. It is simply fascist to persist in foisting a false belief upon us that this herb given by God to man and beast alike at the beginning of time is permissibly eradicable or controllable by the federal government through powers rooted in the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. There exists no means to devise a logical explanation of how this could be true. Particularly since it has grown freely almost everywhere, including here long before our nation was formed from the beginning of time. Moreover, in the light of the rest of the Constitution any such perceived mandate is exposed as a dangerous delusion of grandeur amounting to the deification of the state.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Preamble: ...secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity...
Amendment V: nor shall (anyone) be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the PEOPLE.
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the PEOPLE.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Nowhere in the Constitution is it enumerated what one may put into ones body. Therefore, that right is reserved for the states or the people. However, since God has already specified in the Bible what one may consume, it is, in fact, the People’s God given right.
I'm with you. It's pretty silly (and revealing) for a nation to attempt to eradicate a common weed. Why not dandelions?
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