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One Reporter's Opinion – Never Legalize Pot!
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| Friday, June 10, 2005
| George Putnam
Posted on 06/10/2005 2:29:28 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
experiment on twenty young men who were experienced marijuana smokers. Before and after they smoked reefers, electric impulses of different strengths were applied to their fingers and pain thresholds recorded. It was a method that earlier had verified the pain-killing effects of morphine, aspirin and codeine. MARIJUANA NOT ONLY FAILED TO LESSEN PAIN, IT ACTUALLY INCREASED IT! That finding casts doubt on the usefulness of marijuana as an analgesic. Just another tid-bit you don't find quoted on many LP Freepers "me" pages...
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:40:10 PM PDT
by
LowOiL
("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
To: RWR8189
So what about the FDA? What about safety regulations and all of that? Still not federal? Should we just abolish the FDA?
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:54:31 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:57:21 PM PDT
by
G32
To: afraidfortherepublic
I won't claim to be an expert on pot. In fact I've have never used it. Only breathed it secondhand at rock concerts. Speaking of which I noticed that the creativity of virtually all the big names in rock dried up when they hit thirty. Most of them bragged or conceded their heavy use of pot. Which might answer the question of why Paul McCartney's post-Beatle music is so dreadful. McCartney is one of the biggest exponents of maryjane. The only conclusion I can come to is that he and many other leading songwriters of that era fried their collective brains on the stuff.
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posted on
06/10/2005 4:06:20 PM PDT
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: Mack the knife
" I still haven't heard a good approach for discouraging vices (e.g., use of pot, tobacco, alcohol, prostitution, promiscuous gay sex, etc.) which do not create worse consequences than the vices being discouraged."
Incredible observation.
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posted on
06/10/2005 4:13:14 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(The MSM is dying. Do you expect them to go out without kicking and screaming?)
To: muawiyah
They have brute force only, which of course you know, otherwise you'd offer a different argument.
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posted on
06/10/2005 4:55:07 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: thoughtomator
See the thing is, I really don't care if someone smokes grass. However, I don't feel like being lied to by a bunch of filthy self-important hippies and libertarians. I would rather that they say "I want to legalize pot because I want to get high" instead of "legalize pot because we all care about people with cancer". I don't believe them and I am generally not swayed by cheap emotionalism.
To: escapefromboston
You feel any better about being lied to by WoD persecutors?
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posted on
06/10/2005 5:24:12 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: thoughtomator
To: escapefromboston
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posted on
06/10/2005 5:27:40 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: thoughtomator
When did they lie to me to get my support while using cheap emotionalism?
To: escapefromboston
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posted on
06/10/2005 5:31:12 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: escapefromboston
enjoy
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posted on
06/10/2005 5:32:39 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: thoughtomator
Never seen it. I wasn't alive when it came out so really it has no effect on me.
To: escapefromboston
Certainly you've seen its successors.
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posted on
06/10/2005 5:35:02 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: thoughtomator
Can't say that I have. Did tax dollars go towards making of that film "reefer madness"??
So basically you are saying is if one side uses cheap emotionalism and lies to get their way the other side should also?
I would rather both sides to be honest, but I guess it will never happen.
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To: Nachum
I'm hard-pressed to understand why the active, useful ingredient in MJ can't be distilled or synthesized and provided through means other than through the traditional delivery system.
After all, if this is really a miracle cure, and so many people are affected, somebody should be able to fund and find an alternative.
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posted on
06/10/2005 6:12:29 PM PDT
by
Bernard
(Which gospel does your truth come from?)
To: Nachum
I concluded, after this exhaustive study, that the very idea of legalizing marijuana is to follow a senseless, immoral, perilous path a slippery slope, that the use of marijuana is dangerous on many fronts, that it impairs memory, alters time perception, reduces coordination, damages the immune system, is psychologically habit-forming and creates a wide range of effects on moods and behavior.
With regard to (at the very least) recreational use of pot, I completely agree with him. He's right, imo. I think it should be illegal.
However, Uncle Fed is justifying the WOD via the "Interstate Commerce" clause..
They're applying this, "for the purpose of regulation" to materials and activities that can accurately be described as: Inter-State Commerce, Intra-State Commerce and Completely wholy, Non-commercial.
In my book, that's UnConstitutional. I don't care how bad pot is.
It SHOULD take an amendment to outlaw pot, nationwide...
As was pursued successfully with Alcohol during Prohibition.
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posted on
06/10/2005 6:20:14 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: escapefromboston
OK, I'll step up and be brave. I care about sick people, but I also believe that if you grow a plant, be it tomato, tobacco, or cannabis, it is YOUR business how you use that plant. If you bake a cake, it's YOUR cake.
Another thing that bugs me--it's a plant. A Plant. This is ridiculous. This isn't a meth lab. Not the Medallin (sp?) cartel. It's a plant. These people think it will help them. Leave them alone. If someone wants to grow a plant and do whatever they want with it, so be it.
I'd be for legalizing growing and using your own. Why is that a problem?
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posted on
06/10/2005 6:21:08 PM PDT
by
SoVaDPJ
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