Posted on 06/10/2005 2:32:31 PM PDT by Nachum
It is this reporter's opinion that each generation in turn takes a new look at the marijuana question. Now it's this generation's turn. In a 6-to-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-marijuana statutes overrule the laws in ten states that allow the use of marijuana plants to ease pain or nausea.
Fifty years ago, as a much younger television reporter, I did a series of interviews with Dr. Hardin B. Jones, Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Jones, in his thorough study, raised disturbing questions about marijuana's effects on the vital systems of the body, on the brain and mind, on immunity and resistance, and on sex reproduction.
Dr. Jones addressed such problems of society as the hazards to non-smokers, crime, the law, and the effect of widespread smoking among the military – including atomic weapons personnel. And he didn't stop there. The good doctor included telling comments from interviews conducted with scores of marijuana users and ex-users.
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.
Dr. Jones offered an open letter to parents. Following are the main points discussed in his letter:
Marijuana is not a benign drug. Use of this drug impairs learning and judgment and may lead to the development of mental health problems.
Smoking marijuana can injure or destroy lung tissue.
Teens who are high on marijuana are less able to make safe, smart decisions about sex, including knowing when to say "no."
Marijuana can impair perception and reaction time, putting young drivers and others in danger.
Marijuana use may trigger panic attacks, paranoia, and even psychoses.
Marijuana can impair concentration and the ability to retain information during a teen's peak learning years.
Recent research indicates a correlation between frequent marijuana use and aggressive or violent behavior.
Dr. Jones concludes: MARIJUANA IS ADDICTIVE, and says that more teens are in treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence than for all other illicit drugs combined.
Personally, I recall one visitation to a rehabilitation center where we interviewed recovering heroin addicts. We had to interview 25 hard-core drug users before we found a single one who had not started with marijuana!
As for those who say they must rely on marijuana to treat their pain, Dr. Jones cited a Washington University School of Medicine study on the subject: the 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.
The same facts and conclusions are repeated generation after generation with the same conclusion: DON'T EVER LEGALIZE POT!
They are not
Sure they are ... they are both "drugs with dangerous consequences," which was your stated criterion for banning.
the drug pot which you worship
What a contemptible lie.
"What a contemptible lie."
The absolute truth.
You are a pro illegal drug activist here on FR to probably disrupt and corrupt conservatives and I can show evidence leaning toward my view of you.
I invite all here at FR to do a search of previous posts by Know your rights/MrLeRoy and see the OBSESSION with almost exclusively the topic of ONLY legalizing recreational drugs. You so OUT yourself by just looking at your record of posts, that it is as transparent as glass.
At least if you check my or other regular people at FR, we post all over the place and even feature conservative defense of subject matter.
I can duplicate your views here on FR by simply linking to the druggies over at DU.
I urge all lurkers to go investigate what I've just said and see what I'm talking about.
You will find absolute obsession of drug legalization. That is not a conservative mindset IMO.
You don't think he's an activist judge only because he decided in your favor.
No. Congress is using the power given to them by the Necessary and Proper Clause to write laws which would prohibit citizens from interfering with their constitutional regulation of the interstate commerce of drugs.
well, i probably shouldn't say anything, but my wife of 34+ years is in very bad health and a couple of joints a day makes her life bearable.
I tried the stuff 3 times in Nam and didn't like it and haven't messed with it since. It makes her feel better and i make sure she has it so she can have a happier day.
No, she is NOT an old hippy pothead. She is an unfortunate lady with very bad health and as long as it makes her feel like getting out of bed in the morning, screw the goobermint..i'll just be a law breaker!!!
I don't have a problem with medical marijuana use. I hope your wife's health improves. Be careful from whom you get the marijuana, though!
I get it from me!!!!! was raised on a farm and still have some land in the country...doesn't take but a very few plants to so supply her and it is grown on timber comapny land adjacent to mine.
3 or 4 plants scattered 100 yds apart and not raked and hoed and watered every day or two arouses no suspicion even if found, but where i live in Louisiana, it is really easy to disguise a small amount.
Like i said, I probably should not have said anything, but screw 'em..they don't mind prescribing $100.00 - 200.00 prescriptions that we can't afford..just like country folk have always done, we get by the best way we can.
Screw the goobermint...When people like ted (the swimmer) kennedy, hildabeast klintoon et al can decide what is in our best interest, it is amazing that we don't all stayed "fried" all the time.
These drugs never crossed a state line, nor did the wheat in the case cited. There was no buying or selling of any kind involved. Nothing changed hands. In this use of the concept of "commerce", our federal government could make masterbation illegal. The need to regulate sperm banks would make it the federal government's business.
One in three American adults has used marijuana; you're not getting that toothpaste back in the tube either. The bottom line is that marijuana prohibition, like alcohol prohibition before it, is creating more problems than it solves.
pot and other illegal recreational drugs, it has never been Federally legal
Quite wrong; prior to 1937 or so, marijuana was not against any federal law, and the same goes for cocaine and opiates prior to about 1914.
A plant grew wild in the front yard of a house one of my sons lived in. This was in the city. No one living in the house knew about or noticed the plant. They found out about it, right after it disappeared the police showed up with a warrant to search their house for it. The police were disappointed to find nothing.
Anyway, be careful when you harvest.
Even if true, obsession with legalizing something does not equal worshipping it. If someone posted exclusively on the right to keep and bear arms, would you say he "worshipped" guns? Retract your odious lie, or continue to embrace the Father of Lies; it's your call.
That's evidence of activism? That may be the stupidest thing you've ever posted, bobby ... and that's saying something.
The death dealers who provide the drugs to the youth are the problems. Enforcement is a good thing.
The death dealers who provide the drugs to the youth are the problems. Enforcement is a good thing.
That has no relevance to anything I posted. Care to try again?
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I think you have a pattern going.
I don't necessarily acknowledge your number, but I would improved on ANY future number by putting the dealers, growers and distributors away and confiscating all the wealth they accumulated in life.
If anyone associated with this riff raff enabled them, allow their assets to be at risk as well.
You don't end bad behavior by allowing it to go on with a blessing. A blessing will only grow the bad behavior.
I just reflected the history of your posts here at FR, the results didn't surprise you, did they?
"People need to make good choices in life."
And it needs to be A CA Guy who shall be the supreme master determining what constitutes a good or bad choice.
yessir...but you see, i grew up in them woods...i know more in and out trails than daniel boone, davy crockett and kit carson all put together...I am also a nam vet and have spent some time in the "woods"..i know recon!!!
ain't saying i can't be caught, but a secret is only a secret if you don't tell anyone and i prolly should not have said anything here, but it is a dead end dirt road and no one can just drive up unannounced and there are too many snakes and other "creep arounds" to just walk thru the woods to observe someone....it being at least 1/2 to 3/4 mile thru some pretty thick stuff and the place is not called "copperhead cove" without a reason.
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