Marc Emery (Prince of Pot) on 60 Minutes

Yahoo Canada ^ | March 2, 2006 | Camille Bains

[muir_redwoods]

"Marijuana is both emotionally and mentally addictive"

That's an interesting statement that left me wondering how, in this respect, marijuana differs from religion, being in love, jogging or any activity a person might take up with enthusiasm.

It may just be me but the statement seems engineered to avoid the concept of physically or medically or simply, actually addicted.

Mandatory disclaimer, the only drug I use is coffee, no marijuana, no alcohol and nothing else

[Mojave]

Give my best to Eva ...

The woman who died of a drug overdose?

[Mojave]

Note that one of the symptoms of caffeine abuse is death.

You want coffee outlawed and dope legalized? Interesting.

[Mojave]

love, jogging or any activity a person might take up with enthusiasm.

Smoking dope with enthusiasm?

[68 grunt]

At least Jackie, and her girlfriend, are still alive, unlike the fascist pigs who you emulate.

[winston2]

Smoking dope with enthusiasm?

I have used cannabis for over 30 years. I am affluent enough and freedom minded enough that I could have consumed any kind of substance known to man, but I choose not to. I like cannabis and other than the time it would take to explain every nuance of the matter - I wish our non-cannabis using citizens knew just how harmless cannabis use is.

Marijuana use delivers a mild intoxication up to heavily intoxication. I have never heard of anyone passing out from cannabis consumption, but it may be possible. (That would be Bogarting)
(slang, also Bogart drag) A very long inhalation of smoke, particularly marijuana. Wiktionary

I like that cannabis improves blood circulation and reduces muscle tension. The mind part of it is mild euphoria which makes conservation flow well. Meditation also is enhanced with cannabis use. Some of my favorite physical activities to do while high are weight lifting, yoga, kayaking and SEX.

Note that none of the activities that I mention could even remotely present a potential of harm to my fellow citizens. Anyone may add to this list.

Cannabis use or cultivation is not something we should have special forces police out trying to do battle against.

[Mojave]

At least Jackie, and her girlfriend, are still alive

And busy promoting socialism and dope.

[itsamelman]

[Mojave]

Source: American Academy Of Neurology

Posted: February 13, 2005

Marijuana Use Affects Blood Flow In Brain Even After Abstinence

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- People who smoked marijuana had changes in the blood flow in their brains even after a month of not smoking, according to a study published in the February 8 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The findings could explain in part the problems with thinking or remembering found in other studies of marijuana users, according to study authors Ronald Herning, PhD, and Jean Lud Cadet, MD, of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Md.

The study involved 54 marijuana users and 18 control subjects. The marijuana users volunteered to take part in a month-long inpatient program. The blood flow velocity in brain arteries was tested with transcranial Doppler sonography in all participants at the beginning of the study and again at the end of the month for the marijuana users.

The blood flow velocity was significantly higher in the marijuana users than in the control subjects, both at the beginning of the study and after a month of abstinence from marijuana use. The marijuana users also had higher values on the pulsatility index (PI), which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow. This is thought to be due to narrowing of the blood vessels that occurs when the circulation system's ability to regulate itself is impaired.

"The marijuana users had PI values that were somewhat higher than those of people with chronic high blood pressure and diabetes," Herning said. "However, their values were lower than those of people with dementia. This suggests that marijuana use leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain, because similar PI values have been seen in other diseases that affect the small blood vessels."

[Supernatural]

Here is a very simple question for you. It only requires a one word answer. See if you can answer the question without dodging the question and instead asking one of your own. See if you can respond to this post without putting words into my mouth. See if you can come to the point. See if you can back up your claim.

See if you can stop being a psuedo-intellectual for one post.

Which is more dangerous, caffeine or marijuana?

There it is. Simple question. Requires you to say "caffeine" or "marijuana" in your next post to me.

Think you can handle a mission that complicated?

I'm betting against it. All you have to do to prove me wrong is to give me that one word answer. Tough assignment, especially for you. "Mission Impossible" for Mojave.

[Mojave]

Which is more dangerous, caffeine or marijuana?

Here comes the demand for an entitlement.

[Supernatural]

I won my bet. But I knew I would.

Answering a direct question with the correct answer proves you wrong.

And you can't stand to be proven wrong, can you?

However, every post against you proves you wrong. That is why you don't answer questions, or you answer a question with a question of your own, or you change the subject and point to another direction.

All you have going for you is deception, hyperbole, heresay and inuendo.

What you don't have is the truth.

Keep laying down those smokescreens. Everyone is wise to your tactics.

It seems that your sole purpose for existing is simply to annoy people. Like a horsefly.

[Mojave]

Caffeine can have harmful effects, therefore we must legalize dope.

Entitlement "reasoning".

[Supernatural]

Once again, my post 72 is right on the money. You are just soooo predictable. Like an annoying horsefly.

[yeff]

When someone asks, "Would you PLEASE leave me alone?", I don't find that as a request for entitlement. Entitlement reasoning is more of a "you owe me" mentatlity.

[Lady Jag]

	Forbes Magazine
	Cannabits 11.10.03 Back to Inside Dope THE ESTIMATED VALUE OF Canada's marijuana production-up to $7 billion-exceeds its farm receipts of both cattle ($5.63 billion) and wheat ($1.73 billion), or the $4.3 billion taken in by forestry and logging. Only oil and gas extraction, worth $15.8 billion, is worth more.   CANADA'S LEGAL farm operators have net margins of 5.5%. An economist in Vancouver's Simon Fraser University figures pot growers have a 72% annual rate of return, after discounting for costs, labor, thefts and arrests.   MARIJUANA HAS BEEN CULTIVATED FOR ITS fiber since at least 8000 B.C. and used as a drug since about 2000 B.C. In Europe it was cultivated for rope, paper and cloth for centuries, with no broad understanding of the plant's psychoactive properties until the 19th century, after Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt.   "CANVAS" IS DERIVED FROM the word "cannabis." Many of the great paintings are on marijuana fibers.   HENRY VIII, AND many New World governors, mandated the growing of hemp (marijuana) for rope. Many farmers resisted because the crop paid poorly and smelled bad as it was curing.   THC IS CONCEN-trated in marijuana's trichomes, which are tiny stalked glands with a stem and a ball-like tip, clustered around the flowers of an unfertilized female plant.   ACCORDING TO A 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine, marijuana addicts 9% of its users. Alcohol addicts 15% of users, heroin, 23% of users, and tobacco, 32% of users.   ONE MARIJUANA cigarette deposits four to five times more tar in the lungs than a tobacco cigarette. Thus, smoking three or four joints is like smoking up to a pack of cigarettes.   MARIJUANA WAS EFFECTIVELY OUTLAWED in the U.S. with the passage of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. There are now an estimated 500,000 marijuana arrests in the U.S. each year.   THE MOST RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE of medical benefits from marijuana use centers on ameliorating the negative effects of cancer chemotherapy, appetite loss associated with AIDS, and to a lesser extent, pain management, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma. As a medicine it is considered limited by the side effect of intoxication.   POT SEEDS ARE nutritious and are often used in bird food. Sources: Statistics Canada, Professor Stephen Easton; "The Science of Marijuana " by Leslie L. Iverson, Oxford University Press, 2000; "The Big Book of Buds " by Ed Rosenthal, Quick American Archives, 2001.

 

[Mojave]

He gets welfare money, so should I. He gets to drink coffee, so I should get to smoke pot.

Variations of entitlement mentality.

[Mojave]

POT SEEDS ARE nutritious and are often used in bird food.

Smoke the bird seeds if ya want.

[Mojave]

When someone asks, "Would you PLEASE leave me alone?",

"...while I grow, manufacture, transport and sell illicit drugs."

[DouglasKC]

"You do not walk down the street in most American cities smoking a joint, whereas in Vancouver you can do it and you will not be punished for it," he said.

Is he suggesting that this is a good thing? Do we want more people walking around smoking joints? How about people walking around drinking rum? I think it's great that people don't feel comfortable walking around on the street doing drugs.