Posted on 01/08/2007 9:59:18 AM PST by DogByte6RER
GENTLE PEOPLE WITH FLOWERS IN THEIR HAIR
January 8, 2007
The San Francisco metropolitan area has a higher percentage of people who are regular drug users than any other major metropolitan area in the United States, a study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found.
According to the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health 2002-05:
Nearly 13 percent of San Francisco residents reported using some type of illicit drug, such as marijuana, cocaine or heroin, in the previous month; the national average is 8.1 percent. Other areas with drug-abuse rates higher than the national average included Seattle, 9.6 percent; Detroit, 9.5 percent; Philadelphia, 9.1 percent; and Boston, 8.5 percent. Cities with the lowest drug included Houston, 6.2 percent; and Washington, Dallas and Riverside/San Bernardino, Calif., all at 6.5 percent. California has decriminalized marijuana for people with health problems. The state's voters passed Proposition 215 in 1996 to allow seriously ill state residents to possess and use marijuana with a doctor's prescription. In San Francisco, police and prosecutors accept a medical-marijuana identification card as proof that a resident can possess and use marijuana.
The coastal area north of San Francisco, included in the study as part of the metropolitan area, is known as a popular marijuana growing spot.
"Where marijuana is very accessible, you're going to get higher use," says Alice Gleghorn, deputy director of community behavioral health services in San Francisco's Department of Public Health.
San Francisco focuses its prevention and treatment efforts on heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine, she says.
Source: Donna Leinwand, "S.F. area is No. 1 for regular drug use, study says," USA Today, January 7, 2007.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncpa.org ...
"Blue state" San Francisco has the highest rate of drug abuse only reinforces that cliche so often repeated by talk radio guru Michael Savage...
"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!"
Randi Webster, center, uses a cannabis vaporizor with Dave Sarmiento, left, and Jonathan Beaver at the San Francisco Patients Cooperative and Medical Cannabis Community Center on the morning in June 2005 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government can enforce a law prohibiting the cultivation, possession and use of medical marijuana even where it is legal under state law.
Read the USA Today article at this link:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-07-sf-drugs_x.htm
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Just more heart and soul of America there, all right....
NOT.
Destroyed brain cells. It's probably why the area votes so heavily Democrat.
Oh wait, we already did that. Thanks again, sit-at-home voters.
Just like that SNL skit of Comrade Pelosi, her staffer that looked like someone out of Village People, and a sex slave. The slave was a human ashtray:
Nancy: But we don't allow smoking
Staffer: It's only pot
Nancy: Oh that's OK then.
Gee, Pelosi's district, isn't it?? This is such a (non) surprise.
It's been a long time since I was part of the pot culture, so help me here. What is a cannabis vaporizor? All I remember are bongs, papers and pipes. And the occasional coke can when you were really hard up.
"cannabis vaporizor"
Sounds like a device that accelerates the vaporizing of brain cells by the cannaboids and THC chemicals.
Here is a link to a "Volcano Vaporizer":
http://www.cannabis-vaporizer.com/
It's a shame.
And a terrible song as well; ya think Scott MacKenzie has ODed yet?
Basically a low heart source that vaporizes the psycho-active chemicals without igniting the plant material. It eliminates virtually all of the negative respiratory side effects.
I think it should be treated like any other leafy green. It could be a great way to get guys and kids to eat their vegetables.
After his (most recent) pot bust Willie Nelson said "I'm lucky it wasn't a bag of spinach. I could be dead right now!"
and fertilizer for brains
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