Wonder Weed or Devil Weed?

getsoutalive

[Gadsden1st]

Let's watch what happens when all the '60's people, myself included, make it to Rest Home Age.

I spend too much time visiting those homes. Cancer is no fun, but I think I would choose it over wasting away not knowing who or where or when I was. Same to be said for a heart attack.

[copycat]

IMHO your "genetically altered" versions were laced versions.

Unless of course you did a chemical anaylsis...

[alcuin]

The stuff was more powerful than everclear and could knock you unconcious with just a few hits from a bong. I have seen people in a psychopathic state from smoking weed, with such an elevated sense of self-worth that they were dangerous.

Hmmm.

I've never seen anyone knocked unconscious, let alone rendered into a Hyde, but I have seen brainy people conferring (verrry haltingly) on just where they were, and how they had got there.

Oh man, WHAT?

What what?

[southern rock]

Wonder Weed or Devil Weed?

Neither. And it doesn't matter anyway. An adult has the right to smoke anything they want.

[getsoutalive]

Well aren't you the cavalier one with other people lives and pain?

How about going forward? What if the nerve gas protection turns out to be for real? What if that is the next terrorist attack? What if something a simple as a joint might offer simmilar protection?

[RBroadfoot]

Not only has the SCOTUS ruled cannabis to be totally unworthy of consideration, the Attorney General has determined that its mere possession is as bad as bearing arms against the US and in support of the WTC bombers!

[ccmay]

I believe I read the half life of THC's in the body is 70+ days. If so, this is asking a lot of the liver, and it means that Mister Liver is not doing that well clearing it.

Thanks for the informative post. If I may interject, I believe that the reason it has such a long biological half-life is because of its solubility in fats and oils, and thus its enormous apparent volume of distribution. The liver has no problem eliminating it, but if it is sequestered in adipose tissue it will not even reach the hepatocytes, much less be excreted.

-ccm

[BluesDuke]

Well aren't you the cavalier one with other people lives and pain?

Well, aren't you the cavalier one who blithely breezes by a post without bothering to comprehend its actual thrust? Don't you know what you end up with when you dive into a pool before you bother checking that there is water inside?

[_Jim]

"Your right to inhale or ingest stupifying substances shall not be infringed ... UNLESS you become a problem, an annoyance or a liability to me or to society ..."

[getsoutalive]

Well then I offer my apologies. Sorry, but with what I have seen posted on WOD threads...

[getsoutalive]

Speaking of which....

[getsoutalive]

Did you even look at it _Jim?

[_Jim]

I have *no* qualms with legitimate medical use of MJ (if indeed such use exists), but, we all know there is an undertow comprised of proponents that that would legalize MJ in the same manner (or perhaps moreso) than tobacco ...

[barker]

LOL I'm sitting here listening to some old songs. The one I happened to be listening to when I saw this thread is Brewer and Shipleys "One toke over the line". Ur, uh not that I know anything about tokes from long ago, it just happens to be a great song and their harmony is fantastic.

Anyone got any brownies?

[BluesDuke]

Well then I offer my apologies. Sorry, but with what I have seen posted on WOD threads...

Accepted with pleasure and sympatico. I have seen the same chazerei, and from the usual suspects who have yet to pound it into their thick skulls that just because many if not most actual druggies might wish to end the War on Drugs and/or legalise drugs, it does NOT mean that many if not most who wish to end the War on Drugs and/or legalise drugs are actually druggies.

[shempy]

I really don't care if weed is a wonder medicine. I also don't care about making paper out of it, or all that other stuff. Don't get me wrong, that stuff is all great, but I just want to be able to smoke it legally. I am not sick, I just enjoy smoking the stuff once in a while. I pay taxes, I work hard, I never use a sick day. I am a moral person. I value my family, hard work, and the American way. I just can't understand why anybody would be concerned that I smoke a bowl or two in the quiet of the evening.

[getsoutalive]

I agree completely, but I often hear that the medical use is a fraud. It clearly is not and that much needs to be established.

[Notforprophet]

Well said, oh shempy one

[supercat]

The problem with the "medical marijuana" debate is that the pro-legal forces are being intellectually dishonest. No reputable doctor would EVER prescribe a medicine like marijuana, which is a cocktail of more than 40 active chemicals, some of which are carcinogenic.

Probably not formally prescribe, but certainly many doctors have suggested to their patients that marijuana might be helpful for, among other things, reducing nausea and other side effects from chemo.

The real problem is that drug companies would much rather sell their own 'engineered' product for $100's/month than let a patient use something that could be grown for a tiny fraction of that cost.

Besides, while pot probably isn't as harmless as its proponents claim, the hysteria surrounding it is way overblown. People complain about "today's pot is 100 zillion times more potent than that of 40 years ago", but fail to realize that much of the push for more potent strains has been a result of the drug war. During prohibition, hard liquor was more popular than beer; today, the reverse is true.

The real "problem" with pot is that, were it legal, it could threaten many industries with unwanted competition. Not sure how to solve that 'problem', though...