[.cnI redruM]

Don't criticize it, lobotomize it!

[NativeNewYorker]

Huh? What? Oh.

[Zack Nguyen]

But don't you understand, pot is a weed of the earth?! Its our natural right to use it!

[Huck]

LOL!

[jimt]

"Reefer Madness" style propaganda, and just as silly.

[GSWarrior]

Eleven years ago, when she was 18, the former care assistant from Swindon started smoking cannabis once a week

Just a suggestion, but if she can't "handle" smoking marijuana perhaps she should stop.

[BrooklynGOP]

‘I haven’t worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldn’t afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldn’t cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didn’t stop completely until two years ago.

Why not blame McDonalds?

[VaBthang4]

Sounds like a job for...

...fighting the tyranical agenda hidden behind the War On Drugs.

[Huck]

Check this out. Maybe the dumbest article on marijuana I have ever read. Too bad I am not at home, or it might have been the dumbest article I have ever read on marijuana.

[little jeremiah]

My solution, which will displease both the pro- and anti- WODers:

1. Legalize the growing of pot solely for one's personal use.*
2. Anyone selling pot once should be publicly beaten. Anyone selling a few times, death penalty.
3. As for s**t like meth, first offense public beating, second, death penalty.
4. Same as #1 for opium, same as #2 for for opium, same as #3 for heroin and other hard drugs.


*Same for alcohol, if we want to be consistent.

It won't happen, of course. But it would work. Also, if the government keeps subsidizing drug users/losers via social services, new generations of drug users/losers will keep magically appearing.

[TBall]

"afterwards she also tried speed, LSD and ecstasy." Maybe that had something to do with the "soft brain." She probably figured that pot was not as bad as the govt made it out to be so why not try some acid.

[justshutupandtakeit]

LoL. Does it make it soft as Charmin? God knows we need hard brains to think about the hard problems.

Guess the author never met Louis Armstrong who smoked reefer every day.

[Billthedrill]

Canwx't tfypexx...got a mouth[h'bp fullqg0x of oreosfvcxs;asaz;.c

[Lunatic Fringe]

‘After a couple of weeks, I found it was addictive’, she said. ‘As soon as you start you get the feeling you’re completely relaxed and calm, but then you crave it. I used it more and more until I was smoking it every day. Then I couldn’t work because I was too stoned all the time. I was so paranoid I couldn’t leave the house. I haven’t worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldn’t afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldn’t cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didn’t stop completely until two years ago.

Ok... now try this.....

‘After a couple of weeks, I found it was addictive’, she said. ‘As soon as you start you get the feeling you’re completely relaxed and calm, but then you crave it. I [drank] more and more until I was [drink]ing it every day. Then I couldn’t work because I was too [drunk] all the time. I was so [drunk] I couldn’t leave the house. I haven’t worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldn’t afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldn’t cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didn’t stop completely until two years ago."

[Agnes Heep]

From Dickens's Pickwick Papers,, testimonials given at a meeting of the Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association:

'H. Walker, tailor, wife, and two children. When in better circumstances, owns to having been in the constant habit of drinking ale and beer; says he is not certain whether he did not twice a week, for twenty years, taste "dog's nose," which your committee find upon inquiry, to be compounded of warm porter, moist sugar, gin, and nutmeg (a groan, and 'So it is!' from an elderly female). Is now out of work and penniless; thinks it must be the porter (cheers) or the loss of the use of his right hand; is not certain which, but thinks it very likely that, if he had drunk nothing but water all his life, his fellow-workman would never have stuck a rusty needle in him, and thereby occasioned his accident (tremendous cheering). Has nothing but cold water to drink, and never feels thirsty (great applause).

'Betsy Martin, widow, one child, and one eye. Goes out charing and washing, by the day; never had more than one eye, but knows her mother drank bottled stout, and shouldn't wonder if that caused it (immense cheering). Thinks it not impossible that if she had always abstained from spirits she might have had two eyes by this time (tremendous applause). Used, at every place she went to, to have eighteen-pence a day, a pint of porter, and a glass of spirits; but since she became a member of the Brick Lane Branch, has always demanded three-and-sixpence (the announcement of this most interesting fact was received with deafening enthusiasm).

'Henry Beller was for many years toast-master at various corporation dinners, during which time he drank a great deal of foreign wine; may sometimes have carried a bottle or two home with him; is not quite certain of that, but is sure if he did, that he drank the contents. Feels very low and melancholy, is very feverish, and has a constant thirst upon him; thinks it must be the wine he used to drink (cheers). Is out of employ now; and never touches a drop of foreign wine by any chance (tremendous plaudits).

'Thomas Burton is purveyor of cat's meat to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and several members of the Common Council (the announcement of this gentleman's name was received with breathless interest). Has a wooden leg; finds a wooden leg expensive, going over the stones; used to wear second-hand wooden legs, and drink a glass of hot gin-and-water regularly every night--sometimes two (deep sighs). Found the second-hand wooden legs split and rot very quickly; is firmly persuaded that their constitution was undermined by the gin-and-water (prolonged cheering). Buys new wooden legs now, and drinks nothing but water and weak tea. The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers).'

[philman_36]

I still take anti-psychotics, antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs...
So much for that brain. If it wasn't messed up before it certainly is now!
She sure is saying no to drugs though, isn't she!

[H2dude]

this is either quintissential government BS propaganda, or this woman is totally pathetic.

I could understand if this was heroin, but pot?

please, give me a break.

if she had a half a brain, and she liked ganga so much , she could hav easily just become a small time grower and supported her habit - it is a plant afterall. duh!

Guvmint secret message : now go back to drinking liquor.

[Jaxter]

This is your brain on drugs with sausage links and a biscuit...

[SF Republican]

Dominique Lansdowne knows what nonsense this is. Before she used cannabis, she had not even smoked tobacco; afterwards she also tried speed, LSD and ecstasy. ‘I would never have touched hard drugs if I hadn’t taken cannabis. oh how I love this logic, I bet she drank chocolate milk too, maybe if she had not drank chocolate milk she would not have touched hard drugs

[Devil_Anse]

When reefer gets to be completely legal, and everyone carries it around with them (no doubt in attractive packages), where will the users go to indulge? It's getting close to being illegal to smoke within one's own home.