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What You Aren’t Hearing About Marijuana’s Health Effects
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 10, 2024 | Allysia Finley

Posted on 05/12/2024 6:29:15 AM PDT by karpov

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To: DUMBGRUNT

would be better off with cigarettes


41 posted on 05/12/2024 9:54:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Colinsky

Yes they have.

government prefers to record otherwise.


42 posted on 05/12/2024 9:57:03 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: karpov

Lets go back to throwing people in government cages for using pot!


43 posted on 05/12/2024 10:02:03 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: yldstrk

I’m here just to see the freepers freak out.


44 posted on 05/12/2024 10:06:18 AM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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To: zeestephen

Irrelevant to my point, but OK.


45 posted on 05/12/2024 10:17:31 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: yldstrk

I felt your loss. Your kid shouldn’t have had to live the life you describe.

I feel it even more because it’s Mother’s Day and I know a dozen mothers who have suffered the same loss.

Young people often don’t see the friends that they once knew that are now in the treatment system. Mothers and Fathers do.

Teachers see the lost potential, but can’t speak up because their friends and bosses use recreationally.

I’m going out and pick some flowers and try for happier thoughts.


46 posted on 05/12/2024 10:33:40 AM PDT by 2manydegrees
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To: Blurb2350
Re: "Today's marijuana is far more potent than what was available in the 60s."

They say that because of THC content.

My opinion - THC - when smoked - has a medically ignored saturation issue.

Once THC reaches a certain level in your blood stream, you do not get higher.

However, I have read that you can OD if you eat marijuana, which seems logical.

I grew up in south Florida in the 1960s and had access to the best weed in the world.

We had one hit weed in the 1960s - just like they have one hit weed in 2024.

My opinion - if marijuana is outlawed, alcohol should be outlawed, too.

Full Disclosure - I never enjoyed alcohol, drank only because my friends drank, quit in 1985.

If all the alcohol in the world disappeared tomorrow, I would not notice unless someone told me.

47 posted on 05/12/2024 10:44:03 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Skooz
Re: "Irrelevant to my point, but OK."

I am not sure what irrelevant means in that sentence.

Are you saying you have never consumed alcohol?

If you have consumed alcohol, how old were you when you had your first drink?

48 posted on 05/12/2024 10:53:17 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: yldstrk

I am so sorry to hear that. Blessings for you as you deal with that trauma.
MJ is absolutely, without question a gateway drug. While it is supposedly not addictive, what it does to the brain causes addiction. That feeling, that need that users get.
Only by the grace of God did my son make it out of the hell of drug abuse. He went from MJ, to other drugs to meth. Stealing, breaking into things; it was horrible. And yes, he says it was the gateway into using other drugs as well.
He is now a proud member on the US Army doing well for himself. Prayers for you all.


49 posted on 05/12/2024 11:21:42 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: 9422WMR
You can’t carry on a conversation with someone who smokes pot all the time…

Nonsense! I have it on good authority Joe Biden smokes it and it doesn't bother him a bit. He's perfectly lucid.

50 posted on 05/12/2024 11:37:34 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Those who favor abortion are not just atheists but followers of Satan whether they know it or not.)
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To: zeestephen

You are missing what a gateway drug means.


51 posted on 05/12/2024 11:40:58 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: BipolarBob

I worked for 20 years with veterans suffering from PTSD. A majority of them used marijuana regularly, even daily. After years of use in some cases they still ended up needing intensive hospital treatment. If marijuana was useful for PTSD I would have needed a different job. The trap of using marijuana, alcohol or other addictive behaviors is, the very thing destroying you is what you have come to rely on to get through the day. A solution, it ain’t.


52 posted on 05/12/2024 11:41:06 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

I know retired vets who use it daily. They have a medical card for it. They function fine. They have an RV and vacation places. That’s their story. I’m not a stoner. Don’t care for it but my libertarian tendencies says let each person decide for themselves.


53 posted on 05/12/2024 11:46:04 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Those who favor abortion are not just atheists but followers of Satan whether they know it or not.)
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To: zeestephen

You falsely attributed the quote in your post to me.

The quote is from someone else’s post.


54 posted on 05/12/2024 11:48:11 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: 9422WMR

“You can’t carry on a conversation with someone who smokes pot all the time…“

SO true!

Drives me nuts when I run across old ‘friends’ who’ve been smoking it since the 70’s.. They’re incoherent; they repeat themselves like dementia patients; they constantly re-assure me - “look,, hasn’t changed me at all! I’m fine!..”

When all I see is a shell of the person I used to know who used to be so full of life.


55 posted on 05/12/2024 12:05:40 PM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: ansel12
Re: "You are missing what a gateway drug means."

Someone better explain that to Google and Bing.

Almost every Page One link for "Gateway Drug" includes the word alcohol.

I bring up the issue because Free Republic has many passionate supporters who think marijuana should be banned, but no one who thinks alcohol should be banned.

However, most people who move on to hard drugs used alcohol before they used marijuana.

56 posted on 05/12/2024 12:37:20 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Skooz
Yeah, but you posted it without attributing the post to someone else. You posted it under your handle. So, either you are a plagiarizer or you're stoned. Which is it?
57 posted on 05/12/2024 12:41:42 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Those who favor abortion are not just atheists but followers of Satan whether they know it or not.)
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To: yldstrk
So sorry to hear of your ongoing concern and ultimate loss, yldstrk; it's tragic to watch the slow decline of our dearest flesh and blood. I was so struck by this passage in the posted article:
Instead of bankrolling ballot initiatives to legalize pot, she says, George Soros and other wealthy donors who “catalyzed this whole movement” should be funding rigorous research: “If these folks, these billionaires, had just taken that money and put it into clinical trials, I would have been at peace.” It’s a travesty, Ms. Madras adds, that the “FDA has decided that they’re going to listen to that movement rather than to what the science says.”

58 posted on 05/12/2024 12:44:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Badboo

The same is true of all pain meds if you do them recreationally.


59 posted on 05/12/2024 12:47:17 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

—Paracelsus, 1538


60 posted on 05/12/2024 12:50:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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