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High anxieties : What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
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Posted on 07/02/2002 8:56:30 AM PDT by WindMinstrel
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To: headsonpikes
I find it difficult to get inspired to respond to a guy named after a Transformer toy. Acually, from a C++ perspective, destructor is a good name for a drug-warrior. Most of them would be quite content to remove all variables from their frightened little lives.
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posted on
07/02/2002 1:52:13 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: Destructor
Who here is arguing that they have a right to drive stoned on MJ?
Is the possibility of one driving stoned on MJ the reason for your total opposition to MJ and unwaivering support for its illegality?
When will you be starting a "Bring Back Prohibition" campaign?
To: EBUCK
I do have an argument! You're not the only one with Rights!! I have the Right not to be killed by you when you drive under the influence.
I understand that you are angry at your friends for making a bad decision that costs them their lives. That doesn't make them idiots, or jackasses. You should try to forgive them, and remember them well. I've been there.
To: Phantom Lord
Alright, Im heading to the driving range. Will weigh back in later.
To: Destructor
And you have the right not to be sad!(as maintained by certain questionable authorities). ;^)
To: Phantom Lord
Even "big tobacco" is admitting that nicotine if physically addictive. I have to laugh at that statement Not at you, it just struck me so funny--the anti smokers have screamed for years that "Big T" can't be trusted, evrything they say are lies. Yet they have latched onto this like a dog with a bone as if it were gospel. I hate to tell anyone, if everything coming from Big T is a lie - so is that statement. Everything means everything!
Your observation regarding former cocaine and heroin users not kicking cigaretes is the basis for the attitude regarding nicotne being the more addictive. Personally, I just think some people are characteristically prone to addictions.
The problem with the word addiction is that it's basic meaning has been changed to include numerous things people do that are actually just habits, some good and some bad.
I agree with a earlier observation of yours, MJ use should be handled in the same manner as alcohol.
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posted on
07/02/2002 2:03:02 PM PDT
by
Gabz
To: Destructor
I do have an argument! You're not the only one with Rights!! I have the Right not to be killed by you when you drive under the influence.You have the right not to be killed by other drivers acting un-responsibly. That didn't seem to be the argument at hand but lets run with that. Isn't Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants already illegal? Isn't the basis of this law that driving and being intoxicated is inherently dangerous to other drivers? If so why then should we be punnishing people that are not driving while in possession? If we make that argument for making our streets safer shouldn't we also outlaw all substances that adversely effect motor skills? Shouldn't we also imprison people for not wearing their corrective eye-wear?
a bad decision that costs them their lives. That doesn't make them idiots, or jackasses. You should try to forgive them, and remember them well. I've been there.
I refuse to give them a break just because they lost their lives as a direct result of their deliberate actions. But I do miss them.<P?EBUCK
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posted on
07/02/2002 2:05:25 PM PDT
by
EBUCK
To: Dakmar
Back into the heap, you!
To: jodorowsky
Aw, darn it, I thought I was a register variable.
129
posted on
07/02/2002 2:16:54 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: Destructor
So, you're for legalization of cannabis, so long as there are regulations against driving stoned, like there are against driving drunk?
To: Dakmar; jodorowsky
Try to stay on topic. I'm getting a stack overflow!
To: tacticalogic
Dude, encapsulate!
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posted on
07/02/2002 2:35:01 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: headsonpikes
Any story told about the misdeeds of a pothead are generally not complete. Most times the complete story is "after smoking some pot and drinking a quart of booze or snorting six lines of coke....."
Some how the latter part gets left off the story. Wonder why?
To: Dakmar
I try, but it seems like there's always some jerk trying to make my private methods public scope.
To: Destructor
Sobriety seems to have nothing to do with it since you claim sobriety AND incomprehension.
To: justshutupandtakeit
Good point, they still trot out the Amtrak engineer who crashed the train after smoking pot (and downing eight beers).
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posted on
07/02/2002 2:47:03 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: justshutupandtakeit
To be fair, he doesn't CLAIM incomprehension; he just demonstrates it.
To: Atomic Vomit
God the Govt just ended our trolling year early no one will get quotas.
Our guys are heading towards the bearing sea.
I agree with your post.
To: steve50
I have always liked low grade smoke it is cheap and does not have the
"big" stone to it.
However the terrorist attack caused the price to go up 40 bucks an ounce. Alchohal blew out my gut and CNS so I went back to smoking after ten years of quitting.
i work hard and in my home I like to relax.
To: general_re
I'm sure you wish to view it as a 'silly antecdote,' but the fact is, the event occurred, and it certainly proves that one does not always become 'mellow' when high. I would assert that, indeed, if one is emotionally upset or unstable, smoking pot would increase the effects of said emotional upset or instability. Now, care to actually make a comment to this post, or do you simply want to continue making stupid comments?
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posted on
07/02/2002 3:07:34 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
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