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To: Phantom Lord
Howdy Phantom! You I'll listen to! Where did you read that pot has no nicotine?
57 posted on 07/02/2002 12:32:13 PM PDT by Destructor
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To: Destructor
Nicotiana is a plant species. Nicotine is a derivative substance from these plants. Cannabis Sativa is from a completely different plant species and are as different as apples and carrots.

To state that cannabis contains nicotine would predicate the existance of a successful tobacco/hemp hybrid. It'd be like trying to breed a pot bellied pig to an elephant.

60 posted on 07/02/2002 12:42:47 PM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: Destructor
I have read it in various places. Don't have any sources handy to link to at this time but will search them out when time permits.

As someone who smokes cigarettes and someone who smoked a lot of pot in college, my personal experience would lead me to believe the stuff I have read that there is no nicotine in pot. If there is, the amount is so minute as to not matter.

Nicotine is HIGHLY addictive and if pot had nicotine even approaching that of cigarettes it would be as addictive as cigarettes. And pot is not addictive. At least not in the physical way that nicotine and other drugs are. Mentally addictive? For some, yes. But not physically addictive.

Whens the last time you saw pot heads needing to take a 'toke break' every hour at the office? Now how often do you see smokers taking 'smoke breaks' at the office?

61 posted on 07/02/2002 12:45:54 PM PDT by Phantom Lord
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