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Research helps dispel marijuana myths
Sober Talk ^
| Thursday, August 1, 2002
| By BECKY CLARK, MSW, CSW
Posted on 08/01/2002 5:16:08 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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As we endeavor toward a more lucid and informed discussion of substance abuse, let's deconstruct the mystique of marijuana and recognize it for the dangerous drug that it is.
Marijuana is a substance that's worthy of our concern. It is the most prevalent of all illicit drugs used in the country. The 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported that 34 percent of Americans have used marijuana in their lifetime and 5 percent are current users.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cannibus; justsaynoelle; wodlist
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To: Zon
I know. That's why I said "totally agree."
461
posted on
08/01/2002 6:55:01 PM PDT
by
Pistias
To: Pistias
I know that's why in my post to you I made sure to acknowledge your phrase by including it in my written reply.
462
posted on
08/01/2002 8:01:41 PM PDT
by
Zon
To: Dakmar
OUCH! ;^)
463
posted on
08/01/2002 8:07:02 PM PDT
by
Zon
To: Zon
Oh yeah? Well, I know you knew that I knew you knew what you know I meant. So there. ;)
464
posted on
08/01/2002 8:12:30 PM PDT
by
Pistias
To: Zon
Just attempting to break up the static while trying out new idiot bait.
465
posted on
08/01/2002 8:23:55 PM PDT
by
Dakmar
To: Pistias
466
posted on
08/01/2002 8:25:55 PM PDT
by
Zon
To: clamper1797; jayef
Sorry to disillusion you potheads but Larry really exists. Keep smoking the "safe" stuff and you too can search for simple words during a conversation. He was difficult to listen to and a simple sentence took forever. It's one of the saddest things I've ever witnessed. And be very careful about calling people untruthful no matter how "cute" it's phrased.
To: TonyRo76
How about 20 year old, only tried pot twice ever, disliked it (I prefer my bud light thanks), computer guru, in college and working full time. There is no logical reason to keep pot illegal and alcohol legal, at all. The war on marijuana was started by FDR, a huge socialist, and henry anslinger, who was losing prestige and power after the end of prohibition (the first drug czar of the US) and was also a huge statist.
The average pot smoker today based on my experience at my high school (one of the highest rated public school in NC), and college (GTCC and WCU), is middle to upper class white people who dress nicely, make average to superb grades (my grade's valerdictorian and saludictorian smoked pot religiously--with GPAs of 5.1 and 5.04 respectively). The people I've met in my little experience in the business field who smoke pot range from cashier to store/regional managers to network administrators.
468
posted on
08/01/2002 9:04:18 PM PDT
by
rb22982
To: A2J
The point most pot-smokers - including myself - are trying to make is that the dangers have been
grossly exagerated. Not that there are no dangers.
Consider your statement;
The difference is that those 10 potatoes don't adversely affect a person's mental abilities...
Now what makes you think pot always - or even mostly - adversely affects a person's mental abilities (or other abilities)? In the right quantities and under the right circumstances pot
1)improves physical functioning. skiers, runners and swimmers know this. I know it from personal experience.
2)loosens one up in social situations.
3)enhances creativity and appreciation of music and the arts
However, it doesn't always work and this is one experience where more is definitely not better.
Drug use is an aspect of reality. Like any other aspect there are dangers as well as benefits and it takes experience and intelligence to know the difference and make reasonable choices. Why would you think otherwise?
To: tahiti
While the druggies shout liberty, they mean license.
470
posted on
08/02/2002 6:27:35 AM PDT
by
Whilom
To: Dane
Sorry to hear you got your hand slapped, 20 lashes with a wet noodle for you Dane.
I wish I could have seen it before it got yanked.
471
posted on
08/02/2002 6:34:27 AM PDT
by
vin-one
To: jayef
Sightful enough to realize that your claims are about as likely as rain in Abilene in August. And smart enough not to be taken in.
472
posted on
08/02/2002 6:38:09 AM PDT
by
Whilom
To: vin-one
Smoking truth and to share it all the have to do is open your eyes.
473
posted on
08/02/2002 6:39:39 AM PDT
by
Whilom
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To: philosofy123; sweet_diane
Marijuana is not nearly as harmful as alcohol. I think they have the wrong drug illegal. You can't OD on it, it doesn't produce crazy, aggresive behavior; if anything, it can tear up the lungs with heavy use, but has almost no harmful social consequences. The Powers That Be have their reasons for wanting to keep it illegal, and I betcha that reason has to do with money, and lots of it.
475
posted on
08/02/2002 6:56:19 AM PDT
by
DBtoo
Comment #476 Removed by Moderator
To: cinFLA
The country is filled with marijuana users leading normal wasting, unproductive lives. Haven't you noticed
Got any examples of them? And before you mention the "bum oin the street corner"....you had better be able to back up that it is from smoking pot that caused it. Seems that sobriety breeds overgeneralization.
477
posted on
08/02/2002 6:58:29 AM PDT
by
newcats
To: Sicon
Yeah? And they'll clean out your supply of Twinkies in a heartbeat if you don't keep an eye on them! I'm thinking more along the lines of a pint of Ben and Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough or cookies n cream. :P
To: Dakmar
My religion centers more around getting loaded on whiskey, marijuana smoke serves about the same purpose as incense does in some of the more well-known Christian Denominations.
Further proof that alcohol damages the brain more than pot.
479
posted on
08/02/2002 7:01:44 AM PDT
by
newcats
To: William Terrell
It's also an excellent pain-killer. It works much better than any pain meds on the market. Perhaps it's a threat to the all-powerful pharmaceutical industry.
480
posted on
08/02/2002 7:03:58 AM PDT
by
DBtoo
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