Comments on: Marijuana Poses More Health Risks

By: jonnybgood

jonnybgood — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:07:28 +0000

you should all keep in mind that ALL of the media …including Internet media, radio, magazines, television, all media are Corporation owned by just a handful of people who own 10’s of thousands of media outlets. So the media is also being controlled by the same people that control our governments. Is it any wonder they continue to spew fearful lies about cannabis.

By: jonnybgood

jonnybgood — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:08:54 +0000

today the cannabis strains have been developed and some are more potent than others, but each has its own traits. This is why
having strain choice is important to the medicinal user. I heard that the federal drug agency gets like 20 billion a year…for that kind of money is it any wonder that the cops are out there busting as many people as they can for this. They are being payed a lot of money to enforce laws that we want removed from the books, and when I say we, I mean we the People..the taxpaying public….the ones who are paying the 20 billion. This money could be better spent on providing recreation centers for kids 18 and under which is been traditionally run by the Parks and Recreation departments.
Today, the only place a young person can go is the YMCA and that sucks because even they charge a lot of money.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:54:54 +0000

I highly disagree with this article, because there is no rock-solid proof that cannabis is addictive or toxic. As for the belief that pot smokers are lazy/uninspired, I think that many of those who fit the stereotype were lazy/uninspired to begin with, and pot was just another thing to do. It was not the cause. For example, I am in 2 advanced classes. One is an English course and the other is Physics. At various parties, I have seen, and smoked with, 7-8 people from those classes. I only know when one of them started, and that was in freshman year of high school. None of our grades, jobs, or personal relationships have been damaged by smoking pot.

By: Bobbie Sellers

Bobbie Sellers — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:29:15 +0000

The fruit of drug prohibition in the USA and Mexico is bitter and sets the teeth on edge as the practitioners of Anslinger’s law move down
the path of Totalitarianism. Anslinger used
racism as argument in 1937 to justify the
Hemp Tax Act. Cannabis was a available
in 1937 as Tincture of Cannabis, USP and
the AMA tried to protest removing this valuable
and safe drug from the pharmacopoeia.

And removing cannabis from the status of illegal drug is something that would save immense amounts of money for the
American taxpayer which is good thing in this period of severe inflationary pressures.

Some raised questions about the incidence
of fatality among the users of various drugs
including alcohol and tobacco and Mr. Brian
Bennet has included such data from the
US Government own sources on the following
web pages

___________________
It’s time to correct the mistake:
truth:the Anti-drugwar

Cops say legalize drugs–find out why:

Stoners are people too:

___________________

later
bliss — C O C O A Powered…

–
bobbie sellers – a retired nurse in San Francisco

“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion.”
–from Someone else’s Dune spoof ripped to my taste.

By: pulse_demon

pulse_demon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:42:30 +0000

Everybody’s been doing a great job of pointing out the many inaccuracies and downright lies that this article presents. The article’s obviously directed at people who already believe that marijuana is one of the worst evils in the world and kids who know nothing about it. The White House knows that people who already smoke pot or are young enough to know the truth would never believe these outrageous claims.
I don’t see how a non-toxic plant could have any sort of toxicity and as a person with Bipolar disorder, I can safely say that marijuana has done nothing except ease my symptoms and help alleviate my depression during harder times. However, the Prozac that I once took was mishandled by my doctor and I ended up stabbing myself in the neck several times and being in the ICU for a month and the psych ward for another two. That’s how well your legal prescription drugs work and to think they even tried to blame the minuscule amount of pot I used to smoke on my depression. Well, if that was so, then the daily smoking I do now has the opposite effect.
Also, I have tried many drugs other than marijuana, even going through some minor problems with addiction. However, the only drug I use now is marijuana. I rarely drink and I plan on quitting cigarettes later this year to make myself free of addiction. I’m happy, healthy, and couldn’t ask for a better life at the moment. I have a steady job with great pay and a wonderful family and have many nice possessions.
None of the reasons to not smoke pot that the glorious government has given us are true and anything with a semblance of truth has been made a fantastic hyperbole or has enough inaccuracies thrown in to make a man scratch his brain. Hopefully with responses like ours to their false claims, we can make a step towards legalization.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:31:26 +0000

We all must join and support a single organization that actively lobbies for the modification of current
drug policies. NORML is the one thats done the most for us pot smokers. Join NORML and let your voice be heard. Barking about government propaganda on the web will do nothing to further our cause. I’m 58 years old and I’ve taken a pull or two in my lifetime and I cannot beleave that my
generation hasn’t done more to end this government sponsored nonsense. Too many fat cats making too much money maintaining the status quo. Cop find a seed or something as benine as
tweezers in your car and they have the right to confiscate your car and auction it off and you have no recourse. God forbid they find any amount of pot in your house they can and will take and sell it.
We put people in jail for years for smoking weed but I can come home drunk, beat my wife and kids and for this I’d spend a weekend in jail. Sometimes I’m ashamed of my generation.
Join forces and make a real difference. http://norml.org/

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:28:10 +0000

The basis of this article is WRONG!!!!!
The “average potency” fails to consider the market over time.

Take this for example:
“The 9.6 percent level represents more than a doubling of marijuana potency since 1983, when it averaged just under 4 percent.”

What a load of fecal matter.
They measured “what the cops seized and destroyed”.

This so closely paralells Prohibition I gotta lol.
During prohibition, you could get beer, gin/whiskey, wine, and champagne, in that order of price.
It required big tanks to make beer, so the feds nailed them first.
Then it got harder for the cops. You can make gin in a bathtub, and whiskey in a shed.
WHAT WERE THEY FIGHTING!!!
…and WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING NOW!!!

;;;;;;;same losing fight.

Author Bio: Had fun in college, got responsible and got married. Got chronic pain from electrocution, now have Morphine prescription but no access to cannabis.
I support medicinal marijuana laws as better than what I am stuck with.
…….I am an opium junkie……..
By Dr’s orders.

Will anybody out there make a stand?
I dare one respondent to declare:
“Lab_rat, you COULD POSSIBLY to better with Cannabis instead of Morphine”.

By: jim smith

jim smith — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:20:24 +0000

To Mark Dallas:

You want to elect Oreilly because you think he will bring common sense? HE IS against everything you discussed. We certainly would not get more sensible drug laws with him in office. In previous debates with one of the writers from http://www.reason.com about legalizing drugs he basically intimated that he would love to see alcohol banned also.

By: Javin Walker

Javin Walker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:03:14 +0000

You want to put a huge dent on the war on drugs, then make marijuana legal. It funny to me how you can go buy cigerettes and lung cancer kills 11,000 people a year. I cant even count how many deaths we have related to drinking. But when a person wants to smoke weed it is so wrong. The government needs to worry about the more important issues, and if someone wants to smoke then let athem smoke.

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:16:55 +0000

“Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years.” This seems to imply that more than 30 years ago it was a strong as it is now (or maybe stronger). Any comments?