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Potheads will never give up trying to legalize their religion


Anonymouse wrote:

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> Remic wrote:
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>> THE LIES ABOUT MARIJUANA USE
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>> LIE NUMBER 1
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>> Marijuana is Less Dangerous Than Alcohol and Tobacco Use.
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> there are fatal alcohol and tobacco overdoses Every Year in the US.
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> there have been -0- fatal overdoses of cannaabis in all of reported 
> history.
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>> Even though the tar content of cannabis smoke is higher than that of an
>> ordinary pure tobacco cigarette, no filter is used.
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> filters are often used, you just don't get out much.
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>> The risk of it causing cancer is greatly increased.
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> cannabis use has never been linked to cancer regardless of the method 
> of administration... and even if it does contain twice the amount of 
> tar ass a conventional tobacco cigarrette since the total amount 
> consumed per day is so much less you're still ahead (ie 2 joints a day 
> vs the 20 times more tobacco in a single pack..)
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>> Marijuana use leads to an addiction.
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> even the DEA has admitted that cannabis isn't addictive.
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> also check the Merck manual.
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>> Users of cannabis move more easily on to using other narcotic drugs than
>> their drug-free contemporaries. At least 80% of those who later become
>> heroin and cocaine addicts started their career in drugs with hashish or
>> marijuana.
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> what "drug free" contemporaries? I'd bet well over 90% of hard drug 
> users first addictive drug used was caffeine in a soft drink.
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>> LIE NUMBER 2
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>> Marijuana Is A Medically Necessary Drug
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>> The facts remain, however, that in 1989, after an extensive inquiry, 
>> the US
>> government issued an order rejecting an application to reschedule 
>> marijuana
>> for medicinal use.
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> are you talking about Olsen et al vs the DEA?
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> you should read it again, Judge Young recommended rescheduling.
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>> In 1993, the US Congress issued another statement which confirmed the
>> previous findings. It stated:
>> Following exhaustive studies of existing data by the National 
>> Institute for
>> Health, scientists concluded that there is no clinical evidence to 
>> suggest
>> that smoked marijuana is superior to currently available therapies for
>> glaucoma, weight loss and wasting associated with AIDS, nausea and 
>> vomiting
>> associated with cancer chemotherapy, muscular spasticity associated with
>> multiple sclerosis or intractable pain.
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>> Similar conclusions have been published in reports from other countries,
>> including the Netherlands (which is the home of one of the most 
>> liberal drug
>> policies in the world).
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> odd... you can get prescribed cannabis on the national health plan in 
> the netherlands now.
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>> LIE NUMBER 3
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>> Police and Court Time Should Be Spent on More Important Matters
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> true
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>> Young people are confused and misinformed about the dangers of 
>> marijuana,
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> what "dangers of marijuana"? getting busted? that's a danger of 
> prohibition.
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>> such proposals undermine the efforts of parents who are trying
>> to influence their children not to use drugs to protect both the 
>> health and
>> future of their children.
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> you mean while they sit their washing down a valium with a rum and 
> coke (a legal addictive "speedball"... alcohol and caffeine) while 
> reaching for a cigarrette?
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>> One of the major arguments is that the greatest harm is produced by the
>> criminalization of the use of illicit drugs. 
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> true.
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> for example the greatest medical problem with daily opiate use is....
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> constipation.
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>> that marijuana use is a serious health and social risk. Criminalizing
>> marijuana also enables those found guilty of using it to be given 
>> treatment,
>> education and rehabilitation.
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> ok.... the Nixon study found that the greatest risk of soldiers using 
> marijuana (in vietnam) was that they tended to gain weight.
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> I guess that's a health issue...
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> what's the social problem of legal/regulated/taxed cannabis?
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> in the netherlands where cannabis is regulated and taxed they have a 
> use rate about half of the US rate.
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>> LIE NUMBER 4
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>> Marijuana Use Does Not Lead to Other Drug Use
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>> There is no doubt that most heroin and cocaine addicts started their 
>> drug
>> taking careers with marijuana use. 
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> actually there is.
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> they undoubtedly started their use of addictive drugs with alcohol, 
> nicotine, and caffeine... all addictive drugs.
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>> Clearly, if the numbers of cannabis users can be reduced, the number of
>> users of other illegal drugs will be reduced as well. 
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> in the netherlands they found that taking cannabis OUT of the hard 
> drug world both reduced hard drug useage and cannabis useage.