Marijuana use
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Hey, bro, I I eat brownies to get mellow...so how's that as a health risk?
Posted by Reefer Man on July 30, 2007 03:16 PMThere a lot of things that are deemed dangerous yet still perfectly legal. Alcohol, tobacco, trans-fats, sky-diving, bungee jumping, motorcycles, etc,etc.
The only reason marijuana is illegal is because it has always been the drug of choice for Mexican immigrants, Beatniks, hippies, gangstas, and other groups deemed not socially acceptable.
Want to marginalize a group just make their drug of choice illegal and keep it that way.
A plant that I can grow in my garden, dry in my basement and smoke in my home is illegal, good luck in trying to eradicate something that is so simple to produce.
Sean
"Want to marginalize a group just make their drug of choice illegal and keep it that way.
A plant that I can grow in my garden, dry in my basement and smoke in my home is illegal, good luck in trying to eradicate something that is so simple to produce".
By being able to grow it in your garden is the problem. The government has no way to tax the use or sale of marijauna. Tobacco is difficult to grow in many areas of the country, weather and acreage, pot on the other hand can be grow just about anywhere.
If the government ever finds a way to tax the sale of pot, it will be legal to buy
Uhhhm Jay--
Let me 'plain this to you. Nature does not put all kinds of toxic "extra's" in pot the way that the tobacco companies do. They're called chemical additives and that's were the added health risk of smoking cigarettes come from.
Posted by Duh! on July 30, 2007 04:00 PM"It’s the SMOKE stupid!” Smoke is smoke is smoke no matter how one looks at it."
So, the smoke from a tire fire or a chemical plant (take your choice) is just as dangerous as a campfire?
"And the medical marijauna backers better get with it and work to prohibit recreational use or else medical marijauna will never be accepted."
Riiiiight. Feel free to go back to living under a rock.
Posted by on July 30, 2007 04:14 PMI've been inhaling cannabis smoke for more than 40 years, virtually on a daily basis. My doctor says that I'm in wonderful health for a man my age. In fact, I feel healthier & stronger now than I did 30 years ago. And I've smoked tobacco as well during all this time. Cannabis helps to heal the negative effects that tobacco can have on people's lungs.
The Federal prohibition on marijuana is one of the most cynical & ineffective laws ever enacted by Congress. It's a travesty & an outrage & should be repealed so that the states & localities could then regulate cannabis according to community standards.
the dems in congress are missing their goose with the golden egg by not making pot legal and putting a huge tax on it. they would make a killing in taxes and be able to fund kids health care for a million years off pot sales
Posted by on July 30, 2007 05:58 PMDid someone like mention weed man? Who's got some weed man?
Hey Jay, all us druggies out here in Clifton, like a little weed now and then. Man does not live on meth alone.
P.S. were you the guy who wrote the letter to the "You Said It" column in the Sentinel, calling for the relocation of Clifton, out of Mesa County?
Posted by Cheech and Chong on July 31, 2007 12:47 AMSmoke up enough and be a "BURNOUT"!
Posted by on July 31, 2007 01:44 AMApparently Jay thinks that the nicotine is a natural byproduct of tobacco growth, rather than the toxic substance that tobacco companies add to cigarettes to make them more addictive.
Conservative Americans should welcome the legalization of marijuana.
Think of all the jobs that tobacco has provided this country. Jobs to grow the tobacco, to make the cigarettes and deliver them to market; jobs to sell them, jobs to explain away and make excuses for them, they help keep doctors, nurses and hospice workers employed...then there's the whole "quit smoking" industry that relies on tobacco, too.
When you think about it, it just another entreprenurial venture.
As long as intoxicants like alcohol and some prescription drugs and addictive substances like nicotine are legal, the U.S. has zero chance of winning the war against drugs, especially something as COMPARATIVELY harmless as marijuana.
Posted by Thomas on July 31, 2007 07:35 AMJay Bell, Smoke is smoke, and vaporized pot inhaled is NOT smoke.
Got it? Indians say smoking is bringing the spoken word to the Great Spirit, prayer in other words.
Saying we should not consume pot is saying God made a mistake.
Posted by Holy Reality on July 31, 2007 09:09 AMWe all know that the worst side effect of cannabis lies in the treatment you can expect from law enforcement should they decide you have some.
Posted by Jimminy on July 31, 2007 02:12 PMAll this reminds me of those santiphonious old women who constantly screeched and ranted about, "Demon Rum", back in the Prohobition era, all the while enjoying their 3 a day equivalents of a shot glass of "Lydia Pinkham's Compound", which was nearly 80 proof alcohol to begin with.
Self-righteousness and hypocricy are still the hallmarks of Western "christianity".
Posted by Old Grouch on July 31, 2007 02:24 PM