'Why I changed my mind on Weed' by Dr. Sanjay Gupta

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It was Nixon himself was who made the decision to ignore the Schafer Commission study on cannabis and have it classified as schedule one narcotic next to heroin and cocaine.

You'd think that after Nixon left office in disgrace that the people who knew what he did might have had the balls to speak up.

 

I've already addressed that in my subsequent post.

 

true. but part of alcohol's menace is it's accessibility. You might see new stats on weed if it were ever to be legalized, eg. what it does to lungs, maybe more traffic accident stats, etc.

It might indeed be less harmful, but there's no way to tell right now.

I do believe that it's more beneficial than alcohol. Weed is weird in that respect, the benefit/harm trade-off is better than other drugs.

 

The FDA has approved of a drug made from the fluid extracted from marijuana plants. It is called Marinol and it is only available by prescription. I have neighbors in my building who smoke weed. One of them said when he puffs, he feels a lot better than he did without it and it helps with his eyesight. In school, I once signed a petition for the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes; the logic is simple, marijuana can grow just about anywhere. Clothing and rope can be made from it. Marijuana would probably be the only useful narcotic(next to cocoa) that will be left if there are no other material to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Having said that, I will say this; my statement does not advocate recreational use of marijuana. I believe even more research needs to be done.

 

they have decades and decades of data already. And if they want more, they can head over to places like afghanistan, where people have been smoking weed and hashish as casually as you and me might have afternoon coffee, for generations.

The powers that be don't care about the health and well-being of weed smokers (or potential weed smokers). The reasons for the ongoing prohibition are darker.

In several northeast states, the penalty for possessing a small amount of weed is little more than a slap on the wrist. It's almost tolerated, so why isn't it legal?

There are weird reasons behind the prohibition, including the political image of the drug, and probably even weirder reasons than that.

 

pretty sure alcohol misuse kills way more people each year

the vilification of weed is ridiculous

potential for misuse as the constant argument gets me everytime

 

If you're disciplined enough to never drive after smoking weed, it's almost completely harmless.
I worry about its tendency to make people complacent and self-satisfied, and the overwhelming urge for some people to slip a joint at work but that can't be any worse than someone who takes a liquid lunch at noon.

I did read somewhere that the push for marijuana legalization is a plot by the Illuminati to pacify the disaffected masses over the shrinking middle class and the decline in U.S. worker's wages.

The best way to prevent an uprising is to keep everyone high.lol

 

Weed right now isn't really less accessible that alcohol. If the availability of alcohol is a 10, weed is a 7.5+, depending on where you live and who you know. There were times in my life when getting weed was easier than leaving my building and going to the corner store to buy a beer.

I think there's enough scientific and anecdotal evidence to show that alcohol is way more detrimental to society and individuals than marijuana.

 

TRUTH

Alcohol claims way more lives, destroys tons of family & put heavy burden on healthcare system than smoking joint will ever do.

 

A friend of mine said this, and he's right...

'If alcohol were invented today, it would never be approved by the FDA or get to market.'

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I personally have not met any 'mean weed-heads'. Maybe vacant in conversation (or deep speakers), or lazy, or slow in movement, but causing the carnage that booze has when used in excess? Not really.

Unless mixed with other drugs, clearly weed is more of a relaxant than a stimulator. The exception: speaking to one's thoughts while on it...weed can be a mind trip that booze can never be, and sometimes people do get too stoned and freak out.

Maybe though with it being more socially accepted outwardly, we can start tracking the pos vs neg effects more realistically.

 

^This. I'll ignore the obvious alcohol and tobacco examples.

Painkillers like oxycontin and vicodin are legal with a medical prescription, but plenty of people get hooked them. Once you get addicted to those pills, you'll always be an addict. Long term abuse of opiates permanently alters your brain chemistry. They'll also make you lose your hearing if you take enough of them. (E.g. Rush Limbaugh)

Cannabis has no such effect on the body.

 

That's a big qualifier. Most people in the u.s. have no clue where to get weed, including myself nowadays.

Weed ain't all that accessible.

If it were legal, everyone would have access to it. whole different ballgame

 

Honestly while most people might not have direct connections, I think most know someone who can point them in the right direction. Everyone has that one acquaintance, friend, cousin, classmate, boyfriends-cousins-girlfriends-brother...that knows where to go.

I imagine it's more accessible than you might think.

 

My brother-in-law is a giant pothead. he used to turn me on to his connections, but these guys were invariably sloppy, getting busted or otherwise disappearing one by one, so connections didn't last.

I was also a pretty infrequent buyer, so a connection that was good for the first buy just wasn't around for the next buy 3 or 4 months later.

In cali, it's probably easier since all you have to do is get a prescrip (?).

 

If I gave you 24 hours in any mid-sized town or major American city, bet you could score weed without any personal connections at all.:smt033

 

yep!

 

How many people get abused by someone high on weed

How many people get abused by a drunk alcoholic

 

The weed vs alcohol debate will never end. All i know is my body doesnt react to weed well so i stay far away from it

 

the best thing ever invented... a G Pen.

 

Marijuana relieves 6-year-old of epileptic seizures


Her excessive seizures were so debilitating, she could barely walk or eat.

Post weed, she went from having 300 seizures a week...to three a week.
She also stopped using all other meds.

Now the successful treatment is named after her and is used to treat other kids....

Miore....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trendin...-6-old-epileptic-seizures-184558677.html?vp=1