Inconvenient and Unpopular Truths about Marijuana

[initforme]

You haven't been an active participant since the 90s.

Thats ok i denegrate as its my entitled right

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Thats ok i denegrate as its my entitled right

You misspelled degenerate, which is what you your brain is doing as we post.

Is the " ' " key on your keyboard broken?

 

[Lockback]

You misspelled degenerate, which is what you your brain is doing as we post.

Is the " ' " key on your keyboard broken?

Nicely played!

 

[initforme]

I shall denigrate any entity i see fit. I have been afforded the entitled right. No cheerleader here for anything. Easily able to find the negatives.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I shall denigrate any entity i see fit. I have been afforded the entitled right. No cheerleader here for anything. Easily able to find the negatives.

America, love it or leave it!

 

[initforme]

America, love it or leave it!

What are you talking about? Wow. You missed that one. Right over the head. Funny. Thanks.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What are you talking about? Wow. You missed that one. Right over the head. Funny. Thanks.

You said: " Easily able to find the negatives." Yet you offer no solutions. That's being a *****.

 

[BackAgain]

Reefer Madness wasn't a documentary.

lol.

It wasn’t even borderline honest.

But it’s (now) pretty hilarious.

All that said, there might be scientifically supportable evidence for the conclusion that (at least for “heavy users”) marijuana might cause some physiological or psychological problems for the long-time users.

 

[initforme]

You said: " Easily able to find the negatives." Yet you offer no solutions. That's being a

No solution a needed. Im a proponent of mj being legal. It will only help the nation. Irrefutable.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

No solution a needed. Im a proponent of mj being legal. It will only help the nation. Irrefutable.

Other than your horrible grammar, I agree with legalizing marijuana.

 

[Jarlaxle]

When I was in the Navy back in the early seventies, they actually showed us “Reefer Madness” as an anti drug training film.

Isn't that the one that should be watched while baked?

 

[Mr Natural]

Isn't that the one that should be watched while baked?

Absolutely!

 

[Mac-7]

ALEX BERENSON: Trump's marijuana order pushes a dangerous lie about drugs

The liberal and libertarian effort to destigmatize, normalize, legalize and even promote the use of "drugs of abuse" has been a catastrophe for the U.S.

www.foxnews.com

The President's recent move to normalize marijuana use has brought mild, uncomfortable, cheers from Libertarians and Leftists alike. It is one of those issues that politicians have shied away from for decades, concerned that there is a hard core of people who abhor MJ and its culture, and would punish politicians who vote to decriminalize it or suppress Federal enforcement. On a more practical side, the current state of Federal law places a serious burden on merchants of MJ, who cannot do their banking in the customary places or ways thus facilitating crimes involving massive amounts of cash.

But maybe MJ is actually as harmful as our forefathers supposed and it should not be normalized. The linked article makes a pretty good case in opposition to Trump's gambit, and it is well worth reading.

Something that caught my eye was the following sentence that truly hit home for me:

"Cannabis can cause psychotic episodes where users lose touch with reality and become paranoid that friends or family members want to hurt them."

My adult son is a long-time user of various forms of MJ, often obtained by prescription and/or at the suggestion of his "therapists." In recent years, we have learned that he blames basically every poor decision he has made in his (43 y.o.) life on the insidious influence of his mother/my wife, who has, we are told, "smothered" him with love, kindness, gifts of cash and kind, and overblown celebrations of holidays like Christmas. He now "hates" those celebrations, avoids them, and literally cannot have a conversation with his mother without blowing up at some imaginary slight or insult, and storming out of the premises. Most recently, in front of his three children.

It is a puzzle how an intelligent and educated adult can come to the conclusion that the one human who most sincerely and fervently wants the best for him in life - above all others - is hurting him incessantly and should be avoided. As Dave Barry used to write, "You could not make this up."

Is it the effect of decades of MJ use? Now at least we have a theory to go by - not that that will help anything.

Pot lowers intelligence in younger teens and children

 

[sparky]

~S~

 

[Oddball]

lol.

It wasn’t even borderline honest.

But it’s (now) pretty hilarious.

All that said, there might be scientifically supportable evidence for the conclusion that (at least for “heavy users”) marijuana might cause some physiological or psychological problems for the long-time users.

So does booze.

On a side note, the state operated legalization efforts have been a big tax grift all along, with no eye to regulation that's on an equal footing with the distilling business.

 

[sparky]

~S~

 

[BackAgain]

So does booze.

Truth.

On a side note, the state operated legalization efforts have been a big tax grift all along, with no eye to regulation that's on an equal footing with the distilling business.

I have long believed that the respective governments (state, maybe local and certainly federal) would reap a monetary benefit from legalization of marijuana.

They do from booze as you clearly know. And they do from tobacco.

 

[petro]

The city of Anoka MN is going that route.
The municipal dispensary will be located next to the municipal liquor store.
This is a red county BTW.

Anoka Cannabis Company | Anoka, MN

www.anokaminnesota.com

 

[sparky]

The municipal dispensary will be located next to the municipal liquor store.

how uhmmmm.....convenient ....~S~

 

[Oddball]

"Many of us have heard of some of the transmitter systems within our bodies, such as the sympathetic nervous system, which gives us our fight-or-flight response. Fewer have heard of the more recently discovered endocannabinoid system (ECS), which is amazing when you consider that the ECS is critical for almost every aspect of our moment-to-moment functioning. The ECS regulates and controls many of our most critical bodily functions such as learning and memory, emotional processing, sleep, temperature control, pain control, inflammatory and immune responses, and eating. The ECS is currently at the center of renewed international research and drug development."

The endocannabinoid system: Essential and mysterious - Harvard Health

Also, when John Douglas was first profiling serial killer for the FBI Behavioral Unit, something like 90+% of them came from abusive households with one or more ALCHOLIC adults.

Not stoners, alcoholics.

CBD cured my plantar fasciitis when nothing else worked...A doctor said "I couldn't recommend that" when I mentioned this during a consultation.

Immediately read between the lines.