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Smoke detectors are your friend, growers....just a tip.

Posted by going green | October 26, 2007 5:07 PM
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On "Shooting Up":
City-funded facilities for addicts to shoot up in San Francisco. Sounds like a great idea, guys! Oh boy!

On "Shot Down":
"The idea that professional athletes using drugs and alcohol is an example that will be followed by young athletes is a given at this stage."

It's nice to see the people at the Journal of Adolescent Health lack common sense, especially in areas in which they are reporting. How moronic of me to think that adolescent athletes choose to use drugs to better their performance instead of choosing to use drugs because professional athlete's use drugs to better their performance. Or--how idiotic of me to believe that adolescents, whether they're some closeted athlete or some woe-is-me dipshit goth kid, choose to use drugs because of curiosity and peer-pressure, not because their idols tell them to do so. I guess I should rewrite some of my adolescent experiences, because clearly they are irrational. Oh my! Oh boy!

On "Less than an Ounce":
Marijuana resulting in the death penalty...oh boy.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 26, 2007 5:12 PM
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on the less is more article on medical marijuana, as a mmj patient myself, couldn't agree more. there's the old saying patients have - you smoke to get by, not to get high

Posted by kinkos | October 26, 2007 5:23 PM
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Why can't we just import the cannabis from Afghanistan and let the feds tax it?

Rather than the 1000 percent markup, we could offer it for a lot less.

Think of the impact on the massive budget deficit!

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 26, 2007 5:26 PM
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"you smoke to get by, not to get high"

Medical patient or not, at this time that doesn't help Marijuana users in general...it hurts them. To conservatives, "to get by" adheres to being addicted.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 26, 2007 5:27 PM
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How dumb do you have to be to carry drugs in a foreign Country. When I was in India I saw the prison were they kept a lot of foreigners convicted of drug possession. A rather gastly place.

Its one thing in the US, were you can at least make a claim for rights. But to travel to another country and break their laws (whatever they maybe), is the hight of stupidity.

Posted by Giffy | October 26, 2007 5:38 PM
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I'm all in favor of re-evaluating this country's failed drug policy, but I gotta tell ya, that photo breaks my heart.

I know there are many reasons why people start that shit, but can anyone me tell one heroin story which has a happy, successful ending?

Posted by Bauhaus | October 26, 2007 6:02 PM
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Bauhaus, I think that photo breaks everyone's heart. But it's the sort of photo people need to see. It's a reality-based deterrent to drug use (unlike the backward meth ads that run in The Stranger every week).

One of the best aspects of supervised injection facilities and methadone treatment programs is that they remove the cookie-jar appeal of drug use. Kids can't romanticize pathetic junkies lining up on the sidewalk in broad daylight like they can mysterious drug culture or party-all-the-time celebrities.

Posted by Dominic Holden | October 26, 2007 6:30 PM
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You'd think that the Stranger, a rag that consistently prides itself in criticizing capitalism, popularism, Presidential candidates that tour with someone whose background-check opposes the opinion/lifestyles they do not (Obama/McClurkin), et-fuckin'-al, would go out of their way to refuse to run ads in which they do not agree with, in their papers (meth ads), and on their site (like the John McCain for President ad that's been randomly popping up on the right-side of Slog this entire week).

You'd think.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 26, 2007 7:15 PM
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*cancel the 'not'.

And add that whole monetary aspect, I guess. I don't know. If I was running and/or working for the Stranger, I think I'd have the decency to consider where I'm getting my ad $$$ from.

Just sayin'.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 26, 2007 7:18 PM
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They should use that photo in the anti-drug ads. That guy looks absolutely pathetic.

Posted by PA Native | October 26, 2007 8:18 PM
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No one ruins an interesting plotline more hilariously than evening magazine. "Although we CERTAINLY do not endorse his views..." PANSIES!

Posted by Steven Blum | October 26, 2007 11:30 PM
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I hear ya, Poe. I think it all works out, though - The guy who owns the mini mart by where I live, which carries the Stranger, looks like the farthest thing from a Stranger enthusiast. It's just practicality.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | October 27, 2007 6:49 AM
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That Bird Dog link is about a guy with MD (muscular dystrophy), not MS (multiple sclerosis). Very different diseases, though actually MS is the one that more often is cited as a reason for needing medical marijuana.

MD = congenital (born with it), muscles only
MS = autoimmune (you get it later in life), brain/spinal cord only (though that can affect muscle control)

Posted by Brent Michael Krupp | October 27, 2007 7:53 AM
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Hmm..drug testing for students doesn't work? We're about to find if it works on teachers...Hawaii's teachers' union just voted (along with a pay raise) random drug testing. For this reason, I do not plan on teaching public school here (I was comptemplating it). The ACLU is taking it up; we'll see where it goes, but I don't have high hopes. You know how persuasive "think of the children" arguments can be on morons.

Posted by Dianna | October 27, 2007 12:19 PM
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@8, I doubt that anyone who gets into drugs associates the picture of this sad junkie with what they are doing. When I started using drugs, it was with shiny party people. This photo would have, to me, been the furthest thing from my reality. No one seeks out stinky bums with whom to shoot up. Usually you are introduced by people you know and trust, who look like they are on top of the world. To be effective, this picture needs a "before".

Posted by sketch | October 28, 2007 12:54 AM
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@16 - Your point is that people who shoot up would look at that photo -- of someone shooting up -- but wouldn't make any assocaiation with it? Because you partied with pretty kids in a country that didn't have facilites like this?

Posted by Shooting Star | October 28, 2007 12:20 PM

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