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News & ArtsMonday, November 23, 2009
Drugs Support for the Legalization of Pot
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM
It just keeps growing.
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Dan,
It's known that smoking pot will increase one's appetite and in turn potentially make one gain more weight. Give your position about Americans getting more obese how do you reconcile that ?
It's known that smoking pot will increase one's appetite and in turn potentially make one gain more weight. Give your position about Americans getting more obese how do you reconcile that ?
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@1: Don't be dumb. Having the munchies occasionally does not make you obese. Regularly overeating, eating shit, and not exercising makes you obese.
The benefits of legalizing marijuana far outweigh the perceived "negative" side effects.
The benefits of legalizing marijuana far outweigh the perceived "negative" side effects.
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The PI online news is talking about the budget cuts in prisons - either that or tax increases - and most sane posters there want the state to stop putting people who use MJ in prison.
We taxpayers have had enough of this Drug War and the lower-than-minimum-wage prison labor industry it is designed to prop up.
We taxpayers have had enough of this Drug War and the lower-than-minimum-wage prison labor industry it is designed to prop up.
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I can't wait till it's legal. No more going out in public, high, worrying about whether others in public suspect you're under the influence of an illegal plant.
"...Anti-drug advocates counter with surveys showing high school students nationwide already are more likely to smoke marijuana than tobacco"
what, is pot over tobacco a bad thing? Thankfully, contrary to the progaganda we all grow up with, pot does not make people dumb or bad at school. If anything it inspires imagination and fresh interest in the makeup of reality. Just not in a SQUARE way.
"...Anti-drug advocates counter with surveys showing high school students nationwide already are more likely to smoke marijuana than tobacco"
what, is pot over tobacco a bad thing? Thankfully, contrary to the progaganda we all grow up with, pot does not make people dumb or bad at school. If anything it inspires imagination and fresh interest in the makeup of reality. Just not in a SQUARE way.
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"...Anti-drug advocates counter with surveys showing high school students nationwide already are more likely to smoke marijuana than tobacco"
See, we know it's bad because people use it, even tho it's illegal! So we should keep it illegal, because it's bad, because if we legalize it, then people will use it, but it will be legal, so we won't be able to complain about them using it, even tho we should because it's bad, and it's bad because it's illegal!
Or something like that. Occasional marijuana usage is certainly better than tobacco use (as long as you know, you aren't toking up right before tests or driving and so forth). Teenaged alcohol use is something they ought to be worrying about more - it kills *far* more teens than marijuana. Of course, a large part of the alcohol problem is the fact that the drinking age is too high also...
See, we know it's bad because people use it, even tho it's illegal! So we should keep it illegal, because it's bad, because if we legalize it, then people will use it, but it will be legal, so we won't be able to complain about them using it, even tho we should because it's bad, and it's bad because it's illegal!
Or something like that. Occasional marijuana usage is certainly better than tobacco use (as long as you know, you aren't toking up right before tests or driving and so forth). Teenaged alcohol use is something they ought to be worrying about more - it kills *far* more teens than marijuana. Of course, a large part of the alcohol problem is the fact that the drinking age is too high also...
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Fight the cancer in your brain....
http://www.naturalnews.com/026697_Mariju…
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/…
Only to get cancer in your balls...
http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2009/…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200…
http://www.naturalnews.com/026697_Mariju…
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/…
Only to get cancer in your balls...
http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2009/…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200…
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@3
naw, we're just too stoned to care about how attractive we are. and besides, i'm way too busy screening my balls all day for testicular cancer.
naw, we're just too stoned to care about how attractive we are. and besides, i'm way too busy screening my balls all day for testicular cancer.
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Does anyone know why in Canada, the cannabis culture/marijuana liberators insist on affiliating themselves with the 9/11 truth movement? Does anyone know why we still have idiots like Marc Emery and David Malmo-Levine leading the movement? Those guys are juvenile, uneducated and petty. Because of them, if you live in BC and want pot legalized, you will be automatically affiliated with Marc Emery, and thereafter not taken seriously. Also, they are ridiculously libertarian. Like, John Stuart Mill/free market libertarians, who want incest legalized, the human rights commission abolished, and think child porn is just pictures.
We really need to give those two the boot. I suggest we just ignore them entirely for the rest of eternity. No more media coverage about Marc Emery being extradited to the States ... please! Instead, I think Neil Boyd should replace them as our new face. He's brilliant, yet nobody knows who he is, because he's not obnoxious.
We really need to give those two the boot. I suggest we just ignore them entirely for the rest of eternity. No more media coverage about Marc Emery being extradited to the States ... please! Instead, I think Neil Boyd should replace them as our new face. He's brilliant, yet nobody knows who he is, because he's not obnoxious.
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@1 & 3 those of us that smoke pot every day have learned to be high functioning stoners (pardon the pun). i smoke a little before i work out because i like to run to music and when i'm high the music sounds even better. when i munchie i eat a small healthy snack. anyways... beer has a shit ton of calories and no one worries about how alcohol is impacting national obesity
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