Comments on: Can we have some science reporting with integrity, please?

By: DdC

DdC — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:00:32 +0000

Hi Wendy
Foul mouths come from birds.
Unless its overly repetitive or bad grammar, its legit.
Ad hominem doesn’t serve any purpose, but it feels good.
Those who fear words have a bigger problem.
Tact is nice, but rarely precise.
Be well,
DdC

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By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:47:08 +0000

The timing of this release — it was published two weeks ago, but it only hit the newspapers today — was co-ordinated by the unpopular Conservative goverment who is trying to push mandatory minimum laws through Parliament. A few days ago they launched a ‘new’ anti-drug campaign. The government thinks that if they saturate the media over the holiday break they will get renewed support for the grossly unpopular and ineffective Bill C-15. However, judgding by the comment threads on these stories, only the most obtuse people seem to be buying into this propaganda.

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By: Servetus

Servetus — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:35:07 +0000

@Why We Fight

Drug research worse than the alleged drug affliction? Sounds like a summary description of the drug war itself.

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By: Why we fight

Why we fight — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:28:38 +0000

{Servetus
December 18th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
There are enough teen pot smokers in Canada so that adolescents could have been used in the study instead of rats. Depression can be imaged using MRIs and PET scans instead of relying upon blood tests.}

Ya but the thing is,studies are showing MRI’s can cause cancer but, you know prohibs would show that as proof that cannabis was the culprit.

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By: Daniel E. Williams

Daniel E. Williams — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:23:12 +0000

“It would also be nice to have scientific researchers to have the integrity to refuse to feed these media morons.”

The most salient point in the post. It’s not just the climate guys playing fast and loose.

And speaking of media morons, how many of them, especially the faces we see on a regular basis, reporting this shit have smoked pot in the past, or continue still? They love playing the “gotcha” game, so we should give them a taste of their own medicine.

Watching Keith Olbermann squirm rendering a countdown his drug exploits would not only be fun but great TV.

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By: Why we fight

Why we fight — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:22:15 +0000

“In my era everybody smoked and everybody drank
and there was no drug use.”
~ DEA Chief Thomas Constantine, July 1, 1998

LOL gotta love that quote! No drug use huh? Wow!

Guess its all point of veiw and which side of the fence your on.

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By: Why we fight

Why we fight — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:17:13 +0000

I love this…they do ‘studies’(if you call it that) like this to suggest cannabis is a terrible thing to put in our bodies. Then we have alcohol,tobacco,pharma drugs that are proven to be bad. Then these days we hear the floride they put in our water is causing all kinds of problems, mercury in N1H1shots and high frutose corn syrup , aspertain gum isnt bad, yet past studies show mercury can cause many health problems (low I.Q. for one), but it just keeps showing up in the drugs they make, the foods we eat. Why?

With everything they Force upon us that is bad, why would they worry about cannabis? Could it be there are certain properties in cannabis that could keep us healthy , help us think Outside the Box ? No that couldnt be it …could it?

If they really want us to not use cannabis, maybe they should try some reverse psychology. We want it cause they dont want us to have it . Maybe they should endorse it, then people would think “Oh no, they want us to have this, whats wrong with it?”

Well cannabis is bad for you huh? With all this other crap KILLING us ,do they think I really care?

At least if cannabis was killing me (and I highly doubt it), At least I can enjoy dying slowly.

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By: DdC

DdC — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:28:05 +0000

Me too Daniel,
I tried to overdose on pot,
ran out of money…
But I’ll keep on truckin’

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By: DdC

DdC — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:24:01 +0000

“The greatest service that can be rendered to any country
is to add a useful plant to its culture.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

“Our problems stem from our acceptance
of this filthy, rotten system.”
~ Dorothy Day

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts
when you have forgotten your aim.”
~ George Santayana, “The Life of Reason”

“The passing of an unjust law
is the suicide of authority.”
~ Pastoral Letter of the American Roman Catholic Hierarchy, February 1920

“Of all tyrannies,
a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive.”
– C.S. Lewis,
in “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,”
~ an essay from “God In The Dock”

“In my era everybody smoked and everybody drank
and there was no drug use.”
~ DEA Chief Thomas Constantine, July 1, 1998

“Abusus non tollit usum.”
[Abuse is no argument against proper use.]
~ Latin proverb

“Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.”
[The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.]
~ Tacitus, Annals III 27

“Republic . . .
it means people can live free,
talk free, go or come, buy or sell,
be drunk or sober, however they choose.”
~ John Wayne

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By: jhelion

jhelion — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:56:54 +0000

I don’t expect much from sciencedaily – they periodically run anti-cannabis stories, like the ones from australia not too long ago.
Kaptin – here are some more links about cannabis and cancer – though not as clinical as yours:
If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?
http://bit.ly/ly2bk
Reuters: Pot Kills Cancer But Don’t Even Think About Using It!
http://bit.ly/WwICb
Run From The Cure: How Cannabis Cures Cancer And Why No One Knows
http://bit.ly/HsORW
Marijuana May Help Cure Cancer, Study Suggests
http://bit.ly/1G7T6E
New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells
http://bit.ly/CAVj
Cannabinoids: potential anticancer agents
http://bit.ly/1UR2v3
Cannabis chemicals may help fight prostate cancer
http://bit.ly/Sdtfp
Cancer and Medical Marijuana
http://bit.ly/xY1dO

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