Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74

Granny Storm Crow’s MMJ List

The Marijuana Cancer Cure Cult By Bruce Mirken, pc, but ok.

The Kaiser Permanente study
“Marijuana Use and Mortality” April 1997 American Journal of Public Health”. “Relatively few adverse clinical effects from the chronic use of marijuana have been documented in humans. However, the criminalization of marijuana use may itself be a health hazard, since it may expose the users to violence and criminal activity.”

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Virtues’ of Ganja

Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) School of Medicine have announced the results of an 8 – year study into the effects of long-term cannabis smoking on the lungs. In Volume 155 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. D.P. Tashkin reported: “Findings from the present long-term, follow-up study of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a significant risk factor for the development of [chronic lung disease. ..Neither the continuing nor the intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of decline in [lung function] as compared with those individuals who never smoked marijuana. Researchers added: “No differences were noted between even quite heavy marijuana smoking and non-smoking of marijuana.”

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That was a terrible comparison by davidstvz. But so goes the Reefer Madness… it affects those the most who smoke the least (cannabis).

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in addition to what bobreaze said, i have a few other comments:

you appear to believe that you don’t know any marijuana users — fyi, they are just as much a “cross section” of our society as drinkers are. hell, the last three Presidents all tried it at least once (that they admit to at any rate) — but, in fairness, i guess they can hardly be considered representatives of a “cross section” of society.

the extent to which marijuana users are willing to break the law is limited in the vast majority of cases to those “laws” which illegitimately impose penalties against those who harm no other, and quite likely speed limits on roads.

nice try on the bit about the “functional alcoholic” (who imbibes only at night) versus the pot smoker “sneaking in hits all day” — and i really get a kick out of how you declare “victory” for mister cirrhosis of the liver with the hangover!

the proper comparisons would be between those who get drunk every night versus those who get high every night, and between those sneaking hits all day versus those sneaking sips all day.

incidentally, it is way easier to get up for work after smoking all night than it is to do it with the hangover that results from drinking all night. you see, when you’ve smoked your brains out into the wee hours, you may have a bit of fuzzy-headedness when you wake up (or an “afterbuzz” as it is known) — but only until you take a shower. there really are no residual after effects from pot smoking. that, as many more of “cross section” of our society that are imbibers know, is not the way it works for a hangover.

the alcoholics are most certainly not going to “come out on top.” hangovers suck — that’s the punishment for drinking too much poison.

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Flys on the wall could make a fortune with pay per view reality TV of the real life DEA fighting for its administrative life pleading for the funding it needs to continue its important work instead of showing them busting someone slinging dope for less then minimum wage as is the usual fare.

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Those are nominal dollars. If you adjust to constant 2010 dollars it’s more like $2.5 trillion. Then, since the country has always been in debt you could add almost 40 years of interest to that figure. Amazing how much less the national debt would be had they not borrowed that money to prosecute a useless ‘war’.

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There are irresponsible people that use marijuana and irresponsible people that drink alchol. Which one causes more problems ? Drinking causes risk taking behavior Ie driving drunk, violent actions and behaviors. Marijuana causes passive behavior IE watching tv or enjoying a hobby. Occasionaly paranoia can be inflicted causing one to think a police man just pulled up to his home or that his parents returned home. This paranoia can be calmed by checking to make sure what your thinking isn’t realy happining or by marijuana becoming legal allowing people to not worry about law enforcement.

As for use of marijuana at the workplace. I personally think its not the best thing to do but I would rather someone be high at work than come to work drunk. I say this because most high people can still function decently well and are more in control of their actions. Drunk people however are not and tend to cause problems. Marijuana is safer than alchol because marijuana does not become a poison to the body. Alchol turns into a poison that damages organs. The only valid argument about marijuanas saftey is that smoking anything is not healthy. I however would choose to smoke rather than ingest a poison that i must endure its taste for several minutes before feeling any affect on my self.

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