For more Magical Thinking about Weed, see High Times Magazine.
For more Magical Thinking about Weed, see High Times Magazine.
They should just drink 180 proof Everclear and be like normal people. After all, it’s legal and no side effects.
Guess I won’t be smokin’ any weed for my glaucoma. Bummer, dude.
And many believe it’s especially
good for folks with no medical problems at all.
Naw man, you're wrong, man! That's all wrong!
Marijuana at best provides some relief for certain symptoms but it especially when smoked is no better than cigaretts concerning health benefits.
Heck, it’ll probably even give that straw man a brain.
Wrong. It is not magical thinking in that marijuana DOES provide a myriad of health benefits. Furthermore, side effects are minimal. Everything has side effects including food.
Keep legalizing it. Even Bill Buckley (who was what I like to call a “friendly acquaintance” of mine back in the day) proposed legalizing it. Probably 90% or more of my Prosecutors office wanted it legalized.
By 21, he'd long ago added alcohol to daily pot consumption so college plans "on hold;" living with two other pot heads; failure to hold regular menial jobs (mostly restaurant jobs but never waiting tables, "interfered with his 'mellow mood'"); by 29 had numerous arrests for petty crimes; in and out of jail and halfway houses; dead of lung cancer by age 40!
Yes, pot smokers DO get lung cancer.
Yes, pot is just great. If you don't believe it, ask families of drug addicts.
Has anyone with a serious audience ever claims that marijuana cures everything? has anyone like this ever claimed that marijuana cures anything? My late wife went through over 40 rounds of chemo. She found that an appetite stimulant that also served as a general analgesic was a blessing. It didn’t cure her cancer but no one expected that it would. It did allow her to keep down a meal and sleep afterwards but I’m sure someone somewhere will tell me she should have stayed up all night vomiting.
Where are the anti-smoking Nazis? Cannabis is deeply inhaled into the lungs when smoked and certainly contains some carcinogens. What about second hand pot smoke affecting people who are not smoking? If second hand tobacco smoke is filling our hospitals and killing little babies in the beds what about pot smoke?
“They should just drink 180 proof Everclear and be like normal people. After all, it’s legal and no side effects.”
Or the countless Big Brother approved pills that are proven physically addictive, toxic to every bodily organ and far more impairing. They turn people into disabled pill addicts for life who sit in their section 8 home and get their exorbitantly priced pills delivered at taxpayer expense. Big pharma moves entire warehouses full of heroin, speed and downers.
Can’t have anyone growing their own medicine and gotta make sure the “right” people keep getting paid with our dollars...
Plenty of US Citizens starting with G Washington and T Jefferson have used cannabis and did NOT become CRIMINALS!
Apparently cannabis will not make you a criminal! The LAW WILL!
"I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. " George Washington to William Pearce, 24 February 1794
I bet you'd like nothing better than to kick in good old George's door, and throw a few grenades in his window!
Drug Nazi!
It will also cure our problem of big government. Apparently.
Ex governor Johnson was touting it as a possible cure for Ebola.
Why do so many react when this issue is not people with life an death illnesses?
I worked for years with several pot heads and for them pot was magical :
Going to a movie? - smoke pot . Friends coming over? - we'll smoke pot. Got fired ? -smoke pot. car towed ?- smoke pot. Had a good day? - smoke pot. Had a bad day? - smoke pot. Nothing on TV? - now everything is good on TV. .... see, its magic!
As we can see, the Magic Marijuana People are abundant here on this thread and at Free Republic.
Their propaganda is mostly rehashed 60’s New Left lies and rhetoric.
On the subject of "side effects," I used to tell my students that there are no such things as "side effects." There are only "effects," some of which we want and some of which we don't, but Nature doesn't care. They come as a package.
Why should anyone care what another individual decides to do with his or her body. Anyone who has an addiction to anything is going to abuse it. No one can “fix” an addict. Additionaly, anyone who wants the addictive substance will do anything to feed the addiction.
If you want to destroy your life get caught with it. More people’s lives are destroyed by prosecutions than smoking it. BTW you don’t have to smoke it.
All drugs have side effects. Acetaminophen,Tylenol, causes liver failure. It is added to narcotics to do just that if they are abused. NSAIDs, Advil, have adverse effects on your heart valves, yet these medications, given the risks, are bought over the counter.
What if a plant, grown by you, could provide the same benefit, with lower side effects, than over the counter medicines?
Not to mention how much less of a burden this presents to our over clogged justice and prison systems.