One Reporter's Opinion – Never Legalize Pot!

Newmax ^ | Friday, June 10, 2005 | Gearge Putnam

[mugs99]

There is a common thread of good judgment in this reporters work over the last 50 years.

ROFL!!!
You must be really young!
His rants on rock and roll were hilarious. America is still here even after fifty years of rock and roll! Where you see good judgement I see an intellectual nitwit who the public enjoyed laughing at until it was time for I Love Lucy.

He was ahead of his time on immigration and is right as well about the drugs.

Baloney!
George has been a day late and a dollar short his entire life. That's why he never made the big time.
If he was right about the drugs, why are we still fighting the drug war? We should have been victorius forty years ago!
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[Wolfie]

I like smoking weed. I'll continue to do so.

[TAdams8591]

Marking.

[A CA Guy]

You think drug culture of the 60s that was revolving around rock concerts back then didn't screw up the American family any?

And what did you learn from the medical link to depression and schizophrenia with pot use, great read huh?

The issue wasn't rock and roll, it was about the hippie drug culture surrounding it. Often overtaking many people in music today even, right?

[Wolfie]

And what did you learn from the medical link to depression and schizophrenia with pot use, great read huh?

I leaned what Junk Science looks like. Coincidence is not causality, no matter how fervently you wish it so.

[A CA Guy]

See, proof that no proof will be enough for those wanting their illegal recreational drugs.

Thanks for your honesty.

[Wolfie]

Science is science. The studies you cite prove nothing. Play your immature word games all you want.

[RightWhale]

What did you think of the modern links of pot to depression and schizophrenia?

Slim to none.

The issue is whether FedGov should undertake healthcare as if the citizens are an asset of the State.

[walden]

I don't think so. Some cancer patients use marijuana to reduce the nausea produced by chemotherapy, but I have never heard it touted as a pain-killer.

[Afronaut]

Your statements are foolish. The dealers all agree with you. Why would you want to remove all that cash from the criminal element? Pot is not a dangerous drug. If a abused, Ice Cream is much more dangerous.

Study exposes mental effects of pot

what is the mental effects of TV? Of Junk food? Of Drinking Booze? What a silly study.

I quite smoking years ago. There is no reason to let the dealers and the terror element collect all the money spent on weed. The war on drugs is the biggest joke in my lifetime. How many people are in serious addictive states due to legal prescription drugs? Why are people like you so opinionated towards pot and could give a hoot about booze and prescription drugs? Makes me wonder.

[A CA Guy]

Study exposes mental effects of pot

According to the New Scientist, there was hardly enough reliable evidence to support the idea that cannabis use could cause such mental illnesses until now. The lack of good evidence has delayed studies in finding harmful effects of a seemingly harmless drug.

One of the main conclusions of the research was that people who start smoking cannabis as young adults were at the greatest risk of later developing mental health problems. Another study done by an associated team concluded that depression and schizophrenia in the United Kingdom's population could be reduced by 13 percent if marijuana use was eradicated.

They concluded that regular marijuana use led to educational failure and unemployment, which could increase the risk of depression.

Researchers at King's College London, UK, analyzed continuous data taken on over 1000 people born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1972 and 1973, and found that people who used cannabis by age 16 were four times as likely to have a diagnosis of schizophreniform disorder (a milder version of schizophrenia) at age 27 than those who didn't use the drug.

Another study done to see the drug's effects on the lungs was coupled with research done on the long-term mental effects of cannabis usage. According to the New Scientist, The British Lung Council concluded in a recent study that smoking marijuana was as bad if not worse than smoking cigarettes.

Furthermore, the cannabis produced and harvested now had been proven to be 10 to 12 times stronger than the trees smoked in the "flower-power' generation

By further examining marijuana joints, the scientists found that the tar from a joint contains concentrations of carcinogens benzathracenes and benzpyrenes up to 50 percent higher than tobacco smoke, and that THC, which is the most concentrated psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, destroys the immune system cells that help protect the lungs from infection.

Just a few parts of the article for those who want current stuff.

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/11/3e95e7d8a6ea7

[A CA Guy]

See #71 and repent.

[68 grunt]

George is insane, the arch-typical Amerikan nazi. He was the paraquat kid in the 70's, publicly assuming the position that the federal government should poison mj plants and kill the users. I can't wait until the other nazi, Buchanan, weighs in on the issue.

[bikepacker67]

If used in moderation or less it isn't an issue, whereas pot goes directly to the brain faster than an injection.

You're a knucklehead if you truly believe this drivel.

MJ is no where NEAR as damaging as alcohol. Nor does it produce nearly the number of addicts as the "Jesus Juice".

[A CA Guy]

The guy turned around after his youth and has been a total conservative fighting illegal immigration for 20 years, he is very responsible for helping Howard Jarvis pass Prop 13 which allowed Californians to afford their houses.

What you are saying is so crazed, that people will read you and believe you to be some third party libertarian type here to post your allegiance to illegal drugs.

Hard to believe...

[hinckley buzzard]

Gee, sounds like alcohol.

It does indeed. And if it were somehow hypothetically just discovered that alcohol could be used as a mind-altering recreational drug, it would certainly not be legalized.

[A CA Guy]

Pot users habitually mix it with everything they can find, therefore the term gateway drug.

Though the drug community here doesn't like to hear it, California's violent offenders mostly use pot and other stuff all the time. I'm sure it's the same way in other prisons and the same since George started to cover this decades ago.

[hosepipe]

[ Why? Because that is drug trafficking? ]

Growing your own pot is drug trafficking.?..
Really.. trafficking is one thing, smokeing the crap is another..
Most pot heads I know would smoke it and to be honest might GIVE some to a few friends.. thereby lessening the pot trade.. overall.. Are you "afraid" some might smoke it.. or deprive the gov't of "TAXES".. Be careful here, RINOism is nasty habit..

More nasty than any pot smoker I've met.. RINOism very close to treason... And I've been following RINOism for at least 30 years..

Hell if it was legal to grow it, I might grow a bit just to do it..

[GoLightly]

Some people's lack of common sense.

Which clause of the Constitution would be the one that covers the attempt to impose common sense?

Or desire to get high out of stupidity perhaps!

I think that the desire to get high is generally stupid. Maybe we should make stupidity illegal.

[LAURENTIJ]

hide your shame..