Posted on 07/08/2006 2:48:58 AM PDT by neverdem
But you wouldn't like it.
No doubt water gives your typical druggy a mighty thirst for heroin injected straight up.
However, as the rest of us know, back in the "real world", no such thing happens to normal people.
I think this is the test you've always wanted ~ but you wanted different results. Bwwaaahahahahahahahahahahah~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!
It's not happening.
Clue.
This study reports on a neurologic condition, not a behavioral situation. Rats have the same sorts of nerves you do ~ just fewer of them ~ that's why they're so stupid eh.
BTW, concerning smoking natural plants, try poison ivy.
Didn't you read all the way through the article? They noted that heroin costs much more than MJ. Poverty protects druggies from hard drugs every single time eh!
Maybe I could sneak up on one of 'em and take his stash eh.
Over-stimulation of these receptors through exposure to cannabis may alter these cells so that the brain either feels intensely rewarded by subsequent heroin exposure, or needs an ever-increasing dose to feel the same pleasure — both of which could lead to addiction.
So any drug is a gateway to any other drug, including alcohol and tobacco.
She adds that two other drugs that also stimulate opioid cells, and could therefore also feasibly cause a gateway effect, are nicotine and alcohol. "If we turned back the clock with the knowledge we have now, these two drugs would never have been legalized," Hurd says.
"Gateway" or not, Prohibition was a ringing failure ... as is the war on drugs.
It says 3/4 of a joint "scaled down for a rat's size"
In a related story, 100% of adult rats that use heroin started by hanging out with lab researchers on government grants.
This study does not pass the "so what test".
I am here, but I'm not in the "drug trade". I don't have a stash, but I can get anything I want on the drive over the hill. so can anyone else. As for sneaking up, try, please try! I'm not hard to find. I pinged your buddies since I refer the same thoughts to them.
I sell land, and travel services (not necessarily in that order). I did take some ibuprophen before Spot and I went over to the mountain for our morning walk in the woods. I do about 3-5 miles, while he gets his fill. He probably runs 20 miles or more, up and down the side of the mountains. I just walk and think. Sometimes I smoke a cigar, sometimes other things. I've never taken herooin in my life. I have smoked lots of marijuana.
You think you are such a smart-ass. Try building a new business with no bank account! You have to get your ass out of bed efore dawn. That has never been a problem for me. I had the habit long before I earned a cute little green, yellow, and red ribbon for my uniform. It has always stayed with me. My wife likes to stay in bed half the day. She does not drink alcohol, does not smoke anything, and works 55-60 hours a week. I could care less if she likes to stay in bed. At least I know where to find her. She's just turned 35. I am 58.
I have repeated the bizbuilding process four times already. I could sleep until noon, and still produce income from 23 (increase of 5 from last year) INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS whom I created jobs for. We all pay lots of taxes to help fund our president and his cronies, while they fuel the demise of our country... I feel as if my grandchildren have nothing to look forward to but enslavement to a new world order! I vote, have donated thousands to Republican campaigns, and worked hard to get what? I get grief from propagandists like you guys. Get a life, and worry about that mexican guy mowing the lawn next door.
Your dictatorial attitude is revealing. Get your own life in order before you lump everyone into a category. Isn't that the definition of bigotry. Maybe you could just call us by the 'N" word. You can't see the forest, guys.
I grew up in a military family, have lived among black, white, filipino, asian, and hispanic. I finished my education in the south, where people take you at your face, until you prove them wrong.
I have built houses for people on a handshake, and have delivered value in every transaction I ever undertook. I went bankrupt trying to satisfy an Indian guy who decided to take ambiguity in a printed contract, and used a slick lawyer take away my own lievlihood. I started over again, and have managed to do alright.
I am sick and tired of you bigots showing up on these threads. the cali girl, and the wannabepaulsen dude, you give conservative politics a really bad face!What can you say for your life, and why should I not smoke a little herb now and then? Because YOU don't like it?
(you can see spot run in the mist... like this morning!)
Wrong; many of them turn to crime ... which is when YOUR nanny-statism costs ME (in addition to the taxpayer money wasted on the war on drugs).
Assuming by "drug trade crowd" you mean those who question the illegality of marijuana ... rhombus, Izzy Dunne, muir_redwoods, Schweinhund, Caipirabob, ARepublicanForAllReasons, coloradan, dawn53, hodaka, winston2, and Wolfie all posted before you this morning and expressed skepticism about this article.
Did you by any chance 'Irish up' your morning coffee before you logged on?
And if they were nearly the same, then what?
Moreover, they could have gave the rats an option between continued
marijuana use and the heroine.
Did all of you post on the thread about the article that said marijuana doesn't cause cancer? The report in the article even concluded that those who smoke marijuana are actually less likely to get cancer than those who don't smoke at all!
Did you post and call that junk science also? Or did you agree with it?
Why would you conclude that? She only mentioned alcohol and tobacco.
So, do you concede that marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco are gateway drugs?
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