Smoking marijuana= the dumbing down of America

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[april15Bendovr]

Marijuana is causing America to be more and more dysfunctional. Its time we recognize that we have a problem.

Educational info on marijuana

[crazydad]

I dont think so. Now Voting Democrat and Smoking Pot have dumbed down Millions of Americans!

[joseph20]

Riiight...an evil plant (that you can’t have!) is the cause...

[nickcarraway]

Some people on FR want it to be practically mandatory. I’d hate to be going to school today, where some places, you’re ostracized or physically abused for not trying it.

[rahbert]

My kid tells me that among his crowd tokers are thought of
as slackers and weenies.

Real men drink microbrew, and tequila.

[april15Bendovr]

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CASA REPORT FINDS TEENS WHO HAVE INFREQUENT FAMILY DINNERS LIKELIER TO DRINK, SMOKE, USE MARIJUANA http://www.casacolumbia.org/templates/PressReleases.aspx?articleid=567&zoneid=66

Obama's New Drug Strategy Opposes Legalizing Pot - Political Hotsheet - CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004702-503544.html

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Study finds marijuana smoking is risk factor for gum disease - icyou health videos http://www.icyou.com/topics/wellness/study-finds-marijuana-smoking-risk-factor-gum-disease

Famous PSA- Partnership for a Drug Free America "Brain on Drugs" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7ukc7MV-k&feature=related

Drugs of Abuse Publication, Chapter 7 http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/abuse/7-pot.htm

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NBC Nightly News- Marijuana far from 'harmless' for addicts http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34347853#34347853

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Dr. Drew Q&A "How addictive is marijuana when compared to heroin?" http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=322308606937&topic=15022

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Update on Marijuana http://www.jpnonline.com/view.asp?rID=44592

ObamaCare's Medical Marijuana - Forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/13/george-soros-marijuana-legalization-opinions-contributors-rachel-ehrenfeld.html

Long-term consequences of a single treatment of mice with an ultra-low dose of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6SYP-4X85F54-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01/20/2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1293419481&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6800f71be0a823d0c9df30be7aa4d453

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The DEA Position On Marijuana http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_position.html

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MARIJUANA DEPENDENCE AND ITS TREATMENT http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/ascp/vol4no1/Marijuana.pdf

Afroman - Because I Got High (Censored) Nothing exemplifies the life of a pothead better than this tune by Afroman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4Pygn9qF0

Good Video-Messing With Heads http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8732755138348766936#

Smoking Pot Is A Waste Of Your Life / Anti-Marijuana PSA Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbsEhvNIZ8

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DETOXING FROM MARIJUANA-Marijuana Anonymous World Services http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org/detox.shtml

Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr042605p.html

Chronic use of cannabis and poor neural efficiency in verbal memory ability http://www.springerlink.com/content/2665775k6383136m/

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[AnalogReigns]

I’d hate to be going to school today, where some places, you’re ostracized or physically abused for not trying it.

No more than the same kind of people "forced" you or I to get drunk or smoke cigarettes in school.

If a person becomes a smoker, a drunk or an addict because of the friends they choose...they are
a) being irresponsible blaming others and also
b) lack character because they hang out with the wrong people.

My experience has been your average pot smoker is MUCH more peaceable with someone with them refraining from it, than your average drinker, or smoker....

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Shrimp boats Is Acomin
Their Sails are in sight.
Shrimp Boats is acomin
there will be dancing tonight.

** Ron Paul version.

Shrimp Boats is acomin
Their pork is in sight.
Shrimp Boats is acomin
They will be drugged up tonight.

[Tolsti2]

Please don’t use the relatively respectable term ‘smoker’ for potheads. This stuff is true, and it’s a laarrrgge part of why europe and now the west coast is falling apart. And yes, it makes people lazy idiots who may be harmless but also useless.

[april15Bendovr]

Marijuana smokers aren’t very peaceful when they are detoxing. They’re often very agitated.

[Minn]

. Participants in the video report resorting to acts of desperation, such as scraping bongs and pot pipes and pulling their bedroom dresser out from the wall, to retrieve just enough marijuana to give them their next high.

Scraping pipes and retrieving stray buds from behind the dresser. Oh the humanity! Will the depravity ever end?

The same NIDA Monitoring the Future survey of 129 college students found that someone who smokes pot once daily may be functioning at a reduced intellectual level all of the time.

So if you are high every day, you aren't operating at peak efficiency? Who would have thought?

What a drama queen.

[shempy]

And people should absolutely NOT have the right to be lazy idiots. We need them up and moving about in accordance with our plans for them.

[montanajoe]

If a person chooses to smoke pot then its not up to the nanny state to be concerned with the health effects. The so called war on drugs has been a miserable failure.

It has wasted untold billions and engendered a loss of respect for the law.

It is people are who not treated as adults by the nanny state that is much more of a problem than any possible effects of cannibals.

By the way there are a lot of very stupid people in the country who don't drink, smoke or have any vices..if there was only a way to fix stupid..

[Mr. K]

i used to smoke it so i speak from experience (how many others who posted here can say that?)

It is LESS harmful than alchohol in moderation.

Too much (as in anything else) is very bad for you. Paranoid cloudy thinking and lack of motivation are the major symptoms of too much.

Too much alcohol can kill your liver and cause more permanent damage, though.

If only one could be made legal, I would choose pot without a doubt.

I would not smoke it- except occasionally, about as much as I enjoy alcohol- a couple of times a year, maybe, one or two drinks max- I have not been drunk or had a hangover in 20 years. (I also usd to do too much alcohol so i know about both of them)

[corkoman]

Naughty Vegetable Alert!

Alcohol makes you dopey too - lets ban that stuff!

[Minn]

Marijuana smokers aren’t very peaceful when they are detoxing. They’re often very agitated.

Marijuana certainly has it's dangers, and isn't an optimum lifestyle for anybody. Everyone should avoid it. But as somebody who "detoxed" many back in the day, I have to say that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.

[shempy]

They are proven bad for you and they harm society.

In addition to marijuana, America needs to criminalize tobacco, fast cars, loose women, strong liquor, and chin beards.

[Tolsti2]

As long as they receive no benefits and are truly an ‘island’ on their own, fine by me.

[Tolsti2]

Frankly, a pothead without their weed is about as psychologically bad of shape as any drug addict out there. Nasty business.

[Eye of Unk]

Just wait until 3-D porn gets everyone addicted, then there will be more in depth immersion channeling.

There have been several sci-fi films of people using either androids or “hosts” to occupy while their real bodies are cocooned at home.

America is “Escaping from Reality”. Why?

Because it sucks with inept leadership getting stronger every day with no hope of it being stopped.

America needs desperately a Revolution, we need heroes, patriotic heroes willing to risk all to take back our country.