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The Cannabis Catastrophe (Pot softens brains: Stoners don't care)
The Daily Mail [UK] ^
| January 26 2003
| Melanie Phillips
Posted on 01/26/2004 2:36:49 PM PST by quidnunc
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:36:50 PM PST
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
Don't criticize it, lobotomize it!
2
posted on
01/26/2004 2:39:04 PM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(Texas; more churches than any other state in the US!)
To: quidnunc
Huh? What? Oh.
To: quidnunc
But don't you understand, pot is a weed of the earth?! Its our natural right to use it!
To: quidnunc
LOL!
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:41:33 PM PST
by
Huck
(Was that offensive? I hope that wasn't offensive.)
To: quidnunc
"Reefer Madness" style propaganda, and just as silly.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:41:48 PM PST
by
jimt
To: quidnunc
Eleven years ago, when she was 18, the former care assistant from Swindon started smoking cannabis once a weekJust a suggestion, but if she can't "handle" smoking marijuana perhaps she should stop.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:41:58 PM PST
by
GSWarrior
To: quidnunc
I havent worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldnt afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldnt cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didnt stop completely until two years ago. Why not blame McDonalds?
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:42:14 PM PST
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: quidnunc
Sounds like a job for...
...fighting the tyranical agenda hidden behind the War On Drugs.
9
posted on
01/26/2004 2:43:24 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
(-He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps-)
To: Wolfie
Check this out. Maybe the dumbest article on marijuana I have ever read. Too bad I am not at home, or it might have been the dumbest article I have ever read on marijuana.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:43:27 PM PST
by
Huck
(Was that offensive? I hope that wasn't offensive.)
To: quidnunc
My solution, which will displease both the pro- and anti- WODers:
1. Legalize the growing of pot solely for one's personal use.*
2. Anyone selling pot once should be publicly beaten. Anyone selling a few times, death penalty.
3. As for s**t like meth, first offense public beating, second, death penalty.
4. Same as #1 for opium, same as #2 for for opium, same as #3 for heroin and other hard drugs.
*Same for alcohol, if we want to be consistent.
It won't happen, of course. But it would work. Also, if the government keeps subsidizing drug users/losers via social services, new generations of drug users/losers will keep magically appearing.
To: jimt; All
I think all Muslims should become "Pot Heads" listen to The Who and practice yoga. What a mellow world we would have...
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:45:14 PM PST
by
missyme
To: quidnunc
"afterwards she also tried speed, LSD and ecstasy." Maybe that had something to do with the "soft brain." She probably figured that pot was not as bad as the govt made it out to be so why not try some acid.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:46:06 PM PST
by
TBall
To: quidnunc
LoL. Does it make it soft as Charmin? God knows we need hard brains to think about the hard problems.
Guess the author never met Louis Armstrong who smoked reefer every day.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:46:18 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: quidnunc
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To: TBall
She only resorted to those drugs in an attempt to harden up that brain.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:48:04 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: TBall
Maybe her brain started out soft and she just wants to blame her bad habits and loser lifestyle on something other than her own mush-brained self.
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:49:18 PM PST
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: quidnunc
After a couple of weeks, I found it was addictive, she said. As soon as you start you get the feeling youre completely relaxed and calm, but then you crave it. I used it more and more until I was smoking it every day. Then I couldnt work because I was too stoned all the time. I was so paranoid I couldnt leave the house. I havent worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldnt afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldnt cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didnt stop completely until two years ago.
Ok... now try this.....
After a couple of weeks, I found it was addictive, she said. As soon as you start you get the feeling youre completely relaxed and calm, but then you crave it. I [drank] more and more until I was [drink]ing it every day. Then I couldnt work because I was too [drunk] all the time. I was so [drunk] I couldnt leave the house. I havent worked for the past six years. I lost all my friends and nearly lost my family. I couldnt afford to pay my mortgage, my house was repossessed, I had to live in a hostel. I was in hospital three times, and couldnt cope at all in the community. I had no social skills left. My life was in tatters. I didnt stop completely until two years ago."
To: justshutupandtakeit
justshutupandtakeit wrote:
Guess the author never met Louis Armstrong who smoked reefer every day.While Satchmo could certainly blow a mean trumpet, I never heard his referred to as one of the great thinkers of the 20th Century.
By the wat, did you know that he got his start playing in a Storeyville sportin' house in the Big Easy?
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posted on
01/26/2004 2:51:33 PM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: quidnunc
From Dickens's
Pickwick Papers,, testimonials given at a meeting of the Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association:
'H. Walker, tailor, wife, and two children. When in better circumstances, owns to having been in the constant habit of drinking ale and beer; says he is not certain whether he did not twice a week, for twenty years, taste "dog's nose," which your committee find upon inquiry, to be compounded of warm porter, moist sugar, gin, and nutmeg (a groan, and 'So it is!' from an elderly female). Is now out of work and penniless; thinks it must be the porter (cheers) or the loss of the use of his right hand; is not certain which, but thinks it very likely that, if he had drunk nothing but water all his life, his fellow-workman would never have stuck a rusty needle in him, and thereby occasioned his accident (tremendous cheering). Has nothing but cold water to drink, and never feels thirsty (great applause).
'Betsy Martin, widow, one child, and one eye. Goes out charing and washing, by the day; never had more than one eye, but knows her mother drank bottled stout, and shouldn't wonder if that caused it (immense cheering). Thinks it not impossible that if she had always abstained from spirits she might have had two eyes by this time (tremendous applause). Used, at every place she went to, to have eighteen-pence a day, a pint of porter, and a glass of spirits; but since she became a member of the Brick Lane Branch, has always demanded three-and-sixpence (the announcement of this most interesting fact was received with deafening enthusiasm).
'Henry Beller was for many years toast-master at various corporation dinners, during which time he drank a great deal of foreign wine; may sometimes have carried a bottle or two home with him; is not quite certain of that, but is sure if he did, that he drank the contents. Feels very low and melancholy, is very feverish, and has a constant thirst upon him; thinks it must be the wine he used to drink (cheers). Is out of employ now; and never touches a drop of foreign wine by any chance (tremendous plaudits).
'Thomas Burton is purveyor of cat's meat to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and several members of the Common Council (the announcement of this gentleman's name was received with breathless interest). Has a wooden leg; finds a wooden leg expensive, going over the stones; used to wear second-hand wooden legs, and drink a glass of hot gin-and-water regularly every night--sometimes two (deep sighs). Found the second-hand wooden legs split and rot very quickly; is firmly persuaded that their constitution was undermined by the gin-and-water (prolonged cheering). Buys new wooden legs now, and drinks nothing but water and weak tea. The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers).'
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