'Legal weed ruined my life' ,
Posted on 04/11/2011 5:35:44 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
A young Tauranga man wants "legal weed" banned, claiming an addiction to it drove him to steal and left him riddled with anxiety.
Student Robert Moore, 23, (pictured) says he smoked up to $80 of Kronic each day and claims the marijuana alternative has had damaging psychological and physical effects on him. But Kronic has rejected the claims, saying its products are not addictive and are harmless unless used irresponsibly. The R18 synthetic cannabinoid is made from a mixture of dried herbs and is available at about 20 outlets across the Western Bay.
The product usually contains the 1,1-dimethyloctyl homologue of the substance CP 47,497, a synthetic substantially similar to the main active component of cannabis tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Mr Moore spoke to the Bay of Plenty Times after the newspaper last month reported that Kronic was being sold outside Western Bay's largest secondary school - horrifying the mother of one teenager who she says got stoned from it.
Mr Moore got hooked on the product after first trying it late last year.
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His mother said her son was characteristically "cheerful" and "intense" but had changed noticeably after he started using the product.
"We had him home for the summer and his personality was completely screwed. He'd become very devious, he was very distant and he had lost the ability to socialise. His personality has changed radically because of this and I think it should be banned, definitely." But Kronic spokesman Ben Thompson said the product contained no ingredients that could create a dependence or cause psychological problems.
"The effects are similar to cannabis but it's not as strong or intense and isn't harmful."
(Excerpt) Read more at bayofplentytimes.co.nz ...
The only thing worse than legalizing it is keeping it illegal.
I thought this might be Thailand, but it turns out it’s New Zealand.
He’s addicted to it by his own admission. Making it illegal helps him how? That just ups the stakes for your fix.
You could make the same argument about legal gambling, cigarettes and alcohol. Maybe those need to be banned too. /s
“The only thing worse than legalizing it is keeping it illegal.”
Why?
'Legal weed ruined my life' ,
“You could make the same argument about legal gambling, cigarettes and alcohol. Maybe those need to be banned too.”
I would agree with making alcohol illegal...would save thousands of lives and a huge amount of anguish each year.
Libertarians are simply wrong on issues of drugs being legalized. Actually, they are off base on many of their positions. They seem to ignore God and that is their downfall philosophically.
That is the Progressives idea, by making it Legal they can try to make it Normal. Once they make it Normal, then attacking it can be made Indefensible.
In the mean time, a Generation Goes Down the Drain.
Okay, the mother or the teenager?..........bad Engrish...............
yeah they tried that already. Little thing called Prohibition which among other things gave rise to the Kennedy empire. Try again.
I’ll admit it I did pot a few times. Never liked the stuff it made me feel dumber than usual and hungry to boot. The perpetual pothead seems to me to be more along the lines of a perpetual drunk, or the three pack a day smoker. They exist but they aren’t as common as people seem to think.
We did that with Prohibition. It was a disaster that ushered in organized crime rackets into every major city in the USA and probably caused more problems than it ever hoped to solve.
Libertarians are simply wrong on issues of drugs being legalized. Actually, they are off base on many of their positions. They seem to ignore God and that is their downfall philosophically.
The problem is that drugs' currently being illegal is not stopping the people who want to use them from using them. They find ways to get around the law. Drugs have been illegal in the USA since the late 1930s and even with the heavy-handed approach that many law enforcement agencies take with druggies today, overall drug use is worse than it ever has been.
In every society, there will exist a group of people who will refuse to control their own passions and engage in self-destructive behavior. This simply cannot be helped unless the person involved wants to be helped. Taking the "banning it" approach to these problems will simply move the problem to the next form of moral malaise that is still legal.
As for ignoring God, I am going to assume that you are speaking about the Christian God. If this is not the case, I apologize. But there are no teachings in the New Testament which task the state with enforcing the Law of God. Furthermore, we are taught as Christians that we must obey all of the laws except for those which conflict with God's Law. Even if drugs are legalized, the people who take their faith seriously will not indulge in them to excess, or at all.
What happened to their idea that the government owes them a risk-free society?
One sob story should be enough to bring down the heavy hand of government, and it it saves one child, then unintended consequences are irrelevant.
I oppose “legalization.” It is a scam...
legalize = lawyers and taxes
More laws, more lawyers, more police, more of a police state... NO THANK YOU...
You should be able to grow it like a tomato in your garden. You should be able to grow opium poppies in your flower bed if you want to... I don’t...
I want the government out of the picture completely.
Making the state the new drug cartel is asinine...
ERASE ALL THE LAWS ON MARIJUANA, DON”T MAKE MORE LAWS!
see #14...
See #14...
Prohibition was constitutionally implemented, by the way...
Headline should be “Loser blames everything but himself”.
See #14...
Prohibition was constitutionally implemented, by the way...
People might not like it, but it was done fair and square... It was also repealed constitutionally...
The Constitution DOES work.
Most of you apparently havn’t read the article. This isn’t MJ, this is some kind of phony artificial stuff that is called legal weed. It not supposed to be addictive and as far as I could tell from the article it isn’t even supposed to get you high. That is why it is legal to sell in NZ. This kid obviously has mental issues that have nothing to do with this product and it sounds like his family thinks they have hit the lottery.
It’s unbelievable the huge amounts of THC fake equivalencies that are on the internet now. The have the JWH-001 to JWH-250 series and all of them interact differently with the THC receptor in the brain. They have this new AM-0000 series that they’re experimenting with that have extremely wild effects to the point of massive halluncinations and paranoia. All these are imported from Chinese “powder houses” and resold by American distributors.
The “legal weed” is basically oregano with this stuff sprinkled on it.
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