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Study: Marijuana eases traumatic memories
Seattle Times ^ | 08/01/02 | Faye Flam

Posted on 08/02/2002 1:19:14 PM PDT by bat-boy

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To: Conagher; Wolfie; headsonpikes; WyldKard; WindMinstrel; FreeTally; tacticalogic; Xenalyte; EBUCK; ..
If you don't mind, we're trying to run a society here.

Perhaps you should let society run itself. It's been chuggin' along for thousands of years before you came along.

41 posted on 08/02/2002 6:21:27 PM PDT by Dakmar
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To: bat-boy
Stupidity and lies reach new high-water marks.

I worked with combat VN-Vets for 20 years who used marijuana heavily and daily for decades, only to come into treatment because by 1989, 1969 was like yesterday.

The brain is designed for endogenous OPIOIDS, not cannabinoids. This is the bald-faced lie part.

Unless pot-freaks are willing to admit their "benign" pot is really the same as heroin after all.
42 posted on 08/02/2002 7:27:38 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Dakmar
If I'm "your average crack dealer," I don't need to buy licenses, bonds, hire accountants, pay insurance, and taxes.

And you think those who do, are going to put me out of business.

Who needs lessons in logic?
43 posted on 08/02/2002 7:33:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
If I'm "your average crack dealer," I don't need to buy licenses, bonds, hire accountants, pay insurance, and taxes.

Yes, you have yet another advantage over more traditional small businesses - you're clientele has no interest in whether or not you are legit, because they know you are running an illegal business from the get-go, that's why they're there AFAICT.

And you think those who do, are going to put me out of business.

Damn right they won't - they're the ones spending money on insurance, salaries, and all that other happy stuff that keep businesses running. Criminals don't have such expenses, that's why no one likes them

Who needs lessons in logic?

I'll bet you will get ticked off if I answer that with : "you?", so how could I resist?

44 posted on 08/02/2002 8:01:33 PM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Thane_Banquo
Bill & Hillary swore under oath they couldn't remember several hundred times. Would have been worse had he inhaled.
45 posted on 08/02/2002 8:05:29 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: A CA Guy

I don't know how we get pro-illegal-drug crowds here at FR.

Who is the "we" you speak of if not your collectivist fabrication. And you speak of "here at FR" (FreeRepublic), when Jim Robison owns the forum and he is against the WOD. So the valid question is: how are you allowed on this forum? I suspect Jim thought opposition would make for balanced discussion/debate. Anytime you want to partake in an honest debate without using ad hominems, without using rhetoric and without using hyperbole just let the people on the thread know that and I'm sure a good discussion/debate will follow.

46 posted on 08/02/2002 8:13:44 PM PDT by Zon
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To: A CA Guy

I don't know how we get pro-illegal-drug crowds here at FR.

Who is the "we" you speak of if not your collectivist fabrication. And you speak of "here at FR" (FreeRepublic), when Jim Robison owns the forum and he is against the WOD. So the valid question is: how are you allowed on this forum? I suspect Jim thought opposition would make for balanced discussion/debate. Anytime you want to partake in an honest debate without using ad hominems, without using rhetoric and without using hyperbole just let the people on the thread know that and I'm sure a good discussion/debate will follow.

47 posted on 08/02/2002 8:14:33 PM PDT by Zon
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To: RobRoy
ha. Actually the scientists started a study to see if the wicked weed had medicinal qualities, but halfway through they got the munchies and forgot what the study was about.
48 posted on 08/02/2002 8:17:25 PM PDT by patriot5186
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To: Conagher
Nice to see that your comments and arguments against drug legalisation smack of 'Just say NO!' Keep up the good work. You're really convincing!
49 posted on 08/02/2002 11:06:25 PM PDT by JediGirl
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To: JediGirl; Conagher
Nice to see that your comments and arguments against drug legalisation smack of 'Just say NO!' Keep up the good work. You're really convincing!

From the web page, The White House, President George W. Bush:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/nr40.html

Now living in retirement with her husband in California, [Nancy Reagan] continues to work on her campaign to teach children to "just say no" to drugs, though her husband and her home remain her first priority. In her book My Turn, published in 1989, she gives her own account of her life in the White House. Through the joys and sorrows of those days, including the assassination attempt on her husband, Nancy Reagan held fast to her belief in love, honesty, and selflessness. "The ideals have endured because they are right and are no less right today than yesterday."

God bless the Reagans, and God bless America.

50 posted on 08/02/2002 11:57:45 PM PDT by gg188
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To: Dakmar
He also suggested such a drug might need to be taken in conjunction with psychotherapy, during which patients would work on getting rid of fearful associations.

LOL. Wouldn't want folks medicating themselves without the bennifit of the omnipotent STATE would we. No no no. We must assure that drugs are not of the natural variety and certainly not taken in the absense of state liscensed and state funded psychotherapists.

One wonders how those canniboid receptors ever developed in the brain without the help and guidance of the state and her demon-psychologist-minions.

EBUCK

51 posted on 08/05/2002 8:36:44 AM PDT by EBUCK
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To: EBUCK
The whole situation reminds me of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, where drugs are only to be used for control, not therapy.
52 posted on 08/05/2002 8:48:38 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Conagher
If you don't mind, we're trying to run a society here.

Ah yes, another New Dealer in our midst.

53 posted on 08/05/2002 8:52:09 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Dakmar
Great movie.

And you're right, control is the ultimate motivator.

EBUCK

54 posted on 08/05/2002 9:15:53 AM PDT by EBUCK
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To: EBUCK
Remember kids, Just Say No (Except to ritalin - refuse that and we'll put you in a foster home)
55 posted on 08/05/2002 9:24:26 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Dakmar
(Except to ritalin - refuse that and we'll put you in a foster home)

That's the real ironic part. The weed is so despicable that they won't even consider using it in it's natural state. They are going to spend millions/billions coming up with a synthetic form of the canniboids that will never be as clean or effictive as the original. And of course the research will be funded by the tax-payers and subscriptions will be subsidized by taxpayers. Ringling Bro's here we come.

EBUCK

56 posted on 08/05/2002 9:33:09 AM PDT by EBUCK
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To: EBUCK
"Every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish," Nixon told chief of staff H.R. Haldeman on May 26, 1971. "What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? I suppose it’s because most of them are psychiatrists."
57 posted on 08/05/2002 9:38:17 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: Dakmar
What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?

That Nixon: Answering the question while asking it, I see.

As for the WOD: Wouldn't the "proper" conservative response be aimed at getting the federal government out of this business, and letting states decide their own drug policies? I know it's a novel thought to the anti-cannabis crowd, but perhaps it's worth pondering ...

58 posted on 08/05/2002 9:49:11 AM PDT by rond
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To: rond
Trying to reason with a drug warrior is almost as difficult as trying to reason with a junkie - they are both addicted, one to power and one to drugs.
59 posted on 08/05/2002 9:52:53 AM PDT by Dakmar
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To: rond
Wouldn't the "proper" conservative response be aimed at getting the federal government out of this business,

Absolutely!!!! And a lot of them are not opposed to such ideas, well, at least the reasonable ones aren't. The basis of conservatism is , IMO, seperation of powers and a de-centralized gubment along with a heavy reliance on fiscal responsibility. All the things the WOD tramples under cloven hoof.

EBUCK

60 posted on 08/05/2002 9:58:13 AM PDT by EBUCK
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