[Behind Liberal Lines]

This has always been one of my major beefs with cannibus.

It has always also been one my major beefs with the "enlighted" who wouldn't be caught dead smoking tobacco.

So to summarize: marijuana is like a combination of the worst parts of alcohol and tobacco. It makes you stupid, it can be addictive, causes cancer and gives off second hand smoke.

[SheLion]

So to summarize: marijuana is like a combination of the worst parts of alcohol and tobacco. It makes you stupid, it can be addictive, causes cancer and gives off second hand smoke.

Yet, this report states that they "don't want the same thing to happen to cannibus."

I think they are trying to "protect" it for it's medical benefits?

[Stirner]

There have been conflicting studies over the years about the lung effects of smoking marijuana. Some have shown bad effects, others have not. However, marijuana does not need to be smoked to have the effect that users seek. It can be eaten or blended into drinks. The only advantage to smoking is that it requires less marijuana than ingesting it through the gut by drinking or eating. In other words, smoking is a response to the artificially high price that its being illegal causes. Lower the price to what similar dried vegetation costs (parsley, oregano) and users could avoid whatever health dangers smoking poses.

[concerned about politics]

gives off second hand smoke.

It just died a sudden death, unless the anti-smoking-Nazi liberals are hypocrits. Could it be?

[Eva]

Our local newspaper ran an article on marijuana that was included in a brochure from the local health department. It
claimed that gov't studies indicated that marijuana was more dangerous to the health than a cigarette. It also claimed that it was stored in the fatty tissues of the reproductive organs and could stunt the development of testicles in boys and reduce the reproductive abilities of both sexes.

We got a good laugh about the thought of all the young smokers looking down their pants to check.