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I hope this isent agenst the rules here (im sure its not, else i wouldent have posted this...).
Warning: this is a long one. If you guys are in USA (this is who the thread mostly applys to) youve probbly noticed the sworm of anti-cannabis ads on the air now a days, The DEA/goverment spent over 2 mill' to run one on suberbowl sunday. Not only are these ads wrong in most every way, they are tools to brainwash the general public into thinking cannabis is a hard drug and its effects can harm you. Dont belive me? here are some facts.. Quote:
Recently new 'crack downs' on users have occured, the frist is operation pipe dreams/ operation headhunter. heres a news snip on the issue: Quote:
Locally ive been fighting this ban by taking my 'clean' pipe on walks and smoking baccy from it, ive been stoped by 3 LEO's thus far that have let me go cause honestly they dident have anything on me, tho one was a ******* and kept me detained for over a hour. This may not apply to you if you are not a baccy/pot smoker, however this might: Quote:
I encourage everyone here who cares about freedom of speech and expression to contact the ACLU regarding this matter. DEA redirecting seized websites raises serious privacy issues. http://www.aclu.org/ Its time to stop not caring about whats going on in your country and take a stand, protect the freedoms your forfathers fought and died for!. Please write your congressman and tell him/her what you think about these issues. This isent a war on drugs, this is a war on our freedoms. How can your goverment justify war agenst iraq when they are taking away your basic freedoms here at home!?. Some of you may not be able to vote right now, but in a few years you will, your option matters. The bush administration managed to undue almost 230 years of progress in the American DEMOCRACY. Technically you know you cant define America as a democracy anymore. Soviet America indeed... |
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If you live in a area of the UK where coffee shops support the local goverment, or you go to the shops alot, you need to read this:
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we need marjuanna coffe shops if the goverment would realize fi they actually sold it they would be out of debt in atleast 80 years
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Out of debt in at least 80 years? I'd imagine if the government would legalize and somewhat regulate (much like alcohol is regulated), they'd be out of debt much sooner. Provided, that is, that they don't spend as fast as they make money. Politics is a bad game.
Thanks for the information, Anime Loo. My husband and I are planning a trip to Amsterdam within the next five years - I hope the Dutch will/can resist the ignorant pressure from the UN for a while. ![]() |
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Either way there's a reason why it's illegal to absoutely everybody in the US regardless of age. Laws aren't made out of spite.
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well i been taking a stand. "marijuana leads to harder drugs" - i been smokin for 2 years and havent even thought about trying anything harder. stupid goverment.
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Aren't they, though? I still haven't heard a good, legitimate reason why marijuana is prohibited. Especially when compared with the real "gateway" drugs of tobacco or alcohol - it's kind of senseless. As the articles point out, marijuana has been proven to medically help people and cause very little "harm" in return (inhalation of smoke is quite obvious) - not to mention the fact that marijuana alone hasn't been recorded to ever cause a fatality. |
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This is totally untrue. In fact, researchers are looking into using marijuana to help crack addicts to quit. There are 40 million people in this country (U.S.) who have smoked marijuana for a period of their lives -- why aren't there tens of millions of heroin users, then? In Amsterdam, both marijuana use and heroin use went *down* after marijuana was decriminalized -- even though there was a short rise in cannabis use right after decriminalization. Unlike addictive drugs, marijuana causes almost no tolerance. Some people even report a reverse tolerance. That is, the longer they have used the less marijuana they need to get `high.' So users of marijuana do not usually get bored and `look for something more powerful'. If anything, marijuana keeps people from doing harder drugs. The idea that using marijuana will lead you to use heroin or speed is called the `gateway theory' or the `stepping stone hypothesis.' It has been a favorite trick of the anti-drug propaganda artists, because it casts marijuana as something insidious with hidden dangers and pitfalls. There have never been any real statistics to back this idea up, but somehow it was the single biggest thing which the newspapers yelled about during Reefer Madness II. (Perhaps this was because the CIA was looking for someone to blame for the increase in heroin use after Viet Nam.) The gateway theory of drug use is no longer generally accepted by the medical community. Prohibitionists used to point at numbers which showed that a large percentage of the hard drug users `started with marijuana.' They had it backwards -- many hard drug users also use marijuana. There are two reasons for this. One is that marijuana can be used to `take the edge off' the effects of some hard drugs. The other is a recently discovered fact of adolescent psychology -- there is a personality type which uses drugs, basically because drugs are exciting and dangerous, a thrill. On sociological grounds, another sort of gateway theory has been argued which claims that marijuana is the source of the drug subculture and leads to other drugs through that culture. By the same token this is untrue -- marijuana does not create the drug subculture, the drug subculture uses marijuana. There are many marijuana users who are not a part of the subculture. This brings up another example of how marijuana legalization could actually reduce the use of illicit drugs. Even though there is no magical `stepping stone' effect, people who choose to buy marijuana often buy from dealers who deal in many different illegal drugs. This means that they have access to illegal drugs, and might decide to try them out. In this case it is the laws which lead to hard drug use. If marijuana were legal, the drug markets would be separated, and less people would start using the illegal drugs. Maybe this is why emergency room admissions for hard drugs have gone down in the states that decriminalized marijuana during the 70's |
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This is pretty interesting to find in this community. I feel I can address this however. I personally have never done marijuana. I have no real issue with the drug. I do drink from time to time, and have noticed that drinking is far more potentially dangerous.
Alcohol seems to be a far deadlier and dangerous drug than marijuana, but we know what happened when they tried to take america's second favorite drug away. My personal stance is that for a long time we have seen the federal government trying harder and harder to regulate more and more apsects of our lives and take choices away from the individual. And we pay them to do it. Remember the Boston Tea Party? We still have no tax on tea to this day in the U.S. We are taxed for everything else though. Seems we as americans have grown so content to just take whatever bones the government deems fit to throw us. Anime-loo, I'm sorry to hear about your shop being closed down. I wish you luck, and I hope you don't grow weary of doing what you feel is right. |
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