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- Evildudetx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+169I don't think they needed a study to prove you get the munchies and tend to eat more.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/11/2007, -11/+107This kind of news sorta sounds less important when reported from cannabisnews.com
- wishninja, on 10/11/2007, -4/+87The mother herb heals it is true.
- smoothmedia, on 10/11/2007, -6/+85Pot will be decriminalized in the states and fully legalized in Canada within 10 years, thats my bet.
- Rethcir, on 10/11/2007, -20/+86For god's sake kevin, will you please ban "breaking" in titles!
- cyx7, on 10/11/2007, -14/+49BREAKING: BURIED
- CanceledCzech, on 10/11/2007, -4/+39BREAKING: New Double-Blind Study Shows That Sky Is "In fact Blue"
- Quake120, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34I second that. It seems like some people think ALL news is "BREAKING". It's not!
The only time I want to see "BREAKING" and "Cannabis" in the same Digg title is if it is "BREAKING: Cannabis is now legalized!". - MoeWasHere, on 10/11/2007, -5/+34Wait - get AIDS so you can be allowed to smoke POT!?? ...WTF!? How is that a good trade off??
- crashbang, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33An article from Cannabis news that says that pot is beneficial is not what I would call objective.
That being said I am totally gonna rip a few tubes here.. - NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Probably not, but at least now it's something that is seriously and professionally proven with a study that cannot be denounced... lol
It's real important that this was a double-blind study... few have been done, or at least allowed to be done... on Cannabis. Although I'll never figure out how you can do a placebo test on something that gets you high... XD - markob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26They need a study to prove to stubborn politicians and lobbies about this. Not only HIV patients, I can tell you from my own experience it has many benefits to cancer patients...while going through chemotherapy and after no pill helped, this was the only "drug" that helped so I could eat, sleep, not throw up every 10 minutes and actually feel close to normal. When I asked a doctor, she said lobbies are too strong to allow medical research, no matter how good I found it to work for chemotherapy patients. Too bad millions all over the world are still suffering DAILY and are not being able to use a simple medicine, which grows practically everywhere. I guess all drugs need to be from some lab, costing all of us millions of dollars. Nice proof medicine works for money, not people.
- DrDragun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28not that clear medical benefits should even be a requirement of legalization. the social costs of prohibition obviously outweigh the benefits. still this double-blind test from professionals (Columbia U) is a much needed bullet in the arsenal of activists trying to make a change.
Aside from medical arguments, you can of course argue:
1) It is no more addictive than caffeine and its impairment of the senses is no more destructive than alcohol's.
2) The "gateway drug" argument is actually the complete opposite of what DARE and other programs try to sell you. Criminalizing weed MAKES it into a gateway drug because anyone who is curious to try it must now interact with criminals. If it were legal, you could head down to the local liquor store and pick some up, and just interact with law-abiding citizens. But as it is, you must interact with a criminal market to get some MJ, which forms a gateway to tolerance of criminals in your mind and justification of illegal behavior against perceived unfairness of laws. This is much more dangerous than allowing a gateway to the concept of getting into an altered state to have a good time (which already has 1 major drug - alcohol - to form that gateway in our culture anyway).
3) Creates a rich gangster culture. One problem facing urban minorities is poor education, but I would argue that an equal problem is the wealthy and powerful gang culture can often seduce youths into crime with promises of easy money and no responsibility. Take away their ability to profit from pushing drugs, and the gangs become poor and violent instead of rich and violent, and not so cool anymore. I think this could help get the minorities moving forward as much as AA/EO and at the same time it isn't reverse discrimination. - ConfusedONE, on 10/11/2007, -5/+29Breaking: Cannabis makes story submitters forget not to put BREAKING in the title.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Its got to be hard to do a double blind test here. I mean its easy for the researchers not to know who has the real ***** and who has the placebo but if you hand me a fake joint i'm going to know it after one hit.
- JangoFett, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17Breaking? Really?
- reconbot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Yea, but years ago when they did the study it wasn't publicized all over digg and the internet. If most people don't care nothing will happen. But if enough people do care and complain like hell and scare their politicians. Things will change. They always can change, you just have to be the one to change them, you have to force the issues.
- orlyfactor, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17But you suffer from "stickuptheass-itis".
- gordonj, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Well, the legal status of cannabis clearly has nothing to do with what cannabis does to you. Practically ALL the impartial research proves cannabis is benign in the vast majority of cases. People who try to tell us not to take it clearly have their own agendas for not wanting it legal that are far removed from anything to do with health issues. It has been a witch-hunt since Anslinger and it will remain a witch hunt for decades to come. I guarantee you that more harm has been done already by the prohibition of cannabis in the last hundred years than was ever previously caused in the rest of human history. Everyone on the planet could be a proper "reefer addict" and the health issues would still be dwarfed by the number of lives ruined by prison or death over an innocuous weed! The results of studies like this mean very little in the world of political agendas and spin. Humans are still too dumb an animal on average to approach something like this with rationality. Don't expect legalisation any time soon (well maybe in Canada, but not everywhere).
- jasonmacari, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17BREAKING NEWS POT MAKES YOU HUNGRY
- rooftopsuicide, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16seriously...breaking? come on.
- vanza001, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13As Dr. Cox on scrubs would say... "You're Wrong... You're Wrong... You're Wrong..." Scientific studies have been done for decades finding this very same result and it has no effect. Hell, the first year of marijuana prohibition they had a test much like this but was it was thrown away.
- NtHammer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10where can i sign up! XD
- FredoBerfil, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10People have been saying pot will be legal or decriminalized for decades. Hasn't happened. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime. The War on Drugs is like the Spanish Inquisition. It's scourge will be with us for generations I'm afraid.
- lnf69, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Legalize It !!!
- m0tbaillie, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11If you think only hippies smoke weed then you're a goddamn fool.
- Stoppay, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13How do you double blind smoking weed? If your running around stoned, raiding the local 7-11 obviously you got the sweet sweet medicinal chiba :P
- DrDragun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9not that clear medical benefits should even be a requirement of legalization. the social costs of prohibition obviously outweigh the benefits. still this double-blind test from professionals (Columbia U) is a much needed bullet in the arsenal of activists trying to make a change.
Aside from medical arguments, you can of course argue:
1) It is no more addictive than caffeine and its impairment of the senses is no more destructive than alcohol's.
2) The "gateway drug" argument is actually the complete opposite of what DARE and other programs try to sell you. Criminalizing weed MAKES it into a gateway drug because anyone who is curious to try it must now interact with criminals. If it were legal, you could head down to the local liquor store and pick some up, and just interact with law-abiding citizens. But as it is, you must interact with a criminal market to get some MJ, which forms a gateway to tolerance of criminals in your mind and justification of illegal behavior against perceived unfairness of laws. This is much more dangerous than allowing a gateway to the concept of getting into an altered state to have a good time (which already has 1 major drug - alcohol - to form that gateway in our culture anyway).
3) Creates a rich gangster culture. One problem facing urban minorities is poor education, but I would argue that an equal problem is the wealthy and powerful gang culture can often seduce youths into crime with promises of easy money and no responsibility. Take away their ability to profit from pushing drugs, and the gangs become poor and violent instead of rich and violent, and not so cool anymore. I think this could help get the minorities moving forward as much as AA/EO and at the same time it isn't reverse discrimination. - numb401, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Must have missed the part that said "according to clinical trial data to be published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS)." Yea I hear journals might not be objective sometimes ;)
- maybeinoregon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I had surgery to rebuild my collar bone after a biking accident - they took bone from my hip, and pasted it around a pin which was screwed into my chest bone, and stuck out of my shoulder - I was on large amounts of codeine for the pain - which gave me dry heaves, and took away my appetite -
A friend of mine suggested I use mary jane to get back my appetite - so I did -
It was the combination of marijuana and codeine which allowed me to eat and move about without much pain -
I was a child of the 70's and always thought the hype around medicinal use of marijuana was just a way to get it legalized - which I was all for - my experience taught me it was more than just hype. - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9I would have to be stoned to get BREAKING News 15 hours later
- diespectra, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Whether or not cannabis is a "demotivator" is irrelevant in my opinion, but in my experience it has been the attitude of the person using any drug that affects what they do, not the drug itself. I have smoked and done bad in high school, but I have smoked and done well in college too. The reason I did bad when I smoked was because I at a point in my life where it didn't matter to me thus I skipped class and never did homework.
- TVarmy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6People can act oddly when they think they might be intoxicated. It gives them an excuse to lower their inhibitions, plus there is the nocebo effect where people also experience side effects of the experience. If you don't believe it, try getting some 17 year olds to drink a lot of O'Douls, and see how they act.
- scorchedearth, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I was one of those high school people.
I also continued through college.
I have a good job, exercise regularly, am happily married, and am enjoying my life. Pot did not screw me up at all. - Buckiller, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7RON PAUL WOOOO... lol
- drakethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Of course its hard for anti-cannabis morons to come up with any attack that makes sense on providing cannabis to senior citizens with HIV and other illnesses. Mainly because they are retired and have no need to be productive and there is no link to brain damage but not like it matters when your 60+ and retired anyways. So I would love to see an argument against cannabis in this environment.
- NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Just want to post this idea...
Doesn't this new study mean, that the DEA will have to reschedule Marijuana as at least schedule 2, if not 3???
I mean, now they have incontrovertible proof that Marijuana does in fact have medical value... which the DEA has been denying for years... now that this study is out (and we should make it as public as we possibly can) I would think that the DEA would HAVE to reschedule it... To not do so, would be highly illogical, and I would think some kind of misconduct or something... XD (then again the DEA is illogical by nature... =/) - tylerjames, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5*Honest question, not baiting*
Can anyone tell me if there are any negative effects from inhaling the smoke into your lungs?
Elevated lung cancer risk? Emphysema? You know, the kind of stuff that we've come to expect from tobacco.
I don't smoke, but I find the hypocrisy surrounding the fact that cigarettes and alcohol are legal and marijuana is not to be astounding. I've argued the fact with some people, but I feel that my arguments would be stronger if I could also say that smoking marijuana is not even as bad as smoking cigarettes. - EarlOfLade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Well, that is incorrect. It only looks blue due to the sky reflecting the blue wavelengths The sky is really without color.
- BOBcat5785, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9I second that motion
- schnurr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7except for short term memory loss, there are none
- mookiemookie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5BREAKING: 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Quick fix:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10313 - EarlOfLade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5OK, I'm getting a half today, will report back later after smoking it!
- SpectralSounds, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Marijuana will not be legalized in the U.S. It doesnt matter how good it is for patients. The simple fact of the matter is this, it makes the D.E.A. and police force too much money. They get to seize cash, houses, cars... not to mention all of the fines they impose on people, making them take classes.. which employs people to teach those classes. The war on drugs isnt against drugs, its a way of making MONEY. They dont give a ***** about the health of people.
Yes, they could tax marijuana and sell it legally and make a fortune too. But, would the D.E.A. or police agencies see any of that cash? Nope. Which is why the people who benefit from the drug war, will continue to keep the drug war going. Which just happens to be our government. - andrewsb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6It is breaking news though. We all know that studies have shown medical benefits in the past. But I dugg this article because this "is one of the first US-led clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of smoked cannabis to take place in nearly two decades"
- dmCraz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I'm sorry that your experiences with marijuana have been negative.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9"(2.0 or 3.9 percent THC)"
Thats some schwag *****. But the most i've heard of is a therotically 18% So i guess its not to bad. - Iamnotwhoiam, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9BREAKING MY ASS..... This news is at least 4K years old..
- Gudamor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+610 people is a tiny tiny sample. This study only shows a need for another, larger study.
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