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- parkermauney, on 03/05/2009, -4/+65Legalize it.
- timtimes, on 03/05/2009, -5/+63Winners Smoke Weed.
Enjoy. - NJMtwtd, on 03/06/2009, -2/+42How bout that Kleber fella: (from his opinion piece)
"Marijuana is a mixture of the dried leaves, stems and seeds from the cannabis sativa plant."
Dr. Kleber, D.A.R.E pamphlets are not a viable source of information for the subject you are about to ramble on about. - inactive, on 03/06/2009, -7/+24It's just a plant. When people come to their senses, it will be legal.
- dmgov04, on 03/06/2009, -0/+17That's your big argument for disallowing marijuana is crack? really?
wow.
They have "legal" heroine called Oxycontin, but that's ok right? - JTMON, on 03/06/2009, -2/+18400 other chemicals?!!! Oh noes!! It must mean they are bad.
2000 "other" chemicals in Coffee besides caffeine. Now how many people have died from caffeine overdose vs. Cannabis overdose again?! - AndrewLeon, on 03/05/2009, -5/+20CBSnews?
hmmm... perhaps after all this internet whining, some people are actually listening. - cubs0110, on 03/06/2009, -2/+16Smoking Marijuana is as natural as eating a nice juicy steak.
- r0g3r, on 03/06/2009, -1/+1421 time Olympic Gold Medal winners!
- Autodidaddict, on 03/06/2009, -1/+13Ignorant Comment Of The Day Award goes to akchrs.
Converting poppy seeds to heroin requires a process using chemicals and substances such as calium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, and ammonium hydroxide.
Marijuana can be picked, dried, and smoked....al natural.
Besides, heroin is legal. It is sold as a number of painkillers by major pharmaceutical companies. Millions of people get addicted to these "legal drugs" - Maybe you're idol Rush Linbaugh can explain this to you one day. - CaptainCool53, on 03/06/2009, -2/+14I'm vegan -- I try to consume food from non-animal sources, and avoid animal-tested products as much as possible. But with medications it's almost impossible to find vegan-friendly treatments for pain, nausea, etc. Most prescription medications have to be tested on animals by law. Even straight herbal remedies that come in pill form often use a gelatin-based pill capsule. Gelatin is obtained from animals. Marijuana provides vegan and ethically conscious consumers with an option that doesn't require us to sacrifice our values for our health.
- bigfatphony19, on 03/06/2009, -0/+12OH MY GOD, A SINGLE STUDY SAYING THERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN TWO THINGS.
What the ***** is cancer NOT linked with? - T8erT0T, on 03/06/2009, -0/+12Ever since I started smoking cancer, I don't have marijuana anymore.
- FasterGun, on 03/06/2009, -2/+13Dude, all i ever smoke is seeds; theyll get you wasted man.
- Fabbyfubz, on 03/06/2009, -3/+14Ever since I started reading akchrs' comments, I didn't have a brain anymore.
- cubs0110, on 03/06/2009, -2/+12Eh? What's that? Something about Marijuana?
Dugg! - inactive, on 03/06/2009, -4/+14Ever since I started smoking marijuana, I don't have cancer anymore.
- haikuFU, on 03/06/2009, -0/+9That article looked like it was written by a 5 year old with access to a thesaurus.
- hydrodev, on 03/06/2009, -0/+9You don't have to smoke it. It can be eaten as well.
No synthetic drug is ever a good as the naturally created one.
We should not have to depend on pharma companies for medicine anyone should be legally allowed to grow on their own, end of story. - alexsk8ca, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8Is driving in a care worth risking decapitation? Is playing basketball worth risking your ankles? Is playing video games worth risking becoming a fat ass? Life is full or risks, and life is full of fun things, and a lot of the time those fun times are risky, in fact just about all of the time. Either live your life and enjoy it or lock yourself in your basement. Wait never mind you'll risk disease from inactivity and lack of sunlight. If your going to be scared of every little thing I guess your ***** and you might as well just shoot yourself in the face.
DISCLAIMER: Shooting yourself in the face can cause blindness and/or death. - marx2k, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8Poppies are legal you know... just sayin...
- NikoKun, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8Marijuana does not cause testicular cancer. This was yet again nothing more than a questionable ***** study that's been blown way out of proportion by the media.
- mbfielding, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8Weight loss was the problem being treated.
- mbfielding, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8/s ?
- NikoKun, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8Only if we someday find that millions of sick patients are getting relatively low harm relief from crack. Which we wont. So STFU.
Marijuana is it's own issue, stop using that pointless slippery slope fallacy. - noumuon, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8"Because we all know that damaging your brain with THC has no long-ter effects"
[citation needed] - alexsk8ca, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8No any study that forces monkeys to inhale 15 joints without a break for air and then saying it causes brain damage is WRONG. And studies that actually take a sensible approach are worth looking at and using when we come to our conclusion. This is how most of the people arguing for legalizing marijuana look at it. People who are anti-legalization are for the most part (from what I have seen anyway) a lot like religious people, clinging on to beliefs that have over and over again been either proven wrong or just obviously implausible, ignoring anything saying otherwise "because there is no way my mommy/teacher/police man lied to me, it just can't be".
- Konrad9, on 03/06/2009, -1/+8You're right, we should stick with alcohol (liver) and regular tobacco (lungs, teeth, throat).
- CaptainCool53, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7Ok, could somebody please let me know when we're ready to have an intelligent discussion about the medical marijuana legislation?
- CaptainCool53, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7Still, "it's unhealthy" is no basis upon which to criminalize any substance, let alone a plant.
- fightingforair, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6How about we talk about the benefits of recreational use? Cut to the chase already!
- CaptainCool53, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Yes, let's. Victimless crimes are not crimes at all.
- CaptainCool53, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Digg has always seemed to be a forum for mostly intelligent, reasonable, and open-minded people. We demand accountability from public officials, foster and promote freedom for people we may disagree with, and encourage personal responsibility in a global context. But as soon as anybody mentions vegetarianism, everybody turns into a troll. It's mind-boggling. If you read over my original post you'll find that I'm not in any way "propagandizing" or attempting to guilt anybody into changing their food choices.
I know this won't make me popular here, but my theory as to the reason for this is that people here, at some level, realize that vegetarianism is the ethical choice. Rather than make the difficult and necessary changes, it's probably much easier to pick up your torches and pitchforks and ridicule, cite a few PETA obscenities, and tell stupid jokes. I hope you take this as a testament to the overall intelligence of the Digg community, and not anything at all sinister. I'm STILL not asking anybody to go vegetarian, nor am I trying to personally attack anybody (as I have been repeatedly for my decision to be vegan). I'm simply pointing out an unsettling phenomenon that suggests maybe Digg isn't as progressive as we let on.
Now you can go back to trolling - akchrs, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Sorry but I don't recall California's economy ever being good with a Republican or a Democratic President.
- UtahApocalyse, on 03/06/2009, -4/+10This will be the year.....
- NikoKun, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Correlation =/= Causation.
- dizmoz, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Even if it is linked to 'testes' cancer, who are you to tell me I can't enjoy something?
Eat a dick, let people do what they want to do - teknomaker18, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7I love that quote in the video from the good guy in defense that marijuana is a gate way drug. "100 million people of tried it so where are all the heroin addicts.?" Owned!
- r0g3r, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Yes, people suffering from chronic weight loss can benefit from the munchies.
- alexsk8ca, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6No the real crime comes from stealing money you owe to some gangster who fronted you some drugs, and the drug dealers who have to protect themselves, and the fact only people willing to do illegal things can sell drugs. Do some research instead of rambling off things you heard in your grade 6 health class you ***** retard.
- tau1gru, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5What's ignorant is spending billions of dollars on putting your own people in prison for smoking a plant that has killed how many people that you know? And yes there are many ways to consume it including tinctures, voporizers, ingestion, smoking etc. If you were ill then sitting around in the company of your friends wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. As for any statistics ask yourself who paid for the study in the first place? Stronger pot = you smoke less. You don't drink litres of spirits as you would beer, you adjust the dose. Who told you about cannabis and who educated them? The truth is out there and we all have the means of finding it.
- Billistic, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5Remember to background check the guys they use on the news, for example look at Kleber:
He then served for 2 ½ years as the Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the White House.
So there you go, this guy has an agenda. He doesn't want to look wrong.
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.as ... - Metavised, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5Appeal to motive.
Attack his facts, don't go grasping for conspiracies. Remember to research everything touted as evidence and always look at the studies others have cited. - Autodidaddict, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4At the bottom of the article is a link to another Op Ed arguing for the other side.
Hence, CBSnews is neither officially condoning or condemning. It's presenting both sides of the issue with two (poorly written) Op Ed pieces written by nobodys. - FLarsen, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4So is tobacco and opium, but does it matter? No.
From a medical standpoint (which is what's relevant here unless you're a botanist) it's a mixture of chemicals. Instead of using arguments like "it's just a plant", inform people of what it contains and what its constituents does (i.e. its recreational and medical effects). It being "just a plant" is irrelevant.
That said, it's an extremely useful plant and prohibiting it is insane. - diggimator, on 03/06/2009, -1/+5We can't have the government making everything that's potentially bad for you illegal!
- Metavised, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Don't forget vaporizing, as quick and accessible as smoking but without all the negatives.
- fcruz1331, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Guys, please do not feed the troll that is middleblocker. Look at his comment history. For someone who tells other they have no life just look at how much time he's spent arguing about marijuana. Nearly all of his recent activity is just bashing anyone in favor of weed. I have yet to see him make his own argument though, just alot of bitching and moaning. How about you actually make a real point?
I'm posting this under multiple comments of yours to make sure you see this, maybe you'll try making a valid arguement then? Probably not.
Prove me wrong. - nullx42, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4jesus christ, middleblocker, your comments BEG to be replied to.
First: Risks are not a reason for criminalization or else coffee, sex, ciggs, gum with phenalphaline, sleeping pills and other OTC medications [including asperine], electricity, cars, the sun, the ocean, fox news, relationships, knives and anything with a risk factor of even 1% of potential death would all be illegal. Quit using these straw men arguments and come up with one reason why it shouldn't be legalized. Or better yet, why anything I listed should remain legal. - LibertyLady7, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4First of all, I didn't read anything about something "passing." It was merely the recommendation of a DOCTOR to make cannabis available for medicinal use. Let me tell you something... I have chronic stress-induced nausea and vomiting, accompanied by rapid weight loss. The ONLY thing that helps me eat, not feel like I'm going to throw up every ten minutes and helps me maintain a healthy weight is using cannabis.
I quit smoking pot for recreational purposes when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter (who's now 2). Just stopped cold turkey... NO WITHDRAWALS OR SIDE EFFECTS. Then, in September of 2008, something changed in my body after having had the baby. Not only did I become lactose intolerant almost overnight, the stress at my job was starting to affect me physically. I had a ton of tests done and the only thing that is shown to be causing my symptoms is excessive stress.
Since it is not financially feasible for me to just up and quit my job (my largest source of stress), I use cannabis every day to ease my nausea and stimulate my appetite. The cannabis helps to avoid vomiting all together, which is truly a God send because starting your day with your head in toilet every single morning is depressing, to say the least. Do I do it to get "wasted"? Not these days. I do it so that I can FUNCTION normally and not waste away slowly but surely! I do it so I can go to work and pay my mortgage and take care of my child and pets.
People like YOU have no right to tell ME OR ANYONE ELSE that I can't take a medicine that is safe and effective. I'm also using a vaporizer to ensure that there are no negative effects on my lungs. Sometimes I'll bake with it too, but since there is no approved medical use in my state, that is somewhat expensive. ***** every single one of you who think you can tell me how I should be treating my chronic and potentially serious condition. People in this country get wasted legally off of alcohol (a drug that is potentially fatal when you consume too much) every single day, but you are concerning yourself with cannabis use. You are an ignorant and arrogant *****. -
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