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RiaX wrote:Just because you simply do not like something does not mean it should be banned.

jamin_za wrote: banning them in cars. If it's your cr you should be allowed to smoke in it.

lancelot wrote:Exactly when does it kill the smoker? Ten, twenty, thirty, forty or fifty years? Most of my friends have passed on long ago, very few of them smoked but four were killedby robbers. So using applied mathematics, robbers are far more dangerous than smoking!

lancelot wrote:Exactly when does it kill the smoker? Ten, twenty, thirty, forty or fifty years? Most of my friends have passed on long ago, very few of them smoked but four were killedby robbers. So using applied mathematics, robbers are far more dangerous than smoking!

Lithe_Joint wrote:To be quite honest and with no ill respect, Prime, this thread is about smoking (or not) something other than tobacco.

Fact is , pipe smoking and king size smoking are one and the same.
I'm getting an e-cigarette end of the month...come to think of it, maybe they should think of making an E-Zol?!

The bottom line is that our lungs were not designed to appreciate smoke...although our minds might have a different theory.

independent wrote:After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy under review, and a newly confident region is no longer prepared to swallow its fatal Prohibition error. Indeed, after the expenditure of billions of dollars and the violent deaths of tens of thousands of people, a suitable epitaph for America's longest "war" may well be the plan, in Bolivia, for every family to be given the right to grow coca in its own backyard.
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For the lives and sanity of millions, the seeing of the light is decidedly late. The conditions of the 1920s, when the US Congress outlawed alcohol and allowed Al Capone and his kin to make massive fortunes, have been re-created up and down Latin America.

Nutt and his colleagues are not out to promote the legalization of any drugs, rather that all harmful substances be rated on the same scale. He's basically saying that tobacco and alcohol have been getting a free pass for so long that now things need to change.

qwiksilva666 wrote: The thing is when you take that shot of heroin/cocaine its almost pure, 50-100% depending on your dealer, and it will take quite a bit to kill you. If you take an almost pure shot of alcohol, you will be dead.

FrostiE wrote:
The only way you could get your hands on anything even close to 100% pure cocaine in this country is by buying in a colossal amount, and doing something along the lines of an A/B wash. Only then would your realise that street purity is in the range of 25-60%. Granted, it very much depends on who your buying it from, but 9 times out of 10 it doesn't even enter the country in the 90's.

Having knocked back 190-proof everclear, only to still have a pulse, I'll have to call **** on the whole death-by-shot situation too. Alcohol's a horrible substance, as is nicotine, but in the end forbidding adults to consume any substance, in a way which will not directly harm others, is just plain retarded and nothing more than a blatant statement of governmental ownership or ignorance. Second only to suicide being a crime in England up until the mid 1900's.

"My final point about alcohol, about drugs, about pornography; what business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, **** or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet?" - Bill Hicks

FrostiE wrote:"My final point about alcohol, about drugs, about pornography; what business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, **** or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet?" - Bill Hicks

open.salon wrote:Let’s talk about weed. A real talk, not one of those weed-is-evil-and-no-one you-know-has-ever-used and if you do it’s only a matter of time before you’re living under a bridge pushing a shopping cart (which, I will point out, would be incredibly difficult for you given the amount of clothing and other detritus you seem to have accumulated.)
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Oh, by the way, if I catch you with that stuff – or prescriptions – I’ll take you to the police myself, and when you get out you will find that I’ve taken everything out of your room including your door and bed – and you’ll slowly earn them back over the next year with meetings and drug tests. Doubt. Me Not.

OOooops, sorry, I got lost there in my own horrid little parental fantasy.

physorg.com wrote:Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illicit drugs as young adults has more to do with life factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research. In fact, the strongest predictor of whether someone will use other illicit drugs is their race/ethnicity, not whether they ever used marijuana.
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The researchers used survey data from 1,286 young adults who attended Miami-Dade public schools in the 1990s. Within the final sample, 26 percent of the respondents are African American, 44 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are non-Hispanic white.

"If you know the truth, the truth will make you free." (John 8:32)

As doubtful as the following hypothesis might first seem to the reader, I might as well boldly state my case right from the start: either Jesus used marijuana or he was not the Christ. The very word "Christ", by the implication of its linguistic origins and true meaning, gives us the most profound evidence that Jesus did in fact use the same herb as his ancient semitic ancestors, and which is still used by people around the world for its enlightening and healing properties.

The Greek title "Christ" is the translation of the Hebrew word Messiah, which in English becomes "The Anointed" . The Messiah was recognized as such by his being anointed with the holy anointing oil, the use of which was restricted to the instillation of Hebrew priests and kings (See CC#5). If Jesus was not initiated in this fashion then he was not the Christ, and had no official claim to the title.

The ancient recipe for this anointing oil, recorded in the Old Testament book of Exodus (30: 22-23) included over nine pounds of flowering cannabis tops, Hebrew "kaneh-bosm", extracted into a hind (about 6.5 litres) of olive oil, along with a variety of other herbs and spices. The ancient chosen ones were literally drenched in this potent cannabis holy oil.

lancelot wrote:What a pleasure after a hard day

lancelot wrote:What a pleasure after a hard day

Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success," says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. "It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does."

"The impact in the life of families and our society is much lower than it was before decriminalization," says Joao Castel-Branco Goulao, Portugual's "drug czar" and president of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction, adding that police are now able to re-focus on tracking much higher level dealers and larger quantities of drugs.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 46,00.html