Government Propaganda?

[whaddaphuck]

hey..i come across the whitehouse drug policy website from another thread on the site, and found this section of myths and facts..there are fukk all facts on there! the only thing on there is myths about how drugs will fukk up ur life..i guess its aimed at parents to try n scare them into beleaving that drugs r this evil force...anyway, i just asked my dad (who is a paramedic and has a fair knowledge of most drugs...mary j being the thing he knows most about) and he told me all of that is bollox!
check it out folks, peace!

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/marijuana_myths_facts/

[Buck268]

In Myth #1 I can honestly say those are true... Sometimes. Typically some of that is true and not all of that. Therefore, if this was a True/False test, marking that "true" would net an incorrect answer....

Myth #2, Addiction... This is a tough one. Clearly herb is not oon the level of cigs, coke, or horse, but I know when I quit smoke Sunday I was a little queezy and generally out of it for two days. Otherwise, the withdrawls I would say are mental. Mostly just hard to stop smoking if you got nothign else to do with your time... I do feel I should add it has been my experience that habitual use of MJ has caused a deminished emotional response in myself...

Myth #3... Poppycock... Unless you smoke a full joint every few hours to yourself, like a cig...

Myth 4...Absolute, pure disinformation; []bReefer Madness[/b] style. I would attribute this correlation not to MJ use but rather to evironmental factors.

Myth 5... Ah yes, just because they classify it as a schedule 1 means that it obviously has no medicinal beifits. Except we know that is false. Very false. In fact, I myself use it medicinely as a relaxing agent to help calm the racing thoughts when I go to bed.

Myth 6... Comparing MJ to "E" or any other hard drug is like comparing apples and oranges. This is the single reason MJ has taken on the gateway role it has.

Myth 7... Yup, mostly true... But for 1 reason alone; because its illegal one most go to the black market for supplies of MJ. BLack markets are highregulated and typically patroned by less-than0desireables

Myth 8... Just like guns. Its not about whether they are exposed, its how they are exposed. I wish my folks would have been straight with me about MJ, but I think they honestly didn't know better. I will talk to my kids honestly about the benifits and draw backs of smoking MJ.

Myth 9... Its not up to parents to stop their children from smoking MJ. Its up to parents to accurately inform them so they can make an intelligent choice as to whether or not there is room in there life for Mary...

Myth 10... Fact of the matter is the government is persecuting herbal tokers, who really harm no one. But I won't get into that here...

[whaddaphuck]

im glad u broke down each myth cus i couldnt be arsed! :p

[Buck268]

im glad u broke down each myth cus i couldnt be arsed! :p


:confused: What does that phrase mean?? :rolleyes: Sorry, I dont speak british-english :o

[whaddaphuck]

:confused: What does that phrase mean?? :rolleyes: Sorry, I dont speak british-english :o
wut? couldn't be arsed? it means couldn't be bothered

[ermitonto]

The White House and other governmental bodies routinely lie to the public simply to promote its own agenda. In fact it happens so much the idea of dishonest politicians is cliché. It makes me so angry to see everybody just sit back and accept the status quo.

[slipnslide087]

hell yeah guys....you should read what they are putting in the health books and shit of kids in middle and highschool. so much bullshit,. they did something on the daly show about it. CC channel for those in US.

[Syrus]

If i ever find the person who made that i will slap them then ofere them a b, jsut for the irony :D

[NowhereMan]

In Myth #1 I can honestly say those are true... Sometimes. Typically some of that is true and not all of that. Therefore, if this was a True/False test, marking that "true" would net an incorrect answer....

Myth #2, Addiction... This is a tough one. Clearly herb is not oon the level of cigs, coke, or horse, but I know when I quit smoke Sunday I was a little queezy and generally out of it for two days. Otherwise, the withdrawls I would say are mental. Mostly just hard to stop smoking if you got nothign else to do with your time... I do feel I should add it has been my experience that habitual use of MJ has caused a deminished emotional response in myself...

Myth #3... Poppycock... Unless you smoke a full joint every few hours to yourself, like a cig...

Myth 4...Absolute, pure disinformation; []bReefer Madness[/b] style. I would attribute this correlation not to MJ use but rather to evironmental factors.

Myth 5... Ah yes, just because they classify it as a schedule 1 means that it obviously has no medicinal beifits. Except we know that is false. Very false. In fact, I myself use it medicinely as a relaxing agent to help calm the racing thoughts when I go to bed.

Myth 6... Comparing MJ to "E" or any other hard drug is like comparing apples and oranges. This is the single reason MJ has taken on the gateway role it has.

Myth 7... Yup, mostly true... But for 1 reason alone; because its illegal one most go to the black market for supplies of MJ. BLack markets are highregulated and typically patroned by less-than0desireables

Myth 8... Just like guns. Its not about whether they are exposed, its how they are exposed. I wish my folks would have been straight with me about MJ, but I think they honestly didn't know better. I will talk to my kids honestly about the benifits and draw backs of smoking MJ.

Myth 9... Its not up to parents to stop their children from smoking MJ. Its up to parents to accurately inform them so they can make an intelligent choice as to whether or not there is room in there life for Mary...

Myth 10... Fact of the matter is the government is persecuting herbal tokers, who really harm no one. But I won't get into that here...



they just want to lie to you so the pill companies can sell ya stomach pills
the oil companies can rule the world
and we can go die
what does the goverment care about anything but itself.

[kaela]

Actually... some drugs can fuck up your life.

[ermitonto]

Right but so can snorting Drano. It's not up to the government to tell us what we should and should not put in our bodies.

[Gothen]

That's all anti-marijuana. Are you actually on a weed forum posting against weed, Kaela? lol

Anyway, before I started smoking, I was like, "Yeah, yeah, DOWN WITH THE POT!" Stuff like that wouldda just fueled my hate. Now I look at it like, "God...you'd think the cops would have bigger problems, like getting murderers, not people looking to relax with a little weed."