Cannabis Awareness Pamphlet: 10 Things Every Parent, Teenager & Teacher Should Know..

You're ridiculous and insane.

You're right. In genetically lazy and unproductive people, Marijuana may not work. Some people are overachievers and, just because they don't use drugs, doesn't give any correlation between "pot-smoking" and "success".

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Originally Posted by tadaa

Marijuana also tends to make people lazy and unproductive, to a certain degree.

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Prove it. I've seen RECENT studies proving the opposite. I'm sure others have, too.

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Originally Posted by tadaa

There are numerous side effects involved with it. The fact that you're stating that there are NO negative side effects what so ever associated with marijuana is utterly ridiculous and insane.

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Here ya' go, again, with your abstract statements. I can easily say that it's utterly sane and prove it.

9) Is it true that marijuana makes you lazy and unmotivated? Not if you are a responsible adult, it doesn't. Ask the U.S. Army. They did a study and showed no effect. If this were true, why would many Eastern cultures, and Jamaicans, use marijuana to help them work harder? `Amotivational syndrome' started as a media myth based on the racial stereotype of a lazy Mexican borracho. The prohibitionists claimed that marijuana made people worthless and sluggish. Since then, however, it has been scientifically researched, and a symptom resembling amotivational syndrome has actually been found. However, it only occurs in adolescent teenagers -- adults are not affected.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...faq1.shtml#3-9

Ok then you fucking idiot, lets start a thread taking a poll asking which memebers of this website have a college degree. I bet, if everyone told the truth, it would be 1 in 100, at best. Yet somehow there is no relationship with pot and success, right.

The fact is that you refuse to except the facts because you're a user of the substance in question. I find it rather amusing that you're claiming there are zero side effects associated with pot. I really honestly didn't beileve there was anyone that stupid on this earth.

Okay. Then you fucking asshole. Let's start talking on each other's level, then. I bet, if everyone told the truth, they'd said that you're full of shit.

I like civil arguments, not one's immaturishly soaked in vulgarity.

By the way, what college did you got to?

tooda...are you trying to be Joe Friday or your just out? And your also a hypocrite talking to beachguy like you are and trying to insult his intelligence..he has disputed all your "knowledge" and you seem to be frustrated and started cussing him...if you don't like the plant..bye.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Okay. Then you fucking asshole. Let's start talking on each other's level, then. I bet, if everyone told the truth, they'd said that you're full of shit.

I like civil arguments, not one's immaturishly soaked in vulgarity.

By the way, what college did you got to?

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The University of Akron. How many lawyers do you know that are pot heads? How many doctors? How many burnouts do you know that are pot heads? Gee, I wonder why you know more burnouts that are pot heads than lawyers or doctors...

Well, every doctor that I know is all for Marijuana. It has no place in some people's lives. Whether they choose to smoke is their business, but they only talk about it being good for you. Doctors don't say things that they haven't studied. Doctors, also, don't say things that they have no proof for, unless they tell you that they have no proof. They're very strict in their language because it means the difference between losing their licenses, or not.

I did know a prominent judge who had parties at his cabin in Lake Georg, N.Y., who smoked his Herb out of a bong.

And you are so pompous. You think you know everything about everybody.

You're terribly wrong about this fact: "Gee, I wonder why you know more burnouts that are pot heads than lawyers or doctors...
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I can't name any potheads. However, I do know a few millionaires, including my brother.

You think you're a gypsy with a crystal ball, but you're not. Life isn't what you think it is.

Oh, and Lawyers have to do everything by the book.

I can prove that to you by asking my friend, Rob.

When you eat cannabis or vapourize it, there are little, if any, negative side effects.

That brings up another interesting situation.

Lawyers, and other public services, have to sell themselves in order to gain success. They don't want the Judge thinking they they smoke Herb, nor do they want their clients.

Maybe, in 100 years, the general population will want doctors who smokes joints with their patients before surgery.

Getting high allows a great deal of information to enter your head, at once. Therefore, never, will people want a Lawyer who'll get high before court.

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Originally Posted by tadaa

Gee, I wonder why you know more burnouts that are pot heads than lawyers or doctors...

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I know three people who smoke Herb, including me. A college student, who works for his step-father, and a college teacher.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Getting high allows a great deal of information to enter your head, at once. Therefore, never, will people want a Lawyer who'll get high before court.

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But you never know...

No wonder you have so many posts ;O

Beach guy... there is not point in talking with tadaa... he is an ignorant peon, who can't think of a single thought by himself. He has No general conception or maijuana and gives all of us who smoke it and fight for it's legalization a bad name. never have I seen him reference another source to back up his information, nor have i seen him provide facts about anything he says. Althought you and I may disagree on some parts I hope you understand how a discussion between two people, is different than reaming at an idiot. I only say this cause I've been caught up before trying to explain to that dumbass that he needs to learn how to talk, rather than use illogical random thoughts. Just ignore him, he's a lost cause... as much as i hate to say that about anyone who doesn't realize what marijuana truly is, I don't think he cares. From what I've read he either argues for argument's sake or is part of the DEA and he believes all the lies they tell him and is here merely to spread them around. So, just forget about him...

But as for there being no side effect, cannabis may or may not have negative side effects, I'm not sure on that matter personaly. I don't think it being on schedule 1 helps in anyway. But I must say that smoking anything isn't good. Marijuana is the only thing that I smoke, (ciggarettes kill over 100,000 people a year, not me), but I still cough and hack up some nasty crap sometimes... which I know comes from smoking. If it's vaporized or eaten I can see a different arguement, but anything that is smoked will have some negative benefits and I don't think that should be hidden...

Should it be numebr 1 on the list no, or even on the list... no... but to not think that some people will not have a negative experience with marijuana is somewhat naive.

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Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue

No wonder you have so many posts ;O

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I know. It started last summer, back in the Spirituallity forums.

I know that anyone can say that anything foreign is harmful to your body. But, when the same harmful, foreign substance counteracts it's harmful effects, I'd rather not consider them. No one can say that marijuana smoke harms the lungs, because when it enters, it either passes through the large-flat part into the bloodstream, or you expel it.

These are the kind of studies to prove that it harms your lungs:

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Originally Posted by www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2002/marijuana-smoking-bad-for.html

Marijuana Smoking Bad for Lungs
(2002)
A new study found that smoking marijuana is just as bad for the lungs as smoking cigarettes, the New Zealand Herald reported Aug. 13.

"You can't say cannabis is safe any more than you can say tobacco is safe. The health message is clear - don't be burning vegetable matter and inhaling it," said study author Robin Taylor, associated professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine in New Zealand.

For the study, researchers examined 900 people between the ages of 18 to 26 to see how much breath they could expel forcefully from their lungs.

The researchers found that people who smoked either marijuana or tobacco expelled less air in one second than non-smokers. Furthermore, it took smokers longer to expel all the air from their lungs because their airways had narrowed slightly.

The researchers also found that participants who smoked marijuana and tobacco had even narrower airways and greater decrease in airflow.

Researchers plan to conduct a follow-up study when the participants are aged 32 to 37.

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Originally Posted by http://www.drugprevent.demon.co.uk/New%20look%20of%20Website/research_items/Vol2_%20Issue6.html#MJ%20Lung%20Disease

Doctors in Scotland said that smoking marijuana just once or twice a day for a number of years could lead to serious lung disease, Reuters reported March 21.
â??It might be that the psychoactive part of cannabis is harmless but the actual process of smoking, whatever you are smoking, can do your lungs harm,â?� said Dr Martin Johnson of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
As part of the study, Johnson and fellow scientists studied four men with a type of emphysema. There was no other genetic susceptibility or explanation for the lung disease except that all four men were heavy cannabis smokers.

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But, here's the facts:

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Originally Posted by Tashkin, D.P. et al, "Longitudinal Changes in Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function in Non-smokers, Tobacco Smokers, and Heavy, Habitual Smokers of Marijuana With or Without Tobacco," pp 25-36 in G. Chesher et al (eds), Marijuana: an International Research Report, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service (1988)

Since 1982, UCLA researchers have evaluated pulmonary function and bronchial cell characteristics in marijuana-only smokers, tobacco-only smokers, smokers of both, and non-smokers. Although they have found changes in marijuana-only smokers, the changes are much less pronounced than those found in tobacco smokers.

The nature of the marijuana-induced changes were also different, occurring primarily in the lung's large airways - not the small peripheral airways affected by tobacco smoke. Since it is small-airway inflammation that causes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, marijuana smokers may not develop these diseases.

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Beachguy you are going to be part of my book..well information from your posts will be.:thumbsup: I should be doing what you are in posting lnks but it makes more sense for me to come here and read posts by the people that have actually experienced MJ..and its benefits to people. You know its like someone that has never drank alcohol trying to sponsor someone that is an alcoholic..unless someone has been there and done it so to speak I don't accept their "findings"..just my way..anyways thanks for taking the time to post relevant positive information like you do on MJ.:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

I know three people who smoke Herb, including me. A college student, who works for his step-father, and a college teacher.

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wow, 3 people out of almost 300 million in this country. The bottom line is that if you rounded up every person that smokes pot you would have more failures than great successes. Marijuana can lead to a decrease in motivation if it's abused. Smoking ANYTHING is bad for your body. Putting smoke in your lungs isn't going to make you live longer.

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Originally Posted by tadaa

wow, 3 people out of almost 300 million in this country. The bottom line is that if you rounded up every person that smokes pot you would have more failures than great successes. Marijuana can lead to a decrease in motivation if it's abused. Smoking ANYTHING is bad for your body. Putting smoke in your lungs isn't going to make you live longer.

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That's why you can vapourize or eat cannabis. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by tadaa

wow, 3 people out of almost 300 million in this country. The bottom line is that if you rounded up every person that smokes pot you would have more failures than great successes. Marijuana can lead to a decrease in motivation if it's abused. Smoking ANYTHING is bad for your body. Putting smoke in your lungs isn't going to make you live longer.

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I'm talking about at this moment.

Every single one of my "good" friends from High School has a college diploma, and, about 75% were Weed smokers throughout college.

I think i'll do that at work lol...

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Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue

That's why you can vapourize or eat cannabis. :thumbsup:

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And how many people do you know that only eat it and don't smoke it? Lets be realistic here, 90% of it is smoked.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

I'm talking about at this moment.

Every single one of my "good" friends from High School has a college diploma, and, about 75% were Weed smokers throughout college.

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A degree with a 1.75 gpa isn't worth much.

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Originally Posted by tadaa

And how many people do you know that only eat it and don't smoke it? Lets be realistic here, 90% of it is smoked.

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The choice is there. I do prefer my bubbler to my vape for some reason...

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Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue

The choice is there. I do prefer my bubbler to my vape for some reason...

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So what if the choice is there? The choice is also there to drive 5mph in your car on the shoulder to get to work, you'd be a lot safer, does that mean we should base driving statistics on people that drive 5mph on the shoulder?

Of course not. Why? Because nobody does it, or hardly anyone does it. Most pot is smoked, so we should base its health stats on smoking it, not eating it because not many people do that.

i'm in high school, i have a 4.0 (unweighted) and as a freshman scored a 26 on the ACT (that means, all I have to do is learn something within my 4 years and I will get a scholarship). I'm going to test out of Spanish for college next month. (that sounds smug, but i'm giving you an example)

and i think it's illegal to drive 5mph on the shoulder (under low speed limit, and on the shoulder).

personally, i prefer to eat it.

PS. patients who were given a canabinoid pill after suffering brain trauma recovered better than those who hadn't been given the pill. this is from a 2003 study. they have since been working on C2 instead of dexanabinol.

the test results are here

dang, how do u edit. well

if ur only against smoking, if it were legal we would probably just dring bhang, or some other soft drink (like those in CA at the place that got raided by federal pigs) they also had cannabis pop tarts.

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Originally Posted by Freshy

i'm in high school, i have a 4.0 (unweighted) and as a freshman scored a 26 on the ACT (that means, all I have to do is learn something within my 4 years and I will get a scholarship). I'm going to test out of Spanish for college next month. (that sounds smug, but i'm giving you an example)

and i think it's illegal to drive 5mph on the shoulder (under low speed limit, and on the shoulder).

personally, i prefer to eat it.

PS. patients who were given a canabinoid pill after suffering brain trauma recovered better than those who hadn't been given the pill. this is from a 2003 study. they have since been working on C2 instead of dexanabinol.

the test results are here

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High School is easy.

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Originally Posted by soxsuk6432

Although tadaa always comes off as a dickhole. He is sort of right. It would make people more ready to believe the pamphlet if you gave the negative aspects of smoking marijuana. Although they aren't very seroius acknowledging the governments studies to a certain extent would make people more ready to believe that stuff. Because there are some. If you smoke daily for a while your memory can get worse, alot of people get a cough, and there are some other side effects I can't think of right now.

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I don't know if you just skimmed through it or not, but it does say those things. It says it can give you bronchitis, ruins your short term memory for about a month, is inherently dangerous when it is smoked, and discourages use by minors. I don't understand how you can say it lists no negative side effects if you read it through.

Tadaa, you'll never prove your point without backing anything up. You say this list is biased. It isn't. Prove me wrong.
Beachguy, I didn't read every one of your posts, but if you said Cannabis has no side effects, you need to retract that statement.

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Originally Posted by eddievanzant

Tadaa, you'll never prove your point without backing anything up. You say this list is biased. It isn't. Prove me wrong.
Beachguy, I didn't read every one of your posts, but if you said Cannabis has no side effects, you need to retract that statement.

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All Im saying is there are no neg sides listed on the 10 points, and there needs to be.

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Originally Posted by tadaa

A degree with a 1.75 gpa isn't worth much.

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Well, one was working for the senate in Albany, NY, another in Philadelphia, one in D.C., owning businesses in the Hamptons, a law degree in Buffalo, one in Boston, whatever.

They're making a hell of a lot of money. Degrees from SUNY schools, Hobart, there is nothing to say to you because you've already decided who I am.

I said that no one has proven any "negative" side effects. Everyone gives out "heresy" examples.

eddie im actualy suprised good work man ill be giving some of these out

Yes there is!
more so than anchovies
reveal that 75 people per year are high on marijuana when they die
Smoking anything is not healthy,
its use by children or adolescents is discouraged.
It also notes that it is not physically addictive, and anyone who can't get off something due to psychological addiction is part of that 10% mentioned.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Well, one was working for the senate in Albany, NY, another in Philadelphia, one in D.C., owning businesses in the Hamptons, a law degree in Buffalo, one in Boston, whatever.

They're making a hell of a lot of money. Degrees from SUNY schools, Hobart, there is nothing to say to you because you've already decided who I am.

I said that no one has proven any "negative" side effects. Everyone gives out "heresy" examples.

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Negative is an opinion, so even though you are right in saying no one has proven any negative side effects, no one has proven any positive side effects either.

Seven Reasons To Change Your Mind
By Andrew Looney
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/P...enReasons.html

Here's some positive reinforcement:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Citation
http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/...ournalcode=jci
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/21/17/6475

And here's "Non-acute (residual) neurocognitive effects of cannabis
use: A meta-analytic study":

http://www.hnrc.ucsd.edu/publication...348art2003.pdf

And here's "Antitumor Effects of Cannabidiol, a Nonpsychoactive Cannabinoid, on Human Glioma Cell Lines":

http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/co...full/308/3/838

Here's this, in case you missed it, "Cannabinoids selectively inhibit proliferation and induce death of cultured human glioblastoma multiforme cells."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Citation

Gotta go eat.

dang dude, i didn't know it could help kill tumors (glioblastoma). I want some bhang... do indian people drink carbonated drinks?

tadaa is really doing a service to us, he's squeezing so much pro-cannabis info out. I almost wonder if that's what he's trying to do...

I agree that he said the side-effects should be in there, but i disagree when he said that they weren't in there.

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Originally Posted by tadaa

wow, 3 people out of almost 300 million in this country. The bottom line is that if you rounded up every person that smokes pot you would have more failures than great successes. Marijuana can lead to a decrease in motivation if it's abused. Smoking ANYTHING is bad for your body. Putting smoke in your lungs isn't going to make you live longer.

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and just where did you find this? personal experience? if so, my personal experience says just the opposite. almost everyone i hang with are college grads, some with phd's and 2 have md behind their name. i'm the only non-worker of the bunch (but i have a dr's excuse...)

that statement is just WAY too general ("The bottom line is that if you rounded up every person that smokes pot you would have more failures than great successes") and sounds like something you pulled out of your butt.

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Originally Posted by Freshy

I agree that he said the side-effects should be in there, but i disagree when he said that they weren't in there.

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Exactly.

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Originally Posted by Shelbay

Beachguy you are going to be part of my book..

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I missed this the first time around.

Which part? Is it a spiral notebook? Will I be an individual piece of paper or the cardboard-type back part?

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Originally Posted by tadaa

Honestly, that information is a bit mis-leading. Grass can be mentally addictive, and being mentally addictive to grass is far more dangerous than being addicted to chocolate or video games. Why not present a 100% un-bias read instead of making it sound like grass will make you live till your 150.

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Anything can be addictive.

And compared to other substances such as tobbaco, caffeine and alcohol, the ability of marijuana to make its user dependant upon the drug is virtualy non-existant.