Letter for my class about legalization.

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Originally Posted by shh.3kingz

Sorry to disappoint bruv, but it does destroy the brain in the way that it dissolves the nerve connections in the brain. I want pot legal as much as the next guy, but there's not only pros in ganja.

However, I must say to the writter of this letter that you might want to work on your arguement a little. Maybe list some counter-arguements then disprove them (or my personal favorite: "Why is it that the same people who want it ilegall are the same people who drink their brain to shreds, like politicians?")

Or talk about the Islamic viewpoints, they always shut my opponents up (on this matter anyway :-))

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Really? Got any proof?

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Originally Posted by shh.3kingz

Sorry to disappoint bruv, but it does destroy the brain in the way that it dissolves the nerve connections in the brain.

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That simply isn't true.

You might be thinking of the Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974

from jackherer.com:

Heath killed the half-dead monkeys, opened their brains, counted the dead brain cells, and then took control monkeys, who hadn't smoked marijuana, killed them too, and counted their brain cells. The pot smoking monkeys had enormous amounts of dead brain cells as compared to the "straight" monkeys.

As reported in Playboy, the Heath "Voodoo" Research methodology involved strapping Rhesus monkeys into a chair and pumping them with equivalent of 63 Colombian strength joints in "five minutes, through gas masks," losing no smoke. Playboy discovered that Heath had administered 63 joints in five minutes over just three months instead of administering 30 joints per day over a one-year period as he had first reported. Heath did this, it turned out, in order to avoid having to pay an assistant's wages every day for a full year.:(

The monkeys were suffocating! Three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation causes brain damage "dead brain cells." (Red Cross Lifesaving and Water Safety Manual) With the concentration of smoke used, the monkeys were a bit like a person running the engine of a car in a locked garage for 5, 10, 15 minutes at a time every day!

The Heath Monkey study was actually a study in animal asphyxiation and carbon monoxide poisoning.

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This is probably the study that the prohibitionists used to brainwash you into thinking it kills brain cells.

It doesn't

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Originally Posted by LIP

Cannabis doesnt kill brain cells.

That's one of the biggest mis-conceptions.

The only cells it kills are cancerous, and also, it may help healthy cells live longer, promoting longer life, and also a more active brain.

And also put in to the letter how us cannabis smokers suffer racism every day, because people are too ingorant to do any research. We're discriminated against, and looked down upon, when infact, we are more important to this world than all of those ignorant non smoking morons put together.

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again...brilliant

THC creates new neurons in adult brains. i have the research to prove it cause i had to do a 10 page paper on it.

marijuana is THE MOST versatile plant on the Earth. by far.

what plant do you know that can be used for recreation, industry, medical use, beverages, food, clothing, shelter, biofuel and a million other things...


1) making marijuana illegal makes it profitable on the black market. many governments around the globe take advantage of this fact.
2) if it were legal, everyone could grow it easily and little would be made off of it.
3) congress doesnt need facts to push legislation....all they need is fear-mongering from the other branches of the government that know best.
4) SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY!!!!

Drug Policy Alliance: Myths and Facts About Marijuana

scroll down a bit to find the myth about "Marijuana killing brain cells"

Prior to turning that in, I'd change it up. If you're writing a paper on weed, don't sound like you smoke weed lol.

Get yourself a very clean outline.
You have to start your letter with something to GRAB the audience reading.
Stating something crazy! and then giving your ideas and collective points to back it up in the next few paragraphs.

DO NOT give any negatives about or try to argue any points the government makes against cannabis or you seem like you're not sure about the cause.
State your opinion, give your points and sign off. Don't touch on stupid things such as global warming, this is just what you were saying earlier and this just kinda changes the subject, we're talking about legalization, not global warming, no offense to whoever suggested that.
The scientific fact that no test resulted in... was good. That knocks opinions down that have no medical or scientific value. So state your opinions WITH scientific value and add that people are not keeping the open mind because we're all following (politicians) self interests and if it doesn't mean something for them in return, and no one is dying from it to gain mainstream america awareness and sympathy. They really don't wanna help. However we have people who die from NOT using marijuana. Ask me.

There is really no stopping it anyway, users are increasing with the new generation of kids our society is producing. There is not one kid in my town that I know, who doesn't smoke.. Blacks hispanics, whites, asians. Mary does not discriminate. Even homies elected.