U.S. Will ...IN....for.......years.

[GHoSToKeR]

Cannabis is a drug and I smoke Cannabis. So, by definition, I am a druggie.

What needs to change is the idea that there is something wrong with taking drugs. Sure, I think that taking drugs to supress emotions and feelings is wrong, but to enhance them? How can that ever be anything other than good?

[beachguy in thongs]

What needs to change is the idea that marijuana is a drug.

It's an herb. Eurythomyacin is a drug.

That's what I feel.

edit: Instinctually, we all want drugs. But, it's the herb, we all, instinctually, want.

[beachguy in thongs]

The first definition is always the old definition.

[Cennar]

drug? yeah but what is the problem? the drug is there so what? people are more of a problem than drugs, how many pot smokers cut away the things people need to live? what smoker tokes and shots at people. if they did its not because there high and they dont know any better its that there idots and they do know better!!! drugs have nothing to do with any thing... but people like an excuse for all there probelms and wont face that some of the problems are there own.

[Roadking]

excerpt...

"One day I went out with the ARVN (army of the republic of vietnam) on an operation in the rice paddies above Vinh Long, forty terrified Vietnamese troops and five Americans, all packed into three Hueys that dropped us up to our hips in paddy muck. I had never been in a rice paddy before. We spread out and moved toward the marshy swale that led to the jungle. We were still twenty feet from the first cover, a low paddy wall, when we took fire from the treeline. It was probably the working half of a crossfire that had somehow gone wrong. It caught one of the ARVN in the head, and he dropped back into the water and disappeared. We made it to the wall with two casualties. There was no way of stopping their fire, no room to send in a flanking party, so gunships were called and we crouched behind the wall and waited. There was a lot of fire coming from the trees, but we were all right as long as we kept down. And I was thinking, Oh man, so this is a rice paddy, yes, wow! when I suddenly heard an electric guitar shooting right up in my ear and a mean, rapturous black voice singing, coaxing, "Now c'mon baby, stop actin' so crazy," and when I got it all together I turned to see a grinning black corporal hunched over a cassette recorder. "Might's well," he said. "we ain' goin' nowhere till them gunships come."
That's the story of the first time I ever heard Jimi Hendrix, but in a war where a lot of people talked about Aretha's "Satisfaction" the way other people speak of Brahms' Fourth, it was more than a story; it was Credentials. "Say, that Jimi Hendrix is my main man," someone would say. "He has definitely got his shit together!" Hendrix had once been in the 101st Airborne, and the Airborne in Vietnam was full of wiggy-brilliant spades like him, really mean and really good, guys who always took care of you when things got bad. That music meant a lot to them. I never once heard it played over the Armed Forces Radio Network."

- Michael Herr
Illumination Rounds...1969

[the last stand]

cool story....

[GHoSToKeR]

A drug is any substance that can be used to modify a chemical process or processes in the body, for example to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, enhance a performance or ability, or to alter states of mind. The word "drug" is etymologically derived from the Dutch/Low German word "droog", which means "dry", since in the past, most drugs were dried plant parts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug

Beachguy, you have to realise that Marijuana is a drug. You also have to realise that not all drugs are bad, and that calling it a drug is not a derogatory term or a negative label to use. Most people don't get through the day without ingesting some form of drug.

If we keep arguing that MJ isn't a drug then we'll just be proven wrong over and over. But if we admit that it is a drug (which most of us do) but that that has no bearing on the real argument, then maybe people would listen a bit more?

[beachguy in thongs]

drug (drg)
n.
1.
a. A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication.
b. Such a substance as recognized or defined by the U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
2. A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.
3. Obsolete A chemical or dye.
tr.v. drugged, drug·ging, drugs
1. To administer a drug to.
2. To poison or mix (food or drink) with a drug.
3. To stupefy or dull with or as if with a drug: drugged with sleep.



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Cannabis is a plant
plant may be a manufacturing facility. This article is about the living things.
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Plants are a major group of living things (about 300,000 species), including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns. Aristotle divided all living things between plants, which generally do not move or have sensory organs, and animals.
Genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. In the common binomial nomenclature, the name of an organism is composed of two parts: its genus (always capitalized) and a species modifier. An example is Homo sapiens, the name for the human species which belongs to the genus Homo. See scientific classification for more details of this system.
From a different piece of literature:
The heart of the book is divided into specific chapters that discuss all of the major drugs of abuse: tobacco/nicotine, opioids, CNS depressants (alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, solvents, inhalants), marijuana, and CNS stimulants (cocaine, amphetamines). Of interest, there is an entire chapter dedicated to "club drugs," namely, gamma hydroxybutyrate, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy), and ketamine.
Separating CNS depressants, Stimulants, and Marijuana.







LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews, Notes, and Listings
A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects
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A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects.
Gail Winger, Frederick G. Hofmann, and James H. Woods. 219 pages. New York: Oxford University Press; 1992. $49.95.

Social, pharmacologic, medical, and legal topics relevant to the abuse of tobacco and nicotine, the opioids, central nervous system depressants (alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepine, volatile solvents), hallucinogens, marijuana, and central nervous system stimulants (amphetamines, caffeine, cocaine). The last three chapters cover medical diagnosis of abuse, management, and legal controls. A well-written, highly readable, adequately documented survey of these widespread problems.

Again, seperating CNS Stimulants/Depressants and Marijuana.

Let's look at the definition again.

drug (drg)
n.
1.
a. A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication.
b. Such a substance as recognized or defined by the U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
2. A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.
3. Obsolete A chemical or dye.
tr.v. drugged, drug·ging, drugs
1. To administer a drug to.
2. To poison or mix (food or drink) with a drug.
3. To stupefy or dull with or as if with a drug: drugged with sleep.

Marijuana's a cure.
Marijuana is recognized as an illegal intoxicant.
The definition of Cannabis is above.
And this last one is not what Marijuana does. It doesn't affect your CNS.
2. A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.

Prove me wrong!!! Time and Time again.

[beachguy in thongs]

is[/i] a drug. You also have to realise that not all drugs are bad, and that calling it a drug is not a derogatory term or a negative label to use. Most people don't get through the day without ingesting some form of drug.

You're never gonna get anywhere without proving shit, and nothing you said proved anything.

[GHoSToKeR]

Marijuan is still a drug, no matter what you say. It alters your state of mind, can relieves symptons of all sorts of things, and some would agree that in enhances certain abilities. It is a drug. Get over it.