USA Today: Marijuana may not be lesser evil

[slowburn420]

I must say, the poll votes just contradicted the whole article

haha thats exactly what i thought :Tomcat: http://boards.cannabis.com/images/sm...tom/Tomcat.gif
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[Prunedale]

Since I was one of those drug addicts that kept on looking for that better high and did not stop looking until I was a full fledged heroin addict, I can say I never found a high better than marijuana.
Gateway drug? I think it may be the 1st or 2nd thing people mess with but the ones that go onto hard drugs would have gone on to hard drugs with or without marijuana in their lives anyways. They most likely started with alcohol because their parents had it in the house. Alcohol is the drug that causes people to lose their morals and blatently fuck up and then blame it on the alcohol saying "It was not me, it was the alcohol" But it is them that consume that hard core mind altering substance knowing full well it was going to do something to them that could seriously change peoples lives in the 1st place.
Alcohol is the gateway drug and it is advertized on TV because it is legal.

I agree with you and judging by the people I know who are junkies at this time, I've known them many years and from their history, they were going to be users anyway. It wasn't marijuana that got them into anything harder it was their choice and quest for a break from their reality.

"You are at school, and your main job as an adolescent is to learn and memorize," NIDA director Nora Volkow says. But if you keep becoming intoxicated by smoking marijuana, she says, you'll fall further and further behind in your studies. "How are you going to catch up?"

Nora Volkow doesn't know shit. Our Validictorian all 4 years of high school (years ago) was the biggest pot head I knew, as well as being under the influence of alcohol in class. Finished his work faster than anyone and came out more focused than anyone. So I began smokiing with him before school and at lunch. My grades increased a full 2.0 gpas from being at a D average. I was so focused and on task with my thoughts. I found calmness in learning while high. Thats the way I learn now. I smoke, get motivated and begin the educating. I haven't been to college yet after 7 years out of high school and I have self taught myself ALOT. In my opinion I think Nora V has never touched even Caffeine and is full of shit. Anyone can talk shit about the user and try to attack their education and make it related to marijuana as a "gate way" its about the individual and the environment they come out of, and wether or not they want to control their future or throw it away.

NORA if you can read this.. You don't know shit, stop making un-researched bias opinions. USA today if you can read this. Maybe I'd read your publication, and promote it. (since I work for a 5 star hotel on the monterey bay, and regularly can give your paper out,) IF you didn't print stupid shit like this, as a result, instead of USA today, I give out the local paper at our guests doors in the mornings. We have 300+ luxury suites. That DON'T read you now.

[ZeldaG.]

for me cigarettes was the gateway

[Markass]

can't argue with those poll results. Out of ten thousand some votes. should e-mail newsweek and tell them that the information is apparently untrue and very biased towards what the government tells people....

[N3D FLANDERS]

I must say, the poll votes just contradicted the whole article

haha wow
i would have to question the validity of the post though
84 percent have smoked when only 10 percent havent tried it?
that would be great but its not true

[mfqr]

and that's a problem how? o.0 HE'S GETTING STRAIGHT A'S!

I think that is the best argument seen on this thread yet. Why would these fucks talk about how it's so bad when the kid is getting 4.0's in school? These people can't seem to put it together, can they? "Oh he's getting straight A's, but he's smoking pot! Omg, terrible! He's going to ruin his life now!"

[sleepless]

i smoked mj and never wanted to take anything harder, so i didnt other than to try magic mushrooms which i took once and didnt like. i drank cider once, then i drank a lake full of alcohol, moved on to spirits and found i was fast spiralling into alcohollism. gave up the booze. its so messed up that a harmless smoke is against the law, wheras a dangerous and highly addictive drug like alcohol is sold in every supermarket in the world. ban alcohol, legalise pot.

[DudemeisteR420]

and when it said"todays marijuana is more potent and therefore more toxic than marijuana in the 70's" WHAT THE FUCK!
if anything it is better for you because you have to smoke less of the nasty stuff to get the same ammount of thc

[0ffspring]

Alcohol, then shrooms and finally weed, I stopped there.

[Delta9 UK]

and when it said"todays marijuana is more potent and therefore more toxic than marijuana in the 70's" WHAT THE FUCK!
if anything it is better for you because you have to smoke less of the nasty stuff to get the same ammount of thc

More toxic LMAO! It has never been toxic so how can it get "more toxic" - LOL