yes, i would love to know about these drastic effects on my brain. what are they. and please, don't go and quote freevibe or dare or anyother drug war propagandist. but please enlighten me on these effects
most of my ex-stoner buddies are much easier to communicate with now, and remember shit for more that 2 minutes. that's kinda nice. as a person who does it only on occaision now, i can truthfully state that it DOES have a profound effect on how you think, on your motor skills, on your emotional state. to deny it is like an alcholic denying that alcohol effects his body and mental state. it's just plain old denial.
True, it does effect the mind (that's part of why we smoke it), but there is nothing "drastic" about the effects in the sense of it always being a descent into miserable self-destruction or being reduced to a dribbling degenerate laying around in alleyways, as the drug war propagandists would have you think. My overall opinion on pot and its effect on its users is that willpower and the individual are what determines how pot affects you. It's not the pot that matters so much as the person.
i attribute my not being able to remember things to having way to many hits to the head. i have 6 documented cases of a concussion, plus more that have not been documented by a doctor or medical staff. my motor skills are better when i have smoked. and my emotional status...well, that was pretty much fucked up before i smoked, so if it had an effect, i am better off emotionally than before smoking. now i understand that this is not the case for eveyone else. but i think he was talking more about long term effects on the brain.
you still haven't shown us your evidence of the effects on the brain. wheres the proof? or are you just spouting the mis-truths of the drug war propagandists?
THC does a lot of things to the brain, and like someone else said the effect varies from person to person, making it hard to determine any universal effects of long term use (unlike the 'harder' drugs). Here's a link to Virtual Hospital's marijiana page, and I think that's a pretty unbiased source: http://www.vh.org/adult/patient/psychiatry/medications/mjade.html Basically, a lot of the same effects as smoking, as well as impaired ability to think and reason after long term use since THC reduces blood flow to the brain.
Pot laws are ignorant and backward, but no one is gonna change them in the near future. Now, I am all for this sheriff, but my veiws on punishment are a bit severe, I think the death penalty should apply to ALL murders, rapes, child molesting, and abuse cases. It's been well noted by many psychologists that rape, murder, and molesting are an illness to some and are bound to happen again. So should we risk another case like that?
First of all, on the main topic. This sheriff is a fucking dick. These "hard ass" lawmen think there such righteous people. How large of a portion is a 40 cent meal? Is it enough norishment for someone to work a days work, in a chaingang, in 100+ degree weather? Charging them is just as fucked up. They dont have jobs so how the hell are you supposed to pay for it? .40 X 3 X 365 X 20. Thats almost 10 grand. How the hell are they supposed to pay for that shit? Its only going to encourage them to turn to crime again when they get out. This guy needs a bullet in the brain. Next... pot... I have been sober now for a little more then 2 and a half months. Do I notice a large difference then when I was smoking? Nope. Its common to miss a difference when you start but I would notice one going sober from use. When you smoke a lot of bud, yes there is a large change. As with all substances from caffine to prozak. Does pot in moderation cause brain damage? Nope. My moms been smoking from 16 to 44. Shes only recentlly stopped. Again another point already stated is that alcohol does more damage... So there goes your argument
Obviously noone is dieing from maulnutrition in the prisons. Everything this man is doing is completely within the law, or else he wouldn't be in the job. supposedly he has been doing this for quite some time. How will they pay for it? give um a bill at the end of their scentence: http://www.swdtimes.com/swdtimes/html/Daily3/SUNDAY/mar24/04.html I think you have your logic completely mixed up. If the punishment is harsh, it will give the individual a reason to no reoffend. If the punishment is a stay at a hotel, the benefits of the crime may outweigh the punishment. As for pot, noone ever said it caused brain damage. See the above posts for the affects it has. Alchohal should also be illegal. Wow looks like my arguement was shit to hell...
Good luck at outlawing alcohol (and tobacco for that matter which does far more damage than pot). The government knows it will never do this, so they make an issue out of pot instead to look tough from a public relations standpoint.
That's sort of the fundamental difference between the opposing stances on prison reform. Some believe punishment should be harsher on the rationale that harsher punishment will coerce future obedience. Others believe harsher punishment only succeeds in hardening and further embittering criminals, and that rehabilitation is a better way to bring about reform. Personally I lean towards the latter opinion, but overall I think it depends on the individuals, and so of course it's impossibly hard to guage accurately whether one way works better. Your post referring to its "drastic effects" connoted something of that nature. At any rate, as you may have guessed I don't see the effects as sufficient grounds for illegality, the effects on society are pretty minimal, compared even to alcohol and tobacco. Its health effects weren't even the real reason why it became illegal. And outlaw alcohol? You know they tried that in the '20s, don't you? Here's another pretty objective site on drug facts & policy, go and learn if you feel like it -http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/index.HTM
what people showed us the drastic effects of marijuana on our brain? or maybe your just pulling it out of your ass.
Thank you for a post that isn't dipped in hate! And yes I know of prohibition. And I know that outlawing alcohol will never work with todays society. My desire to have Alcohol outlawed is no more than wishfull thinking. But as for pot, I just dont see any need to legalize a drug that will have negative effects on society.
I read your link... I won't deny that the act of smoking isn't good for your lungs, it isn't as bad as cigarettes (since cig smokers usually smoke far more), but smoking anything isn't healthy. That's why I'm gonna get a good vaporizer someday when I have the spare dough. As for the other effects though, I really can't say I've suffered anything particularly negative, nothing bad psychological-wise, I really haven't had a bad experience on pot (i've been paranoid a few times, but that's just fear of the popos). And that stat about "50% go through 'bad trip' etc..." is definitely wrong, I know plenty of stoners and I haven't seen anyone go through anything worse than being paranoid (and that's mainly from fear of cops). There is a percentage of people who have very adverse reactions to pot, but it's very small and nowhere near fifty percent. The effects listed for "High Doses" are really rare, for one you're more likely to pass out into a deep sleep before anything like that happens, and anyway, you're going to suffer ill effects if you consume too much of just about anything.
Hey man, I'm not here to flame, just to debate (though I'll poke fun at really, really dumb posts). Some of my best friends are right-wingers so I'm used to this sort of banter. Well, the question is not really a matter of whether to legalize because the drug will have a negative effect on society, in my opinion. That question rests on the assumption that the illegality of the drug makes a big difference in how many people consume the drug. I would argue that the difference is marginal; pot consumption really hasn't been curbed at all by the law, it has only been pushed underground, and feeds the coffers of organized crime. The prohibition of marijuana in many ways is just as failed a policy as the noble experiment of the Twenties, and I think it's much more of a waste of money than it's worth to society at all.
