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offline -V- from Ensenada Drive on 2002-11-11 21:15 [#00437942]
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Here is an interesting article:
Danger of Cannabis


 

offline MrTenzin from The Concrete Jungle (United States) on 2002-11-11 21:17 [#00437946]
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this is bad news :(


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-11 21:19 [#00437952]
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""Saying that cannabis is stronger now than it used to be
is like saying that orange juice is stronger these days,"
said Alun Buffry, spokesman for the Legalize Cannabis
Alliance."


WHAT?

in what way?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-11 21:20 [#00437956]
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""We're not trying to say 'smoke' or 'don't smoke'
cannabis," BLF Chief Executive Dame Helena Shovelton told
BBC Radio. "We're saying that if you do, understand the
risks involved in doing so.

"Don't have the same situation we had with tobacco, which
was years of denial about the problems," she said."


sounds sensible.



 

offline Desdemona from Lake Mendota on 2002-11-11 21:20 [#00437959]
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So do you suppose it's an authentic, unbiased study, or that
someone with an anti-drug agenda was behind it?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-11-11 21:25 [#00437969]
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this is so obvious i can't believe they actually bothered to
spend money on it


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2002-11-11 21:28 [#00437973]
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why are they just finding this out? don't you think that if
it were actually true they would have already figured out a
long ass time ago?

as you brits would say, "bloody wankers!"


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2002-11-11 21:30 [#00437977]
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it's not like you aren't able to eat it or drink it still
and not get cancer from the tar when it burns while you
smoke it.


 

offline Dolleater from Afrika Bambaataa on 2002-11-11 21:30 [#00437978]
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Propaganda...


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-11-11 21:30 [#00437979]
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i'm not really suprised. if you smoke three joints a day,
or any amount of cannabis daily, your balance of consumption
is a little off, imo. looks like i'm going to have to get
that vaporizer i been meaning to pick up, as well as start
baking more often.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2002-11-11 21:32 [#00437980]
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""Saying that cannabis is stronger now than it used to be
is like saying that orange juice is stronger these days,"
said Alun Buffry, spokesman for the Legalize Cannabis
Alliance."

basically, (imo) that statement is saying that it being
stronger is bullshit. or that there's no way to prove it (as
all the weed in the 60s and such is most likely gone)


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-11-11 21:32 [#00437981]
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its sad that we can't even be sure if a study is
trustworthy. still, when i smoke there is no doubt in my
mind that it's unhealthy, even if the results of this study
turn out to be an exageration.


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-11-11 21:32 [#00437982]
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what did they prove? that it's fun?
or it makes you feel liek eating pizza and cake?
or that it makes you less rowdy?
or that it makes your eyelids go droopy and your eyes go
red?
or that it makes you giggle at stupid things?


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2002-11-11 21:38 [#00437991]
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fo' realz, inhaling anything besides oxygen can't possibly
be good for you, duh...


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-11-11 21:40 [#00437995]
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i think there is also the inhalation method to be considered
that these studies never speak of. if you only inhale
partially the amount of tar that gets stuck in the smallest
branches of your lung (forget what they are called) is far
less and the risks of smoking are greatly decreased. of
course you have to smoke slightly more to get as high, but
if you're like me and don't smoke too often anyhow, it
doesn't take much. i don't think it takes a study to tell
you that smoking is unhealthy, everyone who really wants to
stay healthy can listen to their body.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-11-11 21:41 [#00437998]
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haha!

i'd like to be in that experiment


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-11-11 21:41 [#00438000]
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but the way I see it
if I really wanted to take care of my vody i would stop
smoking pot
and stop drinking
and stop taking drugs
and stop smoking
and sit at home on friday nights wearing emptied tissue
boxes no my feet with anti-germ spray stressing about
letting germs in from outside.

hehe :)


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2002-11-11 21:43 [#00438006]
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yeah, and not cutting your nails either!

lol! =P


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-11-11 21:45 [#00438011]
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yeah haha theyre like boomerangs
ever clipped one and it goes
"thip thip thip thip"
and comes back and bounces off your head?

no?

uhh well me neither!
*nervous laugh*


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-11-11 21:48 [#00438017]
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you can't not take drugs.


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-11-11 21:52 [#00438027]
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people can't or *I* can't not take drugs?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-11 21:54 [#00438030]
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well.. they only recently conclusively have proven that
cigarettes cause cancer.. I mean, shown the exact
correlation between the act of smoking and the act of
developing cancer.

just because it seems obvious, doens't mean you don't have
to prove it scientifically.


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-11 21:56 [#00438034]
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I've been smoking 10+ reefers daily for at least 15yrs so I
guess I'm in high-rish group for the old Big C....

I smoke as well...

:(...

time to skin up....at least I can forget I'm gonna die
then...:)...



 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-11 21:57 [#00438036]
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shit thats a lot..

most people who smoke that much get problems with long term
memory..


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-11-11 22:00 [#00438040]
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drugs are in everything... what we consider drugs are just
the ones with the most explicit immediate effects on the
conscoiusness and body. drugs, spices and food are all part
of a continuum.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-11-11 22:01 [#00438041]
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are you exagerating? thats a lot of cannabis!


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 01:14 [#00438208]
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Quiche is all i have to say to that !


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 01:58 [#00438225]
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*didn't read jand's post, does HUGE double take*


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 01:59 [#00438226]
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*well not THAT large, but a we, double glance nonetheless*

jand, you should supplement with Quiche, nutritious as well,
vege's and all them stuff in it :)


 

offline Junktion from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2002-11-12 02:11 [#00438228]
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at the time i smoked a lot of cannabis, my body feelt like
an ashtray. my mind and body only went one way, and that was
down. Surely I would never idmit it while i was smoking, but
now I really see.


 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 02:16 [#00438230]
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i dunno, i am trying to detox myself a bit now, like jand i
smoke heavily (maybe 10-15 spliffs a day, usually raw) and
have smoke for 15 years.
i've just completed my latest crop and i do step up my
smoking when my crops ready, maybe 50-80 grammes a week, i
still smoke about 30-40 a week when i'm buying from coffee
shops, still alot of money, one of the main reasons i grow
my own.

but i'd say my memory is pretty fucked, not long term
memory, just the short things, say 30 seconds from when i
say i've got to do something it's gone, forgotten.

for alot of money to be spent on research that i'd say all
smokers know anyway is just rediculous.

if you inhale ANY form of smoke it WILL do damage to your
interior, FACT!!


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-11-12 02:33 [#00438234]
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All this god damn money spent of seeing how bad the drug
is..... how about they start studying on how to make a new
line of cannabis that has little tar in it..... how about
they do something that lessens the effects instead of
bitching about how bad it is..... christ... we all know its
bad... it doesnt take a scientist to figuere that one out.
Damn. Put all that money to use and invent some cannibus
that has less tar in it or a cleaner cannibus.... This money
could be going to help the aids epidemic in africa... or go
toward the starving people of ethopia.... but
nooooooooooooooo. they have to spent all this money on
something a 5 year old could have told me....


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-11-12 03:06 [#00438245]
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That's a lot.


 

offline Alliat from Kópavogur (Iceland) on 2002-11-12 04:36 [#00438277]
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Exactly! Since there is a way to reduce the amount of tar in
cigarettes without removing the nicotene they must be able
to do the same thing with cannabis, right?


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-11-12 05:01 [#00438291]
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What about the link to schizophrenia? I have a mate who has
smoked loads for the last 6 years and he's had some major
problems. He claimed he saw a UFO recently and once pulled
his car over coz he thought there was a police car behind
him, only to discover there wasn't.


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 05:06 [#00438292]
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better safe then sorry eh!


 

offline glass_eater from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2002-11-12 05:10 [#00438294]
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i think schizophrenia
is a problem
i smoke a lot
and then im happy to make the world tour soon
cos itll force me to stop for a while
(too hard in switzerland...)
:D
im actually twins
what???


 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 05:11 [#00438296]
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got a mate who proper lost it on canabis, but doctors said
it was a catalyst, meaning the problems where allready
there, just that the drug accelarated the problems, its well
known canabis does have bad effects on people who are not
very stable in the mind.

he stayed awake for 7 days, only smoking weed.
it got very, very scary.
Luckily he's ok now but still takes medication, he also
smokes the odd joint without the effects it earlier caused.


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 05:13 [#00438297]
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yeah, I guess that's pretty high (excuse the pun...)... no
exageration either - in fact, most days that's pretty
low....

But I haven't noticed any adverse side-effects...mentally or
otherwise...in many ways, it's made me a better
person...likewise with E - that transformed so many of the
people I know into actually nice people (even the violent
bullyboy types...)...

Sleeping Pills on the other hand - my other major addiction
- is a totally memory killer...

But all these are just toys compared to harder
drugs....those have been my real problem in life altho
thankfully that's a period of my life thats over....

BTW I wonder how much more dangerous and cancer-causing is
the average motorcar....check the smoke coming out of those
and you'll see what I mean.....I know fuel is lot more lead
free nowadays but that is very recent....

And need I mention Alcohol....


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 05:15 [#00438301]
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Cannebis or any psychoactive material can lead to problems
for those suspectable to mental health problems...

I read a recent report from a charity that deal with young
people & mental health and they are very worried that this
angle isn't being addressed in the current debate....



 

offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-11-12 05:15 [#00438302]
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In my health class in back in 8th grade told us about this
and said one joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes...

this study says 3, so it sounds like it's getting less
powerful


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 05:18 [#00438309]
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one of the most common factors is "episodes" is a severe
lack of sleep. of course, this is likely to be an effect of
an effect etc.

schizophrenia is pretty complex (and varies in degree) - its
not like a broken leg, although people suffering from
schizophrenia occasionally break legs.


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 05:22 [#00438313]
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stress causes cancer [or more appropriately stress is
cancer]


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-11-12 05:33 [#00438320]
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It's senseless denying that it causes health problems. I
heard of some guy who only had like 2-3 joins per weekend to
chill and ended up which throat cancer. Ok the same probably
would have happened with normal cigarettes or he may have
contracted it somewhere else in the long run but it's still
worth thinking about...


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-11-12 05:47 [#00438328]
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yeah .. i'm not saying it doesn't contribute, or that
inhaling tar is "healthy", but there's a lot of contingent
stuff going on, there's only so much cause and effect
can take account of.


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-11-12 05:51 [#00438331]
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Yeah it's like this scientific program I watched a while
back which stated that frying food was the worst way to cook
not only because it's fatty but it also produces this
chemical/enzime/thingydooda which is carcogenic. There ya
go, fry food to much and you'll get cancer!!! I think people
just need to chill and live a little rather than worrying
about all these little factors.


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2002-11-12 05:53 [#00438332]
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"I think people just need to chill and live a little rather
than worrying about all these little factors."

...says the biggest fucking paranoid nervous wreak in the
nothern hemisphere...



 

offline unabomber from Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 2002-11-12 05:53 [#00438333]
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oooooooops!?!?!

I bought 1000 euros of Marihuana yesterday!!!!


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-11-12 05:53 [#00438334]
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Yeah, I read in a few places that its a catalyst. But how do
you know if you are going to pish things? these things tend
to be underlying and the individual and those around them
may not notice anything.

IMO weed is the Devil's plant and should be rejected


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-11-12 05:54 [#00438335]
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Uh-oh. You are gonna be a schizophrenic cancer patient in
two weeks dude.


 


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