DUmmie suggests pot is bad, other DUmmies call BS

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They're at it again!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=926455&mesg_id=926455

Very_Boring_Name  Donating Member  (867 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 05:44 AM
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Marijuana dangers
    
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Edited on Wed Apr-20-11 05:44 AM by Very_Boring_Name
http://www.acde.org/common/Marijana.htm

* Impaired perception
* Diminished short-term memory
* Loss of concentration and coordination
* Impaired judgement
* Increased risk of accidents
* Loss of motivation
* Diminished inhibitions
* Increased heart rate
* Anxiety, panic attacks, and paranoia
* Hallucinations
* Damage to the respiratory, reproductive, and immune systems
* Increased risk of cancer
* Psychological dependency

If I asked my Doctor he'd say the same thing. Some of these things are common sense like "Increased risk of accidents" and "Loss of motivation". Some others make good logical sense like damage to respiratory systems.

immoderate  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 05:48 AM
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1. Even if that was true it would be worth it.

DCKit  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 05:52 AM
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3. And still less dangerous than aspirin.
    
You funny.

Perhaps if this DUmmie posted a source...oh wait....

Drunken Irishman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 06:04 AM
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18. As it is with every drug (whether it's over the county or illegal)...
    
If you take too much, it will impact you.

I don't smoke pot (my job drug tests), but I have and have no problem with the legalization of it. However, I also have hung out with friends who've been smokin' since junior high on more than just a recreational basis and they're like tree stumps.

Complete morons.

But at least they're funny. And have a lot of good food lying around.

I'm not surprised. I also wonder what this "good food" is.

Taverner  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 06:00 AM
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13. Huh? Who pinned the McGruff crime badge on you?
    
And as was said earlier, even if all that bs, and it is bs. I'm high right now and I'm not hallucinating, my heart rate is nice and mellow, and I'm definitely not paranoid. No one's out to get me - I'm not worth it.

But even if all that were true, it would be worth it. Oh yeah!

the other one  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 06:13 AM
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25. It turns kids into smelly hippies and is associated with leftist beliefs
    
Marijuana prohibition is an effective way of checking liberalism by targeting free-thinkers while they are still young.

The drug wars in general have been used to disenfranchise the left and minorities by creating non-victim felons who can't vote.

I'm liberal, I've never smoked pot. In my experience the kids who smoked pot were the ones who didn't care about things like politics.

Webster Green  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Wed Apr-20-11 06:11 AM
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23. Gotta love the one about "increased risk of cancer"
    
Even though the latest evidence points to cannabis being a cancer inhibitive.

[franksolich]

This is one of those instances where one really really really misses the maudlin waif, the "Mythsaje" primitive, the one who dislikes cops because he was always getting caught with pot.

[Karin]

Taverner's got a couple of kids, and he's sitting around high. 

I just don't get the wide appeal of this stuff.  I smoked a little in college.  The cotton mouth was agony.  The paranoia was awful.  So, I tended to clam right up.  Not exactly the life of the party, or a sparkling conversationalist, as opposed to say, having a few drinks. 

The DUmmies can have their pot.  I'll pass (in more ways than one). 

[overlord]

Taverner's got a couple of kids, and he's sitting around high. 

I just don't get the wide appeal of this stuff.  I smoked a little in college.  The cotton mouth was agony.  The paranoia was awful.  So, I tended to clam right up.  Not exactly the life of the party, or a sparkling conversationalist, as opposed to say, having a few drinks. 

The DUmmies can have their pot.  I'll pass (in more ways than one). 

I hear ya on the cotton mouth; the few times I'd tried it I felt as though I had been eating cotton balls covered with peanut butter and dipped in molasses.

[GOBUCKS]

However, I also have hung out with friends who've been smokin' since junior high on more than just a recreational basis and they're like tree stumps.

Hard to say if that's an effect of the drug, or because they're habitual felons.

[Mike220]

I never got cotton mouth, but what I did get from smoking was an insatiable craving for M&Ms and mad skills at Halo. Other than that, never seemed much different than drinking.

[JohnnyReb]

Smoke your pot DUmmies. The rest of us can tell when we look you in your eyes that there ain't nobody home.

[jukin]

I'm just a lowly engineer and tend to look at results of experiments to make a judgment.  Let's look at the experiment called the DUmp.

1. Most DUches smoke pot.
2. Most DUmbasses are unsuccessful.

While I do not have a control group of DUmmys that do not smoke pot, I'm 95% confident that those that do not are more successful than those that do.

[thelaughingman]

"Science?  We don't need no stinking science!"

[GOBUCKS]

"Science?  We don't need no stinking science!"

But wait! I thought the DUmmies were all science-minded. It's the whole basis for algore's global warming scam.