Dr. Eowyn posted: " Yesterday, our DCG wrote a post about John Morgan,
an attorney stuck in the hippie-dippy 1960s, who's sunken $4 million into a
bus tour to convince college students to vote yes on Amendment 2, which
would legalize medical marijuana in Florida. The " Respond to this post
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New post on *Fellowship of the Minds*
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Marijuana is NOT a
harmless drug, says 20 years of scientific research
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/10/14/marijuana-is-not-a-harmless-drug-says-20-years-of-scientific-research/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>
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Yesterday, our DCG wrote a post
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/10/13/pro-pot-bus-tour-rolls-onto-college-campuses-to-get-out-the-vote-or-fck-it-all/>
about John Morgan, an attorney stuck in the hippie-dippy 1960s, who's
sunken $4 million into a bus tour to convince college students to vote yes
on Amendment 2, which would legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
The initiative in Florida is only the latest in a fast-paced movement
across America to legalize pot.
But is marijuana really a harmless drug?
Wayne Hall, a professor and director of the Center for Youth Substance
Abuse Research at the University of Queensland in Australia, had undertaken
a study to answer that question.
As reported by Agata Blaszczak-Boxe for Live Science
<http://www.livescience.com/48171-marijuana-research-health-effects-review.html>,
Oct. 6, 2014, Professor Hall reviewed the many studies that had been done
over the past two decades (1993-2013) on marijuana's effects on human health
<http://www.livescience.com/46114-marijuana-health-effects.html>. His
findings were published in the October issue of the journal *Addiction*.
These are his findings:
1. Adolescents who regularly use cannabis
<http://www.livescience.com/42069-teens-marijuana-use-rise.html> are
about *twice
as likely* as their nonuser peers *to drop out of school, and experience
cognitive impairment and psychoses as adults.*
2. Adolescent pot-users also *tend to use other illicit drugs.*
3. Although the risk of a person suffering a fatal overdose from marijuana
is "extremely small," there are case reports of deaths from *heart problems*
<http://www.livescience.com/47180-marijuana-deaths-cardiovascular-complications.html>
in seemingly otherwise healthy young men after they smoked marijuana.
4. Middle-age people who regularly smoke marijuana are at an *increased
risk of a heart attack
<http://www.livescience.com/45087-marijuana-heart-problems-deaths.html>*.
However, there may be an interactive effect from tobacco smoking because
most cannabis smokers were or are still cigarette smokers.
5. Marijuana use carries some of the same risks as alcohol use, such as *an
increased risk of accidents, dependence and psychosis.*
6. Regular cannabis users also *double their risk of experiencing psychotic
symptoms, disordered thinking, hallucinations and delusions. *Such symptoms
and disorders are found in 7 of 1,000 nonusers, but in 14 of 1,000 regular
marijuana users.
7. A study of more than 50,000 *young men* in Sweden found that those *who
had used marijuana 10 or more times by age 18 were about two times more
likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia within the next 15 years *than
those who had not used the drug. Although critics argue that it may be that
people with mental health problems
<http://www.livescience.com/47576-teens-mental-health-services.html> are
more likely to use marijuana to begin with, a 27-year follow-up of the
50,000 Swedish men found "a dose–response relationship between frequency of
cannabis use at age 18 and risk of schizophrenia during the whole follow-up
period." The follow-up investigators estimated that 13% of schizophrenia
cases diagnosed in the study "could be averted if all cannabis use had been
prevented."
8. *Marijuana use by pregnant women may slightly reduce the birth weight of
the baby.*
9. The effects of euphoria that cannabis users seek from the drug come
primarily from its psychoactive ingredient, called
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol,
better known as THC <http://www.livescience.com/24553-what-is-thc.html>.
During the past 30 years, the THC content of marijuana in the United States
has jumped from less than 2% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2006. Like alcohol and
other drugs such as opioids, the more potent form of marijuana likely
increases users' level of intoxication, as well as their risk of accidents
and developing dependence.
Professor Hall concludes that although marijuana "is not as harmful as
other illicit drugs such as amphetamine, cocaine and heroin, with which it
is classified under the law in many countries, including the USA, the
perception that cannabis is a safe drug is a mistaken reaction to a past
history of exaggeration of its health risks."
Translated into simple English: *Marijuana is NOT a harmless drug, which
should lead us to ask why there is such a push to make it legal.*
Did you know that 84-year-old multibillionaire Warren Buffet has his
fingers in this?
The Week
<http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/268100/speedreads-warren-buffetts-company-subsidiary-is-marketing-pot-growing-spaces>reports
that Cubic Designs Inc., a subsidiary of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway
Inc., sent
hundreds of fliers to weed dispensaries
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-12/buffett-s-berkshire-has-unit-that-helps-marijuana-growers.html>in
Colorado, Washington, and California. "Double your growing space," one
flier reads in capital letters, while another page adds, "Grow your
profits."
Cubic Designs builds additional platforms in warehouse spaces, allowing
companies to expand usable areas of their holdings. A couple of marijuana
growers independently contacted the company, inquiring about the "mezzanine
systems." So, "we sold a few mezzanines into that market and decided
internally, 'Why don't we do some marketing?'" Shannon Salchert, marketing
coordinator for Cubic Designs said.
See also "Warren Buffet gives $millions for abortions
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/03/31/warren-buffet-gives-millions-for-abortions/>
."
* ~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>* | October
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