Marijuana is NOT a harmless drug --- but not nearly as harmful as fighting for neocon and zionist warmongers in the middle east. they would be much better off smoking a joint every time the want to kill someone.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:54:09 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > 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 by replying above this line > > 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/> > > [image: Obama smoking pot] > <https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/smoking-pot.jpg> > > 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 > 14, 2014 at 4:30 am | Tags: Cubic Designs Inc. > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=cubic-designs-inc>, > delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol>, John > Morgan <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=john-morgan>, movement to > legalize marijuana > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=movement-to-legalize-marijuana>, > research > on health effects of marijuana > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=research-on-health-effects-of-marijuana>, > > THC <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=thc>, Wayne Hall > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=wayne-hall> | Categories: 2014 > Election <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=44872111>, Culture War > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=20812>, Health Care > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=20052>, United States > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=5850> | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-scd > > Comment > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/10/14/marijuana-is-not-a-harmless-drug-says-20-years-of-scientific-research/#respond> > > See all comments > <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/10/14/marijuana-is-not-a-harmless-drug-says-20-years-of-scientific-research/#comments> > > > Unsubscribe > <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=7f89380f46003915c34c2cdd2b126a38&email=bovinescatologists%40gmail.com&b=LC%3DOvYCWi%5D353_r6QEE%2C7Qfugc2yAlV%2BQWStHi6XIgZ4%5DR7sFXt> > > to no longer receive posts from Fellowship of the Minds. > Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions > <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=7f89380f46003915c34c2cdd2b126a38&email=bovinescatologists%40gmail.com>. > > > > *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: > > http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/10/14/marijuana-is-not-a-harmless-drug-says-20-years-of-scientific-research/ > > > Thanks for flying with WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com> > > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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