warmongering xian imperialist. On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 2:13:05 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:44 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 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. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. 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