Again, the signs of a far left extremist who can do nothing but sling hateful barbs and attacks on the messenger.
The truth will set you free! On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:47 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> >> 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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