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Illegalization and Lies to the Public.
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you obviously smoke some shwag ass chronic.... theres so many different strands that give you different effects, i've smoked weed that made me get up an wanna accomplish some shit... granted i've also smoked some dro that made me sit down an jus veg out for hours playin video games but at the same time there is some bud out there that will have you cleanin the fuckin house
your supporting an admitted broken policy..
Laziness is dependant on the person, not his weed...
the only instances ive heard that anybody had any lasting side effects were when that person was using other drugs.. marijuana by itself cannot be attributed to it...
lol.. ANYTHING mixed with alchohol will impair your ability to drive... that would be like me saying "pepsi and alchohol mixxed is prevalent factor in motor vehicle accidents" so lets stop selling pepsi?
and if you are for its illegal status, how do u feel about alchohol's 'legal' status..?
Laziness is dependant on the person, not his weed...
the only instances ive heard that anybody had any lasting side effects were when that person was using other drugs.. marijuana by itself cannot be attributed to it...
lol.. ANYTHING mixed with alchohol will impair your ability to drive... that would be like me saying "pepsi and alchohol mixxed is prevalent factor in motor vehicle accidents" so lets stop selling pepsi?
and if you are for its illegal status, how do u feel about alchohol's 'legal' status..?
There is a term for dank-induced sloth....amotivational syndrome.
I'm not talking about "lasting side effects"...I'm talking about weed being the causal instrument in the manifestation of latent or potential psychoses and nervous disorders, and its role in aggravation of many mental illnesses.
The question is whether alchohol + the agent in question both 1. produce a higher frequency of crashes than alchohol alone or alchohol and an inert ingredient such as pepsi and 2. is prevalent enough that such a mixture could be expected to commonly occur. Just like they yanked some cold medicines off the shelf....
Alchohol is not a mind-altering drug that affects people around its ingestor and has the immediate potential to permanently alter brain chemistry..
I'm not talking about "lasting side effects"...I'm talking about weed being the causal instrument in the manifestation of latent or potential psychoses and nervous disorders, and its role in aggravation of many mental illnesses.
The question is whether alchohol + the agent in question both 1. produce a higher frequency of crashes than alchohol alone or alchohol and an inert ingredient such as pepsi and 2. is prevalent enough that such a mixture could be expected to commonly occur. Just like they yanked some cold medicines off the shelf....
Alchohol is not a mind-altering drug that affects people around its ingestor and has the immediate potential to permanently alter brain chemistry..
ahh i c..
Cannabis Use Not Linked To So-Called "Amotivational Syndrome"
but u cant draw a connection with potential psychoses and nervous disorders and the solo use of marijuana, unless u know something chemist's and scientists dont...
yes, however, the conclusion of drawing a correlation with a alchohol/marijuana mix and car accidents is invalid because the mixing solution 'alchohol' by itself is one in which impairs one's ability to operate a motor vehicle.. so to be able to draw the level of inability to drive in conjunction with marijuana is one which is nearly impossible to do... nobody has condoned smoking and driving, and if alchohol alone can cause an accident without the marijuana, shouldnt that be on the chopping block of legal debate as well??
nobody should be driving under the influence regardless if its weed or drank anyway..
and weed does? im not talking about smoking in the presence of others btw.. and theres a female i know whos pops got wetbrain by drinking too much.. dood is only 47 and can no longer hold a sentence nor a rational thought... i have yet to see anybody have that side effect (or any) of that nature when marijuana is involved...
WD, i kno your a smart guy, but to say that alchohol is less dangerous then marijuana is an arguement that not even the people who are against weed can admit too..
Cannabis Use Not Linked To So-Called "Amotivational Syndrome"
but u cant draw a connection with potential psychoses and nervous disorders and the solo use of marijuana, unless u know something chemist's and scientists dont...
yes, however, the conclusion of drawing a correlation with a alchohol/marijuana mix and car accidents is invalid because the mixing solution 'alchohol' by itself is one in which impairs one's ability to operate a motor vehicle.. so to be able to draw the level of inability to drive in conjunction with marijuana is one which is nearly impossible to do... nobody has condoned smoking and driving, and if alchohol alone can cause an accident without the marijuana, shouldnt that be on the chopping block of legal debate as well??
nobody should be driving under the influence regardless if its weed or drank anyway..
and weed does? im not talking about smoking in the presence of others btw.. and theres a female i know whos pops got wetbrain by drinking too much.. dood is only 47 and can no longer hold a sentence nor a rational thought... i have yet to see anybody have that side effect (or any) of that nature when marijuana is involved...
WD, i kno your a smart guy, but to say that alchohol is less dangerous then marijuana is an arguement that not even the people who are against weed can admit too..
Interesting if true, which is quite possible. However, have you honestly seen this in your daily life? Compare the people you know who smoke weed to the people who don't. You and I both know, the nonsmokers are generally the more ambitious and more accomplished people. There are, of course, exceptions, like my homeboy in capital who blows like Bob Marley and various other assorted groups of people.
But I don't think anyone would doubt that if you put all the dank smokers in the world vs. all the non dank smokers, the nonsmokers would clearly come out on top in terms of life achievement, quality of life, etc.
Now you COULD argue that people who have shitty lives, people who have low end jobs, ex-cons, etc. are just more likely to smoke dank anyways, which I would probly agree with. But thats a different issue.
I used to smoke and sell and I could tell you a million health benefits of weed. I didn't know about that shit either until my homeboy flipped out and had to go get seen. After he came back from being evaluated he related that his psychologist told him about the link and I checked it out.
The link between schizophrenia and various assorted nervous disorders and weed has been well known for quite some time.
Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
Several recent studies have linked youth marijuana use with increases in depression and suicidal thinking.
Teens age 12 to 17 who smoke marijuana weekly are three times more likely than non-users to have thoughts about committing suicide.1
Some research shows that marijuana use can precede symptoms of depression. Girls (ages 14–15) who used marijuana daily were five times more likely to face depression at age 21. Weekly use among all teens studied doubled the risk for depression.2
A study of adults found that marijuana use quadrupled the risk of later major depression.3
A study of 1,265 children over a 21-year period found that marijuana use, particularly heavy or regular use, was associated with later increases in depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.4
Past-year marijuana use has been linked to social withdrawal, anxiety, depression, attention problems and thoughts of suicide in adolescents.5
Research with twins found that the twin who was dependent on marijuana was almost three times more likely to think about suicide and attempt suicide than his/her non-marijuana dependent co-twin.6
Schizophrenia
Marijuana use has been linked to early-onset schizophrenia, and several recent studies show that marijuana use during adolescence increases the risk of psychotic disorders in adulthood.7
Heavy marijuana users are almost seven times more likely than non-users to be diagnosed with schizophrenia later in life.8
Among men suffering from schizophrenia, those who had used marijuana were much more likely to experience their first psychotic episode at an early age.9
A recent study found that that the earlier the use of marijuana (age 15 vs. age 18), the greater the risk of schizophrenia.10
A study published in 2005 found that regular use of marijuana may double the risk of developing psychotic disorders and that marijuana causes chemical changes to the brain. The study maintains that smoking marijuana causes symptoms even when other factors are taken into consideration.11
Genetic Predisposition
Recent evidence suggests that some people's genetic make-up may predispose them to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of marijuana on mental health.
An analysis of 2,437 young people found that marijuana use moderately increases the risk of psychopathology. The risk for those with a predisposition for psychopathology was much higher.12
A study published in spring 2005 found that as many as one in four people may have a genetic profile that makes marijuana five times more likely to trigger psychotic disorders.13
References
1 Greenblatt, J. Adolescent self-reported behaviors and their association with marijuana use. SAMHSA, 1998.
2 Patton, GC et al. Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study. British Medical Journal, 325:1195–1198, 2002.
3 Bovasso, GB. Cannabis abuse as a risk factor for depressive symptoms. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 158:2033–2037, 2001.
4 Fergusson, DM et al. Cannabis use and psychosocial adjustment in adolescence and young adulthood. Addiction, 97:1123–1135, 2002.
5 Brook, JS et al. The effect of early marijuana use on later anxiety and depressive symptoms. NYS Psychologist, 35–40, 2001.
6 Lynskey, M et al. Major depressive disorder, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt in twins discordant for cannabis dependence and early-onset cannabis use. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61:1026–1032, 2004.
7 Andreasson, S et al. Cannabis and schizophrenia: A longitudinal study of Swedish conscripts. Lancet, 26:1483–1486, 1987. Fergusson, DM et al. Cannabis dependence and psychotic symptoms in young people. Psychological Medicine, 33:15–21, 2003. van Os, J et al. Cannabis use and psychosis: a longitudinal population-based study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 156:319–327, 2002.
8 Zammit, S et al. Self-reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study. British Medical Journal, 325:1199–1201, 2002.
9 Veen, N et al. Cannabis use and age at onset of schizophrenia. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 161:501-506, 2004.
10 Arseneault L, et al. Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study. British Medical Journal, 325:1212–1213, 2002.
11 Fergusson, DM et al. Tests of causal linkages between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms. Addiction, 100, 3:354–366, 2005.
12 van Os, J et al. Prospective cohort study of cannabis use, predisposition for psychosis, and psychotic symptoms in young people. British Medical Journal, 330:11–, 2005.
13 Caspi A, et al. Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset cannabis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the catechol-o-methyltransferase gene: Longitudinal evidence of a gene X environment interaction. Biological Psychiatry (Article in press).
It is not necessary for alchohol to be safe or benign when a public health concern is raised. Needle exchange centers are an example of this. Needles are given to addicts in order to use heroin with because the public health outcome is greater.
According to some studies dank is involved with 30% of drunk-driving accidents, which holds logically since weed and dank make you even less coordinated than either drug alone. The public health is served by the least amount of people on the road who are drank and danked out, regardless of whether or not alchohol is dangerous.
Also, the social benefits or alchohol are generally perceived to be worth the thousands of dead Americans every year. No one likes drunk driving or schoolchildren turned into pancakes, but no one wants to go back to Prohibition either.
True, and people shouldnt use heroin, but needle exchange programs act as a net societal benefit. You can acknowledge and seemingly validate a negative in the interests of a positive.
My homeboys schizophrenia got triggered by weed. He was in his second year at Stanford medical school. He's doing alright now, works at Taco Bell, livesd in an apt. with some people etc and were all very proud of him...but even if he was schizophrenic for sure, who knows if he was to have another 3 or 4 years before it came on.
If marijuana use was as frequent as alchohol, it would be more dangerous imo, especially to children around smoking parents. (It stunts brain development in people whose brain is still developing [teens / early adolescents], which is why the hippie generations use was not a big deal, ost of them were at least 16+ when they started majorly smoking)
Not everyone is a dankhead 5000 whose shit is so fried they can smoke weed and still function. People would be doin some dumb ass shit on a regular basis if weed use increased to anything like the levels of alchohol use.
Alchohol is something that the vast majority of people can use and enjoy. People will obviously abuse it, and that is a given.
However, weed is definitely not for everyone. It can have more potential serious effects quickly, lead to large-scale stupidity and accidents among the inexperienced, etc.
The people who should and can handle weed are already smoking it. Legalization is wholly unneccessary(sp?).
But I don't think anyone would doubt that if you put all the dank smokers in the world vs. all the non dank smokers, the nonsmokers would clearly come out on top in terms of life achievement, quality of life, etc.
Now you COULD argue that people who have shitty lives, people who have low end jobs, ex-cons, etc. are just more likely to smoke dank anyways, which I would probly agree with. But thats a different issue.
I used to smoke and sell and I could tell you a million health benefits of weed. I didn't know about that shit either until my homeboy flipped out and had to go get seen. After he came back from being evaluated he related that his psychologist told him about the link and I checked it out.
The link between schizophrenia and various assorted nervous disorders and weed has been well known for quite some time.
Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
Several recent studies have linked youth marijuana use with increases in depression and suicidal thinking.
Teens age 12 to 17 who smoke marijuana weekly are three times more likely than non-users to have thoughts about committing suicide.1
Some research shows that marijuana use can precede symptoms of depression. Girls (ages 14–15) who used marijuana daily were five times more likely to face depression at age 21. Weekly use among all teens studied doubled the risk for depression.2
A study of adults found that marijuana use quadrupled the risk of later major depression.3
A study of 1,265 children over a 21-year period found that marijuana use, particularly heavy or regular use, was associated with later increases in depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.4
Past-year marijuana use has been linked to social withdrawal, anxiety, depression, attention problems and thoughts of suicide in adolescents.5
Research with twins found that the twin who was dependent on marijuana was almost three times more likely to think about suicide and attempt suicide than his/her non-marijuana dependent co-twin.6
Schizophrenia
Marijuana use has been linked to early-onset schizophrenia, and several recent studies show that marijuana use during adolescence increases the risk of psychotic disorders in adulthood.7
Heavy marijuana users are almost seven times more likely than non-users to be diagnosed with schizophrenia later in life.8
Among men suffering from schizophrenia, those who had used marijuana were much more likely to experience their first psychotic episode at an early age.9
A recent study found that that the earlier the use of marijuana (age 15 vs. age 18), the greater the risk of schizophrenia.10
A study published in 2005 found that regular use of marijuana may double the risk of developing psychotic disorders and that marijuana causes chemical changes to the brain. The study maintains that smoking marijuana causes symptoms even when other factors are taken into consideration.11
Genetic Predisposition
Recent evidence suggests that some people's genetic make-up may predispose them to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of marijuana on mental health.
An analysis of 2,437 young people found that marijuana use moderately increases the risk of psychopathology. The risk for those with a predisposition for psychopathology was much higher.12
A study published in spring 2005 found that as many as one in four people may have a genetic profile that makes marijuana five times more likely to trigger psychotic disorders.13
References
1 Greenblatt, J. Adolescent self-reported behaviors and their association with marijuana use. SAMHSA, 1998.
2 Patton, GC et al. Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study. British Medical Journal, 325:1195–1198, 2002.
3 Bovasso, GB. Cannabis abuse as a risk factor for depressive symptoms. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 158:2033–2037, 2001.
4 Fergusson, DM et al. Cannabis use and psychosocial adjustment in adolescence and young adulthood. Addiction, 97:1123–1135, 2002.
5 Brook, JS et al. The effect of early marijuana use on later anxiety and depressive symptoms. NYS Psychologist, 35–40, 2001.
6 Lynskey, M et al. Major depressive disorder, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt in twins discordant for cannabis dependence and early-onset cannabis use. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61:1026–1032, 2004.
7 Andreasson, S et al. Cannabis and schizophrenia: A longitudinal study of Swedish conscripts. Lancet, 26:1483–1486, 1987. Fergusson, DM et al. Cannabis dependence and psychotic symptoms in young people. Psychological Medicine, 33:15–21, 2003. van Os, J et al. Cannabis use and psychosis: a longitudinal population-based study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 156:319–327, 2002.
8 Zammit, S et al. Self-reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study. British Medical Journal, 325:1199–1201, 2002.
9 Veen, N et al. Cannabis use and age at onset of schizophrenia. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 161:501-506, 2004.
10 Arseneault L, et al. Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study. British Medical Journal, 325:1212–1213, 2002.
11 Fergusson, DM et al. Tests of causal linkages between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms. Addiction, 100, 3:354–366, 2005.
12 van Os, J et al. Prospective cohort study of cannabis use, predisposition for psychosis, and psychotic symptoms in young people. British Medical Journal, 330:11–, 2005.
13 Caspi A, et al. Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset cannabis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the catechol-o-methyltransferase gene: Longitudinal evidence of a gene X environment interaction. Biological Psychiatry (Article in press).
It is not necessary for alchohol to be safe or benign when a public health concern is raised. Needle exchange centers are an example of this. Needles are given to addicts in order to use heroin with because the public health outcome is greater.
According to some studies dank is involved with 30% of drunk-driving accidents, which holds logically since weed and dank make you even less coordinated than either drug alone. The public health is served by the least amount of people on the road who are drank and danked out, regardless of whether or not alchohol is dangerous.
Also, the social benefits or alchohol are generally perceived to be worth the thousands of dead Americans every year. No one likes drunk driving or schoolchildren turned into pancakes, but no one wants to go back to Prohibition either.
True, and people shouldnt use heroin, but needle exchange programs act as a net societal benefit. You can acknowledge and seemingly validate a negative in the interests of a positive.
My homeboys schizophrenia got triggered by weed. He was in his second year at Stanford medical school. He's doing alright now, works at Taco Bell, livesd in an apt. with some people etc and were all very proud of him...but even if he was schizophrenic for sure, who knows if he was to have another 3 or 4 years before it came on.
If marijuana use was as frequent as alchohol, it would be more dangerous imo, especially to children around smoking parents. (It stunts brain development in people whose brain is still developing [teens / early adolescents], which is why the hippie generations use was not a big deal, ost of them were at least 16+ when they started majorly smoking)
Not everyone is a dankhead 5000 whose shit is so fried they can smoke weed and still function. People would be doin some dumb ass shit on a regular basis if weed use increased to anything like the levels of alchohol use.
Alchohol is something that the vast majority of people can use and enjoy. People will obviously abuse it, and that is a given.
However, weed is definitely not for everyone. It can have more potential serious effects quickly, lead to large-scale stupidity and accidents among the inexperienced, etc.
The people who should and can handle weed are already smoking it. Legalization is wholly unneccessary(sp?).
Scientists are funny.Some say one thing, the others say another. I found a website showing this. It is the same debate as global warming; som say its happening and others say its the natural cycle of life.
But one thing is for sure. Marijuana has attributed to 0 deaths to this day. You cannot OD on marijuana. Alcohol and tabacco atribute to over half a million deaths a year.
TOBACCO ........................ 400,000
ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ................ 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS .............. 15,000
CAFFEINE ....................... 2,000
ASPIRIN ........................ 500
MARIJUANA ...................... 0
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Source: United States government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics
But one thing is for sure. Marijuana has attributed to 0 deaths to this day. You cannot OD on marijuana. Alcohol and tabacco atribute to over half a million deaths a year.
TOBACCO ........................ 400,000
ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ................ 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS .............. 15,000
CAFFEINE ....................... 2,000
ASPIRIN ........................ 500
MARIJUANA ...................... 0
----------------------------------------
Source: United States government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics
I find it almost disgustingly comical that the anti marijuana propogandists claim that if you smoke marijuana you will go INSANE, YOU WILL DIE, and YOU WILL KILL PEOPLE. Lying about scientific study results on the substance, when results showed the drug was basically harmless and did none of the above. None of this was true, yet marijuana is still illegal to this day based on those lies.
http://www.democracydefined.org/clinicalfindings.htm
CONCLUSIONS & FINDINGS OF FACT
from U.S. government researchers’
Empirical 1 Studies:
short or long-term use of cannabis does not have any adverse effect on mental or physical health;
cannabis is non-addictive, smoked, eaten, or taken as a beverage; cannabis does not induce physical or psychological dependence;
"psychosis" is not related to cannabis; pre-existing schizophrenia can occur in a cannabis using population;
no "amotivational syndrome"; "heavy use of ganja does not curtail the motivation to work" [original emphasis]. The contrary is concluded: cannabis has tonic effect, which is conducive to productive work and mental concentration;
investigating any possiblility of "linkage" as exists between alcohol, bad behaviour and/or crime: "No evidence of such causality appeared in the findings." In this context, the evidence is presented that cannabis has a positive influence producing beneficial results: i.e…
cannabis reduces and can preclude the use of drugs, thus mitigating their associated negative effects.
1 Note, Empirical: i.e. definitive clinical studies, human test subjects’ ‘hands-on’, actual use.
N.B. Such findings are replicated in the other official Empirical Studies. See below.
CLINICAL FINDINGS OF FACT.
The U.S. Judicial Review and other Official Studies show: 2
cannabis has unique health-promoting, and actually life-saving but prohibited applications in Health, Preventive and Curative;
cannabis has the unique enormous life-saving propensity of replacing or reducing use of addictive pathogens: alcohol, tobacco, opiates and other toxic drugs; i.e. use of cannabis comprises Preventive Measure/Preventive Medicine.
Nota Bene. Cannabis use thus is health-enhancing whether used by the sick or hale: all such use is medical. The arbitrary fictitious ‘distinction’ between ‘medical’ and ‘recreational’ use is a fallacious and profoundly damaging deception.
cannabis smoking is the only reliable countermeasure to glaucoma known to Man, consistently reducing intra-ocular pressure, dispelling glaucoma symptoms and saving eyesight;
restoring appetite to anorexic, ill, crucially wasting patients is another of many ways in which cannabis smoking saves lives;
the cannabis well-being effect uplifts the spirit, and is of greatest assistance in general health, and in medicine and convalescence.
cannabis alleviates and prevents stress-related, psychosomatically-induced adverse conditions;
cannabis is a health-promoting phenomenon Preventive of, and therapeutic in numerous slight or serious adverse conditions: e.g. menstruation pain and tension, headaches and migraine, asthma, fits, spasm from trauma or epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, back pain, pain from various disorders, pruritis, dermatitis, eczema, rheumatism, arthritis, etc. (the list continues and is extremely long 3). The herb ingested as smoke or as part of a normal healthy diet is prophylaxis, i.e. Preventive Medicine, preventing degeneration of the health of the hale.
Denial of cannabis by Prohibition ‘law’ premeditatedly inflicts suffering, blindness, and, in many instances, death. Those who maintain any use of life-saving cannabis to be "illegal" should be regarded and treated as perpetrators of the gravest of crimes, and deemed unfit to hold any public office in a democratic society.
2 See Parts Three, Four & Five of THE REPORT for attribution and details.
3 Cannabis is directly curative treatment for over 100 illnesses and adverse conditions. Additionally, cannabis is recommended and essential secondary ingredient with most other medication, due to the uplifting cannabis-effect of well-being. Notably, cannabis alleviates the grave ill-effects such as extreme emesis (nausea), headache, etc., which are induced by the toxic pharmaceutical drugs. Numerous Medical Case Histories demonstrate that only in conjunction with the smoking of cannabis are patients able to take these laboratory chemical pharmaceuticals. See THE REPORT, Parts One, Three, Four & Five.
FINDINGS OF FACT.
Reproduced and collated from the Data and Conclusions of the official Empirical Studies into long and short-term use and smoking of cannabis, the following are
THE FINDINGS OF FACT OF THE REPORT.
Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law.
Cannabis…
is not toxic in any possible quantity; i.e. is incapable itself of inducing fatality in a human;
is not addictive, physically or psychologically; i.e. does not induce physical or psychological dependence;
is not pathogenic, does not cause physical or mental deterioration, has no adverse effect on mental or physical health;
does not cause skill impairments (including driving tests);
is benign;
has no potential for abuse, or maltreatment of the user; cannabis has no potential for harm or danger;
does not cause crime;
does not lead to the use of drugs (i.e. toxic, addictive substances);
mitigates, reduces, and can preclude the use of drugs;
cannabis as Preventive Measure/Preventive Medicine is health-enhancing: all use of benign cannabis is medical, whether by the sick or hale: the fallacious arbitrary fictitious ‘distinction’ between ‘medical’ and ‘recreational’ use is exceedingly damaging.
Where cannabis is concerned, the legislation of its Prohibition:
is, in its entirety, without factual foundation;
is based on mendacity;
is itself illegal on numerous grounds by Common, Substantive and International Law;
is perjurious in prosecution; perjury by the state is both implicit and overt in every cannabis trial.
The acts of its enforcement are crime per se; people persecuted thereby qualify for Amnesty and Restitution (as for other Wrongful Penalisation);
the ignoring of these aforegoing Findings of Fact by courts and legislature is ex parte, the crude and criminal denial of Justice.
In its replacement of the use of drugs alcohol, tobacco, etc., by young people and adults, cannabis promotes health. All private cultivation, trade, possession and uses are vindicated.
In regard to cannabis, legislation of substance control is damaging both to individual and to society; all special regulatory control of cannabis produces negative, damaging and/or lethal results, and is per se unlawful.
Cannabis related prosecutions are legally malicious, i.e. premeditated crime against the person.
Cannabis Relegalisation is legally mandatory, that is: legislative amendment for the return to the normal status of cannabis which obtained before the introduction of any controls.
CONCLUSIONS & FINDINGS OF FACT
from U.S. government researchers’
Empirical 1 Studies:
short or long-term use of cannabis does not have any adverse effect on mental or physical health;
cannabis is non-addictive, smoked, eaten, or taken as a beverage; cannabis does not induce physical or psychological dependence;
"psychosis" is not related to cannabis; pre-existing schizophrenia can occur in a cannabis using population;
no "amotivational syndrome"; "heavy use of ganja does not curtail the motivation to work" [original emphasis]. The contrary is concluded: cannabis has tonic effect, which is conducive to productive work and mental concentration;
investigating any possiblility of "linkage" as exists between alcohol, bad behaviour and/or crime: "No evidence of such causality appeared in the findings." In this context, the evidence is presented that cannabis has a positive influence producing beneficial results: i.e…
cannabis reduces and can preclude the use of drugs, thus mitigating their associated negative effects.
1 Note, Empirical: i.e. definitive clinical studies, human test subjects’ ‘hands-on’, actual use.
N.B. Such findings are replicated in the other official Empirical Studies. See below.
CLINICAL FINDINGS OF FACT.
The U.S. Judicial Review and other Official Studies show: 2
cannabis has unique health-promoting, and actually life-saving but prohibited applications in Health, Preventive and Curative;
cannabis has the unique enormous life-saving propensity of replacing or reducing use of addictive pathogens: alcohol, tobacco, opiates and other toxic drugs; i.e. use of cannabis comprises Preventive Measure/Preventive Medicine.
Nota Bene. Cannabis use thus is health-enhancing whether used by the sick or hale: all such use is medical. The arbitrary fictitious ‘distinction’ between ‘medical’ and ‘recreational’ use is a fallacious and profoundly damaging deception.
cannabis smoking is the only reliable countermeasure to glaucoma known to Man, consistently reducing intra-ocular pressure, dispelling glaucoma symptoms and saving eyesight;
restoring appetite to anorexic, ill, crucially wasting patients is another of many ways in which cannabis smoking saves lives;
the cannabis well-being effect uplifts the spirit, and is of greatest assistance in general health, and in medicine and convalescence.
cannabis alleviates and prevents stress-related, psychosomatically-induced adverse conditions;
cannabis is a health-promoting phenomenon Preventive of, and therapeutic in numerous slight or serious adverse conditions: e.g. menstruation pain and tension, headaches and migraine, asthma, fits, spasm from trauma or epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, back pain, pain from various disorders, pruritis, dermatitis, eczema, rheumatism, arthritis, etc. (the list continues and is extremely long 3). The herb ingested as smoke or as part of a normal healthy diet is prophylaxis, i.e. Preventive Medicine, preventing degeneration of the health of the hale.
Denial of cannabis by Prohibition ‘law’ premeditatedly inflicts suffering, blindness, and, in many instances, death. Those who maintain any use of life-saving cannabis to be "illegal" should be regarded and treated as perpetrators of the gravest of crimes, and deemed unfit to hold any public office in a democratic society.
2 See Parts Three, Four & Five of THE REPORT for attribution and details.
3 Cannabis is directly curative treatment for over 100 illnesses and adverse conditions. Additionally, cannabis is recommended and essential secondary ingredient with most other medication, due to the uplifting cannabis-effect of well-being. Notably, cannabis alleviates the grave ill-effects such as extreme emesis (nausea), headache, etc., which are induced by the toxic pharmaceutical drugs. Numerous Medical Case Histories demonstrate that only in conjunction with the smoking of cannabis are patients able to take these laboratory chemical pharmaceuticals. See THE REPORT, Parts One, Three, Four & Five.
FINDINGS OF FACT.
Reproduced and collated from the Data and Conclusions of the official Empirical Studies into long and short-term use and smoking of cannabis, the following are
THE FINDINGS OF FACT OF THE REPORT.
Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law.
Cannabis…
is not toxic in any possible quantity; i.e. is incapable itself of inducing fatality in a human;
is not addictive, physically or psychologically; i.e. does not induce physical or psychological dependence;
is not pathogenic, does not cause physical or mental deterioration, has no adverse effect on mental or physical health;
does not cause skill impairments (including driving tests);
is benign;
has no potential for abuse, or maltreatment of the user; cannabis has no potential for harm or danger;
does not cause crime;
does not lead to the use of drugs (i.e. toxic, addictive substances);
mitigates, reduces, and can preclude the use of drugs;
cannabis as Preventive Measure/Preventive Medicine is health-enhancing: all use of benign cannabis is medical, whether by the sick or hale: the fallacious arbitrary fictitious ‘distinction’ between ‘medical’ and ‘recreational’ use is exceedingly damaging.
Where cannabis is concerned, the legislation of its Prohibition:
is, in its entirety, without factual foundation;
is based on mendacity;
is itself illegal on numerous grounds by Common, Substantive and International Law;
is perjurious in prosecution; perjury by the state is both implicit and overt in every cannabis trial.
The acts of its enforcement are crime per se; people persecuted thereby qualify for Amnesty and Restitution (as for other Wrongful Penalisation);
the ignoring of these aforegoing Findings of Fact by courts and legislature is ex parte, the crude and criminal denial of Justice.
In its replacement of the use of drugs alcohol, tobacco, etc., by young people and adults, cannabis promotes health. All private cultivation, trade, possession and uses are vindicated.
In regard to cannabis, legislation of substance control is damaging both to individual and to society; all special regulatory control of cannabis produces negative, damaging and/or lethal results, and is per se unlawful.
Cannabis related prosecutions are legally malicious, i.e. premeditated crime against the person.
Cannabis Relegalisation is legally mandatory, that is: legislative amendment for the return to the normal status of cannabis which obtained before the introduction of any controls.
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-moderate use can help prevent cardiovascular diseases
-cirrhosis of the liver
-stomach bleeding(Gastritis)
-inflammation of the pancreas
-Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (brain damage)
-linked to psychiatric disorders
-fetal alcohol syndrome
-premature dementia
-memory loss
-hypertension
-blackout
-cancer of the mouth and throat
-sexual problems
-infection of the esophagus
-sleeping disorders
-fatty degeneration of the liver
not to mention what actions someone may take while under the influence of alcohol
-moderate use can help prevent cardiovascular diseases
-cirrhosis of the liver
-stomach bleeding(Gastritis)
-inflammation of the pancreas
-Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (brain damage)
-linked to psychiatric disorders
-fetal alcohol syndrome
-premature dementia
-memory loss
-hypertension
-blackout
-cancer of the mouth and throat
-sexual problems
-infection of the esophagus
-sleeping disorders
-fatty degeneration of the liver
not to mention what actions someone may take while under the influence of alcohol
A little known fact here: The constitution originally had in it that every citizen could use any drug they wanted in essence allowing one person to own their own blood stream. The billions of dollars spent on the war on drugs could be put to a use that would improve the world. It won't happen though because we have too many people that have no other skill than controlling others through force fueled by the mutual admiration club of moral superiortity legislated.