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Printablesuperspaceboy said: Electrostar said: because pot makes you think in an alternative way to the way you have been brainwashed. Government dont want people thinking in ways other than the way they dictate. [Edited 6/7/05 10:19am] Well I suppose. I was talking more along the lines of the Gov't has almost no way of making money off of it. I mean when Liquor companies are paying tons of money to keep it off the market...it's almost a cash cow keeping it illegal. ANd because it's quite common, you can jail more people for it...keeping your prisons stocked and police busy. Bingo!  | |
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AzureStarr said: jerseykrs said: you are so much more attractive when you ramble like this!!!  I popped you today, and got nothing in return. I feel used. | |
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jerseykrs said: AzureStarr said: I popped you today, and got nothing in return. I feel used. Sometimes my pop's work, other times they don't. Lately they have been, so probably you pop'd me as I was logging out. I didn't get any. And, iffin' I was gonna use you, I wouldn't use you by ignoring a pop. :p | |
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gemini13 said: superspaceboy said: Well I suppose. I was talking more along the lines of the Gov't has almost no way of making money off of it. I mean when Liquor companies are paying tons of money to keep it off the market...it's almost a cash cow keeping it illegal. ANd because it's quite common, you can jail more people for it...keeping your prisons stocked and police busy. Bingo! Damn, I didn't even see this. A lot of it does boil down to money. Go with the cash cow that kills so many people each day, either by drunk driving/suicide/liver disease, the list goes on, but makes money all the way around... instead of legalizing a natural substance that will aid pain and mellow one out. But, like you said, where's the money in it? I've gotta go watch Chucky and mellow out...  | |
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JoeyMFinCoco said: Eating is fine, but how much of the active substance will actually survive the first pass through your liver and subsequently, what are the effects on the liver? Other than that illegal cannabis is cultivated to have high levels of THC to give people that nice high, but cannabis for medical use is different. It's not THC which relieves pain. So I feel they should allow pharmaceutical companies to grow cannabis for medical use (after proper research of course).
THC's are the only active ingredients in cannabis. It's THC's which cause us to get high, and so I assume it is also what relieves pain. So if it's not the THC what is it ? As far as medical research is concerned, it's been done before, for years, ad nauseum. The World Health Organisation had established years ago that cannabis is a benign substance with many potential medical applications. It is documented as being widely used by many cultures for 1000's of years with no ill effects. Much of the modern medical research tends to be government sponsored with the specific aim of finding something harmful about it. I have yet to see one single report claiming that cannabis has harmful effects, that wasn't susbsequently dismissed by unbiased medical research carried out by NGO's (such as the WHO). The real reason for the continual treatment of cannabis as a 'narcotic' is so that it remains 'bad' in the eyes of the general public, thus we will never become aware of the actual potential of the cannabis plant, which goes far beyond recreation and pain relief. Think oil, think paper, think plastic..... Lemmy, Bowie, Prince, Leonard. RIP. |
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