Bullshit on CNN just now about marijuana

[panader0]

They had some idiot on with Heidi Collins saying that marijuana potency is up 175%, usage up 475%, trips the the ER up 130%.
That marijuana is very addictive. That marijuana causes all kinds of physical and mental problems. Bullshit. The stuff she was spouting flies in the face of the governments own studies.

[boobooday]

1. usage up 475%! You know what that means?

She was stoned!

[MNDemNY]

4. That's crap, my usage is way down over that time period.

[ixion]

2. yep, you said it... flies in the face of science as well

Marijuana is a hallucinogen, and therefore non-addictive and non-toxic. That is, you cannot become addicted, nor can you die from the act of smoking pot.

[Wizard777]

11. It's actually a hypnotic. THC is a hallucinogenic. But CBD is a sedative.

When you put the two together you get a hypnotic.

[here_is_to_hope]

3. French Toast!

er....yeah.


They have been doing this for years.
I wish I had a time machine cuz the shit they grow in 2025 cures life itself.

[SteppingRazor]

9. the shit they grow in 2025 cures life itself? Um ... sooo...

The weed in 2025 kills you? :crazy:

[Wizard777]

16. In the presence of immortality. Life becomes a Disease with a 100% fatality rate.

Once you have the disease of life. It's not a matter of if you are going to die. Only when.

[SteppingRazor]

23. Thanks, Siddhartha

:eyes:

[patrice]

25. Life and Death are words we made up and so is Disease, for that matter. nt

[Canuckistanian]

5. Trips to the ER? For what?

Injuring yourself running to the fridge?

[boobooday]

6. Dorito Injuries

Those corners can be sharp.

[Bandit]

14. Well it is well documented what a Pretzel can do to a pResident.

:shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

12. ...for excess sanity

since all the republicons are doped up on Ambien, Zoloft, Viagra, and Genetically Mutant, chemically-drenched 'food' facsimile substance products, and are as a perverse consequence opposed to all things offered by nature.

[Z_I_Peevey]

13. Maybe its just that one cop and his wife, going back

over and over and over and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IoCGpP1FSM

[Wizard777]

27. Mommy figures out lil Johnny is stoned. So she rushes him to the emergency room for the antidote.

Of course THC is a hallucinogenic. So some people will have to go to the emergency room to inform a doctor that their hair hurts and he needs to make it stop right now. They also need a nurse to help them figure out why it is that you can brush your teeth. But you can't comb them. Oh yeah, we get some really good stuff around here.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. A friend of mine once choked

while trying to swallow a whole bag of Pepperidge Farm Stuffing.

It wasn't pretty, but he didn't need to go to the emergency room.

Then we found some frozen brownies.

[gatorboy]

7. Potency is up 175%

That must've been some weak shit back in the day. :P

[Wizard777]

29. Not really. It did the trick. You can't know any better until better comes along.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

31. It worked, and it was lovely

But the stuff today is really much more potent.

[patrice]

8. The young people in my Family are smoking pot less and drinking more alcohol. nt

[SteppingRazor]

10. Most of the people I know are smoking weed less and popping more pills n/t

[patrice]

17. Yep. Leading the way to pill "heaven" are probably those who never smoked pot at all.

Now, wouldn't THAT be some interesting research to do.

[SteppingRazor]

24. I think most of it just comes down to ready availability.

We've reached a point where legal prescription painkillers are easier to get than illegal drugs, and also provide a better high (at least until tolerance levels get too high)

[thecrow]

32. Actually, Florida just did do research on drug use

...and they found that there were many more deaths due to prescription drugs that "illegal" drugs.
But ZERO deaths from smoking pot :)

I posted it GD or LBN in the last week or two.

EDIT: Oh and about potency of pot.... they said users tend to adjust the amount smoked, so themore potent pot of today is smoked in lesser quantities!

[gatorboy]

18. Talk about a fucking travesty. Those pain pills are the real problem.

If only because doctors prescribe them like they're candy. I've heard of junkies purposely wrecking their vehicles just to get a batch a doctor is more than happy to oblige them.

[jojo54]

15. I wish I could quit smoking cigs as easily as I quit pot !!!

Don't tell me it's highly addictive, idiot (meaning the idiot on tv with this Heidi Collins)!!! I quit smoking pot 17 years ago, but I'm STILL smoking cigarettes.

So, whoever wants to try to make that tired old case about pot being highly addictive, talk to the hand cause the mind is saying "BULLSHIT".

[patrice]

22. All of the Boomers in my Family can testify to how easy it is to quit pot..

Some of us didn't replace it with alcohol either. Though the one who are booze hounds in our midst are as addicted as ever.

[glowing]

19. Because most people want marijauna to be legal.. most think its stupid

to be on their class 1 list... and of course the pharmacies would lose on their big profits when people didn't need half or their drugs.. when a weed would suffice just nicely.

[EOTE]

20. Grrrrr. Where's the mention of self-titration.

Unless everyone is getting their hands on true one-hit-shit, an increase in potency is unequivocally a good thing. People self-titrate when smoking marijuana. No one starts smoking a spliff, finishes half of it and says to themselves: "Holy crap, I'm really more fucked up than I should be. However, I've got a full half spliff remaining, seeing as I can't put said spliff out, I guess I need to finish it." That's just like suggesting that hard liquor is so much more dangerous than beer. Well, people will drink several beers in a night, but how often do you see people helping themselves to 36 ounces of scotch? The stronger the bud, the less people smoke of it. The less you smoke, the less tar you inhale and the healthier you are. I have not heard a single argument as to why marijuana with a higher THC content is not a good thing. Just more stupid BS propaganda.

[spanone]

21. i'd like to see the facts of how many people go to the ER for smoking pot. that;s laughable

[SteppingRazor]

26. The stats the gov't uses are for anyone with any THC in their system who arrives in an ER...

for any reason. Sort of like how any accident involving drinking -- even if the drunk isn't the one at fault -- is an "alcohol-related accident" according to MADD.

[endarkenment]

28. Here you go.

http://www.drugscience.org/pfa/pfa_ER.html

Note that a huge number of the ER 'mentions' for pot result in ambulatory care (no admission - they walk out) and are sent to the ER to begin with by the cops. The drugs with real medical issues have order-of-magnitude differences in mention rates, are rarely sent to the ER by the cops, and have a far lower ambulatory treatment rate.

In other words, it is all bullshit of course. Too bad the stats linked don't include booze and cigs in those numbers, just as a control on what we allow and don't allow and relative harm. of course the ER stats for mention of alcohol and tobacco would be huge, astoundingly huge.