Posted by Okpolosi on April 26, 2003, at 11:08:31
In reply to Re: true, but....., posted by Okpolosi on April 26, 2003, at 10:33:33
> > It can cause Paranoia and other psychotic sx in normal individuals. You are correct, psychosis has to be latent for it to cause that but many temporary effects of pot are deleterious in addition to inducing temporary psychotic sx - ie, apathy, depression.
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> > I am adverse to all illicit substances. They are illicit for good reasons, IMO.
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> > Ace.
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> Then why are tabacco and alcohol NOT illicit??? These are 2 of the worst DRUGS!!!!This is not a personal jab at you, Ace, Just a rehtorical question I have for the powers that be!!! I can NOT understand the HYPOCRACY involved here....just because Tabacco and Alcohol have big money lobbies they are allowed to pollute our youth with their poisons, which should all be lumped together with cocaine, morphine, heroin, speed, meth, ect.
The U.S. is now the country with the LARGEST PERCENTAGE of it's population behind bars!!!! If we took all the people out who are in jail for drugs and put them into drug treatment programs where they belong, there would be enough room in jail for all the CRIMINALS.
Then if you go one step further and legalize Pot and TAX it and REGULATE it like you do for tabacco and alcohol, you could PAY for all those drug treatment programs to get these people OFF of these terrible drugs.
One last point...HEMP can be used to make PAPER (and rope and clothes and a number of other useful products)...so instead of whacking down all our trees, we could cultivate hemp (which would give you a BIG headache if you tried to smoke it, and you WOULD NOT get high either) to produce the mountains of paper we use and abuse every day and SAVE THE TREES!!!!
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