Posted by Lou Pilder on August 18, 2003, at 20:47:43
Dr. Bob,
The following posters are portrying that they use marijuana, AKA, MJ.
I am asking you to determine if their posts violate the code that you have established here, for you write,[...this site should not be used to facilitate any illegal activities...].
Now I belive that if those posts in question are not admonished, that you could give rise to the potential for some to think that you indorse the use of MJ. Also, I believe that psychiatry in accordance with the manual of diagnosis does not advocate the use of MJ and has a diagnostic referrence to those that use MJ.
Next, I believe that this site should be the exempler to those that visit it and I belive that for this site to just leave those posts in question visible without comment from the moderator, that our young people will be led to belive that MJ is OK to use when the diagnostic manual lists the use of such.
And there is great evidence that MJ is a very harmful drug , moreso today than 5000 years ago when the Greeks and Sumarians and others inhaled hemp fumes. There is great evidence that the use of MJ deminishes one's inteligence and makes their thinking distorted. There is great evidence that this drug causes problems that mental health people do not need and should not be used in conjunction with any drugs that are prescribed to a mental health person.
MJ is illegal in most jurisdictions, with some European countries exempt. MJ use in some Islamic countries could result in harsh prison terms or worse. Students caught with MJ in schools could face expulsion with a potentual loss of a year's education and in some cases a criminal record as a juvenile.
I belive that the use of MJ here is not sanctioned by the medical and psychiatric communites and that the intergrity of the board has the potential to be jepordised if the moderator does not enforce the rules, which is to not allow the board to be used to facilitate any illegal activity. For if the rules of the community's code are to matter at all, the one that is to enforce the rules should obey them. If not, I feel that we would have a community of men, not the code, and their individual whims and predudices.
Lou Pilder
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