Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 05/03/06 2:43 pm:
Elliot,
There probably will be more idiots getting popped for forgetting what they're carrying, idiots kinda like this guy.
Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 05/03/06 2:50 pm:
Hello again:
See what happens when you smoke that sh*t? You can't tell the clairification button from the answer button.
By the way, what was the question???
excon
Clarification/Follow-up by Esculapiusiam on 05/03/06 6:14 pm:
To Itsdb, Very funny, Thank you! LOL
Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 05/04/06 12:58 pm:
Excon,
>>>How could it be legalized illegally?<<<
Same way that alchohol was legalized after prohibition: everyone just ignored the law and served liquor anyway until the government threw up its hands and gave up. That's an illegal form of making it legal, and people are trying to do it again with drugs.
>>>Your source? <<<
The 50 or so marajuana addicts that I know. They were also told that it wasn't addictive, and found out the hard way that it was.
Also, according to Marajuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base, Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and
John A. Benson, Jr., Editors,
Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE, NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS, Washington, D.C., 1999, approximately 10% of those who try marajuana become addicted. This is lower than for alchohol, tobacco, cocaine and heroine, but marajuana is still addictive.
And the health consequences are deeper than you would imagine. Marijuana use has pronounced effects on mood, psychomotor, and cognitive functions. It was also associated with a gradual waning of the positive mood and social facilitating effects of marijuana and an increase in irritability, social isolation, and paranoid thinking. Recent studies have found subtle defects in cognitive tasks in heavy marijuana users after a brief period (19—24 hours) of marijuana abstinence. Longer term cognitive deficits in heavy marijuana users have also been reported. A number of animal studies have revealed respiratory tract changes and diseases associated with marijuana smoking, but others have not. Extensive damage to the smaller airways, which are the major site of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and acute and chronic pneumonia have been observed in various species exposed to different doses of marijuana smoke. Results of human studies suggest that there is a greater chance of respiratory illness in people who smoke marijuana. Results of several case series suggest that marijuana might play a role in the development of human respiratory cancer. Reports indicate an unexpectedly large proportion of marijuana users among people with lung cancer and cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract--that is, the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus--that occur before the age of 45. Marijuana smoke and oral THC can cause tachycardia (rapid heart beat) in humans, 20—100% above baseline.
>>>What is a marijuana related crime, besides of course, possession or the sale of it? <<<
That isn't enough?
Elliot
