2008 Woodie Awards
The debate over marijuana use goes on
Donny Van Sloten
Issue date: 10/11/06 Section: Opinion
Marijuana is said to be evil; however it's used heavily among adults today. How evil is marijuana really? When was the last time you heard of a murder, robbery assault, or suicide caused by smoking Marijuana?
According to Former U.S Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders M.D, taken from www.ProCon.org, overwhelming evidence shows that Marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS. Marijuana is also less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.
Pot is nothing compared to other drugs. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana. That's the least I can say for the other drugs out there. Pot isn't a gateway drug.
Marijuana causes almost no increase in tolerance. So users don't normally get bored and look for something more powerful. In fact, according to www.faqs.org, researchers are looking into using marijuana to help crack addicts quit.
Nicotine from cigarettes is more addicting then pot and deadlier too. I don't know of any cases of lung cancer resulting from marijuana use alone ever being documented. Marijuana makes you relax, which improves your health and well-being
Alcohol is a much more devastating drug. I know people who drink and I also know people who smoke pot. Drinking takes a hold of some one in a more devastating way then pot ever will. Why not put the same laws on pot that drinking already has?
Government experts have admitted that pot doesn't kill brain cells. According to www.freedomactivist.net, Dr. William Slikker, of the National Center for Toxicological found no evidence of physical alteration in the brains of monkeys exposed to daily doses of pot for up to a year.
Human studies of heavy users in Jamaica and Costa Rica found no evidence of abnormalities in brain physiology.
Newer studies show that marijuana does not impair simple, real-world memory process. Why does marijuana get so much criticism?
According to www.freerepublic.com, in Chinese antiquity, cannabis was known as the "delight giver" and the "liberator of sin."
In my mind Marijuana isn't as evil as it's hyped up to be. Smokers are going to smoke pot regardless; its stupid why put more people in over populated prisons just for smoking pot?
According to Former U.S Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders M.D, taken from www.ProCon.org, overwhelming evidence shows that Marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS. Marijuana is also less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.
Pot is nothing compared to other drugs. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana. That's the least I can say for the other drugs out there. Pot isn't a gateway drug.
Marijuana causes almost no increase in tolerance. So users don't normally get bored and look for something more powerful. In fact, according to www.faqs.org, researchers are looking into using marijuana to help crack addicts quit.
Nicotine from cigarettes is more addicting then pot and deadlier too. I don't know of any cases of lung cancer resulting from marijuana use alone ever being documented. Marijuana makes you relax, which improves your health and well-being
Alcohol is a much more devastating drug. I know people who drink and I also know people who smoke pot. Drinking takes a hold of some one in a more devastating way then pot ever will. Why not put the same laws on pot that drinking already has?
Government experts have admitted that pot doesn't kill brain cells. According to www.freedomactivist.net, Dr. William Slikker, of the National Center for Toxicological found no evidence of physical alteration in the brains of monkeys exposed to daily doses of pot for up to a year.
Human studies of heavy users in Jamaica and Costa Rica found no evidence of abnormalities in brain physiology.
Newer studies show that marijuana does not impair simple, real-world memory process. Why does marijuana get so much criticism?
According to www.freerepublic.com, in Chinese antiquity, cannabis was known as the "delight giver" and the "liberator of sin."
In my mind Marijuana isn't as evil as it's hyped up to be. Smokers are going to smoke pot regardless; its stupid why put more people in over populated prisons just for smoking pot?
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Whitney
posted 11/25/07 @ 12:06 PM PST
Nobody has ever died from smoking Marijuana? Why don't you properly research your facts pal.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/marijuana/index. (Continued…)
Danny
posted 12/20/07 @ 8:20 PM PST
You can not overdose on Marijuana it is impossible. The fact that people had Marijuana in their systems during serious injury or death doesn't necessarily mean that they had smoked that day let alone that week. (Continued…)
Drug treatment
posted 6/11/08 @ 10:36 AM PST
The old endless marijuana debate. Every time something related to the subject happens we start it all over again and talk about pro and contra medical marijuana. (Continued…)
gregsimpson76
Drug Rehab Program
posted 7/30/08 @ 11:26 AM PST
Marijuana is criticized for the lack of motivation it produces in individuals. Many people who smoke marijuana never live up to their full potential. They become content with their place in life and smoke as a way to avoid being "bored. (Continued…)
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