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While We’re Talking Pot…
Saturday, October 4th, 2003I was doing some web surfing on the ONDCP homepage and I came upon this. It’s the “Drug Facts Page” for marijuana, and it has just about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on it. Under the “Consequences” heading is the following:
Marijuana abuse is associated with many detrimental health effects. These effects can include frequent respiratory infections, impaired memory and learning, increased heart rate, anxiety, panic attacks and tolerance.
We must stop marijuana use now lest tolerance run rampant in America.
They left out the tendency towards late-night burrito runs and the loss of ability to discern which TV shows are worth watching.
Of course, the tolerance to which they refer is what ultimately got me to stop smoking it…it just wasn’t working the way it used to…(sigh)…
Mr. Butler said the book proposal had erroneously dropped a few words from a quotation attributed to Mr. Schwarzenegger. According to Mr. Butler’s reading of the transcript, Mr. Schwarzenegger followed his comments about Hitler’s public speaking by adding, “But I didn’t admire him for what he did with it.” He did not say, “I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it,” as he was quoted in the book proposal and in early editions of The Times.
Mr. Butler said he could not explain the inaccuracy. “I am amazed that something like that escaped me.”
Mr. Butler also read other sentences of the transcript, spoken in Mr. Schwarzenegger’s then-imperfect English, that related to the subject. “Yes, in Germany they used power and authority but it was used in the wrong way,” Mr. Schwarzenegger said, according to Mr. Butler. “But it was misused on the power. First, it started having, I mean, getting Germany out of the great recession and having everybody jobs and so on and then it was just misused. And they said, let’s take this country, and so on.” Mr. Schwarzenegger concluded: “That’s bad.”
but the lofty ethics bores of American journalism apparently have no problem with opening up their front page for anonymous one-sided accusations of ancient improper advances. In that case, did I mention the time Gray Davis grabbed me by the crotch and whispered in my ear: “Have you ever had a man tax you up the wazoo?” Or, if the issue is the violent grabbing of anonymous women, how about this? “He just went into one of his rants of, `F— the f—ing f—, f—, f—!’ He grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me until my teeth rattled. I was so stunned I said, `Good God, Gray! Think what you are doing to me!’ And he just could not stop.” That’s a former staffer of Davis, as reported by Jill Stewart in New Times LA in 1997.
While I think drug prohibition should be ended as well, what about laws pertaining to operating under the influence of it? Inherently I believe OUI laws are good, because some people take usage too far. Still the continual dipping down of the blood alcohol level makes me wonder what the laws are there for the in the first place. Should all OUI charges be under some spectrum of reckless driving laws? Or can OUI laws still be made to work?
wiffffffffffft……………………………..eer!
The government doesnt whant us to smoke weed because whil we are high we think about things in more depth than we normaly would.
the gov whants to controle our thought with the crap they put on TV. I f we arehigh (like I am right now), then we will laugh at their crap and not take it sereosely.
Dont you get it???
why do you think that a pot grower does more time in prison than a child molester?
FIGHTING TERRORISM & TOLERANCE
Over at Radleyâ??s place, Brookeâ??s found the true purpose of the ONDCP: fighting against the rampant tolerance thatâ??s sweeping across the land. I had always assumed the drug warriorsâ?? purpose was a sort-of price support for the networks, driving up…
I’feeling pretty tolerant too Paul…I started smoking and have become less tolerant with politics though…
I’M NOT A FAN OF MARIJUANA . . .
But I definitely think that certain attempts to campaign against its use are ridiculous beyond measure….
I think you have a situation where propaganda has run its course. DUI laws are extremely strict as they are now. You can’t drop the blood/alcohol content any lower. Still, like all other government funded organizations, they can’t give up that government funding, now can they? Gotta turn the corner and go after something else. I love the commercials out here in CA. Perhaps you guys get this one too… It says, “One in three people involved in an accident tested positive for Marijuana. I guess it’s more harmful than we all thought”. I laugh every time I hear it. Marijuana, or THC, rather, stays in the system for 30 days. They didn’t mention that, though, did they?
SH
so confused at this moment… doesnt everyone think marijuana should be legalized by now?!! i mean drinking is more serious then getting high, drinking causes people to get violent and too horny! but when you smoke refeers you just become tired, and more deep in thinking, i mean i passed my f***ing test in school that i was freaking out about, well not after i got some refeer, that shit makes you more out spoken and shit!