He didn't get his facts straight, he quoted his opinion as fact, he never cited sources for facts, he used lots of slang words for pot all throughout the piece,
he switches his position (as in first person and third person),
an example of this is
having done something yourself and warning people against it doesn't make you a hypocrite, it's makes you informed about what you;re talking about.
personally if an ex heroin addict stood in front of me saying that heroin is bad, I'd take his view over someone arriving from the local police saying that drugs are bad. because he's been there and he knows why he started using, what happens when you;re taking the drugs, and how he got off of the drugs and how it affected his life.
[quoteA person can become chemically dependent on the drug but that is radically different than an addiction.[/quote]
firstly, I'd say that the first quote is BS, and the second quote... ummm being dependant on something is really a cause of addiction.
alcoholics can become chemically dependant on a substance, and in this case basically just stopping and going cold turkey can actually harm the body as you upset the chemical balance, i.e your body needs the drug to function in a normal state as it's so used to compensating for a foreign chemical/drug that it can't cope without the foreign chemical/drug
secondly, anyone who has smoked pot for a long time with their friends will tell you that pot most certainly is addictive, not that your body can't cope without it, (at least I've never found that) -though this guy claims that studies prove that you can develop this kind of addiction!). but that you find that you become psychologically addicted to it. and you just can't stop. you just always somewhere inside really feel a bit of a need for a joint,
The same as smoking really, Having smoked and given up, (though I smoke again now), I found that when I gave up [which was for a few years] I'd always find myself in certain situations feeling like I should be smoking, like when waiting for a bus of a train. times when previously I'd have smoked whilst waiting for something else to happen, it wasn't a constant craving of a chemical dependency or physical addiction, it was pure psychology, as soon as I was on said bus/train I wasn't in a place where I'd usually smoke and wouldn't feel the need to smoke. this has always been true, whenever I wait for a bus I feel like I should be smoking, because having a smoke whilst waiting for a bus is just a habit I got into.
earlier he talks about 11 presidents who supported hemp growth...
well...
hemp is different from marijuana, not least because it contains such negligible amounts of THC that you really couldn't get high from it. it's the difference between growing red poppies and white poppies.
what the hell is that? ou think you;re writing a serious essay there mate?
perhaps I should quote what came before that.
I agree that 182 of 5 1.4 mil isn't a large amount and possibly not statistically significant.
however, if this study was completely random then it more likely does more to show how prevalent pot use is, and that it possibly is dangerous.
he says that pot stays in the system for more than 2 weeks, (again no citation for study). but he fails to take into account the concentration. -and if there were no figures of concentration found then he should attacked the study differently, or abandoned the study as useless for his cause.
next he goes on to talke about legal pot pills (marinol).
that's fine, cause it's not the actual leaf that gets you high, it's the chemicals in that leaf and how they interact with your body, why would it matter if those chemicals are natural or synthesised?
so much shit here...
firstly, hard to obtain a prescription...
well yes, just like to obtain a prozac prescription I need to be depressed and have been seen by councellors.
to get a methadone prescription I'd have to be a heroin addict...
so yes, to be prescribed any drug there is usually a process to go through.
so that's the first part rubbished, it's no more difficult to get a prescription for this drug than it is for any other -you still have to meet criteria...
and the second part, still pretty shoddy, personal opinion not backed up with fact yet presented as fact, another change in perspective, (1st person from 3rd person). the fact that one of the criteria for getting a prescription is you may be a cancer patient, i don't know how many lung cancer patients are going to want to smoke pot. I'm guessing not that many.
firstly, no, that's not interesting, and secondly, the disease isn't treated by the drug, secondary symptoms of the disease and associated treatments for the disease are alleviated with the use of pot, or chemically similar substances.
pot is used for treating the pain and muscle discomfort associated with MS, and mood disorders, I don't think that there is a vast amount of clinical research for this, certainly he hasn't cited any.
FFS, alcohol is a depressant, yes.
pot is a depressant,
depressant doesn't mean that it affects you and makes you miserable, it means that it depresses the bodies systems. mild stress is routinely treated with alcohol everyday -had a hard day at work, get home and crack open a beer. just the same as you can get home and have a joint.
after working a shit day yesterday, (working about 9 hours 8am - 5pm, not bothering to stop for lunch, then doing a further four hours overtime at a client site, followed by a 2 hour tube and bus ride home (getting from London to Oxford) I got home and treated my stress with a bucket of KFC.
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