Story Here.
When the average person picks up a paper or opens there favorite news site I doubt they read much more than the headline for most stories. I would image they would click on a few a read through them but for the most part my guess is they skim and soak up what they can. So when someone sees a headline like "Cannabis Bigger Cancer Risk Than Cigarettes" or "Smoking One Joint is Equivalent to 20 Cigarettes, Study Says" its easy to see why people who don't smoke and don't have an interest in marijuana have such a distorted view of it.
I would just like to give you this quote from the above story.
"For those who actually bothered to read the study's full text, which appeared in the European Respiratory Journal days after the global feeding frenzy had ended, they would have learned the following. Among the 79 lung cancer subjects who participated in the trial, 70 of them smoked tobacco. These individuals, not surprisingly, experienced a seven-times greater risk of being diagnosed with lung cancer compared to tobacco-free controls. As for the subjects in the study who reported having used cannabis, they -- on average -- experienced no statistically significant increased cancer risk compared to non-using controls."
Now I don't know about you but I don't really think a sample group of 79 is big enough to support any findings, pro or con for marijuana.
Why does the media feels such a need to throw stories out without even the slightest of fact checking? If the media were writing an essay I can sure as hell tell you they would get it back with a big note on the front that said "Check Souces, Rewrite" But thats the problem with todays media no one cares about facts they care about readers and the fact of the matter is that a headline like "Experts Warn of Cannabis Cancer 'Epidemic." sells more papers.
Its time for the people of this country to stop letting everyone tell them what to think and really start to create some thoughts of there own.
Maybe they just need a bowl to get the juices flowing.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Record Arrest Despite New Laws
Story Here.
Well reading the latest news out of Denver I was not surprised to see a story like this. Once again the people have spoken out, they have come out of there houses and come out of the back rooms (red eyed as they may be) and really changed things.
Until the police decide they didn't want to stop arresting pot smokers. The city of Denver has now voted not once but twice to try and give people on both sides a break. Pot smokers can keep toking and cops can keep busting people for real crimes. But the cops must have smoked the wrong bag because they continue to arrest people for simple possession.
This is not your drug ring leader who (if he's smart) could never be tied to even touching marijuana, this isn't even your casual user who sells to friends so he doesn't have to pay. This is everyday users who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Think about this you come home from a long day of work walk to your bar and pour yourself a large glass of booze and sit down to relax. But a large police officer kicks in your door and arrest you for illegal possession an "intoxicating liquor" welcome to the 1930's.
The fact of the matter is that anything can be made illegal if you shine the right rose colored light on too it. I could name off the top of my head 10 things that are legal that kill more people every year then marijuana yet as a "free" American I'm not allowed to make up my own mind about what i want to put in my body.
Novocain = cocaine
Oxycontin = Heroin
Oxycontin is nothing but man made heroin that you take as a pill instead of inject yet I hear no calls for it to be outlawed. You can kill your self with water faster than you could kill yourself with THC yet i sit here enjoying a tall glass of water with no fear of death.
We have been told for so long that marijuana will hurt or that it will be the downfall of the world as we know it. News Flash everyone who wants to smoke marijuana is going to anyway. There is no reason why they shouldn't be able to stop at a shop and buy legal marijuana the same way I can walk down the street and buy (taxed) liquor.
The only thing we are doing by keeping marijuana illegal is fill the pockets of criminals who see how much money there is to be made and fill our prisons with non-violent criminals who in another world would happily be paying taxes on something they find enjoyable.
Well reading the latest news out of Denver I was not surprised to see a story like this. Once again the people have spoken out, they have come out of there houses and come out of the back rooms (red eyed as they may be) and really changed things.
Until the police decide they didn't want to stop arresting pot smokers. The city of Denver has now voted not once but twice to try and give people on both sides a break. Pot smokers can keep toking and cops can keep busting people for real crimes. But the cops must have smoked the wrong bag because they continue to arrest people for simple possession.
This is not your drug ring leader who (if he's smart) could never be tied to even touching marijuana, this isn't even your casual user who sells to friends so he doesn't have to pay. This is everyday users who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Think about this you come home from a long day of work walk to your bar and pour yourself a large glass of booze and sit down to relax. But a large police officer kicks in your door and arrest you for illegal possession an "intoxicating liquor" welcome to the 1930's.
The fact of the matter is that anything can be made illegal if you shine the right rose colored light on too it. I could name off the top of my head 10 things that are legal that kill more people every year then marijuana yet as a "free" American I'm not allowed to make up my own mind about what i want to put in my body.
Novocain = cocaine
Oxycontin = Heroin
Oxycontin is nothing but man made heroin that you take as a pill instead of inject yet I hear no calls for it to be outlawed. You can kill your self with water faster than you could kill yourself with THC yet i sit here enjoying a tall glass of water with no fear of death.
We have been told for so long that marijuana will hurt or that it will be the downfall of the world as we know it. News Flash everyone who wants to smoke marijuana is going to anyway. There is no reason why they shouldn't be able to stop at a shop and buy legal marijuana the same way I can walk down the street and buy (taxed) liquor.
The only thing we are doing by keeping marijuana illegal is fill the pockets of criminals who see how much money there is to be made and fill our prisons with non-violent criminals who in another world would happily be paying taxes on something they find enjoyable.
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