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John Hill of the University chapter of Georgia's National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) proposed new legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the Athens City Council meeting Tuesday night. The group collected more than 2,000 signatures in favor of the proposed legislation, which the University chapter presented at the meeting....
Originally posted byJoe
Haha. The proof is all there. Here's a photo of Mr. Lead Pothead right here, with ragged face, an ass ugly haircut, a crappy outfit, terrible posture, and a mouth hanging open like a fly hotel.
Moreover, in a town with some 100,000 potheads, the best he and his buddies could do was get 2000 signatures for a cause they so strongly believe in? Want to know why? Laziness and lack of real ambition.
Gold, really.
Originally posted byJoe
Haha. The proof is all there. Here's a photo of Mr. Lead Pothead right here, with ragged face, an ass ugly haircut, a crappy outfit, terrible posture, and a mouth hanging open like a fly hotel.
Moreover, in a town with some 100,000 potheads, the best he and his buddies could do was get 2000 signatures for a cause they so strongly believe in? Want to know why? Laziness and lack of real ambition.
Gold, really.
Originally posted byPhillip
. . . the potheads have organized? Heavens. We'll have to station guards at the Taco Bell to fend them off.
Couldn't they have found something more--whoa. I mean, like, whoa. Dude, like, look at your fingers. I mean, look at your hands. Have you ever, like, REALLY looked at your hands before?
Originally posted byMichael Covington
I don't trust NORML any more than I trust the tobacco industry. Brain researchers keep finding marijuana to be more harmful than anyone thought. See for example:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7481/11
This is not a politically motivated study -- it is part of a series of studies done in the Netherlands, where marijuana is tolerated, and the researchers were not expecting this result.
Originally posted byAndrew
Joe, his mouth is open because he is actually speaking and standing up for something he believes in. You're just like everybody else who throws marijuana activists into the "lazy pothead" category - that's just ignorant. Sure there are a lot of lazy potheads out there, nobody will deny that. But there are also plenty of intelligent, motivated, law-abiding citizens who choose to consume marijuana over alcohol or other drugs because they feel it is a safer alternative. They would rather smoke a joint and relax than get drunk and make a fool of themselves. They feel like they shouldn't be treated as criminals for doing something in the privacy of their own home that harms nobody.
Alcohol and tobacco account for more deaths than marijuana ever will. Joe, I'm not going to assume anything about you (like you did about John), but there's a good statistical chance that you've had a drink or two in your life. And if that is the case, stop being a hypocrite, because alcohol is way more harmful of a drug than marijuana.
I'll leave you with a little quote from DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young - "A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response... In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many of the foods we commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death."
Originally posted byMichael
I love it when people say "down with marijuana" because "it's bad for you and makes you lethargic and do stupid things." Last time I checked, alcohol doesn't deviate from those results. I say legalize all drugs. People chose to do them for the hell of it; it's their life. It's called Natural Selection baby. Let the stupid die and the not as stupid survive.
Originally posted bytl
ok,
Alcohol is proven to be more and more lethal then marijuana, yet i don't see anyone complaining about the use of alcohol. marijuana has been proven to help, do some research. Marijuana is used medically today for many people suffering from cancer. I was prescribed marijuana to help increase my appetite during chemotherapy and granted some people abuse it but there are people out there who use it for a completely different reason. So before you quickly dismiss this guy for trying to legalize something that used today, why don't you research and see just how many people are benefitting from it. marijuana has been around longer than alcohol. the main reason it has not been legalize, is not because its a "dangerous" drug, its that it cannot be taxed because anyone can grow. tobacco is proven to kill, alcohol is proven to kill and people are addicted to them and paying a lot for them. yet they arent illegal.
think about it first before you push your stupid comments on someone who's trying to make a difference. or you can just drink a six pack with your buddies and bitch about "potheads" and do nothing with your life.
Joe
posted 12/03/08 @ 2:33 PM EST
Moreover, in a town with some 100,000 potheads, the best he and his buddies could do was get 2000 signatures for a cause they so strongly believe in? Want to know why? Laziness and lack of real ambition.
Gold, really.