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Stop the tape at “single mom”. Big surprise. She deliberately reproduced bringing children into a fatherless world (for all practical purposes); she’s a lazy slob — putting her drug use, along w/whatever else she wants — before her children. She uses drugs to ‘cope’ with her children’s misconduct (caused by her selfishness) — and now whines that she might be remanded to rehab (at taxpayer’s expense). Anyone reading have any family members WILLING to go to rehab for addiction disorder? Last time I looked, insurance was not paying for treatment .. and this slob whines about getting “free” (aka, taxpayers pay) treatment. Put her in jail and let someone who wants treatment get her bed at a rehab center. Oh yes, and take her kids from her lazy self.

What a piece of work. I’m sure her daughter ratted her out due to vindictive teen behavior, but I also have no doubt this woman smoked pot whenever the fancy struck her, which means, in front of her kids.

Daisy did hit one of the nails on the head, “single mom” pretty much sums up why her kids “behavioral problems” are an issue. So, instead of dealing with the problem–hey–why not light up some weed. Real mom-of-the-year this one is.

Pot smokers will go on at length about how innocuous the substance is. Praising it as natural and other similar claptrap. No harm here–right?

What you have here is a habitual, self-centered drug abuser with three kids. This “interview” should be made available to the prosecution of her case and those kids should be placed in foster care. By saying she’d have to be “forced” to give pot up, pretty much means they’d have to physically restrain her from lighting a joint. Like that will ever happen. Looser central.

You fascist idiots. What the hell about “freedom” do you not understand? “Free” country, my ass.
I don’t even smoke that stuff, but that woman has a right to smoke any damn weed in her home that she wants to. Vilifying her is just your way of justifying your own heartless viciousness.

I think she just need a stimulus. Quick, call the white house. Maybe Obama will do a few bong hits with her.

I hope that this country will stop these silly drug laws soon. Now we are gonna pay for her treatment, and she doesn’t want to quit.

Gee, kinda makes you wonder if all the “behavior problems” with the kids stem from the pot smoking of the mother while she was carrying them?

She’s look like a white trash welfare junkie too ! Obama better make another Stimulus Bill for these types; so they do not have to sell their kids to the highest bidder for drugs when funds run dry in the future….

With an unwed pot smoking mother of three in addition, to octomom, it looks like this is the year of motherhood.

There is another possibility here .. after giving this person another look .. could this be Pee Wee Herman posing as a drug addled single Mom?

I don’t care if this lady smokes a brick of 2000 flushes, as long as I don’t end up paying for her kids. Otherwise it’s just darwinism in action. Don’t care.

Arjuna, You excoriate America as free country. What a profound misinterpretation of the concept of freedom you have. I suppose, by your standard, you’re also free to murder, just so long as it is in your own home? You speak of idiocy, yet manage to produce a supreme example in your very first line of text. Further, you must be a communist liberal, to call anyone displaying a modicum of standards a “fascist.” How dare we judge someone as displaying abhorrent behavior! What a bad trip–man. Do you even know what the word “fascist” means? Oh yeah, I forgot, we’ve already established your intellect. My guess is you wouldn’t know one it it goosestepped around you singing, “Hail Deutschland” I guess if you have no argument, name-calling will have to suffice. Way to debate!

Just the same, my guess is, you likely do participate in a drug habit, (Does pot produce habitual lairs too?)therefore and are as blinded as this woman was to the obvious social problems such illegal use generates. Again, with your spotty use of logic, Let me make it clearer for you, as subtlety or even the obvious doesn’t’ seem to be within your mind’s grasp.

I provide the following interpretation of the aforementioned facts to dummy speak: If the single mom in the moving picture at the top of the page smokes drugs–even marijuana–she is breaking the law. This is why the nice men in blue suits with badges could arrest and charge her with doing bad things. The woman will be punished, the kids will suffer, the nice man called “her dealer” will not be able to give to charities like he used to.

Hope that made it’s way through what seems to be a rather dense cranium. Does pot thicken the skull? Seems like it.

Don’t hit me gandi.

Welcome to the Obama Nazi Youth campaign.Teachers push students to rat out on their parents.If they eat too much beef…watch Fox News…go to a Catholic Church and teach Catholic values….if they are against Gay sex…or Gay marriage…or sex ed to 6 year olds… smoke cigarettes… or teach abstinence they get ratted out by their kids…like good little Obama Nazis.
Reefer is not legal…or a good thing.But, no one is asking about a daughter ratting out on her own Mother.
So…what’s worse? The Mom who smokes…or the creep daughter who rats her out?
And what kills me is…if this daughter has an abortion….even at 8 months…her Mom is told nothing about it as the teachers applaud her for killing her own child.

Ghandi, let me get this straight, you know everything. We know its illegal, we also know its illegal for all the wrong reasons. Im gonna go out on a limb and take a guess your one of the other parasites that live off our dime. Some judge or cop, or therapist paid by us to sentence,arrest or babble at the dumb ass chick for “gulp” smoking pot. What a waste of time and money this all is, lets make this out to be a really bad drug, think of all the people we get to guard, fine, control. Thats all this boils down to. They cant control and regulate it so its illegal, has nothing to do with the effects it has on a person, just control.

Not everything, just a whole lot more than you. For the record, I’d feel the same way if she was a boozer, and that, as you hopefully are aware, is legal.

Being a pot apologist, just weakens your argument. Pot heads I’ve known are just as self destructive, and in they’re own way as obnoxious as any–and I mean any–substance abuser.

Abusing pot is not as innocuous as you make out. It is a documented gateway drug and has an intoxicating effect on par with booze. These are the simple facts of the drug. The more complex ones are the personal toll it takes on family members (in this case children) and society at large. Yeah-right they don’t crack up their cars like drunks. The control you speak would be better placed as self-control. A sense of personal responsibility wouldn’t hurt either. If this woman were half as interested in getting her life on track, getting her kids in line and focusing on life’s priorities instead of what seems to be a profound commitment to smoking dope, I think you might have a point. You could see though–she has a problem with it–right? I don’t have to use “dummy” speak again do I?

To your credit though, you didn’t stoop to calling me names though you rifted off mine.

Oh–one more thing. Gandi’s right fist, is far more powerful than his left.

The laws are stupid. Its worse to drink beer all the time. I done both. Alcohol is far worse. Its a waste of taxpayers money to go after people for this kind of drug. You think I am full of it?? Have you tried pot? If you did you would know the same as me. Yet I bet most of you drink.
If the lady had drank a beer it would of been no problem with the law or 95% of you.

Good for the Kid. If more kids would turn in there parents, it would be a more moral Christian nation. Just because parents let theire kid’s get away with anything that doesn’t mean the kids should let their parents get away with things.

Kids, if you see you mother or father doing something wrong, call 911. Failure to report a crime is a Crime itself. How would you like to be put in jail for the rest of your life and be done over and over day and night by big guys or dikes if your a girl, named Butch? Don’t risk it, turn in your parents, teachers, pastors, aunts, uncles and all and any adults who are liberals or doing something else wrong.

Wow. So the teen is pissed because her Mom would not let her talk all night on the cell phone or sleep over with her boyfriend, or some other horrible crime that parents commit in teens minds when they are young.

So the teen rats her Mom out. I hope Mom lets the teen get taken to a State foster home, where she is statistically MUCH more likely to be physically, mentally, and sexually abused than in her pot-smoking Mom’s house. The teen will be screaming for Mommy and her bad drug-using ways within a day or so.

Remember, drugs are bad, mmmkay? Michael Phelps is an aberration, mmmkay?

Let me get this straight.

A kid turns in her mother for breaking a law that is quite possibly the biggest violation of the American people’s freedom in the 20th and 21st Centuries, and the right wing flapping heads of Breitbart are all calling this a GOOD THING?

What a bunch of “FREEDOM CRYING” hypocritical, lieing, lock-stepping idiots each and every one of you are!

You say you “LOVE FREEDOM”! You have no clue what freedom is!

You Idiots would have stood in line and sworn that Prohibition was the hand of God in action!

You dipsticks give the conservative movement a bad name!

Blind, politician behind smooching IDIOTS!!

And yes, for your clueless information, I am a 20-year, retired American Soldier!

You people are as stupid as the politic blinded idiots that are following this Socialist President!

Pull your heads out of your behinds!

You people would sit in the dark, shaking like a bunch of scared kittens if you were ever given TRUE FREEDOM!

Sit down and shut up, you Candy-Behinds!

You people make me SICK!

You wouldn’t know a Moral Christian Nation if we had one!

And we dam sure DON’T!

Dam, You PEOPLE S U C K !
Bunch of P U S S Y WHIPPED CANDY A S S MAGGOTS!

THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE SEAN HANNITTY OR RUSH LIMBAUGH, TAKE HIS D I C K OUT OF YOUR MOUTH FOR A MINUTE AND TELL HIM SARGE SAID “HI!”

From the woodwork they come. Yes–indeed–good for the kid. Though I stand by my previous assessment that it was essentially a vindictive act on the youngster’s part. My guess is, she’s her mother’s daughter.

Laws are laws. They’re in place for good reasons. The fact that habitual users want pot legalized does not make it okay to use. Better than alcohol? Debatable. Especially if you look at the facts.

There are countries where it is legal and the use of harder stuff because of it is much higher than stateside. Check out Amsterdam if you ever want your eyes opened. The amount of junkies skyrocketed after the legalization of pot there. Hey, but that would be a fact and what would that have to do with how you feel about pot. Junkies don’t hurt anyone do they? They never rob, burglarize or partake in antisocial behavior. Do they?

I put no more weight in the opinion of a dope smoker on this subject, than a junkie on heroine, a boozehound on beer or a liberal on entitlements. Children deserve better than this. The girl ratted her mom out and she should be congratulated.

The mother, on the other hand, should take this as an opportunity to straighten her life out and quit hiding behind in a veil of highs.

Your posts alone should go a long way confirming pot smoking doesn’t do a scintilla for your creativity, logic or common sense.

SuperSarge. Have you gone mental? Can’t be you posting–considering anyone can adopt a name on this site–can it?

If–in fact–you’re former military, then show a little more decorum, class and civility.

For all you know, some of us outranked you, are as patriotic than you and certainly more articulate.

You win a debate with facts, ideas and logic. What your tirades do is confirm that some–on the right–need to be cataloged with the unibomber.

Lay off the coffee and give your head a shake.

While I do believe in legalization, I wont type like an idiot(sarge) Just think of the leeches we could cut off the system, our police state is costing us money chasing this harmless substance. You state it is a gateway drug…hmm whats alcohol, alcohol is the most abused DRUG in the world, yet our nanny state continues to sell it, even when its proven to kill people, they sell it to us. Whats up with that???? You take the time to explain the difference. I cant wait to read this!!

The ponts super sludge is that the left wants to truly turn this into a police state – indoctrinating our kids to turn on their parents for coarbon footprints and for eating or wearing animals – it’s about time those tables turned on you progressive liberal morons.

as a quick follow up – if I as a Conservative smoke pot – I know I am breaking the law and if and when I am caught I am not going to blame anyone for ME breaking the law.
You dumb Libs make excuses and spin situations to fit your desired outcomes. Get a clue

Dearest Gandi’s Fist and the rest of you pukes,

1. I am sick and tired of liberals claiming that conservatives want to tell everyone how to live, and then jerks like you folks step up and prove it!

2. Lot’s of idiots out ranked me when I was active duty. I retired in 1999 and I couldn’t care LESS what some sniveler’s former rank is! I didn’t hold my tongue much when I was in. If you think it will restrict my freedom of speech now that I’m retired, you obviously have never worked with the United States Army’s NCOs!

3. Pot was made illegal during the Great Depression so that Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas would have a reason to deport Mexican’s to keep them from taking American jobs. (Sound familiar?) There is no reason for pot to be illegal. It has simply become the third rail for any politician. Try to legalize, or even decriminalize pot and your political career is over. Meanwhile, snot nosed Conservative Wanna-Bees cheer on a child for turning in her mother! Think about it, a child turned in her mother for smoking a joint. And you idiots cheer her on! Conservatism is all about getting the government out of our lives and our wallets!

4. THE CHILD TURNED IN HER MOTHER TO THE GOVERNMENT!! Big Brother has finally arrived! 25 years late, but he’s here! Adolph Hitler would be so very proud of all of you little maggots!

5. As far as decorum, class and civility are concerned, E A T ME!

My apologies if I failed to sugar coat that enough for former members of the United States Girl Scouts!

Hey, CommonSense,
What the f u c k is a “pont”?
It’s called “spell check”.
Get with the program.
Grown ups talking here.

I think female circumcision is the best choice of punishment.

Sarge, you need to take cyber-anger management. For someone who partakes in pot, you’re surprisingly un-mellow.

Contrary to your charge that we’re liberals parading around as conservatives, I’d put it back to you. As a soldier, wasn’t it your sworn duty to uphold the constitution (ergo the law) of the USA? If that constitution holds that possession of controlled substances is illegal, I’d ask, what kind of soldier where you? I didn’t see an amendment wherein, you could cherry pick the parts you like and excise those you don’t.

Big bother? The kid was within it’s right to do this. Smoking pot around children is abusive. I guess in the S-sarge household, its a pass it around situation–children included? Hey, harmless drug, right? I suppose if a child reported their parent for molestation, battering or the witness of another sort of felony, they’d be participating in Orwellian behavior too? Those laws were also not on the books until the early part of this century too.

Clearly the mother was lighting up around the kids, otherwise, how did they know?

The woman is a poor excuse for a mother and her daughter’s actions may help turn things round. They certainly gave this woman something to contemplate.

As for your insistence on foul posting. Words communicate ideas. When you swear in a post, it does so in subtext. Mainly saying, you don’t have an idea to combat with, therefore frustration mounting, you post an expletive. How challenging is that to come up with.

I’m for conservative, traditional thought and practice in society. Enlightenment tickles my fancy too. I enjoy lively debate and can even be turned if the facts (not feelings) say otherwise. You turn the practice into black and white, right or wrong, friend or enemy. People fall along a spectrum of beliefs, you’ve polarized your point of view to irrelevance. At least insofar as these forums are concerned. To whit, I think anyone could toss out the diatribe’s you produce with extraordinarily little effort. All they’d have to do is hold standard issue conservative nut-job venom between boasts of a military service record. Real impressive. On a newsboard like this, the coin of the realm are thought and words expressing same.

Frustrated, ummm…let me guess what your next post will include. A pejorative shot at psuedo conservatives with comparisons to vermicular (snakes,worms,maggots) lifeforms and copious references to genitalia. There, I saved you the trouble.

Dear “Gandi’s Fist”,

Before we start this, I’d like to share with you a little something my mother sent to me, engraved on a plaque, shortly after September 11, 2001….

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.

Think of it…always.”
Mahattma Gahdhi

Now we go to school……

1. I swore (1979) to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Have you ever read the constitution? It says absolutely nothing against eating, drinking, smoking, ect. ANYTHING! As a matter of fact, it went to great lengths to guarantee our freedoms from such governmental overreaching B U L L S H I T! If your psuedo-intellectual, ultra-conservative imitating behind had ever STUDIED American History, you would realize that the Boston Tea Party’s Twentieth Century Equivalent would have been the Woodstock Festival back in 1969! Way before your birth, I am sure, because I can tell, more and more, by your postings, that you are a frightened juvenile with ultra-conservative leanings. A lost soul, so afraid because John McCain, who you and I both supported whole-heartedly, was not the elected as the Commander in Chief. That’s okay, because in this totally ridiculous, one side or the other, “With us or Against us”, completely lost political mentality, I can understand someone being as afraid of the future as you are. It’s okay; the Founding Fathers put together a system where neither the left nor the right can ever completely take over. That’s the beauty of Our Constitution. You should read it sometime! Did you know Senators were never meant to be elected officials? Did you know that the graduated income tax system we have today was an idea from a book by a man named Carl Marx? Did you know that both of those ideas meant that our “Bill of Rights” had to be amended for our nation to be driven to the mess it is today?

2. Contrary to what you probably think, and most would tell you, you have my absolute permission, agreement, and encouragement to toss out anything and/or everything I have to say! That is your God given, Soldier insured, Constitutionally guaranteed right as an American. I salute you for your tenacity to give an honest, although rather immature and juvenile, but all the while, articulate and well thought out argument, totally in step with the current Right Wing philosophy. You should call Sean Hannity and get a gift certificate to Ruth’s Chris Steak House!

3. There is no doubt in my military mind that you have NEVER served in the United States military, and that you are not old enough to be serving now. When it comes to matters of the military, I will tell you and ALL AMERICANS who wish to run their c o c k s u c k e r s to shut up, sit down, and hope to GOD you never have to answer the call! In other words, “If you weren’t there, SHUT the F U C K UP!”

4. “pejorative shot at psuedo conservatives” Once again, for anyone not paying attention, it’s called “Spell Check”. It’s under “Tools”. Get with the program. Adults are talking here!

5. “As for your insistence on foul posting. Words communicate ideas. When you swear in a post, it does so in subtext”. Okay, Nancy, what part of “Retired American Soldier” didn’t you understand? As I said before…”E A T ME!”

Tornado 27, out!

Biden “09!
Change I, for one, am certainly praying for!
Change we need!
Change I can believe in!

USA!

FTW!

DILLIGAF?!

VFFV!

And a new one… “If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t” …no… that one will never get past Breitbart censors! Once again, a patriot’s words stifled by the protected!

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Of course….

Dear “Gandi’s Fist”,

Before we start this, I’d like to share with you a little something my mother sent to me, engraved on a plaque, shortly after September 11, 2001….

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyr-ants, and murd-erers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.

Think of it…always.”
Mahattma Gahdhi

Now we go to school……

1. I swore (1979) to defend the Con-stit-ution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Have you ever read the consti-tution? It says absolutely nothing against eating, drinking, smoking, ect. ANYTHING! As a matter of fact, it went to great lengths to guara-ntee our fre-edoms from such govern-mental over-reaching B U L L S H I T! If your psuedo-intelle-ctual, ultra-conserv-ative imitating beh-ind had ever STUDIED American History, you would realize that the Boston Tea Party’s Twentieth Century Equivalent would have been the Wood-stock Festival back in 1969! Way before your birth, I am sure, because I can tell, more and more, by your postings, that you are a frightened juve-nile with ultra-conse-rv-ative leanings. A lost soul, so afraid because John McCain, who you and I both supported whole-heartedly, was not the elected as the Commander in Chief. That’s okay, because in this totally ridiculous, one side or the other, “With us or Against us”, completely lost politi-cal ment-ality, I can unde-rstand someone being as afraid of the future as you are. It’s okay; the Founding Fathers put together a system where neither the left nor the right can ever completely take over. That’s the beauty of Our Const-itution. You should read it sometime! Did you know Senators were never meant to be elect-ed offi-cials? Did you know that the gradua-ted inco-me tax system we have today was an idea from a book by a man named Carl Mar-x? Did you know that both of those ideas meant that our “Bill of Rights” had to be amen-ded for our nation to be driven to the mess it is today?

2. Contrary to what you probably think, and most would tell you, you have my absolute permission, agreement, and encouragement to toss out anything and/or everything I have to say! That is your G-o-d given, Sol-dier insured, Constit-utionally guara-nteed right as an American. I salute you for your tenacity to give an honest, although rather immature and juvenile, but all the while, articulate and well thought out argument, totally in step with the current Right Wing philo-sophy. You should call Sean Hannity and get a gift certificate to Ruth’s Chris Steak House!

3. There is no doubt in my military mind that you have NEVER served in the United States mil-itary, and that you are not old enough to be serving now. When it comes to matters of the milit-ary, I will tell you and ALL AME-RICANS who wish to run their c o c k s u c- k e r s to shut up, sit down, and hope to G-O-D you never have to answer the call! In other words, “If you weren’t there, SH-UT the F U- C K UP!”

4. “pejorative shot at psuedo conservatives” Once again, for anyone not paying attention, it’s called “Spell Check”. It’s under “Tools”. Get with the program. Adults are talking here!

5. “As for your insistence on foul posting. Words communicate ideas. When you swear in a post, it does so in subtext”. Okay, Nancy, what part of “Reti-red Am-erican Sol-dier” didn’t you understand? As I said before…”E A T ME!”

Tornado 27, out!

Biden “09!
Change I, for one, am certainly praying for!
Change we need!
Change I can believe in!

USA!

FTW!

DILLIGAF?!

VFFV!

And a new one… “If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t” …no… that one will never get past Breitbart censors! Once again, a pa-tri-ot’s words stifl-ed by the protected!

Oh, by the way, and for the record, Little Miss Know it All, I don’t smoke pot, because the company I work for has a government endorsed, zero tolerance policy!

If Freedom is ever Declared the Law of the Land in the United States of America, I WILL be the FIRST in line to spark up an All American, Red, White and Blue Do Bee, and if you ask really nice, with an apologetic, sweet little begging look on your face, I might even let you have a drag!

Hope for the best, I hope to see you on the other side of America’s reestablished freedom!

Until then, enjoy the Baptist Church’s version of Syria law!

I really did save you time with the last paragraph of my last post. Should have took the advice.

Also regarding your point 4.

4. “pejorative shot at psuedo conservatives” Once again, for anyone not paying attention, it’s called “Spell Check”. It’s under “Tools”. Get with the program. Adults are talking here!

It’s a type-o. Big deal. Pseudo. That make you feel all “grown up” now–like an adult. You submit your posts with all sorts of hyphenation and spacing errors, don’t hear me kibitzing about it. Adult? You’re kidding right? In stead of spell check, you should content check your posts. By that standard, they don’t seem “adult” at all unless you were trying for an R rating.

At this point you’ve posted yourself to non-existence in my books. Rant on–who cares.

Gandi’s Fist, I have read every one of your post, and withing an essay’s worth of words you have said nothing more than a sentence’s worth of information.

“pot” has been proven to cause no cancers. “The Gateway Theory” has been proven false, time and time again.

I dare you to find a police officer, and ask him who’s involved in domestic violence cases: stoners or boozers?

List of studies concerning medical and health benefits of thc and cannabis:
http://forum.grasscity.com/apprentice-tokers/278158-research-studies.html

and here’s a link answering any other gateway/addiction/right-wing bull you may throw at us in your next post. Each answer is supported by several scientific papers.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/

Said the pot-head with links to pro-cannabis web sites. Ummm…I wonder how objective they’ll be.

Seen enough habitual pot smokers to stand by my posts. If you’re saying it’s as destructive as booze, I wouldn’t give you much of an argument.

The cannabis lobby is well organized in the states and do misrepresent science, stats and facts at every turn in order to legalize their habbit. I’ll just base my opinion on what I’ve witnessed. Yet I do understand their skewed stance motivated by ever present narrow self interest.

It’s curious though, that sentence you speak of seems to have gotten your goat and contains–within–more substance that the deceptive link-fest you’ve just added.

Not that I do this much, but seeing facts where being challenged here. Here are some from the UK’s division of mental health’s site describing effects of the drug. These scientist seem to differ greatly with yours. Whats up with that?

Pleasant Effects

A ‘high’ – a sense of relaxation, happiness, sleepiness, colours appear more intense, music sounds better.

Unpleasant

Around 1 in 10 cannabis users have unpleasant experiences, including confusion, hallucinations, anxiety and paranoia. The same person may have either pleasant or unpleasant effects depending on their mood and circumstances. These feelings are usually only temporary – although as the drug can stay in the system for some weeks, the effect can be more long-lasting than users realise. Long-term use can have a depressant effect, reducing motivation.

Education and learning

There have also been suggestions that cannabis may interfere with a person’s capacity to:

* concentrate
* organise information
* use information

This effect seems to last several weeks after use, which can cause particular problems for students.

However, a large study in New Zealand followed up 1265 children for 25 years. It found that cannabis use in adolescence was linked to poor school performance, but that there was no direct connection between the two. It looked as though it was simply because cannabis use encouraged a way of life that didn’t help with schoolwork.

Work

It seems to have a similar effect on people at work. There is no evidence that cannabis causes specific health hazards. But users are more likely to leave work without permission, spend work time on personal matters or simply daydream. Cannabis users themselves report that drug use has interfered with their work and social life.

Of course, some areas of work are more demanding than others. A review of the research on the effect of cannabis on pilots revealed that those who had used cannabis made far more mistakes, both major and minor, than when they had not smoked cannabis. As you can imagine, the pilots were tested in flight simulators, not actually flying… The worst effects were in the first four hours, although they persisted for at least 24 hours, even when the pilot had no sense at all of being ‘high’. It concluded “Most of us, with this evidence, would not want to fly with a pilot who had smoked cannabis within the last day or so”.

What about driving?

In New Zealand, researchers found that those who smoked regularly, and had smoked before driving, were more likely to be injured in a car crash. A recent study in France looked at over 10,000 drivers who were involved in fatal car crashes. Even when the influence of alcohol was taken into account, cannabis users were more than twice as likely to be the cause of a fatal crash than to be one of the victims. So – perhaps most of us would also not want to be driven by somebody who had smoked cannabis in the last day or so.

Mental health problems

There is growing evidence that people with serious mental illness, including depression and psychosis, are more likely to use cannabis or have used it for long periods of time in the past. Regular use of the drug has appeared to double the risk of developing a psychotic episode or long-term schizophrenia. However, does cannabis cause depression and schizophrenia or do people with these disorders use it as a medication?

Over the past few years, research has strongly suggested that there is a clear link between early cannabis use and later mental health problems in those with a genetic vulnerability – and that there is a particular issue with the use of cannabis by adolescents.

Depression

A study following 1600 Australian school-children, aged 14 to 15 for seven years, found that while children who use cannabis regularly have a significantly higher risk of depression, the opposite was not the case – children who already suffered from depression were not more likely than anyone else to use cannabis. However, adolescents who used cannabis daily were five times more likely to develop depression and anxiety in later life.

Schizophrenia

Three major studies followed large numbers of people over several years, and showed that those people who use cannabis have a higher than average risk of developing schizophrenia. If you start smoking it before the age of 15, you are 4 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder by the time you are 26. They found no evidence of self-medication. It seemed that, the more cannabis someone used, the more likely they were to develop symptoms.

Why should teenagers be particularly vulnerable to the use of cannabis? No one knows for certain, but it may be something to do with brain development. The brain is still developing in the teenage years – up to the age of around 20, in fact. A massive process of ‘neural pruning’ is going on. This is rather like streamlining a tangled jumble of circuits so they can work more effectively. Any experience, or substance, that affects this process has the potential to produce long-term psychological effects.

Recent research in Europe, and in the UK, has suggested that people who have a family background of mental illness – and so probably have a genetic vulnerability anyway – are more likely to develop schizophrenia if they use cannabis as well.
Is there such a thing as ‘cannabis psychosis’?

Recent research in Denmark suggests that yes, there is. It is a short-lived psychotic disorder that seems to be brought on by cannabis use but which subsides fairly quickly once the individual has stopped using it. It’s quite unusual though – in the whole of Denmark they found only around 100 new cases per year.

However, they also found that:

* Three quarters had a different psychotic disorder diagnosed within the next year.
* Nearly half still had a psychotic disorder 3 years later.

So, it also seems probable that nearly half of those diagnosed as having cannabis psychosis are actually showing the first signs of a more long-lasting psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia. It may be this group of people who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of cannabis, and so should probably avoid it in the future.
Is cannabis addictive?

It has some of the features of addictive drugs such as:

* tolerance – having to take more and more to get the same effect
* withdrawal symptoms. These have been shown in heavy users and include:

– craving

– decreased appetite

– sleep difficulty

– weight loss

– aggression and/or anger

– irritability

– restlessness

– strange dreams.

These symptoms of withdrawal produce about the same amount of discomfort as withdrawing from tobacco.

For regular, long-term users:

* 3 out of 4 experience cravings;
* half become irritable;
* 7 out of 10 switch to tobacco in an attempt to stay off cannabis.

The irritability, anxiety and problems with sleeping usually appear 10 hours after the last joint, and peak at around one week after the last use of the drug.

Compulsive use

The user feels they have to have it and spends much of their life seeking, buying and using it. They cannot stop even when other important parts of their life (family, school, work) suffer.

Yeah, I know its Gandhi and not Ghandhi – sorry, I was laughing at the self-righteous silliness and made a typo laughing so hard…you can mock me for the typo, that’s fine.

“Gandi’s Fist”

Maybe your point would be better taken if you learned to spell Ghandhi…

Oh yeah, I don’t think you can use the lame excuse that “Gandhi’s Fist” was taken…clearly not, since I just posted as such.

It’s my name and that’s how it’s spelled.

It’s pretty hilarious how there are like 4 people posting here, with their “informed” opinions about how bad cannabis is, however I have not met anyone that uses cannabis and is more lazy than they were prior to using, nor have I met anyone who had problems with addiction when having stopped using cannabis.

As far as driving is concerned, cannabis can be detected in your system upwards of a month, even if you hadn’t used it recently enough to effect your driving.

In addition, our mind has THC receptors. Our body doesn’t reject cannabis as a poison, which is why it’s detectable for so long. Coke? gone in a weekend. Alcohol? 24 hours. Cannabis is so incredibly non-toxic that you would have to smoke nearly 1500lbs of it in 15 minutes in order to have a 50% chance of dying from it.

You’re against cannabis for flawed reasons, and your reference to all cannabis users as “junkies” is false, considering our current president, and past presidents have used cannabis.

Last time kids.

This is your brain. This is your brain confronted with truth….

Pot was made illegal during the Great Depression so that Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas would have a reason to deport Mexicans to keep them from taking American jobs. (Sound familiar?) There is no reason for pot to be illegal. It has simply become the third rail for any politician. Try to legalize, or even decriminalize pot and your political career is over. Meanwhile, snot nosed Conservative Wanna-Bees cheer on a child for turning in her mother! Think about it, a child turned in her mother for smoking a joint. And you idiots cheer her on! Conservatism is all about getting the government out of our lives and our wallets!

THE CHILD TURNED IN HER MOTHER TO THE GOVERNMENT!! Big Brother has finally arrived! 25 years late, but he’s here! Adolph Hitler would be so very proud of all of you little maggots!

Do a reality check, for Pete’s sake!!!

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