Weed: Doesn't make you crazy says new study

es un negocio politico por eso es ilegal!!! si no ya hubiera sido legalizado como los fueron los cigarillos o el alcohol, pero como decia alguien en un mensaje...depende de la persona y como lo recepcione su cuerpo...como el alcohol a algunas personas se embriagan facil otras no...bueno he visto gente q fuma y no hay drama..o gente q fuma le cae mal o cosas por el estilo y por eso se ponen en contra (q no te haya pegado bien no es problema de los demas), otros quedan gaga pero eso como dije antes depende de la persona. muchos se hacen la cabeza como si fueran a fumar no se paco..(q eso si es dañino mal) pero creo q tiene sus pro y sus contras como todo.

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I also believe that the drug war needs to be re-focused. Cannabis should be taken off the table completely. It should be decriminalized and should be supported economically as a cash crop for a number of industries, besides recreational drug use. Cannabis can be used for literally hundreds if not thousands of products replacing corn, cotton, fossil fuels, plastics, and wood products. Cannabis can be used for high protein food source and to create something similar to Tofu.

The first state to decriminalize and embrace cannabis/hemp entirely will likely become the most economically prosperous state in the Union. I keep urging my Oregon legislature to consider this proposal. Oregon has been economically depressed for decades and it is time that something good happen for all the laid off lumber and wood products workers, the farmers, and the seasonal laborers. Hemp is the answer.

Here lies the perfect funding source for the green revolution. Something truly green that begets green. Its a win/win.

I have been using what we now call medicinal marijuana for close to 30 years with breaks every now and then; the longest break being 9 months. When I was younger (pre twenties) I would get so stoned that I couldn't drive a car. I remember that my highs would last for hours. Then as I got into my twenties and started working full time jobs and having to support myself, I found that my consumption patterns had changed and I began to smoke it only in the evenings after work to relax.

Now that I have been diagnosed since 1992 with HIV/AIDS, I continue to consume the medicine but it only when I don't have work to do or something important to have my full wits about me. During all this time that I have smoked, I have never had any psychotic or schizophrenic episodes, no bi-polar problems, my cholesterol is at safe ranges, and I am in optimum health for a person who has been living with HIV for nearly as long as I have consumed cannabis.

Since being diagnosed and continuing with my regime of cannabis and HAART (highly active anti retroviral therapy) "the drug cocktail" I have completed three college degrees and got a 4.0 GPA.

So a long term personal experience I can say that cannabis is not only safe, but it is the best analgesic I have every used, better than aspirin, Tylenol or Ibuprofen. I also affirm that cannabis has been instrumental in increasing the quality of life that I have due to the side effects of the "Drug Cocktail".

I have a dear friend here in Eugene who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, had a mastectomy, her cancer metasticized and she was told she had months to live. She began smoking cannabis immediately and embraced Eastern medicine and organic eating. She is still alive 10 years later and although she does have to walk with a cane because of her Multiple Sclerosis, she is an amazing and inspirational woman.

She believes that cannabis also was instrumental in keeping her alive and kicking.

I could go on but hey, they only let us type 4000 character....

I am excited to announce that the Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPA’s lobbying arm) is sponsoring a ballot measure in California that represents the biggest sentencing and prison reform in United States history.

The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act (NORA) is unprecedented in scope and magnitude. It will transform California's dysfunctional, $10-billion-a-year prison system, reversing its rampant and costly expansion. NORA will, within just a few years, reduce by tens of thousands the number of people unjustly and unnecessarily incarcerated, while maintaining public safety. At the same time, it will provide a comprehensive model for a public health approach to substance use.

Success in California will transform the drug policy reform landscape nationwide!

At a time when one in 100 adult Americans is in prison, California faces a prison overcrowding crisis that may be the worst in the nation. The system is at 175% of capacity. This is due in large part to excessive incarceration of nonviolent offenders, many of whom are drug law violators. Overcrowding has been exacerbated by the state's failure to provide meaningful recidivism-reduction programs, including addiction treatment and other rehabilitation services.

NORA will change that. First, the measure builds on California's successful treatment-instead-of-incarceration program, Proposition 36. That law, which DPA Network helped to write and pass in November 2000, generated more than $1.5 billion in net savings in just seven years, reduced the number of nonviolent drug law offenders behind bars, and was not associated with any increase in crime. Tens of thousands of additional nonviolent offenders would qualify for similar diversion programs under NORA, dramatically reducing the number of people unnecessarily locked up while decreasing the likelihood of recidivism.

The measure would also make low-level marijuana possession an infraction--equivalent to a traffic ticket--rather than a misdemeanor, a sentencing change that could affect 40,000 people a year and conserve millions of dollars in court resources for other, more serious cases. To further help young people struggling with substance abuse, NORA provides dedicated funding of about $65 million per year to build a system of care that would offer treatment to at-risk youth.

Besides helping youth and people who have been arrested for nonviolent drug offenses, NORA would dramatically expand rehabilitation services for people in prison and on parole, and prohibit the return to prison of nonviolent offenders who commit minor violations of parole. Spending on these programs, which are proven to reduce crime and recidivism, will be more than paid for by reductions in prison and parole costs. NORA is projected to save at least $2.5 billion on future prison construction costs, too, by rendering new prisons unnecessary.

This comprehensive and cost-effective reform package, with a focus on a public health approach to substance use problems, would do more than benefit California--it would serve as a model for states across the country.

Years of research, experience and insight went into the drafting of the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act. Daniel Abrahamson, DPA Network’s director of legal affairs and co-author of the initiative, led the collaborative effort. DPA Network thanks the many individuals and agencies who worked with us on its creation, particularly the Campaign for New Drug Policies, co-sponsor of the measure with DPA Network.

We encourage all reformers to learn about and support the measure by visiting DPA Network's website or by contacting Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, DPA Network’s Southern California regional director.

Sincerely,

Ethan Nadelma

SO THAT YOU DONT GET IN THE WAY OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE BY DOING TO MUCH THINKING..thats why it is ileagal , .......mmmm lets face it the folks in HIGH places dont want the masses to think to much ........by getting toooo high ......and start to see whats realy going on ....mmmmm

First off the idea that weed can't be taxed be cause it can be grown in an attic is missing the bigger picture. Tomatoes can be grown in an attic. Beer can be brewed in at attic. Those are both taxed effectively in larger scales(where it matters).

The bigger picture is that budweiser doesn't make as much money as they do because no one else can make as beer as well as them, but because no one else can make as much, as well. The problems in taxing emerges not from little attic plants, but from pharmaceutical companies. Basically pharmaceutical companies are assholes and control the senate by controlling the lobby.

I say we support the american farmer and allow him to grow one of the best cash crops in the world. Opium is rejuvenating Afghanistan's economy. Our economy could really use a cash cow right now, and not beef.

Ice cream man - That's just the problem. As patron said, tey would not be able to tax a natural product, so the governmentwould NOT make a huge profit. That's another reason why it's great. Believe it or not, pharmacutical companies have tried to market taxable, synthetic versions of THC; weed in pill form, if you will.

patron - I agree with you, except on one thing. Isn't the age 18 requirement pretty arbitrary? It's not about brain development, 'cause that's not over 'till your twenties, and it's not about responsibility, because... well, do you really think people are MORE responsible when they get to college? The age 18 requirement is nothing but a marketing ploy. If you wait untill kids are free to do what they want, then they'll be more interested in buying. I can say first hand, that weed hasn't had any adverse effect on my development. In fact, It appears that I'm too tolerant to even get high! All problems that people have with marijuana are made-up.

I dont smoke but I think the government should make it legal and sell it in stores
They'd make a HUGE profit of that

You want me to tell you y weed pursay is illegal? The only reason weed is illegal is that congress our government has no way to tax it. "Yes" weed is grown from the earth, it is an herb used for many different reason's, with getting high being the greatest one of all!!!!!!!! It's never drove any one crazy, made them feel as if they were yumbified, made them have any suicidal thoughts, people have never robbed, stole, or killed for it, it harmless to the body regardless of what Americans say if the world were to legalize weed we would be in a better place weed is universal everyone that smokes it knows the 4 THINGS WEED DOES FOR YOU" 1. Makes you happy 2. Makes you hungry 3. Makes you sleepy 4. Makes you horney
now how could any of these reasons be dangerous! It should not be given to any one under the age of 18 I agree with, but for all of those over the age and are legal to be grown, we should be able to smoke weed in rolled and sold like they do cigarettes and take the ciagrettes off the market and sell weederettes" instead then take a national study on cancer, lung diease, heartattacks and high blood pressure. Then give me the statistics!!!!

I'm sorry for any confusion about weed making you crazy,no it does not!But the laws that apply are crazy and have sent nice people over the edge! Weed should be allowed in every state and the laws must change!That is what I mean!!Peace

I had a job lined up making $9.75 an hour. Passed the application test, interviewed well, passed a personality test and was all set for orientation until I went to get a drug test and tested positive for marijuana. They had to test me twice before they found it in my system.

I wasn't particularly upset I didn't get hired, more fustrated I wasted 2 months of my life for no reason. I'd rather smoke weed than become a soulless corpse in a mega mart anyway.

Owlman - If there weren't arbitrary laws against smoking, he would have kept his job, no? Weed didn't make him crazy, the illegality of it just messed up his life. Maybe that's what you were saying, I'm not sure. Man the second page thing on this thread confused me. Makes me reminisce about the good ol' days at current.tv.

I have a friend that lost his mind,because he lost his job because he consumed some smoke, while on 4 week vaction,when he returned to his job,he was given a urine test,that he failed 35 years of hard work in a steel mill down the drain. That will make you Crazy!!!!!

Just about a year ago I broke my left collar bone in half. I had to have surgery. They had to take bone from my hip and put in my shoulder. They put me under anistesia, which when I woke up after the surgery, made me throw up (alot) and I was unable to eat. And of course I was in alot of pain. So the doctor gave me these pills to reduce the pain and such. But instead they made me halosinate and I got sick (threw up and unable to eat) so I decided to self medicate with bud instead. It made my pain go away and I was able to eat. IT DIDN'T MAKE ME GO CRAZY. It helped alot.

No new posts are showing up on this page. I got an e-mail alerting me about a response, but nothing's showing up after geurillaamour.

I do nearly every day. I don't deal, I don't steal. If I didnt't drink coffee, I'd say it was my coffee----fyi, it goes well with some coffee. I run a successful business, I take care of my family, I pay my bills and taxes, I vote and watch CurrentTV.

i never lost sex drive from smoking weed and i been smoking good lord 10 years or more know. The only time i have lost my sex drive is if i have lost the spark for the person and they have no sex appeal to me. Im far from dumb and im not slow at all. Pot doesn't make people dumb they wear dumb before they started smoking in the first place people just like to say its the weed. people need to stop using weed as a scapegoat. Pot is amazing it is my cure for my anxiety and my post traumatic stress disorder

man , this is just too good to not jump on ... realfran , i can assure you that if you'd been smoking down as much as your b-friend you wouldn't be complaining .

As a naive child, I didn't know what weed was, as an early teen, I thought it made people crazy as the only people I knew of who smoked it were already nuts. Having imbibed for several years now, and being diagnosed with a mental health disorder, I understand much more than I used to, and I know that weed doesn't exacerbate craziness, but it doesn't abate it either... If one is already crazy, weed won't do anything but make you appreciate our planet that much more... take some meds!!!

VOTE for HEMP, and de-schedule marijuana!!!

Weed seems to make people lazy from my observations, it also makes people really annoying, but no more than drunks.

its just a plant. It grows out of the Earth. Never seen so many people get in such a huff over a nice little plant.

think off all the music that would never have been waxed if the herb never existed ... we'd still be listening to lame bubble gum pop - and jazz would have died out ages ago .

WHEN GOD PUT ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN HE TOLD THEM THEY WERE ALLOWED TO PICK FROM ANY TREE EXCEPT THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.NOW HE SAID HE PUT ONE OF EVERY PLANT IN IT.MARIJUANA IS A HERB,IN OTHER WORDS A PLANT.DON'T YOU THINK MARIJUANA WAS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN?HE SAID HE'LL NEVER HURT YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.MARIJUANA IS GOOD FOR THE BODY.

aburk:

I get you, but I wasn't trying to say caffine was harmful or anything. It is good to know that it does have medicinal properties. Perhaps I should drink more coffee...

WEED IS NOT A DRUG,DRUGS MAKE YOU CRAZY!IT'S AN HERB,IT MELLOWS YOU OUT!I SHOULD KNOW,I HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM.I LIGHT UP A BLUNT AND I'M FINE.I WOULD TELL ANYONE LIGHT A BLUNT AND SMOKE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY!

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i mean i dont know if it means much of anything but can I make out the point that it is in the 1st chapter on the first page of the Good Book. It makes perfect sense to me. You can not argue the point. Herb was made for everyone on earth. It is a plant and a very seed-bearing one at that. It is extremely useful as hemp & oils no doubt one of the true grade-A natural resources we have. I hope if you dont know much about the plant that you will check out some of the great hemp resource pages on the web anyway blaa blaa woof woof as jimi would say

everyone keep your heads up to the sky cause the lights are a shinin down on us all peace in

swap "cr" with "l" and I might have a bone to pick with this study

GENESIS 1

-Chapter 1

-Verse 29:
God also said "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food,..."

i'm unsure of when some men on earth got the thought that they have a right to stake claim to other persons rights to roam free on this planet but I think those guys had some pretty big guns and were not very kind.

the earth is ours no matter what

some people who have staked their claims in oil & other natural resources hopefully will realize they are holding our precious lives in their hands and if our resources are not used properly in balance with all thats most beneficial for all humanity... well im sure we can all imagine more destructive things but the key is to vibe on the positive and stand strong against the adversity of persons who will continue to try and keep us from reaching our destination which as far as I can see is wide open for interpretation

yeahmOn just some eazy skankin takin it slow so excuse me while I light my...

Kentucky is in the top 3 agro sources for herb in the nation - and growers often use federal land - which means park visitors and fed. agents alike are endangered by booby traps - as someone already mentioned , having a designated land use plan for cultivation ( after legalization ) would get rid of this threat - keeping pot illegal is an environmental hazard .

yeah but one dude i know does weed and he is schizo...
but maybe that's because he also does just about every other drug in the book...

I always drive the speed limit when I'm high. And that's one law that EVERYONE breaks.

truth is, not having my weed makes me crazy.

sure, moderation is key.

But where would I be without ganja? My entire concept of reality would be different, and arguably less expansive.

it all is in how you use the herb. how you frame it. how you recieve its gifts. some use for reasons that dont line up to what they need.
must respect the weed.
its the greatest healing herb for body, mind and soul on the planet. use it wisely and it will reward accordingly.
anybody in for a safty meeting?

From what I've seen, weed takes away a person's ambition. I do believe that it's a relatively harmless drug other than the results of what I've seen. Talented and creative friends who regularly smoked were stifled in their ambitions for decades on taking care of their health and obtaining their goals in life. They worked overtime to merely pay for the weed. Some spent $300 to pay for weed and couldn't pay their rent for the month. The ones that left it alone are working out in the gym, writing books, acting in plays whereas before, they were the biggest talkers and didn't do a darned thing other than smoke.
I see real weed heads who are unsuccessful in their ambitions as wasting their time; I don't let them waste mine on pipe dreams (pardon the pun).

Don't get me wrong, I believe that MJ has medicinal value for those dealing with chemotherapy and glaucoma. Also, I do know some pretty successful people that engage in occasional recreation of smoking.

Either way, I do agree, it varies from person-to-person.

Legal scrips can kill you. I've never known anyone who died using Marijuana. If you eat it then the whole danger of smoking is gone. I think people should give pot brownies to adhd cases!!

a lil off topic, but do you know what a great laugh we're all gonna get if we live to see the day of friendly mom & pop stores on the court square selling that stuff? that would just make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

no man, he has to clean Bush's very dirty plate first...

Maybe President Obama could do something about this? Not that he wouldn't have enough on his plate already, but legalizing this might facilitate the correction of other societal errors.

Marijuana fixed my broken heart. For that, I will always love it

Good, because Current is my cannabis.

"onelove oneheart lets get together and feel alright"-

Bob Marley

Weed should totally be legal. If someone is going to develop a mental illness, they are going to develop it regardless of marijuana. I think that the government should tax it and make money from it. Cigarettes and alcohol are way more insidious and dangerous.

i smoke it fairly regularly and have found NO change in my basic character qualities or the likes. on the other hand, i took a hiatus from it for about 3 months and I still didn't feel any different except I didn't have the pleasant feeling that this relaxing herb induces.

Dope,dope,dope,dope,dope,dope,dope? oHhh, doooooooooooooope. Yeah, smoke it baby!

Dont quote me on this, but I have heard from other people that smoke marijuana that the cause of it being band is political (i know thats a very vague introduction to my point but I want to emphasize that i dont know where this story comes from or if its even true). Ok so i was told that back around the time of the Mexican American war it was made illegal cause many Mexicans smoked it and the American government wanted to discourage them from immigrating here. What a big fucking and useless mistake that was.

Alcohol is legal. Cigarettes are legal. Makes a lot of sense. Canada has liberal views on weed. There economy is better than the USA and they aren't going crazy and killing each other. hmmmm

"monkey see, monkey do"
i know folks who support their families well financially off mary jane. i know folks who function without a hitch in mundane society. i also know folks who zone out, pass out and creep me out when they smoke.
not everyone can handle herb and respect it. that's the truth. not everyone reacts to it the same way. not everyone looks "hot" in leather. not everyone looks great blonde. to each their own. period.

That's good to know! But it still smells god awful.

Ganja is a herb humans should value, it has its medical properties, used in construction, some wear it , spiritual purposes, oil, plastic............................... not to be seen as a drug.....natural healing......fyah on the man who call it a drug.

I was with my best friend the last month of her life. Her husband didn't want her to smoke weed because of theri 16 year old daughter. The day before she died she asked me to get her high when no one else was home. My daughter came runnning over with a full Vaporizer bag. She had two hits. Then I propped her up on hte pillows and she smiled for the first time in a month. She said, "I am hungry!". I called the deli and they ran a tuna salad sanwich over. She devoured a quarter of it ... the first time she had an appitite in a month. She was really ahppy and peaceful for over an hour. I am so glad she had that little window of contentment ... I only wish it could have been like that for all of her last hours. Criminalizing marijuana is criminal.

With this news, I imagine more people will continue to smoke weed which will make our prisons continue to grow with population and profit. Especially if they raise the level to a class B.

When my brother whose been smoking weed since 14, stops talking mid conversation because the lady in his head might be listening to make fun of him later, weed can be a problem.
Some people can drink, smoke cigarettes, drink coffee, do coke and smoke weed without getting addicted or sick from it, but there are a whole host of people that get f*cked up from these vices.
It seems its not always the drug that is the problem, more of the person taking it, but it can dangerous non-the-less.

Weed is possibly the best widely-available drug for chronic pain. Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals are all proven killers. All you have to do is give them a try and it doesn't take a genius to figure out they're all a long road to nowhere. The plant infringes on AND creates the upper-crust's self-given right to make money off those less fortunate.

Criminalizing Marijuana is a "racket"...as my father would have said.

Explain why are cigarettes legal again? I think some confusion is here.

Marijuana is a natural plant. It's safer than the caffine in most people's coffee, or the prescription drugs doctors perscribe to patients. It also has medicinal qualities( can decrease nasuea

Tobacco and alcohol are kill more people in one year than marijuana has in the history of society. Its illegal status is due to there is more money to be made in keeping it illegal rather than legalizing and taxing it.

In America if no one got arrested for Marijuana, the prison industry would take a huge profit hit. Out of the 2.4 million Americans in jail today, 60% of them are in jail for drug offenses.