Excerpt:
Scientists today cleared the way for a
softening of the law on cannabis, declaring that
the drug "is not associated with major
health problems for the individual or society".
The Government's Advisory Council on the
Misuse of Drugs found that while cannabis
smokers can become dependent, the drug
is not as addictive as tobacco or alcohol.
Duh!
For whom is this a shock?
The religiously insane folks and fun-hating Republicans said
pot was bad.
Doctors and health care professionals have known since the sixties
that
the only dangerous part of marihuana are the crazy laws
that surround it.
Nobody gets high and commits a violent crime.
That happens when people use alcohol, not pot.
It's possible to have a wreck while driving high, but most people
are
extra-careful when they drive high, unlike a drunk who is driving
blind.
Pot doesn't break up families, unless one partner turns religious,
turns insane or turns Republican.
Pot doesn't kill 400,000 people a year, either. Tobacco does that.
For decades, they've fed us a steady stream of lies and misinformation
because nobody has had the courage to call a spade a spade.
Why do Republicans claim they want less government and more freedom,
then authorize hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for helicopters
and
drug-sniffing dogs and infra-red heat sensors to catch pot growers?
Remember in the seventies, they sprayed Paraquat, which is a POISON
on pot plants to "protect the children?"
How, exactly, does poison protect children?
But you watch...
If England relaxes their pot laws, and turns into another Amsterdam,
with pot and hash cafes with menues and quality and portion controls
they will probably get a 100 percent increase in tourist dollars
spent.
If logic and common sense won't turn conservatives around,
maybe good, old-fashioned greed will do the trick.
One last excerpt:
In healthy young people, cannabis is even
said to have
a similar effect on the heart as exercise.
ha ha
Right-wingers will hang themselves at the thought of medical
science
saying pot might even have some beneficial properties.
The findings are sure to dismay some anti-drugs
campaigners who
regard cannabis as a "gateway drug" which
can lead users to
experiment with harder substances, such
as heroin.
Oh, sure, like beer isn't the biggest gateway drug of all time.