Is Cannabis the Answer?

[IndigoStorm]

Cannabis oil could be medicinal ... not sure about actually smoking cannabis.

Like Tallulah Bankhead once proclaimed: "Cocaine isn't addictive ... I've been using it for years!"

 

[SkepticThinker]

From my studies, I am learning that most drugs have benefits. Some are very nasty and horrible when abused, but many things, if not most things, in life are that way. Too much water is bad, too much fruit is bad, too much exercise is bad, and, yes, too many drugs are bad. But for those who use responsibly, for the biggest part of the general population, the risks of drugs is just way over hyped to the point of being unreasonable. We'll go on about how dangerous pot is or bad meth is, but yet we don't extend this same stigma to alcohol, but rather the opposite, we tolerate and even accept and expect alcohol abuse on many occasions throughout the year. And alcohol, of course, is potentially far deadlier and more destructive than all the so-called "hard" drugs.

We completely agree, once again.

 

[Deeje]

I just watched the video in this link....

Episode 1: The True History of Chemotherapy & The Pharmaceutical Monopoly

What an eye opener.....!!!

The Bible says that this world is ruled by the devil and its easy to see it when you see the level of corruption that exists in the corporate world and the power they wield in the political arena.

Most doctors are unaware that they have been duped by the medical and pharmaceutical bodies...all complicit in a multi-billion dollar industry. Power corrupts and there is no better example than this.

 

[Deeje]

Cannabis oil could be medicinal ... not sure about actually smoking cannabis.

This thread is not about smoking cannabis for recreational use.....this is about a highly controversial plant, the likes of which should be available to all as a medicine....but the powers who want it suppressed have sinister motives.

Like Tallulah Bankhead once proclaimed: "Cocaine isn't addictive ... I've been using it for years!"

Cannabis is less addictive than any other drug, including alcohol and prescription drugs. It is also less harmful, but we need to see through the propaganda that is keeping it illegal.

 

[Lyndon]

its so obvious how marijuana smoking is clouding people's judgment. To claim that marijuana is not addictive is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[savagewind]

its so obvious how marijuana smoking is clouding people's judgment. To claim that marijuana is not addictive is absolutely ridiculous.

I know people who grow it and smoke it a little, but never a lot. All the free smoke anyone might want, but they don't want it. It is NOT physically addictive. It is to some people emotionally addictive, but so is FOOD.

 

[Lyndon]

You take me for an idiot, I used to be addicted to pot, its totally addictive, and you go through withdrawal when you quit, that not emotional or psychological, its physically addictive no matter how much its users and proponents want to lie about it.

 

[savagewind]

You take me for an idiot, I used to be addicted to pot, its totally addictive, and you go through withdrawal when you quit, that not emotional or psychological, its physically addictive no matter how much its users and proponents want to lie about it.

Yup, because of one person. Oh if science was so easy!

 

[Lyndon]

SO I'm supposed to believe some stoner, that smokes pot every day, when they tell me its not addictive.

 

[savagewind]

SO I'm supposed to believe some stoner, that smokes pot every day, when they tell me its not addictive.

Please tell us who the stoner is who is telling you what to believe. Who is smoking every day? I know it's not @Deeje. She is a Jehovah's Witness.

 

[Lyndon]

The one's claiming its not addictive, maybe even you, I don't know??

 

[Lyndon]

The point is, most of those claiming pot is not addictive are themselves addicted to pot.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

SO I'm supposed to believe some stoner, that smokes pot every day, when they tell me its not addictive.

My brother went through horrible, terrible, crippling opiate withdrawals when we purged his life of them and having with life shattered and disrupted from the addiction that started as his doctor prescribing narcotics for the pain from him being a wreck that cracked his hip, broke his femur, and shattered his sockets. After that, despite the legalities, he smoked pot, daily, for pain. When he had to quit when he went on probation over things that happened when he was addicted to pills, my brother had no withdrawals at all. He occasionally sighs and says he misses it, but nothing more.
I also know lots of people who were heavy smokers and quit, cold turkey without problems, over employment.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The point is, most of those claiming pot is not addictive are themselves addicted to pot.

How would you know? You are basing this on what? That they are pro-pot?

 

[savagewind]

The point is, most of those claiming pot is not addictive are themselves addicted to pot.

Do you not understand that food is for some people an addiction? A physical addiction.

 

[Deeje]

The point is, most of those claiming pot is not addictive are themselves addicted to pot.

Lyndon, I wish you could wake up to the fact that your addiction my well have been psychological, not physical. Your own experience is not a good example of the broader community's experience. You admit to doing other drugs before you settled on pot before the age of 22.....perhaps the drugs you did before the age of 22 did the damage? Pot may not have been the problem at all. If you have an underlying mental health issue, abuse of drugs may exacerbate it.

Cannabis is not addictive in and of itself, but many individuals can be addicted to the psychological effects of a 'comforter' and this could be drugs or even food (as has already been suggested to you.) I know people who are psychologically addicted to food and they fight the inevitable obesity and often Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease that accompanies it. Addictive personalities are everywhere and they explain a lot a dependencies that people develop when they self-medicate.....but medicinal cannabis is not even in the same category.

Please stop lumping the 'whacky weed' in with the medicine.

 

[Lyndon]

total BS your just talking crxp, its a form of brainwashing, tell them enough nonsense, someone will believe it!!

 

[Deeje]

total BS your just talking crxp, its a form of brainwashing, tell them enough nonsense, someone will believe it!!

Replies like this do nothing for your position. Please provide evidence for your assertions otherwise it appears as if you are just talking rubbish yourself. I am genuinely worried about what you believe because it is not substantiated by anything other than your own opinion and it is way off the mark on this thread.

 

[Lyndon]

Believe all the lies about marijuana, believe all the lies about traditional medicine, then suffer the consequences if you rely on marijuana for you medical needs.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Believe all the lies about marijuana, believe all the lies about traditional medicine, then suffer the consequences if you rely on marijuana for you medical needs.

The things I wish I could discuss..*sigh*
But, I can say that Francis Crick discovered the double helix design of DNA while we he was tripping on LSD. And Micheal Phelps has been caught smoking weed, and he's also won more gold medals than anyone. I can actually go on for awhile about various achievements of different people, in spite of drug use, and often while under the effects of drugs. Art and science especially.