Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

If god is a woman it would explain why Mary was still a virgin when she was pregnant. A god wouldn't need the messy physical coupling to implant a seed!

Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

Have we now reached the conclusion that guns don't kill people unless mixed with drugs, alcohol or mental problems? Does shear anger come under temporary mental problems or is it in a different category?

Mattie

I was sick to learn of Marijuana becoming legal. I am not in favor of any 'mind altering' drink or drug. We did not allow alcohol in our home, nor guns. When a child sees a parent drinking.. they think it's an ok thing even if parent says no they can't have it yet... but when the parents are gone... kids will play.... it's a Monkey see... Monkey do type of thing... kids mimmic what they see a parent do whether as a child or even after they leave home.

Drugs and alcohol have destroyed many a person and many a family.

Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

I am not saying for or against Marijuana and there are too many conflicting 'reports' to obtain a true picture.

However, when talking about drugs you must also include prescription drugs, many people have had their lives damaged as much or more with some of these than the recreational drugs.

I do know that Marijuana does have some extremely good medical uses and a great number of seriously ill people have benefited from Marijuana when other medications have failed. In the UK people have to obtain these drugs illegally but for many they are the only way to cope with their condition and have something of a life.

Plymouth University in the UK has done a study (had to be privately funded by a patient) which proved the medical benefits of Marijuana. There is so much hysteria about Marijuana here in the UK that for many years it was not allowed to be even researched and the recent Plymouth University trial was - I believe - the first.

Mattie

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I was not speaking of pot given to patients who need it .. I am talking about where people can walk in a bar or where ever like they do for beer,etc.. and just smoke a joint... I went with a friend of mine one time to a concert... I had never been to one before and wasn't too hot on going.. but she and her husband insisted... I soon found out what it was like... the jokers sitting in front of me.. one of them would take a puff... then blow it to the one sitting by them.. and they enhaled that smoke... I couldnt take my eyes off that.... and I wondered why all the policemen were in that building, and did NOTHING.... guess I am still living in a backwoods enviornment... dunno... but all of it sickened me....

But if somone needed it for medical use.. fine... but for just getting a high for the pleasure.. No.. Im against it... we have enough drunks on the roads as it is without adding more pot heads... Look how many people are killed every day from drug related accidents...

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

This whole MJ controversy was stared in the USA in the 1920s by an FBI fellow who's daughter had started on MJ and progressed to hard drugs. She had mental illness and really needed a psychiastist but her father didn't beleive in the study of psychiatry. She eventually died and he went a campaign to irradicate the drug with faulty statements and studies.
Semms the smae thing went on there in England. For Gloucoma, MJ seems to be very helful to those afflicted, and for those on Chemo therapy it induces then to eat and sooths the pain and side effects of the treatments.
Any drug or herbal rememdy that induces dopemines in the body will be misused by someone who is addition prone so they all need to be monitored for doseage and misuse, but to make any helpful drug to be banned when it can do someone some good is rediculous.
Under today's laws, George Washington would be arrested and jailed for life for the growing, use and distributiopn of marajuana since the seperation of male and female plants has been discovered in his herb gardens. I guess this country was founded by drug users.
Just sayin.....

Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

I am with you there and used to feel much the same with cigarette smokers until it was banned in public.