don't forget about the lumber industry, it's a helluva lot cheaper to produce paper from hemp, than from trees.
LRS Scout wrote: > The main reasons for the vilification of cannabis: > > 1. Big oil was afraid of hemp oil and used its influence. > 2. "The black man will rape the white woman" > 3. It will make you crazy and kill people and think you can fly (wtf? I > want some of that shit) > > I have personally had had BAD psychoactive reactions fro paxil withdrawal > and just from taking seroquel, and a total breakdown on Dec 17th due to some > other prescribed medicine that "activated" me (that's what my pshrink says). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Munn [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:13 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Smoking non-tobacco products (was Re: states rights) > > > You make a good point and it is a legitimate area of concern for the doctors > and patients who make this choice. What we are talking about is the delivery > system. There are edibles available in most places, and in Canada there is a > company that provides some form of pills (saw that with Montel Williams on > O'Reilly I think). There is also something called a vaporizer that basically > cooks the plant material and extracts moisture and active ingredients as > vapor, providing the effect of smoking it without the toxins. > > More importantly, if it was actually legalized as a prescription medicine, > drug companies could put research money into building more effective > delivery mechanisms that have no side effects and allow for more precise > dosage, e.g. an inhaler that delivers the active ingredients via some form > of vapor like the vaporizer. > > The funny thing is that marijuana was made illegal during a fabricated panic > about it causing potentially psychotic reactions in people who used it. > Today, on the market in the United States, you can be prescribed medications > that actually do have the potential to create psychotic reactions in some > patients - anti-depressants. Yet those drugs remain legal while marijuana > remains - for the most part - illegal. That makes absolutely no sense to me. > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, C. Hattonwrote: > > >> Since tobacco smokers are vilified and shunned in today's society for >> their act of inhaling and exhaling the smoke created by burning dried >> tobacco leaves (modified or unmodified), how would society at large >> (driven by the same groups that have pushed the public against >> smoking) regard and treat people who smoked non-tobacco products? >> >> >> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287318 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
