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The Effects of Marijuana on the Body – Should We?

There is a growing movement in Barbados to free up the weed. BU sees compelling arguments for and against. There is the economic argument to support decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana will go along way to relieving congestion in the court system. Then there are the touted medical benefits -many of us have seen the miraculous recovery on…

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marijuanna_plantThere is a growing movement in Barbados to free up the weed. BU sees compelling arguments for and against. There is the economic argument to support decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana will go along way to relieving congestion in the court system. Then there are the touted medical benefits -many of us have seen the miraculous recovery on CBS documentaries and other  media. The following is reproduced from Healthline Website to stoke discussion. Should we?

The Effects of Marijuana on the Body

Marijuana comes from the Cannabis plant. The flowers, seeds, leaves, and stems of the plant must be shredded and dried before they can be used. Most people who use marijuana smoke it, but it can be mixed into food, brewed into tea, or even used in a vaporizer. One of the ingredients in marijuana is a mind-altering chemical called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

When you inhale marijuana smoke into your lungs, it is quickly released into your bloodstream on its way to your brain and other organs. It takes a little longer to be absorbed when you eat or drink it.

The effects of marijuana on the body are immediate. Longer-term effects may depend on how you take it, how much you take, and how often you use it. Since its use has long been illegal in the United States, large-scale studies have been difficult to manage.

See more at: http://www.healthline.com/health/addiction/marijuana/effects-on-body#sthash.gqIziLzA.dpuf

93 responses to “The Effects of Marijuana on the Body – Should We?”

  1. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Alvin Cummins January 23, 2016 at 8:13 AM

    Alvin, your ‘sober’ rebuttal only reinforces the reason why marijuana, alcohol and tobacco should be put on equal footing before the LAW. They all have negative effects on the human body and mind, if abused. But why see alcohol and tobacco as ‘legitimate’ but vicious children while mary jane is let out as a bastard of the poor man and the ‘un-taxable’ prostitute of Dionysius.

    Your case for the continuing ‘illegitimization’ of this child of both go(o)d an(d) evil is deeply flawed if you can only see the negative effects in the form of the smoking of marijuana.

    Alvin, the man seen about town, why do you only see marijuana as something to smoke? Why not see it as an herb or plant for multiple uses as your God intended? You say you do not smoke. So why not try it in its natural form as your Creator intended and use it as a herb for culinary and medicinal uses or even as a simple infusion (tea) instead of Red Rose, Typhoo or even PG Tips or Nescafe?

    Isn’t alcohol (in its many dimensions) a product of both Evil and GOOD?
    Also, you need to check out the “Original” use of the tobacco and coca plant before the involvement of the European to chemically exploit both for commercially profitable outcomes.

  2. Ready Done Avatar
    Ready Done

    Whether it is legal or not the amount of Marijuana being used will remain constant…….let those against it deal with that fact. i surmise their is not a police on this island that does not know someone that smokes weed.

  3. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    I am sure Alvin downed gallons of Coca Cola but could never understand or explain why he was addicted and would have probably been in denial, that without his knowledge, it contained a cocaine derivative. Is his attitude a side effect from permanently damaged brain cells as a result, he is the microbiologist, he should know.

    I take serious issue with you as a retired microbiologist which would put you in the category of a scientist, making the same mistakes many Ph.Ds do, they have learned everything about their disciplines and in their minds, even retired, they have no need to update their knowledge and end up spreading bad information…..what you are now spreading 50 years after your matriculation re marijuana are your personal opinions and have nothing to do with science, science has moved on as it should.

    Personally knowing, as you know I do, of what obtains in Canada, you could never impose your warped and outdated views on the Canadian people as you make it a habit to do on your own people in Barbados, it is mystifying that you want to keep the island and it’s people stuck in a mental time warp from 50 years ago, that’s called stagnating progress, the young people will move on because they read and comprehend that you build on your knowledge to achieve progress. I was still taking university courses at age 46, if you know New York, you should know if you want that knowledge, continuing education is the only was to go.and that is despite experimenting with marijuana from my 20s to 30s. Misinformation can be dangerous.

    AC I can understand, she displays all the symptoms of having been dropped on her head, whenever, so can be easily ignored, but you should know a whole lot better, yardfowlism not withstanding.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Can Cannabis Treat Epileptic Seizures?

  5. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @David “many of us have seen the miraculous recovery on CBS documentaries and other media.”

    Yes David, but the truth is that before most people start consuming marijuana they are as healthy as a horse and so are not in need of a miraculous recovery.

    Isn’t it strange that those same people so eager to use marijuana for non-existent sicknesses will not use their hypertension and diabetes medicine when they do become sick?

    And hypertension and diabetes are real sicknessess and real killers in Barbados.

    Few people in Barbados have grand mal seizures.

    Most people use marijuana not because of sickness but simply because they want to indulge themselves.

    We already have more than enough people indulging themselves (and neglecting their responsibilities) with alcohol.

    No need to add marijuana to the mix.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    What a generalization.

  7. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Tom Rieke January 21, 2016 at 6:28 PM “The local price might go down, and the government could make sure that it stays reasonable.”

    A Simple Response: I do not want my government to use my tax money to provide financial support to marijuana farmers.

    @Tom Rieke January 21, 2016 at 6:28 PM “That will rescue the farmers.”

    A Simple Response: How can farmers who are not currently growing fruits and vegetables be rescued? Rescued from what? Right now nobody is preventing the marijuana farmers from growing fruits and vegetables. Barbados has a high, high, high food import bill. Some of our infants and young children are only marginally nourished and yet our marijuana farmers choose to grow marijuana for self indulgent adults rather than fruits and vegetables for vulnerable children. Why?

    @Tom Rieke January 21, 2016 at 6:28 PM “The result improved currency reserves, a healthier economy, and a healthier country.”

    A Simple Response: I don’t know what you are smoking, but if Barbados cannot compete with the U.S. in growing carrots, sweet peppers and tomatoes (and if we cannot grow enough carrots, sweet peppers and tomatoes for local consumption) I don’t know why you expect that we will be able to compete in growing marijuana. And if we increase our local marijuana consumption and we are all chilled out how will that increase our productivity in other areas?

    I think we are being seduced by foolish reasoning. Farmers in Barbados should concentrate on growing traditional ground provisions, fruits, vegetables, eggs, poultry, mutton, pork, milk, beef, and on our fisheries so that every Bajan infant, child, woman and man is well nourished. I can’t imagine that we are talking about growing marijuana when during the long summer vacations some of our children barely survive on heavily salt laden cheap imported ramen.

    Are we mad people?

    Don’t we love our own?

    Why do we so consistently set up ourselves so that other people exploit us?

  8. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Well Well & Consequences January 23, 2016 at 5:13 AM #
    Hants…did you inhale…

    Yes I inhaled and they were both big spliffs. I just did not like the “high” I got . I did enjoy the “high” I got from booze.

    Quit drinking 2 years ago because I am taking medication daily for high cholesterol.

    Just one point. I have never seen anyone falling down and puking from smoking weed.

  9. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM “Any political which genuinely cares about the number of youth made into criminals by a bad law will make decriminalization of marijuana with attendant laws a priority.”

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM “Oh how drunkards drive cars and kill people while drinking to a drunken stupor is accepted.”

    A Simple Response: No. It is NOT accepted. NOBODY accepts when their parent, spouse, child or other relative is killed by an impaired driver. We are haunted by the death for the rest of our lives. HAUNTED KAMMIE. It NEVER goes away. There is NEVER acceptance.

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM “How much does alcohol related ailments cost the QEH?”

    A Simple Response: Too much. Way, way too much. But my question to you. Do you want to double the amount of money we already spend on treating alcohol related illnessess at the QEH and at the Psychiatric Hosptal?

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM “What is the total number of days lost to Barbados due to alcoholism?”

    A Simple Response: Too many. Way, way too many. Me. I spent nearly 50 years in the work force and when I checked the NIS site prior to retiring I found that as I thought that I had claimed ZERO sick days. I’ve NEVER used marijuana. I rarely use alcohol. I smoked one cigarette once, then wondered why was I rolling up my money to smoke it and never smoked another.

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM “Any political which genuinely cares about the number of youth made into criminals by a bad law.”

    Nobody is making the youth into criminals Kammie. Youngsters are choosing to have themselves criminalized. Youngsters can choose to indulge in illegal activity, or they can chose NOT to indulge in illegal activity.

    And remember way back in the day when I was young the unemployment rate among youth was way higher than it is now.

    Dear Kammie: Love yah. But on this ya wrong.

    Nobody ids victimizing us. We are victimizing ourselves.

    We are our own worse enemy.

    Self discipline Kammie. Self discipline.

    That is what Barbados needs more than anything.

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:29 PM “The 1000 lbs recently intercepted by the police can fetch more than a million dollars… thru some smart partnership with Pfizer.

    Why would Pfizer buy petty amounts of marijuana from us when if they wanted to they could more econmicaly produce it on the vast acreages available in the U.S.?

  11. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Ready done January 22, 2016 at 5:54 AM “The most important question I have is who is going to take care of all these push a men when they get old? I don’t think that pay NIS?

    There is NOTHING stopping the push a men from paying NIS.

    When on occasion the push a men are taken to court they are proud to describe themselves as “businessmen”.

    Well tell them that first thing Monday morning go to NIS, take their ID card, describe themselves as businessmen, register for, and apply for an NIS number, and start paying their NIS contributions.

    NOBODY IS STOPPING THEM.

    I have relatives who are self employed and diligently once a month they go to NIS and pay in their NIS contributions.

    What is stopping the push A men from doing the same.

    Or do they think that their mummies will take care of them when they are old.

    Tell them that their mummies’ breast milk has already dried up and that by the time the push a men are old we their mummies will ALL be happily dead. And when you are dead you no longer if your children and grandchildren are sick or well, living or dead, in the mental hospital or not, starving to death or not.

    Tell the push a men to start looking out for themselves right now.

    And if they start paying some of their money into the NIS, maybe, just maybe the NIS can afford to give me a raise on my pension NOW.

  12. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Ready done January 22, 2016 at 5:54 AM

    Nobody is victimizing the push a men. They are victimizing themselves.

    They are their own worse enemies.

    Self discipline ready done. Self discipline.

    That is what the push a men need more than anything.

    Self discipline yaself to pay ya NIS every week.

  13. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Hants….here is where life slaps you around, I stopped smoking marijuana decades ago because I became aware that long term smoking can and does damage lung tissues, so here is where I can advocate for not smoking marijuana.

    Some years ago an accident saw me suffering spinal nerve damage, there are all types of conventional drugs for this, not only are they only temporary pain relief but the side effects would cause onset of the worse types of unwanted illnesses, so my doctor suggested I use the marijuana tea to alleviate pain. Now if Canada and the US had not relaxed their stances re medical marijuana, just imagine me stuck in Barbados and getting arrested for trying to alleviate pain by buying marijuana that is easily available on the island.

    Not making marijuana available for medical use will in no way cut down on the current supply or future importation, since the authorities can see no way to stop either. Misuse and abuse of the plant is counterproductive, so is misuse and abuse of alcohol and food.

  14. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @David January 22, 2016 at 6:25 AM “It comes back to social norms.”

    Dear David: When it comes to social norms, why do we always have to be bottom feeders?

  15. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:29 PM “The 1000 lbs recently intercepted by the police can fetch more than a million dollars.”

    A Simple Response: It could only fetch a million dollars if foolish lower class Bajans willing removed money from their families and put that money into the pockets into the pockets of upper middle class drug dealers.

    Otherwise it is worth as much as a 1,000 pounds of candle bush.

    Zilch.

    Zero.

    Nothing.

  16. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @David January 22, 2016 at 6:25 AM “Many of our leaders in Barbados and overseas Many of our leaders in Barbados and overseas have taken a puff or two of weed.”

    O Lord. Looka I quoting by nemesis Bush Tea.

    But David you know as well as I do that many of “our leaders” in Barbados and overseas are a bunch of BRASS BOWLS.

    Why would any sensible person follow them?

    I don’t know if these people have taken a puff of the weed. But I certainly don’t want to go down the death road like thease our late leaders: Bree St. John, Errol Barrow, David Thompson, Tom Adams. You get my drift?

    Honestly David what could any of them fellows teach us about taking care of our health?

    Stupseee!!!!!!

    Just because a fella decide to go into politics does not mean that he can lead on health.

    He is a politician that’s all.

    He is NOT a health leader.

  17. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Kammie Holder January 22, 2016 at 9:02 AM “Why is it we hardly hear of persons caught with cocaine the drug of the wealthy.”

    That is because the poor ‘rass weed smokers don’t even have a house to live in. They can’t afford to buy or rent their own place, but they can afford to use an expensive illegal drug? You don;t think that something is missing there?

    Tell them to gett offa the blocks smoking marijuana in public and smoke it in their own home where the smoke and the littering offends the rest of us. And tell them as well, like the wealthy do to pay for their own health care (but we had someone on this block wondering if the rest of us are contributing to NIS on behalf of the push a men who refuse to pay their OWN NIS contributions.

    Bunch a snivelling sissies who hope to suck their mothers breasts until they are 65, and then to suck the breasts of the NIS.

    My people gone mad.

    I am tired of having to pick up marijuana butts offa my property…the nasty b!tches don’t even have the mind to clean up after themselves. If as frequently happens there are unused marijuana cigarettes in the litter I discard those too.

  18. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Well Well & Consequences January 22, 2016 at 10:59 AM “did one from Belleville not get caught with marijuana and a gun last year, given bail and was dead in some accident just before Christmas.

    A Simple Response” And good riddance to bad rubbishh.

  19. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon January 23, 2016 at 11:01 AM
    “A Simple Response: Too much. Way, way too much. But my question to you. Do you want to double the amount of money we already spend on treating alcohol related illnessess at the QEH and at the Psychiatric Hosptal?

    I’ve NEVER used marijuana. I rarely use alcohol. I smoked one cigarette once, then wondered why was I rolling up my money to smoke it and never smoked another.”

    So how would your attitude(s) change when the use of marijuana is decriminalized?
    Why do you feel you are more compos mentis than other people who currently don’t use marijuana? Who says the average Bajan would turn to the use of marijuana? Because you are so gung-ho in your moral straightjacket you cannot see that marijuana users are being made into criminals for using a simple plant created by your God while alcoholic consumers are given social acceptance once they pay the excise taxes and duties (unless you are a guest at Sandals).

    If you think that criminalizing young people would deter them and future generations from engaging in this recreational activity why not make having sex before ‘marriage’ a crime? That should certainly deter the young ones from having lots of children out of wedlock, eliminate the scourge of STDs and create a society full of responsible fathers. What do you think?

    BTW, the reason why farmers would produce marijuana before other crops is purely based on profitability. It is because of the illegality of the plant that makes it extremely profitable.
    Just decriminalize its growth (take the large profits out of the trade) and you would see how many go out of business. Just like the growing of canes to produce rum.
    Why is the business of operating rum shops dying out in Barbados in spite of the fact that the production and consumption of rum is legal and socially accepted? There is no bloody profit in it; that’s why!

    Why not do the same to the simple plant called Cannabis Sativa (ganja)?
    Maybe the business people who make money out of the misery of people would turn to another substance but must first influence (in exchange for fees aka bribes and kickbacks) the political class to make it illegal in order to create an artificial profit element.

    The use of poor mary-jane, the harlot of illegal substances, is becoming rather passé to a modern bored generation raised on synthetic foods and substances.
    What’s next in Bim? Crystal meth?

  20. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Well Well.
    I am an advocate of, and adherent to continuing education’ I am constantly studying; reading medical and scientific papers, and up to a few years ago, just before I became ill, I was conducting research at Cave Hill. I contribute to scientific journals and know how to access the latest information. I am not stuck in past ages as you so presumptuously assume. I know about nerve damage and pains,from personal experience because because when I was diagnosed with Lymphoma (Non-Hodgkins) I had nerve damage and lost the use of one of my hands. My treatment enabled me to regain the use of my hand, but I still suffer from pain, numbness and other signs of nerve damage. It may be permanent, but I do not resort to something which will replace my nerve damage, with something that will give me brain damage.The centre of nerve function is the brain. Should I take the chance to damage any portion of that permanently? You stopped smoking because you feared lung damage, so you replaced something that would damage your lungs with something equally bad, that is known to have a negative effect on your brain.. When you extract the chemicals in the marijuana by infusion, do you know the percentage of each of the chemicals in the weed that is extracted? The weed contains many different chemicals, you have no control on what is extracted.Any substance that is mind altering is bad because it disturbs the balance that obtains in the human body. If you want to know how the brain functions go to PBS.com and order there series on The Brain. You have no idea how complex it is and how fragile the balance is and how easily it can be disturbed.
    I see my purpose as one where I can pass on my knowledge, whether or not it is accepted. That is what I studied for.

    By the way Kammie, if someone brings a million dollars worth of “WEED” from another place, whether another island or country, where did they get the money to purchase it, even at wholesale prices? When they sell it, who is going to be buying it? Are you telling me that the “boys on the block” who are the distributors have so much cash (in foreign exchange) that they can afford it? If they have it where did they get it? Are all of you,especially the boys on the block,and non-workers, aware that with every breath you take you get older, and when you have breathed long enough you wii reach an age and stage where you can’t work any longer? There is no longer any automatic pension when you reach sixty five, who will supply you with food, and the necessities of life?
    Just asking.

  21. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Then Alvin…..you should have known about the current publications from universities in the US, where you studied, that debunks previous studies that marijuana kills brain cells in users permanently. This information is coming from accomplished and published scientists, which makes your credibility very suspect.

    You are passing on knowledge whether or not it is true and expect other people who know better to ignore current updated information and believe your outdated rhetoric that has been reduced to mere personal opinions by new age technology…..laws change from time to time in the legal field and everyone has to comply, so too would medical information in the medical field, you do not want to acknowledge that your fellow medical colleagues who are now of a newer, much younger, more knowledgeable generation, are right and expect everyone in Barbados to fall under your spell, believing everything you say, but here’s what, most people now have access to the internet and are quite capable of googling anything, just as I did this morning and making their own informed decisions.

    That is despite those with their ulterior motives who were calling for the internet to be removed from Barbados to keep the people misinformed. I would advise people to always double check information and google updated sites so they are never misled.

  22. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Alvin Cummins January 23, 2016 at 12:55 PM
    “By the way Kammie, if someone brings a million dollars worth of “WEED” from another place, whether another island or country, where did they get the money to purchase it, even at wholesale prices? When they sell it, who is going to be buying it? Are you telling me that the “boys on the block” who are the distributors have so much cash (in foreign exchange) that they can afford it? If they have it where did they get it?”

    Alvin, do you see how incisively smart you can be at times? It only shows your brain has not been totally destroyed by prescription drugs provided by patented drug pushers called medical doctors.

    Those so-called ‘boys on the block’ are just minions (equivalent to waiters in restaurants) in the chain of the illegal drug trade. The real importers, wholesale distributors and financiers of the trade live not on the blocks but in so-called respectable upscale places of residence having friends in high official places and access to foreign exchange.

    The growers of marijuana and its exporters and the foreign processors and suppliers of cocaine do not accept mickey-mouse Bajan currency. Preferably US dollars, C.O.D. Now how many two-bit boys on the block can control such a sophisticated trade and secure protection from those in authority?
    Why not decriminalize the trade, remove the huge profits and put many out of business?

  23. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And Kammie. Yes I think that we sHould have long had breathylyzer legislation on the books.

    And we should have long had RIGID, RIGID enforcement.

    If we had done so hundreds of Bajans would not haVe died prematurely.

    Thousands of family members would not have been traumatized.

    Many, many children would not have been orphaned.

    And many middled aged mothers and fathers would not have weeped over their children’s graves.

    THINK ABOUT IT. AND THEN ACT. Make your MP do something. Make your voting conditional on legislative change designed to stop substance impaired drivers from going on the road. All substances. I do nt pick and chose.

    And for miller etc. For me substance is NOT a moral issue. It is a practical issue. I do not like to see young children being deprived of the care of their parents, or being deprived of their parents entirely.

  24. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Miller…some people are unable to process information at that level….their prejudices and dislikes begin and end at the boys on the block, how come they got a thousand dollars or where they got the money from….they can never embrace the thought that those in Club Morgan with their homes surrounded by closed circuit cameras and bank accounts in the multi millions are the real benefactors and instigators of the same drug trade, so too those in Seaview St. James, so too those in Belleville, Husbands Heights and St. Thomas, whom the authorities are well aware of but hesitant to touch…the boys on the block are their whipping boys, easily available and the bane of their existence, it’s a shame.

  25. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon January 23, 2016 at 1:27 PM
    “It is a practical issue. I do not like to see young children being deprived of the care of their parents, or being deprived of their parents entirely.”

    But S. S., that is exactly what is happening under the current regime which makes the use of marijuana a criminal offence.

    Why not take some of the “mystique” out of the simple plant unless you see it as the tree of knowledge of good and evil as depicted in the Judeo-Christian book of laws against moral turpitude.
    Why not take the profit out of the trade and you will see that it would have as much commercial attraction as the sale of parsley or joni juice.

    Why not let us put our business brains together and come up with a plan to promote the use of whitehead bush to cure erectile dysfunction in Bajan males riddled with diabetes and hypertension? Now should that bush be made illegal?

  26. David Avatar
    David

    Here is a sensible report.

    http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/healthmyths.html

  27. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    The myths have finally run their course, at one time the by products of marijuana was used for any and everything, until some now long dead person came up with the idea to criminalize the plant which then saw certain people becoming billionaires just from that decision…..if it ain’t one thing, it’s another, the next generation will experience something else, just as the previous generation experienced prohibition and we experienced marijuana criminalization.

    Our governments keep buying into these schemes….more the fool.

  28. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David….freedom of speech…oh Canada eh!

    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-man-found-not-guilty-in-twitter-harassment-trial-widely-viewed-as-a-canadian-first

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Hants, an interesting case.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    Marijuana does not lower IQ and can reverse cognitive decline, according to recent studies

  31. Kiki Avatar
    Kiki

  32. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    @Tom Reike “and establish it as the best ganga in the western hemisphere. Bajan ganga could become a premium commodity, available on the world market at a premium price.”

    The legal growers in the US may be ahead of you. There is a small flow of marijauna from the north (US) to the south Mexico.

    “El M says he doesn’t know where his product comes from. But law enforcement agencies, as well as expert analysts, think they do. They’re placing the origin of this premium weed in the crops of U.S. legal-marijuana states, such as Colorado.

    Reverse trafficking, from Denver to Mexico (reverse flow)

    Last July, a Mexican customs agent at the Ciudad Juárez checkpoint found more than five kilos of marijuana in the luggage rack of a Honda Accord coming in from Texas.”

    Legalizing marijuana may not be a magic bullet …

  33. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Marijuana laws obsolete and ridiculous!

    Legalize Marijuana
    Legalize Marijuana

    Judge Pierre Chevalier just issued a stunning statement on marijuana prohibition. He said in unequivocal terms, that a man brought before him for the “crime” of growing 30 marijuana plants at his home, should face no more than $1.30 fine.

    The ruling was symbolic, but it went beyond the mere gesture when the judge said point blank that the rules prohibiting the man’s action are “obsolete” and “ridiculous.”

    Mario Larouche, 46, had been facing possession charges for the 30 marijuana plants kept at home. The Canadian judge’s ruling was in line with what the new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his party have said about legalizing marijuana.

    The Quebec judge said this about it all:

    We are in a society where people are accused of possession and use of marijuana while more than half the population has already consumed. These are laws that are obsolete and ridiculous. When one is in the presence of laws which would have more than half of the population has a criminal record in Canada… And probably most Crown Attorneys and defense, and perhaps judges, but I will not comment on it.
    Then Judge Chevalier explained that “46 year old Mario Larouche had tried numerous times to get a prescription for medical marijuana, unsuccessfully”

    There are “so few doctors are willing to prescribe marijuana for pain relief, despite the mountains of evidence proving its effectiveness without the disastrous side effects of prescription painkillers. This forced Mr. Larouche to break the law in order to treat his pain.”

    Chevalier said the system itself is broken.

    “Monsieur is in a broken system where it does not give people access to a natural medicine that goes back centuries, millennia.” (Source: ConcurrentNews)

    Alvin….Justin Trudeau agrees, the younger generation understand the fraud perpetrated on the world for over 50 years and are working on reversing the injustice of not only criminalizing a plant but putting people in prison for it’s use.

  34. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Challenge question.

    If the two main pushers of illegal drugs were David and SImple SImon, how long before they would be held and charged?

    Ha ha.

    Answer that and then draw your conclusions, or draw your conclusions based on your reasoning.

    What does that tell you?

  35. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Apple….. Tree ?

    http://www.pot.tv/video/2013/08/09/father-son-trudeaus-chew-grass-legalization/

  36. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Looks like anything they put in front of pere Trudeau, he took a pull….lol

  37. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @WELL WELL,
    Not surprised at the article. After all this publication or at least web site, is lobbying to have pot legalized, and at the same time trying to get more people hooked and on their side. Probably owned by very rich folks. Your friends?

  38. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Alvin….everyone is quite capable of making informed decisions, the same way you swallowed hook, line and sinker the propaganda for the last 50 years, 2 generations of people, that criminalized the plant, imprisoned people, destroyed people’s reputations and made the same people who brainwashed you billionaires……to the point that you are unable to reverse those lies and brainwashing…..the same way too, people will make informed decisions going forward as to the best way they should use the plant for their benefit…..right.

  39. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Crusoe January 23, 2016 at 9:20 PM “Challenge question. If the two main pushers of illegal drugs were David and SImple SImon, how long before they would be held and charged?”

    Don’t call my name nor even my pen name when talking about illegal drugs.

    I have never used, bought, sold, given away nor solicited nor accepted any illegal drug.

    NEVER.

  40. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    I have however found marijuana growing on my premises and I’ve cut down the marijuana tress and thrown them into the nearest 300 feet well.

  41. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    https://youtu.be/t1FLmUlrN8o

    Irionic is it not, coming from a Caribbean prime minister.

  42. High Country Healing Avatar
    High Country Healing

    Thanks for sharing the marijuana effects on the body, I am happy to have found this information on this article. I’m looking to read more blogs from you.

  43. Archie Stiver Avatar
    Archie Stiver

    White Rhino is a potent Indica strain, and is easily recognizable with its short to bushy, light green to dark green leaves. The nugs are a hue best described as being silvery white and it is well known for its potency, which comes with a high that is hard and fast, mostly due to the high THC content which ranges from 14-20%. With its background of White Widow and a North American Sativa plant, it’s also known for its powerful aroma, which is a mix of an earthy, bitter, and would like to smell. It’s perfectly common to experience feelings of laziness, happiness, and euphoria after smoking this strain of weed, which is why it’s primarily used in the medical world to treat stress, pain, and insomnia. The primary negative effect of this strain is dry mouth, although dry eyes is a possibility. This strain is also known for being particularly durable, being able to be grown in extreme climates.
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