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Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered
jim.b0b writes "Wired has an interesting article about nicotine-free cigarettes, made from genetically engineered tobacco grown by Amish farmers. Vector Tobacco is hoping that their Quest cigarettes will make them a viable competitor to RJR and Phillip Morris. Don't worry, they are nicotine-free, not carcinogen-free."
And WTF is the parent poster modded as a troll? Granted, it's poorly worded (antagonistic), but he has a good point. Do moderaters even *read* the posts before moderating them these days??
Rebuttle New study shows that pot has 4xs the carcenogens of cigarettes per joint/cigarette (average size). Carcenogens cause cancer. Bad for your health. Nuff said. Secondly, Bush announced his devotion to creating alternative energy automobiles which completely opposes your opinion on the "Can't have that! Dubya's family has been heavily into oil for decades. Step up the War on Drugs!" nonsense. Finally, if Hemp is such a wonderful product then why don't the paper industries import it? (Much of America's papers are imported anyway). Truely, if there was any real use, it would be put to use. Common sense would tell you that, and judging by your comments--you have none.
first off, your a knee jerking moron looking for an excuse to smoke pot.
Hemp is legal. The plant that makes you high and produced hemp is illegal.(in most states)
Once again, you can get Hemp from a pot that has legal amounts of THC.
". You can make any grade of paper with it. "
Then why isn't the paper industry using it?
"It's the toughest natural fibre aside from spider silk"
yes, but is it comfortable? easy to use? could you produce clothes to the mass market that are as good looking, durable, and comfortable as cotton? can you get the same volume of useable material per acre as you can cotton? If so, why are clothes(on a wide scale) made out of it?
"You can run a car on hemp oil. People could be growing gas in their backyards"
ahh no. You can certianly create a car that would operate that way, but if you dump a gallon of the stuff in your ordinary car, ity will not work. Do you kow anything about agriculture? how many acres would a person need to get the 10 gallons a week they need to get to work? Do you really think that would be a threat?
"In 1937, when marijuana was banned, the American Medical Association OPPOSED it. They had been prescribing it safely for over a hundred years."
true.And it should be prescribed for medical use still. No argument there at all.
"Every [xs4all.nl] scientific [medmjscience.org] study [maps.org] of marijuana [druglibrary.org] has concluded that it is substantially less harmful than cigarettes or alcohol. Very recently, a senate committee here in Canada which studied it in depth, recommended [narconews.com] unanimously to the government that pot is far less dangerous than smoking and drinking, and should be regulated accordingly."
less harm full does not = harmless. Tobacco and alchohol is an open can of works. If Pot is legalized, it will be a pandoras box.
"Perhaps, gram for gram, there are more carcinogens in marijuana than tobacco. So what? People smoke far less pot than cigarettes, "
perhaps because it is illegal?
"because pot is not chemically addictive. "but it is addictive all the same, very powerfully addictive. Just sk the doctors in San Francisco that see addicted 13 year olds every day.
"I've been smoking pot regularly for about 8 years. You know how much I smoke now? A small pipe bowl when I get home from work, and maybe a shared joint when my roommate gets home. Now compare that to a smoker who measures their habit in packs per day, and is only getting worse.
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well that shows how bad cigerattes are, not how good Pot is.
"I can tell by your wording that you make the average pothead look pretty bright."
which just says how stupid you think he is, not how smart a pot head is.
you seem to think if it was legal, it would threaten the big companies out of some profit, when in fact, the tobacco industry would make a ton of cash. They are in a position to mass produce it, most people are not.
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