I don't think Wired's reporter did that. He didn't say that while he, the author, became a successful writer x number of people didn't. He's not a drug-educating expert or doctor. And I don't think children should be given the "opportunity to make an informed decision" to take drugs.
"Self-administration of drugs by animals, long considered a model of human drug-seeking behavior, is characteristic of virtually all addictive and abused drugs....The drug-seeking behavior in these animals was comparable in intensity to that maintained by cocaine... This finding suggests that marijuana has as much potential for abuse as other drugs of abuse, such as cocaine and heroin."
I'm glad you've admitted that it's addictive. Maybe everyone else can, finally, instead of being retarded.
I'm not convinced of the medical value of cannabis, especially in light of the significant adverse reactions it causes.
As for tobacco and alcohol, I'm not sure they should be legal.
Prohibition failed therefore what? No substances can or should be prohibited?
I'm trying to Inform them, but people don't seem to want to hear that pot isn't completely harmless. Instead they'd rather listen to popular opinions promoted by the lay person who gets high all the time. Very scientific.
I'm not sure that death from marijuana overdose can't be done. What I am sure of is this, while opium is addictive and in high doses can stop respiration, it has no toxicity to the body, is well tolerated by patients, and has a specific and predictable pain-relieving effect.
Marijuana on the other hand, has cross reaction within all the categories of drugs. It's not simply a pain reliever, anxiolytic, depressant, or fantasticant alone. It's all of those combined, and significant numbers of people, 22-30% have adverse reactions to it, and it's loaded with carcinogens.
Therefore it's not a predictable, safe, or reliable medication to be prescribing to people. Should some patients who are dying and simply want it be prescribed it?
I don't really care, although I think they're simply mistaken. That some people anecdotally report that cannabis helps them does not make a medicine safe. It's the specific number and % that are helped compared against the numbers who are not helped or harmed. This notion that it's a medicine is just legalization propaganda promoted by pot heads.
In drug studies, they need to get the animals to self administer. There is a study, which I can not find at the moment that talks about this. I don't care what other countries have legalized. Weed has some heavy-duty side effects. Period.
Addiction is a definition in the DSM-IV or somewhere though I don't have all the details, it still has been demonstrated to be addictive. Maybe it's less addictive based on your criteria compared to heroin, but it also excites areas of the brain associated with addiction, and addiction is addiction, however much you'd like to minimize that, relatively.
I'm not so sure of that, but even still, lethality alone is one miniscule detail when regarding safety. An acute toxic psychosis from a potent dose of THC isn't made any less worse.
I don't care how old or how many people use and believe it's a safe drug. Marijuana causes acute toxic reactions in people, psychosis, LSD-like hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety, depression, recurrent flashbacks and depersonalization, habitual use, apathy. etc. etc. 30% of people report negative symptoms as the reason they avoid it. Marijuana is not a great example of a safe drug. Even opioids are better tolerated, and not as harmful to the body as previously mentioned. Marijuana is far from safe. It's a very powerful drug.
Yes. I think everyone sees that drug companies are selling you something. And while it's the parents responsibility, there's a little bit of responsibility that wired has when suggesting that every-day people benefit by using drugs and they turned out as writers and successful. That stuff sways kids because they're stupid.
Hey, did it ever occur to you that drugs have side effects that need to be reported on? Even aspirin comes with death warnings. I see it the other way around: A lot of over blown skepticism from hippies in denial.
Every drug was touted as a medicine in popular opinion. Those opinions happen to be wrong, including the current opinions on pot as a medicine. Pot doesn't have a great safety record. Just because a lot of people smoke it and are obsessed with it doesn't mean it's safe.
That's because it was hard to administer weed to animals. Advances in administration showed that it's addictive and the animals experience withdraw. Can't find the study at the moment, but you should never say never.
issue of cross-sensitisation of cannabis/opioid receptors "research in rats suggests that using marijuana reduces future sensitivity to opioids, which makes people more vulnerable to heroin addiction later in life. It does so by altering the brain chemistry of marijuana users...rats that had been given THC during adolescence had a significantly altered opioid system in the area associated with reward and positive emotions. This is also the area linked to addiction."
Unlike pot, vitamins are necessary for living. No one disputes that ODing on iron, vitamin D, etc. presents dangerous side effects. Likewise, vitamins don't have an abuse risk, while there are people who get high constantly. So why can't people report that without hippies getting outraged.
But people shouldn't have to choose between going to a park or building one to have a smartphone on hand. It's ludicrous and These "Love it or Leave it" comments are lame.
I don't think lack of histrionics here is anything indictable as some kind of pedo-awards. One does not have to be melodramatic to disagree with someone with sound reasoning and logical persuasion.
4)...But, I guess because this isn't in the name of terrorism it's "bad" whereas the prejudice against "foreigners" in the US is "good" because it helps prevent "terrorism." Sorry, but you don't get to criticise how other countries deal with issues (especially when attempts to fix the situation are going on) when your country is doing the same, in different ways, and worse.
Come again? Why can't someone criticize you if their government is doing something stupid? If you are doing something wrong, you're criticizable. No one said the US isn't doing anything wrong or "bad." They said these Canadian anti-speech laws are stupid. Whether or not the arguer is, in some convoluted way, a hypocrite, doesn't make the argument wrong. Next time try not to change the subject and address the position. Otherwise, it's more of an admission.
And by the way, I'm not entirely convinced that prejudging foreigners from radical and violent religions or backgrounds is fundamentally bad.
Ketamine is NOT a safe tranquilizer to use on humans. In clinical trials it was a spectacular failure. So spectacular in fact, it was considered as a tool to study schizophrenia, due to it's impressive ability to induce psychotic states that were indistinguishable. It's pathological performance in human trials lead to it being marketed for animals. I seriously doubt it's safe to use on animals but no one seems to care.
What needs to be done here is accompany the continued use of tasers with the recognition that jolting people with electricity can be sometimes fatal and heart stopping.
Wait a minute here. Paypal is going to block browsers? How does this stop phishing since the phishing is not occurring at paypal.com? I guess they want to attempt to get existing users accustomed to using a secure browser, but I'm sure phishermen will find a way around that too. As for me, I wouldn't change my browser permanently because one webpage fails in it, so I think this move is phishy.
Shouldn't we apply the 'all victims' are 'full of shit' logic to your crybaby rant too? I bet that so-called near-death experience was really your fault because you're such a bad driver. I typically find that the loudest complainers (you) on the road are the most aggressive drivers.
Privacy permits us to feel less anxious. Consider the life of a celebrity. Seems humans need to hide a little to be sane.
The whole argument is a false dilemma between 1) You're either hiding something or 2) you have nothing to fear (trust us wit total access). The Nazis used this sort of reasoning and it demonstrates there's always something to fear with overwhelming powers brandishing trick logic.
Why are you people being a bunch of bitches? Mozilla gave Opera ONE day to patch it. That's not enough time to unleash a bug on opera and have it patched, but meanwhile Mozilla waited more than a day to evaluate the issue for themselves. And you think dumping bugs on opera is a favor? Then maybe mozilla should have unleashed this news immediately on themselves too. But they didn't, so I guess you're wrong about incentives.
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I don't think Wired's reporter did that. He didn't say that while he, the author, became a successful writer x number of people didn't. He's not a drug-educating expert or doctor. And I don't think children should be given the "opportunity to make an informed decision" to take drugs.
Two cases of "cannabis acute psychosis" following the administration of oral cannabis
...The drug-seeking behavior in these animals was comparable in intensity to that maintained by cocaine... This finding suggests that marijuana has as much potential for abuse as other drugs of abuse, such as cocaine and heroin."
Cannabis psychosis following bhang ingestion.
Psychological Responses To Cannabis
Cannabis and acute functional psychosis, chronic psychosis, amotivational syndrome, Evidence for dependence..
Animals Exposed To Marijuana's Active Component Will Self-Administer
"Self-administration of drugs by animals, long considered a model of human drug-seeking behavior, is characteristic of virtually all addictive and abused drugs.
See: Tolerance and dependence
Cannabis use increases risk of psychotic illness
Cannabis link to mental illness strengthened
I'm glad you've admitted that it's addictive. Maybe everyone else can, finally, instead of being retarded.
I'm not convinced of the medical value of cannabis, especially in light of the significant adverse reactions it causes.
As for tobacco and alcohol, I'm not sure they should be legal.
Prohibition failed therefore what? No substances can or should be prohibited?
I'm trying to Inform them, but people don't seem to want to hear that pot isn't completely harmless. Instead they'd rather listen to popular opinions promoted by the lay person who gets high all the time. Very scientific.
I'm not sure that death from marijuana overdose can't be done. What I am sure of is this, while opium is addictive and in high doses can stop respiration, it has no toxicity to the body, is well tolerated by patients, and has a specific and predictable pain-relieving effect.
Marijuana on the other hand, has cross reaction within all the categories of drugs. It's not simply a pain reliever, anxiolytic, depressant, or fantasticant alone. It's all of those combined, and significant numbers of people, 22-30% have adverse reactions to it, and it's loaded with carcinogens.
Therefore it's not a predictable, safe, or reliable medication to be prescribing to people. Should some patients who are dying and simply want it be prescribed it?
I don't really care, although I think they're simply mistaken. That some people anecdotally report that cannabis helps them does not make a medicine safe. It's the specific number and % that are helped compared against the numbers who are not helped or harmed. This notion that it's a medicine is just legalization propaganda promoted by pot heads.
In drug studies, they need to get the animals to self administer. There is a study, which I can not find at the moment that talks about this. I don't care what other countries have legalized. Weed has some heavy-duty side effects. Period.
Addiction is a definition in the DSM-IV or somewhere though I don't have all the details, it still has been demonstrated to be addictive. Maybe it's less addictive based on your criteria compared to heroin, but it also excites areas of the brain associated with addiction, and addiction is addiction, however much you'd like to minimize that, relatively.
I'm not so sure of that, but even still, lethality alone is one miniscule detail when regarding safety. An acute toxic psychosis from a potent dose of THC isn't made any less worse.
I don't care how old or how many people use and believe it's a safe drug. Marijuana causes acute toxic reactions in people, psychosis, LSD-like hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety, depression, recurrent flashbacks and depersonalization, habitual use, apathy. etc. etc. 30% of people report negative symptoms as the reason they avoid it. Marijuana is not a great example of a safe drug. Even opioids are better tolerated, and not as harmful to the body as previously mentioned. Marijuana is far from safe. It's a very powerful drug.
Yes. I think everyone sees that drug companies are selling you something. And while it's the parents responsibility, there's a little bit of responsibility that wired has when suggesting that every-day people benefit by using drugs and they turned out as writers and successful. That stuff sways kids because they're stupid.
Hey, did it ever occur to you that drugs have side effects that need to be reported on? Even aspirin comes with death warnings. I see it the other way around: A lot of over blown skepticism from hippies in denial.
Every drug was touted as a medicine in popular opinion. Those opinions happen to be wrong, including the current opinions on pot as a medicine. Pot doesn't have a great safety record. Just because a lot of people smoke it and are obsessed with it doesn't mean it's safe.
That's because it was hard to administer weed to animals. Advances in administration showed that it's addictive and the animals experience withdraw. Can't find the study at the moment, but you should never say never.
issue of cross-sensitisation of cannabis/opioid receptors
"research in rats suggests that using marijuana reduces future sensitivity to opioids, which makes people more vulnerable to heroin addiction later in life. It does so by altering the brain chemistry of marijuana users...rats that had been given THC during adolescence had a significantly altered opioid system in the area associated with reward and positive emotions. This is also the area linked to addiction."
Unlike pot, vitamins are necessary for living. No one disputes that ODing on iron, vitamin D, etc. presents dangerous side effects. Likewise, vitamins don't have an abuse risk, while there are people who get high constantly. So why can't people report that without hippies getting outraged.
But people shouldn't have to choose between going to a park or building one to have a smartphone on hand. It's ludicrous and These "Love it or Leave it" comments are lame.
Has it occurred to anyone that they didn't care that much if someone found this info?
In Soviet Russia, Ctrl + C hits you.
I don't think lack of histrionics here is anything indictable as some kind of pedo-awards. One does not have to be melodramatic to disagree with someone with sound reasoning and logical persuasion.
4)...But, I guess because this isn't in the name of terrorism it's "bad" whereas the prejudice against "foreigners" in the US is "good" because it helps prevent "terrorism." Sorry, but you don't get to criticise how other countries deal with issues (especially when attempts to fix the situation are going on) when your country is doing the same, in different ways, and worse.
Come again? Why can't someone criticize you if their government is doing something stupid? If you are doing something wrong, you're criticizable. No one said the US isn't doing anything wrong or "bad." They said these Canadian anti-speech laws are stupid. Whether or not the arguer is, in some convoluted way, a hypocrite, doesn't make the argument wrong. Next time try not to change the subject and address the position. Otherwise, it's more of an admission.
And by the way, I'm not entirely convinced that prejudging foreigners from radical and violent religions or backgrounds is fundamentally bad.
Ketamine is NOT a safe tranquilizer to use on humans. In clinical trials it was a spectacular failure. So spectacular in fact, it was considered as a tool to study schizophrenia, due to it's impressive ability to induce psychotic states that were indistinguishable. It's pathological performance in human trials lead to it being marketed for animals. I seriously doubt it's safe to use on animals but no one seems to care.
What needs to be done here is accompany the continued use of tasers with the recognition that jolting people with electricity can be sometimes fatal and heart stopping.
If I'm sounding wrong and moronic then my impression of you is flawless.
Wait a minute here. Paypal is going to block browsers? How does this stop phishing since the phishing is not occurring at paypal.com? I guess they want to attempt to get existing users accustomed to using a secure browser, but I'm sure phishermen will find a way around that too. As for me, I wouldn't change my browser permanently because one webpage fails in it, so I think this move is phishy.
Shouldn't we apply the 'all victims' are 'full of shit' logic to your crybaby rant too? I bet that so-called near-death experience was really your fault because you're such a bad driver. I typically find that the loudest complainers (you) on the road are the most aggressive drivers.
Maybe I could use CAPTCHA to read and write my book reports for me?
"We all know this and that.. but the real question is..."
The first part was a sentence, not a question.
Privacy permits us to feel less anxious. Consider the life of a celebrity. Seems humans need to hide a little to be sane.
The whole argument is a false dilemma between 1) You're either hiding something or 2) you have nothing to fear (trust us wit total access). The Nazis used this sort of reasoning and it demonstrates there's always something to fear with overwhelming powers brandishing trick logic.
Why are you people being a bunch of bitches? Mozilla gave Opera ONE day to patch it. That's not enough time to unleash a bug on opera and have it patched, but meanwhile Mozilla waited more than a day to evaluate the issue for themselves. And you think dumping bugs on opera is a favor? Then maybe mozilla should have unleashed this news immediately on themselves too. But they didn't, so I guess you're wrong about incentives.
Which is a convenient way to get more funding for AIDS remediation.