JellyBaby:
'How is it possible hundres of doctors who do hundreds of drug studies and profiles be completely wrong?"
Another example of your ignorance, marijuana is illegal, makes it a tad tough to study.
I am astounded at the level of ignorance that still surrounds the "evil" weed. It has been ~seventy years since the U.S. Gov't. propaganda film "Reefer Madness" hit the screen and people are still believing that crap, because they are still pushing the same B.S. in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
All the evidence to the contrary? Yeah, how about the millions of otherwise law-abiding, productive, contributing members of society, that use on a regular basis.
I have not seen any of you anti-legalization folks give any indication that you have any real knowledge of that which you regurgitate.
Many of the so-called horror stories come from people that got caught and have gone to re-hab to avoid jail. Of course they are going to "play along" and tell all those horrible things that the authorities want to hear. Tell them what they want to hear = reward. Tell them the truth = jail
BTW, in case you haven't figured it out yet... LEGALIZE IT ALREADY, this is insane. Billions, no, probably trillions by now, of dollars down a rathole, millions of lives and families torn apart, not because of any harmful effects of marijuana, but because of the effects of its illegality and the propaganda.
I'm not going to tell you that it is completely safe or that there are no unhealthy aspects to the use of marijuana. BUT, breathing is not terribly healthy these days either. If we are ever allowed to really study it I believe we will find that casual use has healthful benefits for normal healthy folks.
Any of you anti-drug folks drink coffee or cola or tea, you are consuming a drug that has harmful side effects. When you consider the violence, particularly domestic, that is caused by wired-up, strung-out, caffeine addicts it becomes obvious that we must stop this scourge that is destroying our nation. It has become so rampant that parents think nothing of buying dose after dose for their children. Of course with children we have to cut it with something more palatable, like milk or sugar to get them hooked.
Yup, I don't believe moderate use is any more harmful than caffeine use, or fat consumption, or breathing factory air, or big city air, maybe even country air.
Americas approach to drugs doesn't work, won't work, can't work. Ya know why? Because the first time anyone smokes pot they discover that they were fed a line of s h i t and all of you "JUST SAY NO" folks suddenly lose all credibility.
Michael