Weed

[crystalhodder]

It is not good for you reguardless.  Just selfiness is all.  kids comes before pot anyday.  She would be better off without it.  Needs to get it together for herself so she can be there for the kids all the time instead of some of the time.  When your high you do no good for anyone just sit there slobbering like a baby.  This job will be best thing for her because they will do random drug testing all the time blood and urine testing if the place she is working for is like down here.   

[cavagrace]

This is my first post, but a subject I'm quite familiar with...

Marijuana has NO negative lasting affects, physical or mental. The smoke isn't bad for you because it doesn't contain chemicals. Unlike cigarettes, it is also none-habit-forming. There are plenty of studies, tons of research, look it up.
It does relax the body both physically and mentally, but not to a point that is in anyway dangerous. It is impossible to overdose on marijuana!
It is not dangerous on any level. Its is probably the only medicinal product that works in many forms with no adverse side effects.
People who say otherwise have A) never used it, and B) refuse to educate themselves to its benefits and effects.
I know no one who has ever been so high they were "slobbering like a baby". Not from marijuana.
Kids should come before weed, but then kids should come before EVERYTHING. My mother suffered from depression for most of my life. After becoming an adult myself, and suffering from depression as well, I wish she would have toked up a bit. It would have drastically improved her disposition.
Alcohol is legal, yet it destroys lives, families, and livers. There is no fatality linked to marijuana.
There is no moral or legal reason to outlaw it, as it does far more good than harm.

[Falconer02]

Well said, Cava. Well said. We need to get this info out to more people that are stuck with 1950's ideals. Like in that one 'educational' movie that treated it like it was meth-- "Pot will make you violent and you'll shoot your girlfriend!"  That 70's Show did a spoof on it...I wish I had a link.

[xdrummermommyx]

This is my first post, but a subject I'm quite familiar with...

Marijuana has NO negative lasting affects, physical or mental. The smoke isn't bad for you because it doesn't contain chemicals. Unlike cigarettes, it is also none-habit-forming. There are plenty of studies, tons of research, look it up.
It does relax the body both physically and mentally, but not to a point that is in anyway dangerous. It is impossible to overdose on marijuana!
It is not dangerous on any level. Its is probably the only medicinal product that works in many forms with no adverse side effects.
People who say otherwise have A) never used it, and B) refuse to educate themselves to its benefits and effects.
I know no one who has ever been so high they were "slobbering like a baby". Not from marijuana.
Kids should come before weed, but then kids should come before EVERYTHING. My mother suffered from depression for most of my life. After becoming an adult myself, and suffering from depression as well, I wish she would have toked up a bit. It would have drastically improved her disposition.
Alcohol is legal, yet it destroys lives, families, and livers. There is no fatality linked to marijuana.
There is no moral or legal reason to outlaw it, as it does far more good than harm.

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I agree,but then again some people have addictive personalities and it doesn't go very well.

[Leanns108]

Sure it would be great have if it was legal for personal usage. But  My Love for it come at it from the good it can do our planet
Hemp fibers are longer, stronger, more absorbent and more mildew-resistant than cotton.

*Fabrics made of at least one-half hemp block the sun's UV rays more effectively than other fabrics.
Hemp can be made into fine quality paper. The long fibers in hemp allow such paper to be recycled several times more than wood-based paper.
*Because of its low lignin content, hemp can be pulped using less chemicals than with wood. Its natural brightness can obviate the need to use chlorine bleach, which means no extremely toxic dioxin being dumped into streams. A kinder and gentler chemistry using hydrogen peroxide rather than chlorine dixoide is possible with hemp fibers.
*Hemp grows well in a variety of climates and soil types. It is naturally resistant to most pests, precluding the need for pesticides. It grows tightly spaced, out-competing any weeds, so herbicides are not necessary. It also leaves a weed-free field for a following crop.
*Hemp can displace cotton which is usually grown with massive amounts of chemicals harmful to people and the environment. 50% of all the world's pesticides are sprayed on cotton.
  *Hemp can displace wood fiber and save forests for watershed, wildlife habitat, recreation and oxygen production, carbon sequestration (reduces global warming), and other values.
*Hemp can yield 3-8 dry tons of fiber per acre. This is four times what an average forest can yield.= So one half acre of hemp is the equivalent to 1 acre of trees for paper

  and for some odd reason we are still cutting down trees, that take 15+ yrs to grow for paper   
*At a volume level of 81%, hemp oil is the richest known source of polyunsaturated essential fatty acids (the "good" fats). It's quite high in some essential amino acids, including gamma linoleic acid (GLA), a very rare nutrient also found in mother's milk.   

*While the original "gruel" was made of hemp seed meal, hemp oil and seed can be made into tasty and nutritional products.

[cavagrace]

I had no idea that hemp was so useful! That's amazing!
Is there any way we can do a control study in an area replacing cotton with hemp? I think that would yield some very interesting results.

[halokitty]

This is my first post, but a subject I'm quite familiar with...

Marijuana has NO negative lasting affects, physical or mental. The smoke isn't bad for you because it doesn't contain chemicals. Unlike cigarettes, it is also none-habit-forming. There are plenty of studies, tons of research, look it up.
It does relax the body both physically and mentally, but not to a point that is in anyway dangerous. It is impossible to overdose on marijuana!
It is not dangerous on any level. Its is probably the only medicinal product that works in many forms with no adverse side effects.
People who say otherwise have A) never used it, and B) refuse to educate themselves to its benefits and effects.
I know no one who has ever been so high they were "slobbering like a baby". Not from marijuana.
Kids should come before weed, but then kids should come before EVERYTHING. My mother suffered from depression for most of my life. After becoming an adult myself, and suffering from depression as well, I wish she would have toked up a bit. It would have drastically improved her disposition.
Alcohol is legal, yet it destroys lives, families, and livers. There is no fatality linked to marijuana.
There is no moral or legal reason to outlaw it, as it does far more good than harm.

Well said, but there are tars and toxins in the smoke, less than a cigarette, but if you smoke it out of a vaporizor you just get the good stuff, THC!

[Cieraaa]

It is not good for you reguardless.  Just selfiness is all.  kids comes before pot anyday.  She would be better off without it.  Needs to get it together for herself so she can be there for the kids all the time instead of some of the time.  When your high you do no good for anyone just sit there slobbering like a baby.  This job will be best thing for her because they will do random drug testing all the time blood and urine testing if the place she is working for is like down here.   

idk bout u guys but i self medicate! there aint *bleep* wrong wit it.
jus legalize it! *420*

[plaguezombie]

I know a lot of people that smoke, and every single one is a regular joe with not a lot going for them. If this lady can do it and be somebody, more power to her. However, I cant see that it wont lead to an eventual negative outcome, it will just end up happening.