Marijuana [Cannabis]

[Dr JIM]

unfortunately I don't believe much will change in the US DOC. Oh yea we will have a few marihuana lovers praising that "evil weed" BUT no one will EVER admit they selected the wrong drug to legalize!
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[Kush4Gainz]

Jose Mujica is God.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hteGnL-8SeU]Talk to Al Jazeera - Jose Mujica: 'I earn more than I need' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Colorado’s First Day of Recreational Marijuana Sales: 10 Things To Know
On New Year's Day, Colorado is going to start selling a new leaf
Colorado Marijuana Law: Jan. 1 First Day Of Recretational Pot Sales | TIME.com

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1jB7RBGVGk]Reefer Madness Trailer Great marijuana movie - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

It's snowing. It's cold. And these people are all lined up to buy #marijuana in Colorado. https://twitter.com/jackhealyNYT/status/418411398834561024/photo/1

 

[gymrat827]

unfortunately I don't believe much will change in the US DOC. Oh yea we will have a few marihuana lovers praising that "evil weed" BUT no one will EVER admit they selected the wrong drug to legalize!
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its also being taxed @ 25% so think of the state rev it will bring in.....

 

[Jruiz]

State revenue, JOBS, economic benefits, alternative fuels, all the tax money we spend for state pens, now can go to something more beneficial towards our society versus encarcerating humble hardworking pot smoking citizens!!!

 

[Jruiz]

Re: Marijuana Question

Medical marihuana is it helpful for certain condition in select patients sure, BUT it is no more beneficial than existing medications alone OR IN combination, NOT!

You have any study that PROVES otherwise POST IT! (The "study" would have to be a "double arm crossover" analysis and compare the ability of THC (marihuana) VS another approved antiemetic such as Zofran for instance)

Moreover because THC is often associated with a heightened sense of awareness, at least for the first 30-60 minutes, it may actually worsen neuropathic pain in some patients.

Hey don't get me wrong Im all for decriminalizing or even legalizing the stuff especially if controlled appropriately, BUT medical marihuana is NOT my reasoning at all.

Fact is it's a very safe recreational drug, much safer than alcohol by far!

Wanna drive like granny smoke some, lol!

Why drink and drive,when you can smoke and fly!!!what I say:

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Missing marijuana
When I stopped smoking weed, my appetite shrivelled and my head throbbed – but it was the dreams that really shook me
http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/is-marijuana-withdrawal-a-real-thing/

Marijuana withdrawal is a joke, and not a bad one at that. Even though it’s a Schedule I illegal narcotic, scientists can’t agree if marijuana is physically habit-forming. Compared with opiate or cocaine addiction, halting chronic weed use is a piece of cake (if one you might not finish because your appetite is tanking a bit). Marijuana’s hold on you is not harrowing or tragic. As the actor Bob Saget put it in the classic stoner film Half Baked (1998): ‘I used to suck dick for coke... Now that’s an addiction, man. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?’ Addiction science is huge, and it would take a big hole to bury all the lab mice that have overdosed on heroin and prescription drugs. But there isn’t much research on the harms of marijuana withdrawal.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The Great Marijuana Experiment: A Tale of Two Drug Wars
http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-marijuana-experiment-a-tale-of-two-drug-wars-20140103

The gains made in Colorado and Washington tend to obscure the dismal reality still playing out in many other states. In 2012, there were 749,825 marijuana arrests in America. We're not talking about dealers moving weight. In New York and Texas, the states with the most marijuana arrests, 97 percent of pot arrests in 2010 were for simple possession. Over the past decade, as police departments around the country adopted New York City's data-driven CompStat policing model, pot arrests based on stop-and-frisks became an easy way for precincts to pad their numbers. Queens College sociology professor Harry Levine brought the problem to light in 2009 when he discovered that during the previous year the NYPD made more pot arrests in 12 months than during 18 years under Michael Bloomberg's three mayoral predecessors. In an interview in The New Inquiry last year, Levine described the nation's arrest overreach as a scandal on the order of Love Canal and the Ford Pinto, "horrific situations, harming many people, that go on for years before being revealed."

Ezekiel Edwards, director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, spent nearly a year mining data on the racial makeup of marijuana arrests. The ACLU found that black people were 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people. This at a time when white and black marijuana usage rates are virtually identical, about 12 to 14 percent.

That racial disparity has grown worse with time. Over the past decade, the white arrest rate for marijuana possession held steady, around 192 arrests per 100,000 white people. Meanwhile, the black arrest rate skyrocketed. In 2001, it stood at 537 arrests per 100,000 black people. By 2010, it had climbed to 716.

Going into the project, Edwards suspected the numbers might be bad. But not this bad. "We knew about racial disparities in New York," he tells me. "We didn't expect to find racial disparities everywhere, urban and rural, 49 of the 50 states." (Only Hawaii had a nearly even black-white arrest rate.) The war on marijuana, Edwards says, "has been a war on people of color."

To understand what those numbers mean on the ground, you only have to visit the American marijuana gulag that is the state of Louisiana. New Orleans, of course, famously welcomes and celebrates bacchanalian debauchery. But Louisiana lawmakers take a perverse pride in maintaining some of the harshest marijuana laws in the country. One joint can get you six months in the parish prison. Second offense: up to five years. Third: up to 20.

Bernard Noble is one of many caught in the trap. Noble, a 47-year-old truck driver, relocated his family from New Orleans to Kansas City after losing his house to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 2010, he returned to the Big Easy to visit his father. On October 27th, two cops spotted Noble riding a bicycle down South Miro Street. They ordered Noble to stop, and frisked him. They found a small bag containing less than three grams of marijuana.

An Orleans Parish jury convicted Noble of marijuana possession. Because he had prior felony possession convictions, Louisiana law called for a mandatory minimum sentence of 13 and a third years. "It doesn't matter how much or how little marijuana is involved," Donna Weidenhaft, Noble's public defender, tells me. "In Louisiana you can get twice as much prison time for marijuana possession as sexual battery."

But 13 years for three grams? That seemed insane. Moved by Noble's record as a providing father, the sentencing judge took pity and handed down only five years in prison. Only.

Outraged by the nickel, Orleans Parish DA Leon Cannizzaro Jr. appealed the ruling. Cannizzaro wanted the full 13 years. And after three appeals, he got it. Earlier this year the Louisiana State Supreme Court declared that a judge could waver from mandatory minimums only in exceptional cases. And Bernard Noble, the court ruled, was entirely unexceptional. "You might think this is a horror story, but not in Louisiana," says Gary Wainwright, a defense lawyer with two decades of experience in the Orleans Parish courthouse. "We've had people receive sentences of 'natural life' for marijuana here."

Louisiana imprisons more of its residents, per capita, than any other state. In many parts of the state, the parish (county) prison is the largest single employer. "You can't run a prison without inmates," says Wainwright, and the easiest way to keep the jails full is to arrest black men for pot possession.

 

[Jruiz]

Good article to bring up friend, been working all day but saw this in the morning while driving out of town to work and I've been wanting to get at this topic as I too can attend to the situation of being hassled by le for my smoking preferences. Luckily didn't get arrested that night since I had just come off work and was in need of doob ( 1985 pickup truck ,windows raised, dead cold winter , and hotboxing , yeah I know it was stupid) anyways got pulled over for one dam tail light being out, and so he smelled it and did the whole walk in a straight line gig, follow my finger, etc. Verified I wasn't under the influence and wrote me a ticket of arrest (I was probably pretty high): might as well have arrested me! 4,000$ later and several headaches I have this off my record and I'm good, well long.story short I'm really tired of mary being tooken advantage of as an outlet to garnish true intentions. And many times sadly it shows. I had to pay my hard earned money just because I smoke some little old weed. Little history, 28 yrs old.been smoking since 11 , have 2 beautiful boys,beautiful wife that I love more than words can explain. I'm responsible, humble, comes natural when it comes to helping another person, super sensitive,probably weep more than my wife on flicks and storys sometimes.but thats okay ,I'm a good person : ok ok long story short(again)(LOL) "dreaming of a place that I can roll in peace". Tupac shakur

 

[Jruiz]

Oh and don't mess around in Louisiana ,them polis are dogs out there!!!especially with Texas plates(hahaha)

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[leoclaw79]

How come nobody is mentioning te pump they get when thy smoke? Or am I the only person with increased vascularity and pumps when I smoke preworkout? Hmm. As far as going heavy, weed certainly decreases my mental intensity. But if I'm doing shoulders/arms I feel like I'm on juice in terms of my pump if I rip the bong beforehand.
As far as relieving chronic pain I think at least for me, thc does not help. For example when I was on my first cycle, smoking made all my injection sites hurt even worse!!! I doubt it has all the advertised medical benefits BUT it should be legal solely based on the fact that it's health/psychoactive risks don't exceed those of alcohol. It would be nice if they just decriminalized it rather than regulating it so I can keep making dough from it lmao

 

[Jruiz]

How come nobody is mentioning te pump they get when thy smoke? Or am I the only person with increased vascularity and pumps when I smoke preworkout? Hmm. As far as going heavy, weed certainly decreases my mental intensity. But if I'm doing shoulders/arms I feel like I'm on juice in terms of my pump if I rip the bong beforehand.
As far as relieving chronic pain I think at least for me, thc does not help. For example when I was on my first cycle, smoking made all my injection sites hurt even worse!!! I doubt it has all the advertised medical benefits BUT it should be legal solely based on the fact that it's health/psychoactive risks don't exceed those of alcohol. It would be nice if they just decriminalized it rather than regulating it so I can keep making dough from it lmao

For sure, lifting fuel, hunger fuel, everything fuel for me!!@

 

[Jruiz]

When I'm bulking, and struggling to eat that last 50 grams of protein. Few blasts to the head and I'm ready for a cow!

 

[man muscle]

I love smoking and gyming its..because of my concentration while high I can get an extra 20 reps compared to normal. Ill do it ones a mouth on different muscle groups for a change up because it don't let me go as heavy as I normally do.. Arnold did it.LOL

 

[Jruiz]

I love smoking and gyming its..because of my concentration while high I can get an extra 20 reps compared to normal. Ill do it ones a mouth on different muscle groups for a change up because it don't let me go as heavy as I normally do.. Arnold did it.LOL

Arnolds my man!!!love that mofo

 

[DieYoungStrong]

I don't remember the last time I went to the gym without taking a few rips first....

Had to have been in the 90s

 

[Michael Scally MD]

GOING THE DISTANCE
On and off the road with Barack Obama.
David Remnick: On and Off the Road with Barack Obama : The New Yorker

When I asked Obama about another area of shifting public opinion—the legalization of marijuana—he seemed even less eager to evolve with any dispatch and get in front of the issue.

“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”

Is it less dangerous? I asked.

Less dangerous, he said, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer. It’s not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy.”

What clearly does trouble him is the radically disproportionate arrests and incarcerations for marijuana among minorities. “Middle-class kids don’t get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do,” he said. “And African-American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties.”

But, he said, “we should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing.”

Accordingly, he said of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington that “it’s important for it to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished.”

As is his habit, he nimbly argued the other side. “Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case.

There is a lot of hair on that policy.

And the experiment that’s going to be taking place in Colorado and Washington is going to be, I think, a challenge.”

He noted the slippery-slope arguments that might arise.

“I also think that, when it comes to harder drugs, the harm done to the user is profound and the social costs are profound. And you do start getting into some difficult line-drawing issues. If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that?

If somebody says, We’ve got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we O.K. with that?”