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Post by teancum79 on Apr 4, 2007 19:39:05 GMT -5
www.justaplant.com/I caught part of Michael Medved's show tonight apparently this guy is trying to introduce children to all the good stuff about Mary J. I thought I'd throw it out there and see what you all thought.
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Post by Tara on Apr 6, 2007 9:30:24 GMT -5
I think it's good to educate children about the dangers of certain things at an early age. I mean, most people, if not all, have been educated about things such as drugs and peer pressure and all that.
But I've read some of the story. The part I found interesting was when the little girl asks the farmer why he uses it and he said, "I don't, it just puts me to sleep," I found that disturbing because it is obvious that he uses it to "go to sleep". Another part that disturbed me was the part where the girl leaves the doctors office and finds 4 men on the corner of the street smoking. The four men are depicted as Black/African descent. This would give the wrong message to children that only Black people smoke it. It's false.
But I do like how after each time the girl is exposed to the situation it is explained to her in one form or another.
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Post by Amalcas on Apr 6, 2007 21:59:23 GMT -5
Maybe the rest of the book presents this...but I was disturbed by the lack of negative details. I know a large population of marijuana smokers are not fully believing in the negative effects, and I presume this book was written by users of some sort, whether or not they believe in the adverse medical effects.
The reason, I would contend, that schools present marijuana in such a negative manner is because, first off, in a cynical manner, it is illegal, and second, more by reason, is that it is a permanently mind-altering drug...and in no good ways. In all honesty, it is probably a good deal better, overall, than some of the harder drugs: heroin, nicotine, and other dopamine imitators (that's a little known fact: nicotine, of all the major drugs, is most similar to heroin). On the other hand, why take not-as-bad when you can just not take either?
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Post by teancum79 on Apr 6, 2007 23:07:29 GMT -5
from what I caught from the author (I listen to talk radio in the car a lot, but the station cuts out about 5 min from home) is that Mary J should be made legal and is no worse than many legal drugs. I've not been around enough people who smoke it to say how it effects them in the long term, but in the short term t does not improve brain function. The other issue is that of being a gate way drug to things which are much more dangerous.
I wonder if the politically correct people out there will start calling me a drugest because I dislike the use of a drug or maybe a weedaphobe?
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