Originally Posted by oldcornbinder

AfterShock,

Apparently you are a user of THC and need to justify it,

Really?
It's apparent to you?
Hmmmmmm
"Apparently" you are also a chronic user of THC, based on your self-proclaimed expertise.
Or, are you another of those folks with absolutely NO experience, and just believe what you WANT to believe?

you'll find allot of information to justify it so help your self.

As I've already mentioned, I HAVE researched this subject in depth because I'm MOST interested in the TRUTH.
"Apparently" you have short-term memory problems.

There are allot of good conspiracy theories out there that you can read and subscribe to justify your philosophy.

I believe that.
"Apparently" you do, too.

Unfortunately, none of these are based in fact through scientific study.

"NONE" (are based in fact)?
Is THAT a "fact"?
"Apparently" your research has been limited.

As I implied in my post those that use THC will justify the use in any manner and I expected that.

So you did.
Actually, you did more than "imply"
You took a cheap shot at me.
But, "apparently" that's typical.
Not to mention transparent.

And there are also those who choose to "justify" their beliefs by suggesting that those who try to educate those who have NO experience, or desire to learn from those who do, and/or have researched the subject and found what have been presented as "facts" to be something OTHER than facts.
And, like you, I "expected" that.

Both non profit programs listed in the earleir post would love to have empty beds and and have 100% recovery as there goal.

If that's true, then they'd be out of a cushy, tax-payer paid job.
I seriously doubt that's their desire.

Dispite what you think the Oregon DOC would love to have empty beds. There is no way the tax payers want to continue to fund the cost of cronic users.

If they want empty beds, that's easily attained. Just legalize the substance that causes non-profits from collecting a paycheck by using scare tactics.
That'd save the taxpayers a bundle.
No profit, and it seems, no real results, either --- if they can't seem to empty those beds, ...... no doubt filled by the court systems.

Countries where substances containing THC are LEGAL, don't seem to be having the bed-filling problem. And some of those countries have little, or NO, alcohol abuse problems like we CONTINUE to have.
Imagine that and go figure.

How many deaths have been reported as a DIRECT result of THC consumption?
Compare that to alcohol consumption.
Now, tell me, who fills the most beds?
Ahhhhh, but alcohol is legal!
And, as a tax-payer, I ask, why?

Again if you PM me I will give you all of the links I found on google.

Until you reach 50 posts, you can't PM me with that information.
Why do you assume I'm not already aware of the information, and misinformation, you'd provide me with?
Do you recall I've already mentioned that I've done a LOT of research on this subject? And, I might add, I did so with an OPEN mind. I wasn't predisposed to believing either side.
After researching the subject, I formed the opinions I have today.

Originally Posted by oldcornbinder

AfterShock,

I went to that site you listed and I have to say that yes the use of HEMP can be very useful and has been in the past. I will spend the time reading the bulk of the information that he list but it does go far afield from my original post which is the long term effect of thc on the brain ie: loss of short term memory, reduced cognitive skills and it's reduction in reaction time.

If you contine to read the information about hemp, you'll learn that our gubmint keeps it illegal because folks might get high by smoking it, which, or course, they can't. Therefore, what our gubmint is tellin' us amounts to a lie.
But, what's important about telling us the truth?
Especially if the truth isn't of paramount concern.

It's ALL about money and PROFITS.
Follow the Money Trail ................................................
Our gubmint, after commissioning studies to find the harmful effects of THC, only to find out that there ARE redeeming benefits of using THC, and they pulled the financing for said studies before they were complete, and issued the statement that there are NO redeeming medicinal benefits from the use of THC ---- yet the pharmaceutical industries are spending millions of dollars in research to develop a synthetic THC, even though our gubmint tells us there's NO redeeming medicinal qualities contained within THC --- based on an INCOMPLETE research that didn't find what our gubmint WANTED to hear.
It seems the "facts" confuse our gubmint.
What's new?

And, I suppose those patients who find relief by smoking clinical marijuana are lying because they'll say ANYthing to "justify" using it? MAYbe, even GET sick, just so they can take a toke.
Ya reckon.

There are states that have decriminalized the use of THC after the voters made their wants known at the polls. Yet the federal gubmint refuses to allow terminally ill patients the relief they find in using THC.
How compassionate is that?

When THC WASN'T illegal, there was NO problem.
So, the gubmint invented a problem so they could solve the problem
THEY created.

The gubmint spends BILLIONS of dollars on the War On Drugs, and every year we hear that they need MORE money to continue their war, claiming it's a losing battle.
But the gubmint has no problem filling beds with "chronic" users, again, at tax-payer expense.

The FACT is, there are MILLIONS of PRODUCTIVE American citizens who partake in the casual use of THC. And, by gubmint definition, they're ALL criminals.
BTW, who defines "chronic use"?
Would it be the same gubmint that fills those non-profit beds?
It seems SOMEbody IS making a profit.

While the "chronic" use of alcohol continues, creating REAL problems.
However, those folks aren't criminals. They're just ill, because our gubmint deems alcoholism to be a disease, and THC use to be a problem.
How convenient, seeing as how the alcohol industry lobbies contribute millions, or is it billions, of dollars to political campaigns.

Believe whatever you want to believe, OldCornBinder.
As for me, I prefer the TRUTH.
How 'bout you?