Just Say Yes

[shrewsbury]

alex, you should also look into your million year old marijuana is not a gateway drug or not addictive. in fact the rate of marijuana addiction has been steadily growing

here are a few links to help you out

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...893946,00.html
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/m...nd-its-effects

[JustAlex]

alex, again you show your limited knowledge and bias opinion of Christianity. Prayer simply means we are talking to God, confiding in Him, venting with Him, not all of us are asking for favors. Personally, even if God did favors, I am sure I am unworthy of getting one. I view prayer as my acknowledging Him and try to keep Him on my mind as much as possible, helps me stay focused.

if you are using logic, it seems to be flawed.

and funny how you will use free will when you are trying to put something down, otherwise you say it can't exist.

I believe you and I don't doubt for one second that you are lying.

But my comment is in respect to what MOST people do when they pray.

They ask for interference.

"Please god, help me with X problem...."

"Please god, take care of my family....."

"Please god, my friend/loved one is going through a hard time, look after him/her...."

You know, I sympathize with these types of prayers.....I would ask god for many things....most of which were unselfish petitions.

I would confide in god and I really believed he would help me out.....I never thought for one second that I was doing something which is impossible.

I'm not talking about god being real or not.....let's say that god really is real, my divine intervention requests would NEVER come true because this is violating the "free will" he has bestowed upon us.

Would you agree to that?

[JustAlex]

alex, you should also look into your million year old marijuana is not a gateway drug or not addictive. in fact the rate of marijuana addiction has been steadily growing

here are a few links to help you out

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...893946,00.html
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/m...nd-its-effects

C'mon man, this is something that is very easy to debunk.

If you say that marijuana is a "gateway drug" then I could easily say the same towards tobacco and alcohol....and yet those drugs (YES, they ARE drugs) are 100% legal.

Your own link says that there is no causation to people using harder drugs as a result of trying marijuana.....remember the old saying "Correlation does not equal Causation"......just because people who do hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine also did marijuana that does not mean it was the fault of marijuana.

In fact those people more than likely first started with regular cigarettes.....why doesn't anyone point the finger at Tobacco?

The stats are very clear.....more people die because of Tobacco than marijuana....A LOT MORE PEOPLE DIE because of Tobacco.

I will give you another link about marijuana with very interesting facts:

http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-facts...bout-marijuana

[duwal]

I'm sensible, I don't pray.

yeah I'd think a good parent would actually talk to their children about the influences of drugs and alochol and even more look after them and their friends with a watchful eye. But some foolish people pray and think that god might do their job for them

[Wickabee]

alex, you should also look into your million year old marijuana is not a gateway drug or not addictive. in fact the rate of marijuana addiction has been steadily growing

here are a few links to help you out

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...893946,00.html
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/m...nd-its-effects

1: If marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, alcohol is a gateway to marijuana, caffeine is a gateway to alcohol and Children's Tylenol is a gateway to caffeine.

2: There's a difference between physical and psychological addiction. Marijuana is not a physically addictive substance. ANYTHING can be psychologically addictive.

[shrewsbury]

here are some more

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...fects/1751011/

how about this

a study of over 300 fraternal and identical twin pairs found that the twin who had used marijuana before the age of 17 had elevated rates of other drug use and drug problems later on, compared with their twin who did not use before age 17.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publication...uana-addictive

[Wickabee]

So...genetics has little to do with addiction. Great!

Seriously, if you first don't understand what a physical addiction and what a psychological addiction is and the difference between the two, you're being misleading. They are two things. Physically addictive substances actually change you body chemistry to a point where you literally need it to live. Case in point, Ozzy Osbourne is currently on more prescription drugs than he ever took illicit drugs. He's on those meds because if he was taking zero drugs, his body would shut down. THAT is physical addiction. THAT is impossible with marijuana.

Marijuana falls into the "anything that hits the pleasure button can become addictive" or "psychological" category. You like it, so you want more and more. Eventually you fool yourself into thinking you need it.

Now, This isn't to say psychological addiction isn't serious. It is. The mind is incredibly powerful and a psychological addiction can be as bad, or worse, than a physical one. The issue I take is that everything is potentially psychologically addictive. It doesn't have to even be an ingested substance to be psychologically addictive. There are shopping addictions, sex addictions, jogging addictions, internet addictions, gambling addictions, etc, etc.

So in short, I don't give two craps what studies you show me. Marijuana is no more an addictive substance than a Big Mac or a credit card.

Meanwhile alcohol, which is physically addictive is not only legal, but perfectly okay to drink according to Jesus.

[centrehice]

I used to love the parents of the late 60's and 70's, the most ignorant bestards to ever live, both of my parents being 2 of them.

According to both my parents......

You were On Marijuana, or you were On LSD, neither substance can you ever be ON. Non-adictive, but that didn't stop them from saying publicly as soon as a teenager from 1968-1980 got into trouble with the law that they had to be "On" either of these 2 substances.


Non addictive substances are a gateway to nothing as they are not in the least bit addictive. Behaviour is addictive. Forced behaviour with the consequence of being forgotten is a stressful situation for a human to be in. Peer Pressure behaviour is the stongest.

Humans drink alchohol, smoke pot, drive a car, get a new pair of Air Jordans, or get tattoos just so that the stress of being forgotten by others is removed. In the animal world many animals will become solitary as they know when they do not fit in. A human on the other hand will do anything that it takes to be accepted as part of a larger group.


BTW: My mother died from nicotine addiction, and she also had a penchant for Canadian Rye Whisky, both created by serious Peer Pressure.

[JustAlex]

QUESTION.....Why does a society make very harmful substances such as Tobacco with Nicotine and Alcohol LEGAL while banning a much harmless substance such as Marijuana illegal?

ANSWER......MONEY!

Big Tobacco and big breweries make billions of dollars selling products that WILL lead to countless deaths every year.

I personally do NOT see a problem with this, because like I have stated a person is the master of his/her body and can do however he/she pleases.

What I DON'T like is idiots like BILLO telling his mindless audience that Marijuana is bad and posting a bunch of misinformation or straight up LIES to make his argument!

Furthermore, I don't like the fact that the ONE of the BIGGEST reasons why Marijuana is federally illegal is because there isn't some huge corporation making billions in profit from it.



BTW....lol @ the stupid "Just say yes" title from Billo the clown.

They also teach kids to say no to alcohol and tobacco, but because those things are legal.....once you turn a certain age, you are magically told that "hey, NOW you can say yes".

Hilarious.

[Wickabee]

Marijuana isn't harmless. It's infinitely less harmful than nicotine and alcohol, but it's not harmless. When smoked, a marijuana user subjects himself to most of the same carcinogens as a cigerette (same goes for any smoke, really). Even without that there are effects on the brain and nervous system. Those effects are reversible to a point, basically meaning if you stop smoking before a certain point, or generally have a small amount, the effects on these systems reverse. However chronic heavy use will lead to permanent brain and nervous system damage.

With that said, it still is less harm full than what prolonged alcohol leads to (brain/liver damage, diabetes, etc) and less harmful than cigarettes (brain/lung damage, respiratory disease, heart problems, etc). I see no reason for marijuana to be illegal, but that's no reason to spread misinformation like "it's totally harmless" as so many (not necessarily you) tend to do.