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Are Cigarettes More of a Drag on Teens than Marijuana?

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

New study shows that adolescents who toke up function better than those who also use tobacco

By Lisa Stein

Reefer madness? Apparently not, according to a new Swiss survey of students that concludes teenagers who smoke pot function better than those who also use tobacco. In addition, researchers at the University of Lausanne report in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, teens who only use marijuana are apparently more socially driven and have no more psychosocial problems than those who neither smoke nor toke.

The scientists surveyed 5,263 Swiss students (2,439 females) aged 16 to 20 years, including 455 who said they smoked weed only; 1,703 who reported being tobacco and marijuana users; and 3,105 who said they did not imbibe at all.

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Feds Predict Major Drop in Marijuana Prices

StoptheDrugWar.org

Unless you measure success by the number of people arrested, the failure of the war on marijuana is becoming more obvious than ever before. A new Department of Justice report, Drug Threat Assessment 2008, reveals that increased indoor cultivation is flooding the U.S. market with high quality marijuana. As a result, marijuana users may soon be getting more bud for their buck:

In the section, "Predictive Estimates," the report concludes:

• Increased cannabis cultivation may result in reduced marijuana prices.
• The recent increases in cannabis cultivation and marijuana production within the United States coincide with the continued flow of marijuana from foreign sources, which may lead to market saturation [in] major markets. This saturation could reduce the price of the drug significantly.

That's good news for marijuana enthusiasts and bad news for anyone invested in trying to eradicate America's #1 cash crop. Ironically, drug warriors have often cited increased potency as evidence that marijuana is becoming more harmful. This is all nonsense, because users adjust their dose to achieve the desired effect, just as an alcohol user might drink a 12 ounce beer, but not 12 ounces of vodka (not to mention the lack of evidence that marijuana is harmful even in large doses). Nevertheless, the real story here is that marijuana eradication efforts are failing to affect price and supply.

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Farmers sue DEA for right to grow industrial hemp

(CNN) -- The feds call industrial hemp a controlled substance -- the same as pot, heroin, LSD -- but advocates say a sober analysis reveals a harmless, renewable cash crop with thousands of applications that are good for the environment.

Two North Dakota farmers are taking that argument to federal court, where a November 14 hearing is scheduled in a lawsuit to determine if the Drug Enforcement Administration is stifling the farmers' efforts to grow industrial hemp. The DEA says it's merely enforcing the law.

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Utah: Pot Odor Not Sufficient For Warrantless Search, Supreme Court Rules

Salt Lake City, UT: The odor of burning marijuana emanating outside of a home does not grant law enforcement the authority to enter that residence without a warrant to search for contraband, the Utah Supreme Court recently ruled in a 4-1 decision.

The ruling affirms a 2005 Utah Court of Appeals decision determining that police improperly entered a private residence after reportedly smelling "marijuana leaking out of the cracks of the trailer."

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Marijuana vs. Aspirin

Most people use products that are more damaging to the body with out any thought to what they are doing to the body just because they were raised to think it is safe. Although heavy use of marijuana is not safe it is a lot safer than most of the common used drugs in today's market. This is article is a comparison of the effects of two popular pain killers, Marijuana and Aspirin.

Lets start with the history of Marijuana first. Marijuana can be traced back for thousands of years to almost every culture in the worlds history. Up until the Marijuana was prohibited by the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 the US Pharmacopoeia listed cannabis as the drug of choice for over 100 different diseases. This reference was the reference used by doctors since 1820. Cannabis was added to the US Pharmacopoeia in 1870. Since recorded history Marijuana has never been found to cause death by overdose.

The History of Aspirin is not so long and distinguished. Aspirin patented on March 6, 1889 by Bayer who also had the trademark for Heroin. Aspirin causes an average of 500 deaths per year. This is from a Medication that is used for pain and heart disease.

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Proof people drive better stoned

Research indicates teen marijuana use does not predict drug, alcohol abuse

Marijuana is not a "gateway" drug that predicts or eventually leads to substance abuse, suggests a 12-year University of Pittsburgh study. Moreover, the study's findings call into question the long-held belief that has shaped prevention efforts and governmental policy for six decades and caused many a parent to panic upon discovering a bag of pot in their child's bedroom.

The Pitt researchers tracked 214 boys beginning at ages 10-12, all of whom eventually used either legal or illegal drugs. When the boys reached age 22, they were categorized into three groups: those who used only alcohol or tobacco, those who started with alcohol and tobacco and then used marijuana (gateway sequence) and those who used marijuana prior to alcohol or tobacco (reverse sequence).

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Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

"I'd always done a lot of glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'Don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you.'"

Legalize pot group wants Broncos to court Ricky Williams

Billboard encourages Broncos to court Ricky Williams

Im so HIGH !

Ron Paul Blasts the War on Drugs

Prince of Pot on CBC News

One Arrest Every 38 seconds

Marijuana Arrests For Year 2006 - 829,625 Tops Record High... Nearly 15 Percent Increase Over 2005

Squiggy On Marijuana

Marijuana Extract Fights Brain Cancer in Mice

Scientific American - August 17, 2004

Abraham Lincoln

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it.”

If I were allowed to vote, I'd vote Ron Paul

Wasting our Tax Money

Approximately 50% of all drug enforcement money, federal and state, during the last 60 years has been directed toward marijuana!

Some 70-80% of all persons now in federal and state prisons in America wouldn't have been there as criminals until just 60 or so years ago. In other words we, in our (Anslinger and Hearst inspired) ignorance and prejudice, have placed approximately 800,000 of the 1.2 million people in American prisons (as of August 4, 1998) for crimes that were, at worst, minor habits, up until the Harrison Act, 1914 (whereby the U.S. Supreme Court in 1924 first ruled that drug addicts weren't sick, they were instead vile criminals).

Eighty percent of these government "War on Drugs" victims were not dealing. They have been incarcerated for simple possession. And this does not include the quarter of a million more in county jails.

Remember, just 20 years ago, in 1978, before the "War on Drugs," there were only 300,000 persons in American prisons for all crimes combined.

-From

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

by Jack Herer

This book is available online free at jackherer.com.

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"Where's the Weed At?"

Why is Marijuana Illegal?

A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis

Top 10 !!

10 reasons marijuana should be legal

MARIJUANA FACTS

Cultivated for medicinal and recreational purpose for thousands of years, marijuana became controversial in the United States in the early 1900s, when Americans began to associate its use with Mexican revolutionaries and black musicians.

Known by the scientific name “Cannibis sativa,” marijuana is one of the oldest psychoactive plants known to man.

Utah passed the first state marijuana ban in 1915; the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act sparked a nationwide crackdown.

There were 786,545 marijuana-related arrests in 2005, more than for all violent crimes combined.

About 43 percent of all drug-related arrests in 2005—about 800,000 individual cases—stem from marijuana violations.

At least 12 states now allow the use of medical marijuana.

Sources: FBI, Marijuana Policy Project

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