r/conspiracy: Marijuana

1 3j82tj 2018-05-22

Edit: Seed instead of deer damn autocorrect

1 Nothing_Is_Real666 2018-05-22

I liked your mistake

1 marywasalizard 2018-05-22

Strange, eh? That it autocorrects to make your argument look silly.

1 wile_e_chicken 2018-05-22

Haha I was hoping to learn something new here..!

(And you can edit the text, just not the title.)

1 AlekhinesHolster 2018-05-22

Reading this I was like "just how high is this fucker"

1 chaseemall 2018-05-22

That's a really cool mythological origin.

1 3attheelephant 2018-05-22

Look up why it was banned in the 1930's. That'll answer why the government can ban something grown out of the ground.

1 3j82tj 2018-05-22

Automatically got a downvote as soon as I posted it. Before it was possible for anyone to read a vote down.

1 Trez1999 2018-05-22

I read it, I feel dumber for have

1 Afrobean 2018-05-22

To be fair, the content of this post is extremely low effort. You're entirely right about the point you're trying to make, but we talk about cannabis prohibition plenty here, and this post doesn't really add anything unique to the conversation.

1 scaredshtlessintx 2018-05-22

because our government owns and controls us in every way...we just have the illusion of freedom.

1 TupacsFather 2018-05-22

We are inherently free by our very nature straight out the womb. We can never not be. We own ourselves and our bodies. They only issue is that there are evil psychopaths in this world who will lock you in a cage and/or murder you for exercising your sovereignty. WE really need to start saying it like this to ourselves, rather than telling ourselves we are slaves. That's a psyop in and of itself. We ARE free, only that there is serious responsibility and risk in claiming it.

1 psychadelian 2018-05-22

I get that, but don't understand the persistence of marijuana enforcement especially when so many people smoke it anyways

1 scaredshtlessintx 2018-05-22

they make more off it being illegal than they ever would legalizing it.

1 ytrewq45 2018-05-22

It was given to us in the form of a deer? What?

1 Putin_loves_cats 2018-05-22

How can a government deprive their citizens of what was created by God?

Citizenship == slavery. You do not have rights, you only have privileges, that the Government has granted to you. People really need to wake up to this.

1 Nothing_Is_Real666 2018-05-22

Agreed

1 1hobo 2018-05-22

Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

1 cjdq5bdurvoxzt14zd0 2018-05-22

99% of r/conspiracy users will gladly be slaves if it means the wifi, pizza, and beer doesn't stop flowing.

1 RueKing 2018-05-22

Anarchy is ideal. Ideal is brutal. If you wish to live idealic, prepare for brutality.

1 Putin_loves_cats 2018-05-22

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

-Thomas Jefferson

1 RueKing 2018-05-22

You may be right to prefer that. However, I see the restricted power of the state to be a risk worth investigating. The Preamble to the Constitution declares that its purposes are “to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty.”

Perhaps humans are too tribal for such an endeavor, but I believe it to be a noble pursuit that's been horribly corrupted through greed of power and fear of exposure. Perhaps you believe it is ignorant to think the former is worthwhile, but it is what I think.

1 RMFN 2018-05-22

It's more profitable for the black market and gangster policeman than it is profitable legal.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

The only problem with it being legal is I guarantee within the next 10 years big pharma will find a way to fuck it up

1 ahackercalled4chan 2018-05-22

either Big Pharma/FDA or the USDA & Monsanto.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

I kinda wish it was still illegal for those reasons. Legal or illegal the piss test doesn’t care.

1 reeltooreel 2018-05-22

They are working on it. There is a 5 year moratorium on big business entering the CA marketplace; they get to see how the recreational legality plays out, move their chess pieces, then have their big tobacco way with the industry once the ban ends.

1 YungTSJ 2018-05-22

Because weed breaks down social structures and the willingness to blindly conform. They're happy with us living our lives moment to moment until the weekend where we drink ourselves stupid. There's no time to think about things in this world, and weed forces you to think.

1 RobustPotential 2018-05-22

Nailed it

1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-22

weed breaks down social structures and the willingness to blindly conform

Would you be willing to elaborate on these claims?

Are you open-minded to contrary opinions?

1 RueKing 2018-05-22

Care to share the contrary opinion?

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Yeah, weed makes people unwilling to do very much to resist. Try a little something, it doesn't work, the adversary is more committed. F**K it I'm gonna get fazed.

Weed was previously illegal because the government wanted Americans to work. That's not needed anymore, so now the Soros types are desperate to get weed normalized and legalized.

Stoners are oblivious to this because cannabis is psychoactive and induces delusion about how it changes you. "everything's fine" when you're high, even if it's not. Why do you think people like being high?

1 rigorousintuition 2018-05-22

"everything's fine" when you're high, even if it's not. Why do you think people like being high?

Jesus Christ man >.< You don't appear to have smoked much.

Like alcohol, there are low, moderate and high intake users.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Why do smokers always feel the need to make this point? Why would people bother risking jail time (even if the law is unjust), if there's just a low threshold for use, like, a low reward? Other than crazy dumb college parties where someone else you don't know somehow got the weed? Stoners are the most emotional, defensive, and delusional people I know other than heavy drug users.

1 rigorousintuition 2018-05-22

I don't live in backwards America - the cops in my country might give you a slap on the wrist if you blatantly smoked a joint in front of them, there is no risk of jail time unless i choose to become a dealer which is another thing entirely.

Stoners are the most emotional, defensive, and delusional people I know other than heavy drug users.

People like yourself who seem conditioned by the long history of our oppressive government system appear to the most delusional. Have you ever tried magic mushrooms or perhaps DMT?

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Especially DMT seems to induce delusions. That sense of life being reordered and making sense, which goes away after a few weeks. It's "just a feeling". People who advocate shroom use, what do they think will change if more people had a psychedelic experience? I'm open minded about this but skeptical.

I'm less worried about some psychedelics because they aren't as habit forming as cannabis. There's a reason why more people are obsessed with cannabis, it's because it has habit forming properties. It seems obviously like a waste. I mean, you will feel good probably, but then what? And it makes you delusional about what it is on top of it.

I think DMT also makes people delusional about what exactly happened to them. Wow, scary huh? To deeply believe you experienced something when in fact it's probably just your brain being screwed up. It's called mental illness, and it isn't fun.

That said, I don't think anyone has been driven off the edge by DMT (actually, I think some people, in rare cases, have had harmful trips). But, in general, DMT seems to make people question reality.

News alert: there's no reason to question reality itself. Reality has always been as exactly certain/uncertain as it always has been. This is both comforting and frightening. But messing with your brain chemically, while not changing reality, messes you up.

Based on what I've seen, I think DMT is probably okay. It just makes people navel gaze a little much, but other than that whatevs.

LSD, it seems to make people turn into stupid hippies. Have you seen what Portland is like? It's not weird in a good way, I don't know why people think it is. Maybe because they to have done LSD.

Look, atoms - we can't see them - but we are able to produce effects which show us that something down there consistently exists. Without altering our mental states. Altering your mental state might teach us about how the brain works, but not reality itself. I don't buy it, because it would be demonstrable.

Anyway, like I said, psychedelics aren't - seemingly - as habit forming as Cannabis so I'm less annoyed by them. Just, I don't buy it. And I don't like hippie culture.

Questioning the status quo? No that's fine!

1 rigorousintuition 2018-05-22

I also do not like the hippie culture, once again have you ever actually tried DMT or magic mushrooms?

And have you actually ever tried Marijuana?

That sense of life being reordered and making sense, which goes away after a few weeks. It's "just a feeling".

You have obviously never experience DMT to the full extent, i won't try to sell it to you but it is not like that at all - if anything it throw everything you know into doubt. Mental illness is a man made word to describe the minds of those we do not understand or are afraid of - people who have tried DMT say they have an understanding of other peoples point of views afterwards because it really does spin you through what feels like the lives of others - i for example could never understand how a crazy person could be 'crazy' until i tried DMT.

Utterly terrifying, that is for sure. The most confronting and unexplainable thing i have ever experienced in my life, i could not even begin to explain what happened to me as we just do not have the words to describe it.

Back to what i quoted - DMT gave me the feeling of oneness with everyone and everything and during the trip it all made sense, afterwards it made none - i just had this tremendous feeling of guilt, sadness and betrayal as if i had been lied to my entire life about the true human condition.

Anyway, everything in moderation - we truly know nothing of the human mind and that is why i felt the need to question and also try to understand your mentality.

Not trying to bait you into anything but do you by chance drink alcohol?

1 Loose-ends 2018-05-22

For the vast majority, the longer you've smoked it the less it takes to reach what might only be called a more expansive and inclusive "state of mind" that becomes less and less out of reach and still leaves much of that broader perspective intact even when you're not "under the influence" as it's called.

That more expansive state is simply a heightened awareness of all of the very normal and ordinary physical sensations as they occur and that we aren't mindful of and tend to lose touch with due to the usual stress and mental preoccupation with what comes "next", if you will, and what we are going to do before we get there to do it, instead of being focussed on what's actually happening right NOW and in the NOW-ness of things.

All the immediate sights, sounds, sensations and feelings that our surrounding environment constantly conveys and communicates that we are experiencing directly due to the altered focus of our attention that the drug induces.

That isn't to say that we can't achieve that normally, but we have been pre-conditioned and are generally too tense and overloaded with too many thoughts about too many other things to sustain it for any length of time.

Using it occasionally improves our ability to reach that state of mind, which is why less and less is usually needed to do it. We don't simply get in direct touch with whatever there is and is taking place but also in touch with own selves on the physical level that takes place on.

1 rigorousintuition 2018-05-22

So very true.

Living in the now is truly the way to live - anxiety is but the dizziness of freedom :)

1 TheBongzilla 2018-05-22

You're alone, pal. Everyone here (that's not a stupid ignorant religious person) know that you're only saying garbage. You should try weed, it's really good. Alcohol is poison.

1 RueKing 2018-05-22

I believe you are massively oversimplifying the effects of a plant based on stereotypical behavior. Sure, there are stoners who are slothful, but slothful people have all sorts of hobbies. Weed certainly changes your pereception, but it hardly makes all partakers think everything is fine. Have you never heard of weed induced paranoia? That results from insecurities with oneself or from unwelcome thought experiments that open your eyes to new ideas. These can be harmful, theraleutic, and inspiring, all at once. And there are many other possible reactions. How about medicinal use for those with cancer or cataracts?

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Marijuana does nothing for cancer, except maybe being a "safer" pain-relief substance than opiates. Marijuana doesn't cure glaucoma, it relieves it temporarily by lowering blood pressure, but then low blood flow exacerbates the problem. CBD may or may not help epilepsy, but anyway it doesn't make you high and isn't the thing weed smokers deeply care about.

Oh wait, you're invoking paranoia? Oh, you're being ironic.

1 RueKing 2018-05-22

I am not ironically invoking paranoia. Throw away the baby with the bath water if you like.

1 flip-trick 2018-05-22

That is my favorite idiomatic expression in the English language. "Throw away the baby with the bath water"

1 FORKinmyDICK 2018-05-22

Marijuana does nothing for cancer,

Holy shit dude. You couldnt be more factually wrong.

https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000884

1 Doxcleveland 2018-05-22

Stoners don't work, hmmm why do the South African Diamond mines give ganja to the workers? To make them more productive...assumption incorrect.

1 FORKinmyDICK 2018-05-22

F**K it I'm gonna get fazed.

Fazed isn't even something people say lol. Assuming you're combining blazed and faded...

Either way that is the laziness of the person not the drug. Those same people that have that attitude would smoke any other easily accessible non damaging drug to be under the influence of something regardless.

I go work out, go shopping, conquer social anxiety AND relax & play video games all while high. It is an amazing tool for those who know how to use any substance without abusing it.

If the worst that you have is 'weed makes you lazy mannnnn' then your opinion is irrelevant.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

TBH, weed makes people into sheep - but worthless, unproductive sheep. The government needed workers. Now, however, the workers are in China.

Look at Soros funding legalization. They want us smoking weed now, so we'll ignore the decline of America and economic stagnation. But their past propaganda has many people scared of Marijuana so they have to do the slow roll out to acceptance.

Frankly, stoners are delusional addicts. They're not the worst people alive, they're better than maniac soldier types. Still, why do you think the hippie movement and drugs started in the 60s? It was one way to neuter the civil rights/anti-war movement, to make it ineffectual. Big protests instead of an underground railroad supporting draft supporters. Songs instead passing state laws which resisted federal military bases. Think about it.

1 YungTSJ 2018-05-22

How can someone who doesn't do drugs so confidently say bullshit like this?

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Ever heard of the pod people?

I'm comfortable saying that there's a reality out there, even if it's far beyond me to understand it all. It understands me.

Delusional thinking is when you believe you come to know something deeply true about the universe, which is of course BS. It's just a believe, an impression.

Psycho-active drugs cause delusions. It could be that many of them are benign and reset how you process mood and emotions, but don't change your view of reality.

Cannabis is psycho-active enough to cause delusions, because plenty of people who use it admit as much. Plus, the science about the EC system and how THC is a huge bomb in it is pretty clear about how exactly THC screws things up. In fact, cannabis would probably be PCP levels of dangerous (heard of bath salts) were it not for the CBD and other cannabinoids in the plant which work to repair the very damage their cousins are causing in real-time.

I know cannabis is delusion causing because of how defensive people are about it. I know tobacco users who admit loving nicotine, but also hating it. They don't BS about their habit.

Cannabis users, generally, deny very obvious problems in their life. Even minor users. The truth is, "I'm more emotionally committed to the way I feel while high than whatever is going wrong in my life". Unfortunately, the rational mind knows this is BS. Normally, when different parts of the mind conflict, something has to give. Not so with Cannabis. The effects of THC allow people to literally believe that these contradictions are totally okay. It's very subtle sometimes, sometimes not so subtle. It happens to everyone who enjoys smoking weed, even if they've only done it a little.

That said, lots of things harm us, and weed isn't among the very worst, so life goes on.

Basically, weed makes people think that their lives are better, but it actually almost always makes life worse (maybe "less" is a better word). For many people, this isn't a big deal.

But man, I've never smoked tobacco, and I know that I don't want to start, and despite the pleasure of a nicotine hits, a lot of smokers would encourage me to never get hooked.

Cannabis smokers distinctly and noticeably lack this basic mental maturity. Seems to prove something about the substance.

1 imagine_my_suprise 2018-05-22

Well that's just like your opinion man

1 YungTSJ 2018-05-22

You are generalizing in practically every point you're making without any knowledge of what the high is and what it becomes after you learn to manage it, having never felt the positives.

Newsflash, people in this world are varying degrees of troubled and substances can effect people in different ways. It's not for everyone, sober or otherwise. Cannabis users deny very obvious problems in their life? How about egotists? Eccentrics? Extroverts? You can't say things like that when large sects of society also deny problems in their life, or also do or think things that stoners supposedly do. One of my main points was that weed forces you to confront yourself and your problems, so I really can't agree with that anyway. I can vouch for your delusions comment (it does make my anxiety worse in depending on how high I am in what situation) but so what? I'll be burnt out in a half hour max and chill out.

You're saying weed smokers lack maturity by not discouraging its use? I also smoke cigarettes and would not recommend picking those up. Seems to prove something about these substances- they're not remotely the same thing ;) there's not a single positive to cigarettes and there's not a single smoker who would tell you that nicotine rush lasts. It goes away before you realize that's why you do it.

Going on my sixth year of regular weed smoking and the only negatives are the aforementioned delusions w/ anxiety, and tracking down dealers on my days off.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

1) I do think Cannabis masks its own effects on people. You can see things in other people, but they can't see it in themselves. There's some science to back this up having to do with the prefrontal cortex.

2) My purpose for posting here is just to say that IMO weed legalization is now a conspiracy for basically causing America to collapse as a society. IMO weed use can reach levels above 60% of people using at least weekly (someday - once it's "normal" and legal to smoke - anyone can grow the plant). And, at those levels, even if the majority are mostly okay, you're going to have dozens of millions of people with mental health, emotional, and relationship dysfunctions. Yes, more than what we already have with alcohol and opiates. Some opiate and alcohol use will switch to weed, but not enough to cancel out the new negative effects weed will bring in making people more emotionally detached from each other (in reality, maybe not in their minds while high). Finally, if fully normalized, you're going to get way more wake and bakers. Finding a dealer when your stash is low won't be a problem. More people are going to be more addicted.

Just my theory dawg. George Soros money.

1 ilikerealmaplesyrup 2018-05-22

You could say the exact samr thing about comfort food.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Yeah, they both work with the EC system. But you could also compare caffeine and nicotine, which ultimately - like the comparison you made - is inappropriate and dodging.

1 Sage_Ascendant 2018-05-22

Are you talking about weed or prescription pills? You must be confused. They didn't "neuter the anti-war movement" with weed. They did it by encouraging a hedonistic lifestyle and pumping hard drugs to the masses. Weed is medicine for the people.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Wow. Deflect - PILLS!!! Blame everything but weed - HARD DRUGS! PRE-EXISTING MENTAL CONDITIONS! BAD MORALS! Weed is wonderful - MEDICINE BRO!

Cannabis is a drug, it is habit-forming, and leads to delusional thinking. It saps from you spiritually, and interposes itself between you and higher spirituality, acting as a brief enhancer, then a permanent filter.

It won't kill you, it's not as bad as many hard drugs, not hardly.

It's not harmless.

Other than the exceptions of genetic alcoholics, cannabis is generally more psychologically dangerous than alcohol. Although, if not smoked straight, it is less physically harmful than alcohol

1 BigPharmaSucks 2018-05-22

I would like to see sources for your exact claims.

1 Sage_Ascendant 2018-05-22

Lol! Says the guy comparing weed to bath salts and pcp. It's a plant. One of God's gifts.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

"It's a plant" is like the worst stoner thing that stoners say. Like, I know that's super popular to say, but it's also a horribly bad point. Many things are plants, which are HORRIBLE for you. The fact that it "make sense" to stoners to the point where they repeat it again and again, it makes me laugh kind of.

Synthetic marijuana and dabs prove that THC alone is, like I said, PCP levels of bad. CBD, thankfully, helps balance it in the plant. But it's sort of a sign that something bad is going on. For example, alcohol's buzz comes from the body trying to save itself from this toxin. Great. But then your liver spends a week recycling out toxins until they are finally gone. We know that these physical effects are very damaging over time.

So what does it mean as THC is constantly messing up your brain, but CBD is constantly trying to fix it. What's the cumulative effect of that?

The truth is, nobody knows. There's very little medical research, and the cannabis culture pushes so much pseudoscience it's ridiculous.

But, yeah "just a plant man". Smoke poison ivy, see what happens.

1 TheBongzilla 2018-05-22

and the cannabis culture pushes so much pseudoscience it's ridiculous.

Said the guy who said this: * It saps from you spiritually, and interposes itself between you and higher spirituality, acting as a brief enhancer, then a permanent filter.* LMAO DUDE you're so funny.

By the way, here's some facts:

Here are 105 studies that demonstrate cannabis can treat various cancers.

Cannabis kills tumor cells

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1576089

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090845

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/616322

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14640910

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19480992

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15275820

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15638794

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16818650

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952650

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307616

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16616335

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16624285

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10700234

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17675107

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14617682

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17342320

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16893424

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15026328

Uterine, testicular, and pancreatic cancers

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional/page4

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20925645

Brain cancer

http://ir.gwpharm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1010672 (Phase 2 human trial)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479216

Mouth and throat cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20516734

Breast cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454173

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16728591

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9653194

Lung cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25069049

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22198381?dopt=Abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21097714?dopt=Abstract

Prostate cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12746841?dopt=Abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339795/?tool=pubmed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594963

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15753356

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10570948

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19690545

Blood cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12091357

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16908594

Skin cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12511587

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19608284

Liver cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475304

Cannabis cancer treatments (general)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12514108

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15313899

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20053780

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18199524

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589225

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12182964

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442435

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12723496

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16250836

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17237277

Cancers of the head and neck

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277494

Cholangiocarcinoma cancer

http://ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916793

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21115947

Leukemia

https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/51/1/369

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15454482

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16139274

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692532

Cannabis partially/fully induced cancer cell death

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12130702

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19457575

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615640

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17931597

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18438336

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916793

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387516

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15453094

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19229996

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9771884

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339876

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12133838

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16596790

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11269508

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15958274

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19425170

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17202146

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11903061

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15451022

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336665

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19394652

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11106791

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189659

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500647

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539619

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059457

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16909207

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18088200

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10913156

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18354058

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189054

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934890

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571653

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889794

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15361550

Translocation-positive rhabdomyosarcoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19509271

Lymphoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18546271

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16936228

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16337199

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19609004

Cannabis kills cancer cells

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16818634

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12648025

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952650

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16835997

Melanoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17065222

Thyroid carcinoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197164

Colon cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18938775

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19047095

Intestinal inflammation and cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442536

Cannabinoids in health and disease

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18286801

Cannabis inhibits cancer cell invasion

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914218

BONUS:

Removes amyloid plaques from the brain

http://www.sciencealert.com/marijuana-compound-removes-toxic-alzheimer-s-protein-from-the-brain%23.WF9AW64Bjms.facebook

and restores cognitive function in old mice

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.4311.epdf

But I'm sure this is just the devil's plant, or the devil testing your faith, or just the damn liberals and their facts! Hah.

1 Ariamas 2018-05-22

I love a good smackdown

1 WorkIsMyBane 2018-05-22

I'm totally agreeing with you that this guy is delusional, but...

lmao @ your username

1 TheBongzilla 2018-05-22

Tru

1 Sage_Ascendant 2018-05-22

Here in Japan they use poison ivy to make ink for pottery. It's the most beautiful red I've ever seen. Everything has it's use.

1 reeltooreel 2018-05-22

In regards to your comment on spirituality, are you aware that entire religions exist around using the plant in ritual?

1 rigorousintuition 2018-05-22

Aaaah I used to have the same herd mentality as yourself my friend - I was always so anti-marijuana as a youth. One day i tried it and my mind was truly opened - it allows you to pick yourself apart emotionally or to have empathy for others on a very deep level.

The most beautiful epiphany was when i realised how mediocre and tame Marijuana truly was and that how misled i had been my entire life. If i had been so easily tricked into hating on such an innocent plant then what else had i been lied to about? From there i guess you find out the answer is, everything.

I would have many friends who would entirely agree with me.

You need to think about it, seriously.

1 Loose-ends 2018-05-22

It's considerably more than just an innocent plant, it is a plant that contains elements that you body actually has a network of receptors that are specifically designed to receive them.

Receptors that otherwise go unused. So the body clearly has a use and a need for those elements. That is the actual basis behind using marijuana for medicinal purposes and why there is a steadily growing body of evidence for those medicinal uses and the curative effects they have had for any number of people.

1 rrustyspoonss 2018-05-22

You're not wrong, i was smoking weed regularly for over two years...since I started uni. It got so bad that I actually had to smoke at least 5,6 joints before I went to bed. I got lazy and slept till noon. I woke up with weed hangover everyday, and smoked more because it kept me demotivated. It was about a month or two ago that I realized the harms of smoking weed. What started out as a fun activity to do with my friends became a dependency issue. I didn't realize how it was affecting me mentally, I was paranoid, and anxious but I passed it off as just the effects of weed. I've completely stopped. I know so many people in the UK who are so completely dependent on weed even though they want to quit. It's a waste of money and time. At the end of the day, everything taken in moderation is fine, but it makes me suspicious as to why the fat cats are suddenly pushing for weed. I mean you can't go a day without hearing trap artists, and hollywood promoting marijuana these days. There is no such thing as functioning better on weed, it's just not true, and it's what people say to excuse their addictive behaviour. Everything in moderation.

1 zesorenson 2018-05-22

Since you're honest, I'll be fair. Maybe there's a ton of people out there who can use marijuana like some people smoke cigars or drink beer casually. But I'm not convinced they're out there.

There seem to be two categories: people who tried weed, but the fact of it being illegal or stigmatized made them move on - and people who get totally dependent.

I don't think "we can know" what category cannabis ultimately falls in for now. Plenty of people use cocaine "sometimes" and aren't addicts. It's still dangerous.

Cannabis defenders seem to jump down the throats of people who say they formed a habit. Why? Like, almost like you're peeing in the punchbowl and their scared the word will get out that the stuff isn't that good for you.

So - maybe weed is mostly fine for everyone except the unfortunate mythical 10% who get addicted. I'm not convinced, but I'll admit that I don't think anyone can argue it yet.

I personally think there's a push to make weed normal and legal in America right now, by malicious actors.

1 TheBongzilla 2018-05-22

I'm gonna comment again, so more people can see that you're full of shit u/zesorenson.

Cannabis kills tumor cells

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1576089

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090845

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/616322

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14640910

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19480992

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15275820

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15638794

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16818650

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952650

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307616

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16616335

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16624285

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10700234

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17675107

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14617682

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17342320

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16893424

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15026328

Uterine, testicular, and pancreatic cancers

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional/page4

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20925645

Brain cancer

http://ir.gwpharm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1010672 (Phase 2 human trial)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479216

Mouth and throat cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20516734

Breast cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454173

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16728591

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9653194

Lung cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25069049

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22198381?dopt=Abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21097714?dopt=Abstract

Prostate cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12746841?dopt=Abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339795/?tool=pubmed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594963

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15753356

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10570948

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19690545

Blood cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12091357

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16908594

Skin cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12511587

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19608284

Liver cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475304

Cannabis cancer treatments (general)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12514108

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15313899

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20053780

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18199524

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589225

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12182964

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442435

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12723496

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16250836

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17237277

Cancers of the head and neck

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277494

Cholangiocarcinoma cancer

http://ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916793

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21115947

Leukemia

https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/51/1/369

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15454482

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16139274

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692532

Cannabis partially/fully induced cancer cell death

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12130702

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19457575

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615640

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17931597

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18438336

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916793

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387516

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15453094

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19229996

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9771884

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339876

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12133838

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16596790

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11269508

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15958274

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19425170

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17202146

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11903061

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15451022

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336665

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19394652

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11106791

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189659

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500647

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539619

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059457

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16909207

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18088200

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10913156

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18354058

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189054

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934890

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571653

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889794

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15361550

Translocation-positive rhabdomyosarcoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19509271

Lymphoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18546271

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16936228

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16337199

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19609004

Cannabis kills cancer cells

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16818634

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12648025

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952650

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16835997

Melanoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17065222

Thyroid carcinoma

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197164

Colon cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18938775

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19047095

Intestinal inflammation and cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442536

Cannabinoids in health and disease

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18286801

Cannabis inhibits cancer cell invasion

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914218

BONUS:

Removes amyloid plaques from the brain

http://www.sciencealert.com/marijuana-compound-removes-toxic-alzheimer-s-protein-from-the-brain%23.WF9AW64Bjms.facebook

and restores cognitive function in old mice

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.4311.epdf

But I'm sure this is just the devil's plant, or the devil testing your faith, or just the damn liberals and their facts! Hah.

1 NorthBlizzard 2018-05-22

Smoke with a group and your questions will be answered.

1 PuzzleheadedBiscotti 2018-05-22

And if God isn't real?

1 TupacsFather 2018-05-22

Because they think they're God. That's why.

1 PinkoPrepper 2018-05-22

They needed an excuse to put black people and lefties in jail. Worked swimmingly, seeing as how far to the right the country has gone since the Drug War started.

1 Afrobean 2018-05-22

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

It's also worth noticing that cannabis was legal in the US until the 1930s. During this time, propagandists started referring to it as "marijuana" in order to denigrate the plant's reputation with a racist association to Mexican people. That is why many call it "marijuana" today.

1 ogrelin 2018-05-22

Marijuana

1 WarlordBeagle 2018-05-22

Weed is just a drug like booze. We should not use it because we want to remain sober and rational.

Weed is not one drug because it varies from ditch-weed to green-crack. The new stuff is very strong.

Lots of people can use weed with no problems. Others will become dependent on it psychologically and end up stoners. It is a waste of their lives. The effect on people varies with their physical/psychological make-up.

The government can ban it thru laws. They try to do what they think is right or better for them.

God does not exist. It is a left-over concept from the old desert religions.

You can smoke it all you like. You just might have to pay a fine or go to jail if you get caught. If you grow your own in your closet, and smoke it at home, you will not get caught, so it is not a problem. If you wander about the town stoned, you may end up in difficulties.

1 _wtf_lol_ 2018-05-22

God does not exist.

Bold statement

1 WHOOP1N 2018-05-22

Wait until he sees the satanstuff, the human trafficking is more than sex slaves, it's organ harvesting and andrenochrome cannibalism.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

Since you’re an atheist, go eat mushrooms in a room with complete sound and light deprivation, you’ll meet your maker. Sacred geometry is all the evidence I needed to believe this reality has been designed.

1 _wtf_lol_ 2018-05-22

Golden Ratio, fibonacci sequence, flower of life...yup...no doubt it's designed by intelligence.

1 WarlordBeagle 2018-05-22

I am against drug use.

There seem to be some rules to this reality. But, that is not evidence of design.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

Sacred geometry is evidence of a design. Psilocybin is almost identical to the molecular structure of serotonin and dmt(pineal gland) which is how we perceive our reality. If it’s not a narcotic it’s not a drug, stop regurgitating what big brother has told you.

1 orrery 2018-05-22

Ah, I see that you're one of those people who equate God with the Abrahamic God. You are aware that God has been defined a hundred different ways are you not? It seems to me that you have conveniently chosen to define God "Abrahamically" because you need to create a Strawman God that you can easily disbelieve in in order to claim yourself an atheist.

The Pantheistic God is irrefutable and in the pantheistic paradigm, atheism does not exist.

1 WarlordBeagle 2018-05-22

Guess I don't exist then....

1 orrery 2018-05-22

Oh, you're just some guy who doesn't know how to properly define God and latches on to a Strawman definition of God. Of course the Abrahamic God doesn't exist, its easy to deny the existence of God when you conveniently choose to define God to be one of the obviously non-existent God while discarding the God which demonstrably and obviously does exist - the Pantheistic God.

Within the Pantheistic Paradigm, atheists do not exist. You are not in the pantheistic paradigm - you have imprisoned yourself into the Abrahamic Paradigm in order to conveniently label yourself an atheist. The atheist label has no merit or value, it is merely proof that you have failed to define God and have instead accepted what is obviously a debunked Strawman God.

If you want to believe in a Strawman God so that you can call yourself an atheist then knock yourself out.

1 _wtf_lol_ 2018-05-22

Please stop calling it Marihuana. It's a name given by the anti cannabis lobby. And I agree: cannabis is God's gift. I believe that when you consume it, you get a glimpse how it feels to be with God in heaven.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

Try mushrooms if you havnt already.

1 _wtf_lol_ 2018-05-22

It's on my bucket list.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

Good to hear. I’m convinced mushrooms are manna in the Bible, the food of the angels.

1 _wtf_lol_ 2018-05-22

I read about this theory. Jesus Christ and his followers were a psychedelic cult of some sort. Even Christ himself was supposedly a metaphor for shrooms. It's an interesting take on the bible.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

I’m mean what else could it be? Somewhere in the Bible it says along the lines of finding small white caps in the wilderness after the morning dew.. its mushrooms lol I’d believe Christ is metaphorically boomers, when I took them for the first time, a spiritual awakening is an understatement to say the least. But I’ve heard Christ is symbolic for our Chrism, the sacred secretion thats released from our pituitary gland. That goes down our 7 energy centers (chakras) and when it gets raised back to the pituitary it’ll activate every cell in our brain. That’s why the ET’s are scared of us because if we figure this out we become god. I believe this is what Jesus learned in the library of Alexanderia and allowed him to preform his miracles.

1 ahackercalled4chan 2018-05-22

Jordan Maxwell. Exodus. the Mana from Heaven is psychedelic mushrooms that open on the morning dew. old testament so no Jesú Christo yet.

i think you are right about Jesus & Alexandria. i also think he went further west into Tibet and India to learn more. there's a few books about it. God vs Buddha, and Lost Days of Jesus Christ, among others.

1 slapstellas 2018-05-22

I believe it and is Jesus mentioned in there religions or did he just go there to learn? Because I’ve noticed all religions are literally the same stories.

1 ahackercalled4chan 2018-05-22

I'm not well-versed enough in Buddhism or Hinduism to know if those texts mention/prophesize Jesus. But it is a strong theory that he learned from Buddhist monks and Hindi Brahmans.

1 ahackercalled4chan 2018-05-22

no better time than now.

take some vacation & go camping. see the beauty of the Universe.

1 ganooosh 2018-05-22

religious / morality reasons

stupidity

money

Money is pretty important. They're not really trying to hide it either. Not long ago iirc they declared CBD had no medical uses. And then not long ago a CBD based product cleared the FDA.

Wait... hold on.. how can a pharmaceutical company "make" a cbd based medicine if cbd has no medical use?! How indeed.

1 Dissimulate 2018-05-22

While I’m against the ban, it being given to us by nature is not a good argument. It’s not convincing. If a hypothetical substance was detrimental and dangerous to people and society then you could make a good case for controlling it. Instead you should argue why that isn’t the case.

1 CordouroyStilts 2018-05-22

They can't in certain parts of the US.

1 Afrobean 2018-05-22

This is like asking "Why is the government authoritarian?" If that organization wasn't authoritarian, would it even be called a "government"? Government oppresses people arbitrarily because that's what government does.

1 orrery 2018-05-22

Enforcing Unconstitutional laws is a popular pass time in the US. Rest assured, marijuana prohibition is and always has been illegal.

1 dontletmetalk 2018-05-22

They want to control your consciousness. Marijuana makes people too empathetic for the governments taste.

1 greenmanfarm 2018-05-22

Been smoking for 25 years. Never been caught. Why is that? Because I'm smarter or luckier than the average bear BooBoo. I stay high 24/7/365. And?

1 TW0_BIRD5 2018-05-22

My brother used to always say "they'll never know your high if you don't let them see you sober" Rip.

1 danjo_kandui 2018-05-22

Because a government owns its citizens just as a King owns his subjects. If you want your sovereignty back, the same sovereignty that the Constitution was written to protect, we have to quit acknowledging the government as an authority. We have the power to do that. Look at states like Washington and Colorado. It's still federally illegal but those states told the Feds to fuck off. What did the Feds do about it? Nothing, because if they tried any action they would lose, the rest of the US states would see how powerless and pointless the Feds are. They would all demand their sovereignty back. Like they had before the civil war. Remember, history is written by the winners and the Feds won that one.

1 YungTSJ 2018-05-22

Oh, so you're crazy or a moron for sure. Well, good talk then.

1 onetimerone 2018-05-22

Because liberty and the pursuit of happiness are determined by their rules.

1 DontJoinTheMilitary 2018-05-22

Cannabis has a tendency to open closed minds and softens calloused hearts which makes it the exact opposite of what you want when you're trying to produce mindless taxcattle who remain silent while their hijacked government uses their military to terrorize the world.
The is the same reason psychedelics are highly illegal.
Any time you see anything that is relatively harmless (or even beneficial) yet highly illegal, there is an ulterior motive.
Also note that nearly all governments of the world have made them highly illegal. This is more supporting evidence that governments share information with each other about creating and maintaining taxcattle.
Lastly, I'll point out that cannabis is also used as a tool for putting decent people in prison, or giving them criminal histories that make their lives very difficult.

"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities"

—John Ehrlichman, former Nixon domestic policy chief

1 TheHighBlatman 2018-05-22

Im fairly convinced it has to do with the infiltration of evil into our power structure. They don't want pot smokers to succeed, which just proves we have power over them.

1 Cobra-Serpentress 2018-05-22

By passing a Law. Governments have Condemned particular swarms of Bees to hell and mad Horses Mayors of Towns.

You real question is....How can the people allow it?

1 zopwx2 2018-05-22

Because it is literally too effective and too easy to grow naturally when compared with how expensive and unnatural pharma and other products are.

Its the same reason we have this century of endless petrol warfare when Tesla could have lit up the whole world withe free energi.

1 re2m1a2dcw 2018-05-22

This reminds me of the time I did something similar to this!

1 nasadihje 2018-05-22

damn good one, I'll definitely have to contemplate this one

1 Trez1999 2018-05-22

I read it, I feel dumber for have

1 Afrobean 2018-05-22

To be fair, the content of this post is extremely low effort. You're entirely right about the point you're trying to make, but we talk about cannabis prohibition plenty here, and this post doesn't really add anything unique to the conversation.

1 YungTSJ 2018-05-22

How can someone who doesn't do drugs so confidently say bullshit like this?

1 Sage_Ascendant 2018-05-22

Are you talking about weed or prescription pills? You must be confused. They didn't "neuter the anti-war movement" with weed. They did it by encouraging a hedonistic lifestyle and pumping hard drugs to the masses. Weed is medicine for the people.

1 rigorousintuition 2018-05-22

Aaaah I used to have the same herd mentality as yourself my friend - I was always so anti-marijuana as a youth. One day i tried it and my mind was truly opened - it allows you to pick yourself apart emotionally or to have empathy for others on a very deep level.

The most beautiful epiphany was when i realised how mediocre and tame Marijuana truly was and that how misled i had been my entire life. If i had been so easily tricked into hating on such an innocent plant then what else had i been lied to about? From there i guess you find out the answer is, everything.

I would have many friends who would entirely agree with me.

You need to think about it, seriously.

1 rrustyspoonss 2018-05-22

You're not wrong, i was smoking weed regularly for over two years...since I started uni. It got so bad that I actually had to smoke at least 5,6 joints before I went to bed. I got lazy and slept till noon. I woke up with weed hangover everyday, and smoked more because it kept me demotivated. It was about a month or two ago that I realized the harms of smoking weed. What started out as a fun activity to do with my friends became a dependency issue. I didn't realize how it was affecting me mentally, I was paranoid, and anxious but I passed it off as just the effects of weed. I've completely stopped. I know so many people in the UK who are so completely dependent on weed even though they want to quit. It's a waste of money and time. At the end of the day, everything taken in moderation is fine, but it makes me suspicious as to why the fat cats are suddenly pushing for weed. I mean you can't go a day without hearing trap artists, and hollywood promoting marijuana these days. There is no such thing as functioning better on weed, it's just not true, and it's what people say to excuse their addictive behaviour. Everything in moderation.

1 imagine_my_suprise 2018-05-22

Well that's just like your opinion man

1 YungTSJ 2018-05-22

You are generalizing in practically every point you're making without any knowledge of what the high is and what it becomes after you learn to manage it, having never felt the positives.

Newsflash, people in this world are varying degrees of troubled and substances can effect people in different ways. It's not for everyone, sober or otherwise. Cannabis users deny very obvious problems in their life? How about egotists? Eccentrics? Extroverts? You can't say things like that when large sects of society also deny problems in their life, or also do or think things that stoners supposedly do. One of my main points was that weed forces you to confront yourself and your problems, so I really can't agree with that anyway. I can vouch for your delusions comment (it does make my anxiety worse in depending on how high I am in what situation) but so what? I'll be burnt out in a half hour max and chill out.

You're saying weed smokers lack maturity by not discouraging its use? I also smoke cigarettes and would not recommend picking those up. Seems to prove something about these substances- they're not remotely the same thing ;) there's not a single positive to cigarettes and there's not a single smoker who would tell you that nicotine rush lasts. It goes away before you realize that's why you do it.

Going on my sixth year of regular weed smoking and the only negatives are the aforementioned delusions w/ anxiety, and tracking down dealers on my days off.

1 ilikerealmaplesyrup 2018-05-22

You could say the exact samr thing about comfort food.

1 TheBongzilla 2018-05-22

I'm gonna comment again, so more people can see that you're full of shit u/zesorenson.

Cannabis kills tumor cells

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1576089

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090845

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/616322

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14640910

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19480992

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15275820

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15638794