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LIVE AND LET LIVE

You must have just arrived on planet Earth. First of all, welcome to Earth. Second, The pot growers aren't living and letting live, they are living at the expense of our kids and all of our safety.

I'm sure that as you learn more about planet Earth you will find that just because someone smokes a joint doesn't make him or her groovy.

Feds: Teen use of pot can lead to dependency, mental illness By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 9, 7:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.

A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as teens who have not reported being depressed — 25 percent compared with 12 percent, said the report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

"Marijuana is a more consequential substance of abuse than our culture has treated it in the last 20 years," said John Walters, director of the office. "This is not just youthful experimentation that they'll get over as we used to think in the past."

Smoking marijuana can lead to more serious problems, Walters said in an interview.

For example, using marijuana increases the risk of developing mental disorders by 40 percent, the report said. And teens who smoke pot at least once a month over a yearlong period are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than nonusers, it said.

The report also cited research that showed that teens who smoke marijuana when feeling depressed were more than twice as likely as their peers to abuse or become addicted to pot — 8 percent compared with 3 percent.

Experts who have worked with children say there's nothing harmless about marijuana.

"I've seen many, many kids' lives negatively impacted and taken off track because of marijuana," said Elizabeth Stanley-Salazar, director of adolescent services for Phoenix House treatment centers in California. "It's somewhat Russian roulette. There are so many factors, emotional, psychological, biological. You can't predict the experimentation and how it will impact a kid."

The drug control policy office analyzed about a dozen studies looking at marijuana use, including research by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Walters appealed to parents to recognize signs of possible drug use and depression.

"It's not something you look the other way about when your teen starts appearing careless about their grooming, withdrawing from the family, losing interest in daily activities," Walters said. "Find out what's wrong."

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Marijuana Danger wrote:

Feds: Teen use of pot can lead to dependency, mental illness By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 9, 7:00 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.
A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as teens who have not reported being depressed — 25 percent compared with 12 percent, said the report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"Marijuana is a more consequential substance of abuse than our culture has treated it in the last 20 years," said John Walters, director of the office. "This is not just youthful experimentation that they'll get over as we used to think in the past."
Smoking marijuana can lead to more serious problems, Walters said in an interview.
For example, using marijuana increases the risk of developing mental disorders by 40 percent, the report said. And teens who smoke pot at least once a month over a yearlong period are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than nonusers, it said.
The report also cited research that showed that teens who smoke marijuana when feeling depressed were more than twice as likely as their peers to abuse or become addicted to pot — 8 percent compared with 3 percent.
Experts who have worked with children say there's nothing harmless about marijuana.
"I've seen many, many kids' lives negatively impacted and taken off track because of marijuana," said Elizabeth Stanley-Salazar, director of adolescent services for Phoenix House treatment centers in California. "It's somewhat Russian roulette. There are so many factors, emotional, psychological, biological. You can't predict the experimentation and how it will impact a kid."
The drug control policy office analyzed about a dozen studies looking at marijuana use, including research by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Walters appealed to parents to recognize signs of possible drug use and depression.
"It's not something you look the other way about when your teen starts appearing careless about their grooming, withdrawing from the family, losing interest in daily activities," Walters said. "Find out what's wrong."
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James Kinder from San Diego I see you have changed your name!

too bad you have not changed your attitude!
http://www.10news.com/investigations/15658996...

he got his short jail break to use the computer and is clearly not going to use the kinder name. Well, I'll sit and enjoy a morning bowl while kinder sits in a cold cell. Looks like life backfired on him.

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COME ON REALITY CHECKER LETS SIT DOWN AND BE PEAEFUL AND ENJOY A BIG BOWL OF MENDO'S FINEST AND LETS WELL, CHECK REALITY! tHERE IS MORE IN COMMON BETWEEN YES ON B AND NO ON B , YOU DO KNOW THIS YEAH!

Live and let Live, you stated earlier that you don't even smoke weed and now you invite rc to sit and smoke with you, what an idiot, you can't even keep track of your own lies let alone supposed lies in measure B

You have absolutely no credibility!

Mendo Local wrote:

Live and let Live, you stated earlier that you don't even smoke weed and now you invite rc to sit and smoke with you, what an idiot, you can't even keep track of your own lies let alone supposed lies in measure B
You have absolutely no credibility!

He also missed the point about the caps. But, hell, you know people in a haze don't usually 'get it!'

Mendo Local wrote:

Live and let Live, you stated earlier that you don't even smoke weed and now you invite rc to sit and smoke with you, what an idiot, you can't even keep track of your own lies let alone supposed lies in measure B
You have absolutely no credibility!

I'm also starting to think that this dupe with the Hi IP might be some 14 year old crack-headed baby, a real turnkey waste!

Marijuana Danger wrote:

Feds: Teen use of pot can lead to dependency, mental illness By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 9, 7:00 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.
A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as teens who have not reported being depressed — 25 percent compared with 12 percent, said the report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"Marijuana is a more consequential substance of abuse than our culture has treated it in the last 20 years," said John Walters, director of the office. "This is not just youthful experimentation that they'll get over as we used to think in the past."
Smoking marijuana can lead to more serious problems, Walters said in an interview.
For example, using marijuana increases the risk of developing mental disorders by 40 percent, the report said. And teens who smoke pot at least once a month over a yearlong period are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than nonusers, it said.
The report also cited research that showed that teens who smoke marijuana when feeling depressed were more than twice as likely as their peers to abuse or become addicted to pot — 8 percent compared with 3 percent.
Experts who have worked with children say there's nothing harmless about marijuana.
"I've seen many, many kids' lives negatively impacted and taken off track because of marijuana," said Elizabeth Stanley-Salazar, director of adolescent services for Phoenix House treatment centers in California. "It's somewhat Russian roulette. There are so many factors, emotional, psychological, biological. You can't predict the experimentation and how it will impact a kid."
The drug control policy office analyzed about a dozen studies looking at marijuana use, including research by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Walters appealed to parents to recognize signs of possible drug use and depression.
"It's not something you look the other way about when your teen starts appearing careless about their grooming, withdrawing from the family, losing interest in daily activities," Walters said. "Find out what's wrong."
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I wonder if Holland has a problem with depression. read on...

Marijuana is big business in the Netherlands, if estimates from the Dutch TV program Reporter are to be believed -- and no one is challenging them. According to the news program, the Dutch government is raking in 400 million euros (a little more than $600 million) a year in taxes from the country's 730 marijuana-selling coffee shops.

downstairs of a coffee shop, Maastricht (courtesy Wikimedia)Reporter estimated total sales at the coffee shops at 265,000 kilos of hashish and marijuana annually, with an annual gross revenue of about $3.2 billion.

In response, the Dutch Finance Ministry said it did not know how much tax revenue it collected from the coffee shops. According to department employees who asked for anonymity, "they do not want to know about it in The Hague, as it is all much too politically sensitive."

But the coffee shops account for at most 40% of the marijuana grown in Holland, with the rest being exported untaxed via the black market. Although Dutch police bust 15 marijuana grows a day, they have not been able to make a significant dent in domestic production. That means Dutch marijuana exports are also a significant economy activity.

"As export product, Dutch cannabis comes second or third after cucumbers and tomatoes. Germany and the United Kingdom are big customers," said police commissioner Max Daniel, head of the police unit responsible for tackling marijuana grows

reality checker wrote:

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I wonder if Holland has a problem with depression. read on...
Marijuana is big business in the Netherlands, if estimates from the Dutch TV program Reporter are to be believed -- and no one is challenging them. According to the news program, the Dutch government is raking in 400 million euros (a little more than $600 million) a year in taxes from the country's 730 marijuana-selling coffee shops.
downstairs of a coffee shop, Maastricht (courtesy Wikimedia)Reporter estimated total sales at the coffee shops at 265,000 kilos of hashish and marijuana annually, with an annual gross revenue of about $3.2 billion.
In response, the Dutch Finance Ministry said it did not know how much tax revenue it collected from the coffee shops. According to department employees who asked for anonymity, "they do not want to know about it in The Hague, as it is all much too politically sensitive."
But the coffee shops account for at most 40% of the marijuana grown in Holland, with the rest being exported untaxed via the black market. Although Dutch police bust 15 marijuana grows a day, they have not been able to make a significant dent in domestic production. That means Dutch marijuana exports are also a significant economy activity.
"As export product, Dutch cannabis comes second or third after cucumbers and tomatoes. Germany and the United Kingdom are big customers," said police commissioner Max Daniel, head of the police unit responsible for tackling marijuana grows

Hey Keith...
Shadduppp!!!!

WATCH WATCHER
When you use the term "lies" are you talking of my statements or yours?

Here is a report released recently about kids and pot. It describes many of the problems experienced by kids when they smoke pot. Marijuana depresses many kids because they can't function without their short-term memory.

This causes them to fall behind scholastically which in turn triggers anxiety.

Check it out.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/09/hea...

ukiahan
apalled in Florida wrote
"I have no problem with people who grow marijuana to sell smoke eat whatever theywant to do."
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Watcher wrote:
Your opinion falls apart when you take into consideration that way over half of the pot that's grown ends up in the hands of kids under the age of 18.
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ukiahan wrote:
you can repeat this a million times, but it still won't make it true. Once again, go to schools and talk to them and they will tell you the real problems (funding), but reality isn't nearly as much as a vivid imagination.
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Watcher wrote:
Ukiahan It really helps to know what you're talking about. It's like dominoes.

First, pot pours into the schools.

Second, pot causes a drop in grades, a drop in attendance and an increase in the drop out rate.

Third, because schools get their money fro graduation and attendance, the schools money is cut.

Fourth, as an act of self-preservation the teachers and schools systems doctor the attendance books and give away grades.

End result, the quick patch attempted by the school systems never lasts for long and the kids end up the long-term losers.

I keep seeing these busts of over twenty-five plants being used to justify Measure B.

You guys don't see this as brain-damaged logic, but it is, I kid you not.

Did you know that cannabinoids protect your nerve sheaths, so that you don't get as dumb as you age?

They also promote neuro-genesis (the growth of new brain cells).

You guys could sure use a few new ones.

Nerm Vermin wrote:

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Hey Keith...
Shadduppp!!!!

who's Keith? I am confused.

writch wrote:

I keep seeing these busts of over twenty-five plants being used to justify Measure B.
You guys don't see this as brain-damaged logic, but it is, I kid you not.
Did you know that cannabinoids protect your nerve sheaths, so that you don't get as dumb as you age?
They also promote neuro-genesis (the growth of new brain cells).
You guys could sure use a few new ones.

There has never been, nor will there ever be a drug that is smoked that will ever gain approval by either the Center for Disease Control, or the FDA. And cannabinoids promote mis-firings in the synapse which promotes short term memory deficiencies, as well as high blood pressure, which contributes to Myocardial Infarction and Stroke!
Nitwit!

writch wrote:

I keep seeing these busts of over twenty-five plants being used to justify Measure B.
You guys don't see this as brain-damaged logic, but it is, I kid you not.
Did you know that cannabinoids protect your nerve sheaths, so that you don't get as dumb as you age?
They also promote neuro-genesis (the growth of new brain cells).
You guys could sure use a few new ones.

You need to lay off the dope dope.