(06-15-2009, 05:54 AM)Ali Quadir Wrote: There's a lot of FUD going around about hemp..
It does not affect the body for 7 weeks. THC is broken down by the body in a few hours. The waste products get locked up in fat, hair and nails. These waste products are not psychoactive and do not affect the body in a proven way. They are only the method used for drug tests. THC is more difficult to detect, and it evaporates so quickly that there's almost no point testing for it.
The girl who had difficulty taking care of her toddler.. One way of saying it is that she smoked hemp and thus did not care for her toddler. The other probably more accurate way is saying that she found it difficult to cope with life as a single mother in American society and auto medicated with weed.
I still agree with the judges verdict. The girl needed intervention. Considering the amount of kids in the US put into prisons because of hemp he was mild. But parenting class no doubt helped the woman more than quitting the weed. She learned to cope in another way than smoking hemp. Thus acquiring self confidence and taking the upward spiral of seeing the result of the confidence and gaining even more. Quitting the weed just helped by breaking the cycle.
In my opinion as a clinical health psychologist. There is no strong reason why cannabis should result in stigma, imprisonment and the social outcries that it does. While on the other hand alcohol is completely accepted yet it kills and maims many many more people per year both directly and in traffic accidents. It causes some very serious and very big problems in society including violence. Don't get me started on the silent and needless addictions to prescription and over the counter drugs.
I am not trying to break a lance for Cannabis usage. In my opinion it's a drug, it's a vice. I don't much believe in spiritual side effects or healing. (It does tend to make the energy motions in the body more clear, but takes away some of the control over this.) I'm just advocating taking the common sense approach of tackling the bigger problems first.
I smoke the stuff. I don't cough up slime in the morning. I have a good job. I finished university. Bought my own house. Caught myself a wife. And go to the gym at least twice a week.. I'm not saying it's good for me. It probably isn't. But I can't drink alcohol because one glass of it messes me up. A beer is reasonably doable. A glass of red wine seriously hurts my stomach. And anything stronger I can't even hold down. My body just rejects it.
What usually happens is that I come home from work or the gym. I put up my feet, smoke one, then do some house chores or work on my game project. Chat with you guys. And then before bed I smoke another one.
Well said! I agree completely! I think, in a perfect world, we'd all be doing spacy meditation, yoga, etc. and wouldn't even feel the need for plant allies to help us relax at the end of a long day.
But in our present reality, I think weed is, by far, the lesser of the vices (and it's only a 'vice' for those who can't control it). I think the world would be a lot better place if people got high instead of drunk. There'd be less violence, fewer barroom brawls, fewer crimes of passion, fewer fatal car accidents, fewer family disturbances, etc.
That's not to say that weed is completely harmless! I still do contend that it can impair motivation and memory for some people. I'm just saying it's really ridiculous that it is viewed as so 'horrible' by many people who regularly indulge in alcohol and cigarettes. That's messed up.