Marijuana legalisation causing violent crime to fall in US states, study finds

No surprise there, weed kills the fire in your belly, all well and good for violent crime statistics, but killing that fire also kills your ambitions and makes you ambivalent to government and establishment oppression. It makes you numb. Not good! Dont fall for it!






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this is what is called a no-brainer... for those that actually have brains. :)

doesn't matter... we've blocked him and the sh*t he/she spews.

Absolutely!

Take a break, you've earned it.

You've given a scholarly-effort and put forth arguments of integrity and quality rarely seen at this place, and which put to absolute shame the pitiful, childish, and often aggressive arguments made by the "other side."

Cheesecake is really good after cannabis, too!

Hmm, I wonder if you missed the part where cannabis can actually sharpen focus, enhance your clarity of thought and help you be more productive?

Or the part where it can reduce anxiety and stress levels, allowing people to hold jobs that otherwise they couldn't?

Or how about you just google the list of VERY successful people, innovators and brilliant minds, proponents AND opponents of the government?

I mean, let's get real... are you honestly going to tell me that the activists of the 60's and 70's. rallying AGAINST government oppression and war, information suppression and racial division, weren't stoned? Like Bob Marley, for example?

Man, I like a good discussion as much as anyone, but the abject stupidity inherent in that statement makes it as good a time as any to depart for the evening.

Feel free to extract your head from your rectum and start exercising logic on your OWN behalf while I'm gone. You'll have a full night to do so, that might help!

Thanks Bill, I appreciate that. It can be frustrating, but it's ultimately worth it. Have an amazing evening!

SO TRUE!

LOLZ!. Pathetic, always has been always will be.. When pathetic fucking stoners whose only ambition in life is to sit around and get stoned start using their imaginary "facts" about how wonderful pot is. LOLZ!... '


SAD

Please don't make Christians look stupid or bring Jesus into your opinions. Then cursing at other people...

I love Jesus and I read my Bible every day. I want to be a Christian counselor. I have autism and a nerve disorder and I've been on many prescriptions all of my life. A few years ago a US Marine risked a lot to get me cannabis oil and now I'm off all the synthetic prescriptions that were keeping me bed ridden and I'm volunteering 3 days a week at the Christian ministry.

I really don't understand where all the stigma against cannabis comes from because for the first time in my life I'm able to contribute to my community and feel like I have some worth and not a drain on society. I'm hoping to get off disability soon now.

It's not like how Hollywood made it out to be, I am able to get up and do things now with THC and CBD oil. Both of them help me. CBG also helps. CBN helps with sleep. THCV is a great antidepressant. This plant is an entire pharmacy in one plant. It's remarkable. There's 113+ different cannabinoids, not just THC and CBD. Plus terpenes come into play, over 400 compounds total. It's very narrow minded to lump high THC/low CBD strains in with low THC/high CBD strains also. Different strains do very different things.

The prescriptions would have side effect after side effect, then they would stop working. They did much more harm than good. We have an endocannabinoid system that can get deficient just like omega 3's or vitamin D. Cannabinoids are in mothers milk.

Some strains breeders did breed most of the CBD out and raised only the THC levels for the head high. I use oil that is higher in CBD but it still needs THC for the entourage effect.

Please don't talk about things you don't understand and then bring Jesus into it because you make Christians look stupid.

God made cannabis for the human body

"Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."
Genesis 1:29

It's original use was eating the raw flower or using hemp oil. Smoking it became a side use. I don't smoke it. I use the oil and also juice raw flower.

It's saved my life in many ways and made me a stronger Christian. I'm off all of the man made chemicals they made to profit off the sick for. I thank Jesus for making cannabis. I'm able to focus enough to read now where I could only use the audio Bible before. Cannabis doesn't make me lazy. I depend on it to function.

Honestly it's very hurtful to view statements like this when people like me are still fighting for this and have a very hard time getting it. We risk losing disability if we get caught, or going to jail. Our life is already bad enough and filled with pain and misery. Please leave cannabis and the disabled alone who are telling you we need this, it's the only thing keeping many of us going, many of us were suicidal before cannabis oil. It's stopped my depression and panic attacks, and stopped my nerve pain. I'm not a giggling teenage stoner, I'm a grown adult. I couldn't go in public with autism because of issues I won't get into, but now I can, and I can't explain what that means to be able to leave a room that became a prison for me for over a decade. The isolation was horrible.

It's been a very hard life and the one thing that works I have to feel like a bad Christian for using, or a criminal. It's really cruel.

It's helping 80% of kids with autism. Helping them go to school and do their schoolwork. It's allowing them to have a chance at life. They aren't stoners or potheads. And they often are using high THC oil. The stigma against cannabis is wrong. The disabled community and veterans with PTSD deserve a break, please think about people who have to use this medicine and have tried everything else and this is all that works.

Study: With CBD, 80% of Children With Autism Saw Improvement
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Study: CBD From Marijuana Plus Chemotherapy Tripled Cancer Survival Rates In Mice (also look up GW pharmaceuticals who have been trying to patent cannabinoids for cancer treatment and for treating psychosis. THCV is going to replace anti-psychotics in the next few years.)
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Sorry, this is tough issue for me, I'm really tired and want all this to be over. I don't even want cannabis to be what works, I'd do ANYTHING for one of those stupid pills to have worked so I don't have to go through this every day.

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Legalizing murder would have the same effect on statistics.

I have seen it destroy peoples lives when it becomes a lifestyle. I warned all my children not to use it until 25yr or older if they have to at all. Gets in the way of emotional development. Obviously has medicinal benefits for some.

Its very strange how all the anti trump red karma type tards are also in every weed thread saying how awful it all is.

Who are these people? They have to be a group of trolls

I'm wired after a long drive so probably should've fleshed my remarks out a little. Just in case you meant me. I'll qualify, I'm not anti weed.

Yes you're right about everyone being a troll but you.

They're getting robbed because they can't legally bank their money from sales because the dumbass Feds still haven't gotten their laws updated to accomodate depositing money from marijuana sales. Cupid Stunts.

Last Edited by IvyLittlevine on 01/10/2019 10:22 PM

definitely not a troll. just a woowoo who's been here since 07

:chazzlaugh:

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Listen me n thee have probably shared nonsense and wisdom then. Even if we vehemently disagreed it's alright by me. We probably wouldn't disagree on much, I'd bet anyway. Night, you've made me fancy a toke but wifey frowns,so best join her in bed instead. 8)

Again, another excellent response.

Wish I had green to give you.

If you only knew...

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"Of the historical material indicating the Hebraic use of cannabis, the strongest and most profound piece of evidence was established in 1936 by Sula Benet (a.k.a. Sara Benetowa), a Polish etymologist from the Institute of Anthropological Sciences in Warsaw. In 1975 Benet stated, “In the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament there are references to hemp, both as incense, which was an integral part of religious celebration, and as an intoxicant.” Through comparative etymological study, Benet documented that in the Hebrew Scriptures and their Aramaic translation, the Targum Onculos, hemp is referred to as q’neh bosm (variously translated as kaneh bosem, keneh bosem, kaniebosm) and is also rendered in traditional Hebrew as kannabos or kannabus. The root kan in this construction means “reed” or “hemp,” while bosm means “aromatic.” This word appears in Exodus 30:23, Song of Songs 4:14, Isaiah 43:24, Jeremiah 6:20, and Ezekiel 27:19. Benet’s etymological research regarding the Hebrew terms q’eneh bosem and q’eneh was based on tracing the modern word cannabis back through history to show the similarities between the cognitive pronunciation of cannabis and q’eneh bosem,*9 as well as comparing the term to the names used for cannabis by contemporary kingdoms, such as the Assyrian and Babylonian term for the plant, qunubu. In fact, the term q’neh bosem is the Hebrew transliteration of an earlier Indo-European term for the plant, canna. This term left traces through the vernacular an, seen in various modern terms for c’an’nabis, such as the Indian bh’a’ng, the French ch’an’vre, the Dutch c’an’vas, and the German h’an’ f. This use of an Indo-European word in the Semetic language shows that the ritual use of cannabis came to the Hebrews from foreign sources and as an item of trade; it retained the core aspects of its original name. Indeed, in both the Jeremiah and Ezekiel references referred to by Benet, cannabis is identified as coming from a foreign land." ~ The Pot Book (Julie Holland M.D.)

I'm a believer in Yeshua and I studied this out intensely. Also historically. And to be completely truthful, I was stunned at the absolute volume of evidence of the efficacy and NECESSITY for cannabis in the vast majority of humanity's regular routine.

It is very sad that people have had their opinions formed by reefer madness and comedy routines. A little cannabis is tremendously good for the body and mind and in a myriad of illnesses, absolutely curative.

Saying what YHVH created is bad, when He said it was good, is a poor position for a believer to hold. Genesis 1:29...Or did YHVH lie?

What happened to the Assyrian and the Babylonians? Neither are symbols of how things should be done. Keep smoking/eating and being addicted to weed. One more point, I did compare weed to alcohol. Many people throw their lives away being addicted to alcohol as well. The difference is one little puff or bite or vape of weed will mess you up all day long. Maybe not all of you dopers that have been smoking it since you were 12 but I'm guessing once you built up a tolerance to THC you just consume more to get high. I've seen people driving down the highway smoking weed. Restaurant staff smoking at work including the managers. People can't control themselves. I've not seen many responsible MJ users. Are you stating that you are a Christian MJ user? You are the first I've come across. I would be interested to hear the experience of other MJ users. Do you drive while high? How about going to work high. How often do you use? Most people I knew used during all the above.

Eve, is that you? I think you are twisting a bit. Lets get our bibles out!

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb (including MJ?) bearing seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; TO YOU IT SHALL BE FOR MEAT."

It does not say for you to get high as a kite... It mentions herb and you stoners think god is talking about MJ?

The light people the light please get on the path. Break those chains the devil has put upon you! Live up to your full potential! I am just asking you to consider there is a better way. Jesus is salvation. He will free you from these burdens.

Last Edited by kungfart on 01/10/2019 11:52 PM

Yes, its the peace pipe and its why I never criticize teenage boys who smoke it, never.

Calms them down when their testosterone is racing and spiking many times a day.

Without the side affects of prescription drugs that in turn, have side effects of causing pyschopathic and even murderous outbreaks in teens.

No one robs a bank on pot.

On crack cocaine or meth, or those things mixed with alcholol, any upper mixed with alchohol, many robberies and violence takes place, but not on pot.

Last Edited by Sungaze_At_Dawn on 01/11/2019 12:48 AM

How about taking a look at the stats on the Annual Causes of Death in the United States. Just compare Alcohol to Cannabis. You're arguing about cannabis. Why not look at everything that's killing people. Cannabis by the way is reporting zero deaths. Yes, there has been some mishaps by younger kiddos getting into things they shouldn't. Look it over completely. Cannabis shouldn't even concern you compared to everything else on this list. I would be more worried about Alcohol or illicit drugs or prescription drugs.

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Eze_47:12  And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

And read the Book of Enoch.