BS: Good Job America!

Subject: BS: Good Job America!
From: ragdall
Date: 11 Jun 13 - 10:01 PM

I don't smoke, but I thought this was funny/ironic.
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/good-job-america-weed-legal-in-two-states.jpg

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 13 - 11:47 PM

love it!

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Jun 13 - 11:54 PM

Maybe having sex with a horse is "legal" in those states, because no one thought it would be at all likely to happen...

I bet they don't have a law banning sex with armadillos or bald eagles either.

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: ragdall
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 07:24 AM

Good point, LH. I wonder how one researches such a thing and if the number is accurate?

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 09:48 AM

Actually, Idaho's has a law about "unnatural relations" which specifically lists "animals." So no matter how much you love your horse here in Idaho, don't go in for any more than heavy petting and kissing.

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 05:15 PM

Amazing how many people do not recognize that humans are animals also.

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 12:00 AM

Last time I checked it was still illegal to Smoke a cigar in an Outhouse in St. John's.   Sensible law even now, when it is illegal to have an out house.

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: GUEST,Buzz
Date: 29 Dec 15 - 07:14 PM

Stoners have a reputation for being exceptionally mellow, but a recent study of the effects of marijuana use on daily behavior may suggest otherwise. According to researchers from Yale University of Medicine and the Pennsylvania State University, the study found a positive short-term correlation between marijuana use and hostile and impulsive behavior.
"Marijuana use is associated with changes in impulse control and hostility in daily life," according to the study, published in March. Researchers found that participants were more aggressive on days they used marijuana, and the following day, than on days they didn't get high.
The study analyzed 43 participants' marijuana, alcohol, tobacco use and hostile and impulsive behavior daily for 14 days using random effects models. Scientists found that marijuana use alone, without the alcohol and tobacco combination, increased impulsive and hostile behavior on the day participants used the drug and the day after.
The study was brief, but due to the results and increased recreational marijuana use, researchers believe the topic warrants further research.
A 2012 study in Biological Psychiatry found that weed can cause anxiety for regular users during periods of withdrawal and puts those with genetic tendencies at risk for developing schizophrenia, Cosmopolitan reported. Some of the alleged negative side effects of marijuana can be reduced if it's legal, regulated and tested by health officials, according to marijuana advocates. "People are used to buying weed on the black market with no idea about quality," deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Paul Armentano told Cosmopolitan. "As consumers get more sophisticated, they'll demand higher quality and better testing."
Another study on the effects of marijuana use published in the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors in September showed that the drug had an indirect negative relationship with grades among a cohort of college students. The study showed students who smoked more went to class less and therefore received relatively lower grade point averages than those who didn't engage in marijuana use.

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Jack Campin
Date: 29 Dec 15 - 07:57 PM

All very well, but did they compare it with the effects on impulse control of horse shagging?

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Dec 15 - 03:02 AM

Or, for that matter, the effects on honesty, empathy and human decency of pig-shagging?

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Dec 15 - 03:08 AM

Cannabis: funding for research on the subject is understandably difficult to obtain, most is reportage from users & family.

I read in the New Scientist of a report that reckoned the aggression peaked at day 7 after. I saw something akin to this in a colleague. And when I told a friend about this she said "No it is 5 days and 12" though she didn't correlate 7 with the fact that her husband was so difficult she went and got him some more by day 5. 12 - 5 = 7? I am sure of that!

It has long been associated with paranoia, particularly prolonged imbibing, schizophrenia isn't far from that statistically.

Compared to smoking tobacco, it doubles the risk of throat and mouth cancers. Actual percentages may be small but telling none the less.

Yes Yes alcohol is a toxin. But we evolved (in the West) to tolerate it better because alcoholic liquids only fermented properly from potable water. Drinking water without provenance was not always advisable even up to the 1950's in many places.

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: GUEST,Buzz
Date: 30 Dec 15 - 04:17 PM

Woman high on weed runs down nearly 40 people and kills one in Nevada. She has a 3 year old girl in her car. There have been zero deaths from marijuana so far so we should make it legal everywhere. No background checks required.
What could possibly go wrong?

Subject: RE: BS: Good Job America!
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 15 - 12:42 PM

A new study shows that people who have never used weed and/or don't even know anyone who has used weed spew bullshit on the internet.

Now... I gotta ride my horse into the sunset. Youse have fun and play nice.

P.S. People who use weed do get very aggressive while they are using it, mostly when throwing Frisbees in parks. And, after dark, on a windy night, with a glow-in-the-dark Frisbee? Well, just YOU try to beat one in a game of ASSHOLE!