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Ask yourself - should marijuana be legalised?

Wendy

28-Oct-2008
10:35:50 AM

On 28/10/2008 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
Then walk around to other dirt bags camp sites
>casually eating pizza whilst they eat boiled lentils or what ever crap
>they have at hand.
>

It's almost impossible to find lentils in France - they're not French enough! Everyone else will probably be eating white bread and cheese.


Eduardo Slabofvic

28-Oct-2008
10:46:00 AM

French green lentils aka Puy lentils?


Chuck Norris

28-Oct-2008
10:48:45 AM

On 28/10/2008 Wendy wrote:
> Everyone else will probably be eating white bread and cheese.

...and laughing at that Aussie dirtbag who can't afford 50c at the local bakery for decent bread.


Eduardo Slabofvic

28-Oct-2008
10:59:59 AM

......hmmmmmm........white bread.

No need to say anything else


Chuck Norris

28-Oct-2008
11:06:11 AM

other than....Mmmmm...burnt flour and water paste....

widewetandslippery

28-Oct-2008
11:17:25 AM

I find it hard enough at the best of times to be bothered making dough let alone when dough brained. I have although been a fan of the flat bread calzone. Pre fry the salami so the outer portion of the bread gets fatted.

hero

28-Oct-2008
11:24:23 AM

Why bother, no copyright on the internet. Crux can just pinch it now.

Wendy

28-Oct-2008
11:33:55 AM

So, back off topic, what did you find outdated about the bald soprano? I"m busy avoiding writing anything intelligent on it again.


evanbb

5-Nov-2008
9:56:41 AM

Just watched the marijuana article on catalyst from a week ago. Download available here:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/geo/catalyst/vodcast/

Apparently a 'meta-analysis' has been carried out on a huge number of studies to determine a link between schyzophrenia and pot. It's a bloody serious study, published in The Lancet, the doyen of all med journals. That said though, there's no real new information.

The link is clear, but with some caveats. Smoking (I don't remember a dosage, maybe weekly?) will increase your risk of a schyzo episode by 40%. Note though that the base risk is about 1%. IE smoking pot will bump your risk up from about .7% (7/1000) to about 1% (10/1000). Further, a long study in Dunedin has linked your (my) tendency to psychosis from pot to a gene which can't be privately tested for at this stage, but is the linch pin in the whole system. I also have a feeling that risk of schitz decreases with age, ie your much more likely to experience it below 25 or so. But that's wild speculation on my part.

There was also some discussion on where the main risks come from and I can't remember any hard numbers. However they did mention that risk is 'greatly increased' if you start young. anything before 18 is considered young. Once the bulk of brain development is behind you the risk drops off.

They used the case of a young bloke who was smoking FULL TIME from 15 years of age. Holy crap. Surprisingly, he had a paranoid episode when he was about 17. He's given up and the episodes have stopped. Good science.

Now, at the risk of ranting like a lunatic this supports the main point on the 'harm minimisation' side of drug reform. Better information will reduce problems. If school kids knew what a bad idea it is to smoke, maybe less would smoke? Crazy really, when you think about it.

hero

5-Nov-2008
10:18:22 AM

what's the emoticon for rant?

Duncan

5-Nov-2008
10:19:46 AM

On 5/11/2008 evanbb wrote:
>Now, at the risk of ranting like a lunatic this supports the main point
>on the 'harm minimisation' side of drug reform. Better information will
>reduce problems. If school kids knew what a bad idea it is to smoke, maybe
>less would smoke? Crazy really, when you think about it.

Pfft, it won't happen to me. I'm bulletproof.


evanbb

5-Nov-2008
10:29:42 AM

On 5/11/2008 hero wrote:
>what's the emoticon for rant?

I wish I knew. I'd use it a lot.


Zebedee

5-Nov-2008
11:18:01 AM

On 5/11/2008 hero wrote:
>what's the emoticon for rant?
(__!__) A Rs e


IdratherbeclimbingM9

5-Nov-2008
11:28:29 AM

On 5/11/2008 Zebedee wrote:
>On 5/11/2008 hero wrote:
>>what's the emoticon for rant?
>(__!__) A Rs e

Nah.
That's the emoticon for poo and should be on the camping thread.

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