Hemp or also known as marijuana

[eatgel]

Educate yourselves people.... especially the " ignorant" ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnBfe9Ox2Tg&feature=channel_page

 

[War Against Betaism]

I swear marijuana is discussed here just as much as dating advice is.

Anyways I've only seen halfway through the first vid but this is some interesting stuff.

 

[OTB]

I swear marijuana is discussed here just as much as dating advice is.

Anyways I've only seen halfway through the first vid but this is some interesting stuff.

Hahaha, Really?


Unfortunately, I haven't been on these forums long enough to make that generalization....


But back to the OP - Mad enlightening video


I'm actually wrighting a persuasive speech on the topic of why narcotics should be legal and this video will help me out a lot!

 

[Killer_Demo]

we COULD build houses,wood-like products and clothing material and a variety of other things with hemp. But do you really think the US govt wants to admit its wrong? hell no

 

[War Against Betaism]

When I watched the video I was expecting it to relate entirely with its effects when it is smoked, I didn't realize plants could be used for such things. This almost seems like watching those sci fi movies where a new type of chemical or substance is discovered which speeds the evolution of technology. It seems a little bit skeptical though, could it really have gotten the world out of the great depression? Was the propaganda so strong against hemp that they refused to look into hemp as a resource? Were they really just that stubborn or could hemp have really prevented the great depression?

 

[eatgel]

Listen all that stuff you watched is not propoganda... if you smoked weed yourself you wouldn't even question it! Before I smoked weed I thought it was bad, it made you stupid and it killed a lot of people WELL NOBODY IN HISTORY OF HEMP HAVE DIED FROM IT! They outlawed hemp by its other name marijuana and they didn't even know it! WAKE THE FU-CK UP SHEEPLE!

 

[War Against Betaism]

I didn't say that video was propaganda but the propaganda that made hemp illegal in the first place, if hemp was really this great of a product and America refused to use it during its worst economic fall down, it makes me question if Americans were just so damn stubborn or maybe the video just overhyped it.

 

[Aragon034]

You aren't going to get many supporters by calling them sheeple and ignorant.

Get off your soapbox and stop using that dunce hat as a megaphone.

Oh and I'd say mary jane has it's fair share of casualties. Ever driven while toasted? Hell i drove a forklift once and within 4 minutes i had to get one of my buddies to take over it was so bad and i was smart enough to recognize that i'm going to kill someone(most likely myself). Imagine driving a car, at night, or on a highway. You KNOW that there are people who'll do it.

I see nothing much wrong with recreational use. but just like alcohol, it CAN kill. Don't you be ignorant and conform to the sheepleness of your own propaganda.

 

[Deep Dish]

I'm saying this with a wry sense of stoner humor, but every stoner knows the most dangerous thing about pot is breaking glass pipes on the floor and forgetting where you left your phone.

 

[Bible_Belt]

i was smart enough to recognize that i'm going to kill someone


Maybe you were just paranoid. There was one study done in the UK about driving after smoking pot. Because motor control is not affected like with alcohol, pot does not cause accidents. The only difference they could find with stoned drivers is that they tended to drive at a lower rate of speed. This actually made driving while high safer than driving while sober. If everyone got high before they left for work, it would take forever to get anywhere because traffic would move so slowly, but auto accidents would be much less severe. Tens of thousands of lives would be saved every year. It's *not* smoking pot that kills people.

 

[Deep Dish]

Imagine driving a car, at night, or on a highway. You KNOW that there are people who'll do it.

According to this study on webmd.com, seven percent of automobile accidents involve alcohol whereas in three percent of accidents the participants test positive for marijuana. If you notice, I used different terminology for the comparison. Seven percent involve alcohol whereas three percent test positive for marijuana. Testing positive for alcohol, whether by breathalyzer or blood test, means someone drank within any number of hours (depending, of course, on how much they drank). We can be pretty sure their faculties were impaired. But for marijuana, testing positive only means someone smoked pot within ten days, upwards of one or two months for heavy users. Given the breadth of time someone can test positive for marijuana and considering the figure of "only" three percent, the negative effects on marijuana may be orders of magnitude less pronounced than alcohol.

 

[eatgel]

Aragon did you even see that video? and yes being high effects you while driving ofcourse dum ass, especially for the paranoid and the ones that dont know their limit... But hell id much rather be high than drunk or driving with a ****:ing brain tumor in my head. Don't get so offended I love everyone and want the best for everyone in this world and for the future generations ahead. But you and well as everybody know's that the benefit of hemp outweights the cons by so much ! ( if you have done your research )

 

[War Against Betaism]

I can only see marijuana killing people if people seriously smoked WAY too much. I had an instance where I was so frikkin high that I could literally feel any water that I swallow run through my body. No matter how much I drank my body still kept drying up, I seriously thought I was going to die. Though taking too much of any drug or medicine could also be fatal.

 

[Deep Dish]

I can only see marijuana killing people if people seriously smoked WAY too much. I had an instance where I was so frikkin high that I could literally feel any water that I swallow run through my body. No matter how much I drank my body still kept drying up, I seriously thought I was going to die.

The minimum amount of marijuana necessary to cause a fatal* overdose is 40,000 times greater than the amount necessary to get high. I believe it's one-third of your body weight, which for me would translate into 50 pounds of weed. Who can smoke or ingest 50 pounds of weed, much less one pound, much less one ounce, all at once? Is that physically possible, given that you'll pass out into sleep long before it would happen? It wasn't safe for you to drink lots of water since you can die from water poisoning, but rather a drink like Gatorade which replenishes electrolytes, but I never hear about water poisoning in the context of marijuana dangers (i.e. the number of people who annually die from water poisoning in compensation for perceived dehydration from marijuana is presumably nill). I grant some people can die from peripheral activities such as accidents involving heavy machinery, but my point is overdoses are all but theoretically impossible.

(* lethal overdose = when 50% of people die, fatal overdose = when 100% of people die)

 

[War Against Betaism]

Damn I dunno, I must be a huge lightweight to weed then, I was so dry to the point that I tried swallowing something and it would amazing if I even got any spit to swallow. It was like having your mouth full of sand, worst 3 hours of my life. Though I should also add that I was in so much torture of dehydration I was having serious thoughts about just jumping off my balcony. It didn't help that I was high and thought I was invincible.

 

[eatgel]

lol war against betaism! You must have had some strong sht then, probably hash or something laced with it. But have you ever smoked pure home grown marijuana? If so tell me how it went... and that case you reported above is strongly related in being paranoid... try to relax a little bit next time! respect the spice