Comments on: NORML’s Reefer Madness Du Jour: Bad Journalism 101

By: packlama

packlama — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:15:19 +0000

i think dui laws are a joke.i know a person who got caught driving under the inflance many times and still drove.no offence too people who choose too drink but the reefer laws stink.i dont drink any more but i smoke all the time.legalize pot for everyone over21

By: Brent in kY

Brent in kY — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:17:55 +0000

Media will use cannabis to gain a story headline to make a profit but wont let a cannabis reform group pay to run an AD? Its BS.

@All KENTUCKY CITIZENS, we need to get a NORML chapter started in our state. We need to start the education of our fellow citizens and with not one bill in the state legislature for either medical or decrim laws this year or the last two we need to do something and soon.

Im a medical user in KY, I am not a criminal and no one that consumes cannabis is, so lets stop the discrimination of cannabis consumers and start the education to change the laws in this state.

Please lets get this going, finally I see we have some folks from KY here and we need to join together ASAP!

Please email me @ ReformKyCannabis@gmail.com Put KY Norml in the subject line, thank you!

By: Mike G

Mike G — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:08:44 +0000

Medical marijuana crop insurance: Putting your weed in good hands

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/02/medical_marijuana_crop_insuran.php

By: DRS

DRS — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:08:54 +0000

Sam, HCM is caused by a genetic defect, the disease can not be detected by an ECG, unfortunately. A genetic test or a well trained cardiologist reading a well done echo-cardiogram is the only way to diagnose the disease. There are no signs or symptoms with the disease, it really is a silent killer. It’s not so much enlarging of the heart but the septum is enlarged and the muscle cells are not aligned but scattered (the best i can do without getting to technical). a lot of people have it and it only takes one parent to pass it along. NO amount of any drug or enviornmental factors increase the size of your septum, it grows until about 18 and it is what it is until old age or early death. MJ increases your heart rate but it does not increase pre/after load on your heart. Simply put the research does not conclude that THC will increase the chances of sudden death. I continue to test such theories and I’m still here?

By: Dr. Dro

Dr. Dro — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:29:31 +0000

The headline should have read :

Coroner’s report: Lewis had undiagnosed heart disease

The marijuana did not cause the disease or have anything to do with the death but by only glancing over the headlines you sure wouldn’t know that. Especially if you were uneducated on the subject, as most people who are scared about marijuana are. This is very unfortunate as it only reinforces all of the myths, lies, negative stereotypes, and propaganda that they have heard over the years.

I know its hard to believe but some people actually do think marijuana can kill you.

By: maxwood

maxwood — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:26:56 +0000

1. It took till #32 Allen Papertape for someone to mention a report that nicotine was also found in his system. There was no indication “…that nicotine contributed to his death”. But if, like over 90% of all nicotine smokers, he inhaled from a $igarette, then it means he was taking hot burning overdoses of carbon monoxide which is considered a major factor in cardiovascular damage. If he smoked the cannabis in hot burning overdose joint fashion, that again means more carbon monoxide per amount of THC obtained. Thus there is an equipment issue which everyone ignored as usual in discussions of smoking.

2. Mark #28 mentions Bushchimp, twice elected despite bankrupting the country etc. I don’t know if you’re interested in this, but the voters twice elected a president whose name sounded like “Ape Blinkin’” (nominated at a brokered convention in Chicaaawgo).

In Jane Goodall’s 1980 National Geographic article about chimps there is a page of mug shot photos of one chimp family tree that the researchers had been tracking for over a decade, and two (2) of those chimps, what with dark shadows and so forth, look exactly uncannily like the famous dark March 1865 “last portrait” of said alleged apelike President whose detractors accused him of ruining the country.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:35:26 +0000

how long does marijuana stay in your blood system? it’s just another excuse for people against marijuana to use to keep it illegal. b.s. legalize it and make the should just legalize it and make money. the law maker can’t see the trees through the forest. it’s 20 10 for heavens sake. quit tell use your going to raise the poor peoples and the senior citizens taxes and legalize pot.

By: ckdk30

ckdk30 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:20:27 +0000

The city of Elpaso Tx, is talking about legalization for everyone

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:48:51 +0000

I think what they are trying to say is….

He was a drug addict! The only reason they mentioned it was to get people to read an otherwise uninteresting story that belongs in the obituaries and sports section. This is a real cheap shot on a man’s soul to gain a profit. Tsk tsk journalists. The ethics around this topic is appauling.

By: Joel M.

Joel M. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:14:15 +0000

#3 you summed it up