Well, I am spending my Saturday morning glued to the impeachment debate, although I should be Christmas shopping. For those of you who are NOT watching it, Representative Livingston, who was supposed to be the new speaker and whose adultery was revealed after Hustler publisher Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to every woman who could prove an affair with a high government official, has resigned, urging Clinton to do the same. It is a very interesting debate this morning, and I believe the Democrats are about to walk out in protest, at least for a moment, before the vote begins.
Weren't we talking about marijuana here recently? My daughter had to do a report on an international news event, and chose to do one based on an article she read about how American military personnel are recruited, mostly in Tijauna bars, to smuggle drugs across the border from Mexico. I didn't have a chance to read it before she turned it in, but I did just find part of a draft in the trash, and thought this paragraph she wrote was interesting:
"Recent studies reported by the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) find that smoking marijuana alone increases your heartbeat by 29 beats per minute. Also, you can get lung cancer the same as if you were smoking cigarettes. In fact, scientists at the UCLA campus have discovered that smoking 1 to 3 joints a day has the same effects on your your lungs as smoking 15 cigarettes each day."
I am happy that she is interested in the subject, and is doing her own research. I continue to stress to her that there are many drugs which are truly dangerous, and that marijuana is not one of those. But it is nice to realize that she is intrigued, and is thinking about all this.
When she is gone, and I am old and my joints hurt, I definitely will be baking my medicinal marijuana into brownies or making blender drinks with it, after reading that research!! |
