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To: Brumar89 who wrote (4760)	11/14/2006 6:34:52 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

>I don't believe for a minute Washington was a pothead.< Well .. how about the link the rat came up with? quote: George Washington may well have cultivated some cannabis for medicinal and occasional recreational purposes. Both he and Thomas Jefferson (who quite disliked tobacco) are known to have exchanged gifts of smoking mixtures. In the 1790's, Washington also began to cultivate "India Hemp", the resinous variety developed in India. Cannabis at that time had several names, such as "common hemp" (C. sativa, cultivated for fiber and seeds), and "India hemp" (C. indica, grown for fiber and resin). end quote And BTW .. flowers from the sativa form are very popular for smoking today. Here is an example of a indica/sativa hybred: everyonedoesit.co.uk >Just knowing people who use dope over the last 35 years or so. You'd be better claiming - ah, they'd be FU's anyway.< So then, this is not a fact but, rather, your impression. >the vast majority of people use pot do so once or a few times and drop it.< You seem to understand my point. addictions .. 10% of people who use pot develop symptoms of addiction. 15% of people who use booze develop symptoms of addiction 35% of people who use tobacco develop symptoms of addiction Why not be more productive and fight against things that cause more harm than pot? Would you advocate putting cigarette sellers in jail? >But of the people who become regular long-term users of marijuana, I suspect the percent who go on to other drugs is pretty high< So then .. your contention is that if someone is addicted to pot they will probably try other drugs with a higher likely hood of becoming addicted. dough .. my own personal rule: If I have a hard time giving up cigarettes, I'd better not try crack. Most people that are hooked on heroin smoked cigarettes before they tried junk. Doesn't that make tobacco the gateway drug for heroin? And absolutely 100% of them had mothers! Should they be against the law also? I could just see it "Mothers make addicts!"

To: Brumar89 who wrote (4760)	11/14/2006 7:00:24 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Here is something else to chew on: quote Efforts to reschedule cannabis have been ongoing since 1972, when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) petitioned the Drug Enforcement Administration to move the substance out of Schedule I so physicians could legally prescribe it. Sixteen years later, the hearings were complete, and then DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young ruled marijuana no longer qualified as a Schedule I drug. After declaring cannabis to be "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man," he was roundly ignored by John Law, then-DEA administrator, and overruled. end quote Sixteen years ... while sick people continued to suffer. media.www.lsureveille.com