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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (256439)	7/1/2008 4:26:19 PM
From: the_wheel	Respond to of 793885

<<next highest rate, found in New Zealand, where 4.3 percent of people reported having used cocaine.>> maybe the folks in NZ are using irony and hyperbole or maybe they just plain forgot when they last used? Or maybe Americans are just more honest. Here's a video of an English Girl who wants to "Ride a White Horse". Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse youtube.com Guess what that really means? Nope! Your first guess is WRONG! as the following explains: <<many assumed that she based the song's lyrics around Bianca Jagger's infamous entrance into Studio 54 on a white horse. However, a more in-depth look at the lyrics will show that they are probably a clever metaphor which describes her love for heroin, known also as 'white horse' on the street.>> Maybe when they take these polls the pollists encounter linguistic difficulties, e.g. A sample poll question might be: Q: Are you somoking crack? A: No, but I like to ride a white horse! Pollist: I'll put down a negatory response. This is why Rush has his side-kick Snerdley to help translate some of his commentary for folks like BO and MO.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (256439)	7/5/2008 6:56:45 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Respond to of 793885

The laws against marijuana cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of US citizens every year. Deaths by Alzheimers: The active chemicals in marijuana stop the progression of the disease and rebuild neural pathways in the brain. Diabetes: Several of the non-high chemicals in the plant cause an inflamed pancreas to return to normal. Allowing normal function of the organ. In doing so they reverse much of the damage of the disease. Cancer: We may already have a cure for most forms of cancer. There are thousands of people that no longer have cancer when they should have been dead. Some portion of the people medical science claim as chemotherapy victories may actually have been cured more because of consumption of marijuana rather than the chemo. The laws might have the intent of protecting us .. but the result is that they are killing us. Big government, by dictating what we can and can not put into our bodies, has killed millions of innocent people. And continues to do so.