Your opinion on recreational drug use

[Bitmedrano040117]

We know since from the very start drugs  can't do any good things to anyone. So as long as we can avoid it let us stay away from it, as much as we can. Drugs can destroy life if we use and allow it to be happen to us.

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[BADecker]

'Amsterdam on steroids':
Las Vegas dispensaries brace for Saturday start of recreational sales

The Oregon-based Farma dispensary began humbly as a medical marijuana boutique, serving a small portion of Portland with specialty pot products for the better part of a year.

But when recreational sales began on Oct. 1, 2015, owner Sam Heywood saw his customer base increase tenfold overnight, as hundreds of buyers flooded into a 1,200-square-foot dispensary accustomed to serving fewer than several dozen patients a day.

"One day we were a small pharmacy serving only medical patients and the next we were a busy retailer," Heywood said. "It was fascinating and unusual to say the least."

Farma was one of more than 100 dispensaries across Oregon to start recreational sales that day, the majority of which loaded up on staffers and inventory to handle lines with scores of eager local and out-of-state marijuana buyers.

Fueled by one of the world's largest tourism industries, Nevada is preparing to do the same on July 1. A May report published by Gov. Brian Sandoval's task force on marijuana estimates that up to 63 percent of recreational buyers will be tourists.

"Everything we know shows that millennials are very pro-marijuana, and that's the new marketing push," said Nevada state Sen. Tick Segerblom, a longtime marijuana advocate. "This is a game-changer for Las Vegas and tourism here as far as I'm concerned."

"Amsterdam on steroids," he added.

Essence Medical Dispensary owner Armen Yemenidjian is one of 37 Las Vegas Valley applicants to receive an early start license to begin recreational sales on Saturday. His dispensary is the closest to the Strip — right on Las Vegas Boulevard north of Sahara Avenue, the dividing line between the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.

Yemenidjian, whose other dispensary on Tropicana Avenue near Jones Boulevard also received an early start license, said his facilities stocked up on more than three months worth of marijuana flower, edibles and concentrates to serve the current medical market and keep pace with expected brisk recreational sales.

Yemenidjian's location near the Strip, which he said serves more than 200 daily customers but still loses money as a medical-only facility, figures to have some of the longest lines. An average of about 40,000 people a day pass by the dispensary, according to a 2015 Clark County report on pedestrian traffic.

He estimated that his clientele would increase "by two to three times" overnight.

"It's a historic moment, and I think the growth will be both immediate and gradual," Yemenidjian said. "We're ready to go and very excited."

Read more and click the links at https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/jun/28/amsterdam-vegas-dispensaries-saturday-pot-sales/.

[BADecker]

We know since from the very start drugs  can't do any good things to anyone. So as long as we can avoid it let us stay away from it, as much as we can. Drugs can destroy life if we use and allow it to be happen to us.

I agree. Shut down the pharmacies.   

[BADecker]

6 Plants Other Than Cannabis That Are High In Healing Cannabinoids

... also used to relieve anxiety, fatigue, migraines, and arthritis. Echinacea is a bit different than cannabis because it uses cannabimimetics instead of cannabinoids to engage the endocannabinoid system, particularly the CB2 receptor. Similar to THC in cannabis, the N-alkyl amides (NAAs) in echinacea are responsible for regulating the immune system, pain and inflammation.

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None of this is nearly up to the levels available with cannabis, but it clearly explains known therapeutic benefits of these plants.

Better yet, the evolving science is been guided by the cannabis research to look in these particular directions.

This will actually create useful protocols for investigating many other plants as well.

Read more at http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.ca/2017/06/6-plants-other-than-cannabis-that-are.html.

[Sithara007]

We know since from the very start drugs  can't do any good things to anyone. So as long as we can avoid it let us stay away from it, as much as we can. Drugs can destroy life if we use and allow it to be happen to us.

I agree. Shut down the pharmacies.   

When there were no drugs around, the average human life expectancy was somewhere around 15-17 years. And now this has risen to more than 80 years. Ban the pharmaceuticals, and once again we will go back to the 15-17 era.

[Pajulapoiss]

We know since from the very start drugs  can't do any good things to anyone. So as long as we can avoid it let us stay away from it, as much as we can. Drugs can destroy life if we use and allow it to be happen to us.

I agree. Shut down the pharmacies.   

When there were no drugs around, the average human life expectancy was somewhere around 15-17 years. And now this has risen to more than 80 years. Ban the pharmaceuticals, and once again we will go back to the 15-17 era.

I call bullshit. If all pharmaceuticals were banned as of today, 90% (random fact) of healthy humans would still live to an old age. I know I would anyway, why shouldnt others?
And probably more people would start looking into other ways of treating themselves instead of chugging down pills. Which would lead to more new discoveries, which would result in people living longer.

[Lancusters]

When people are encouraged to give up drugs I really want to make these people into a database and that they never under any pretext not provided medical care and did not sell drugs. I would have looked then what they wrote in their posts.

[Pubg_man205]

When people are encouraged to give up drugs I really want to make these people into a database and that they never under any pretext not provided medical care and did not sell drugs. I would have looked then what they wrote in their posts.

It all depends on the principles of man. From narcotic drugs that can cause more harm to the body it is better to abstain, but it is not necessary to completely close the pharmacy.

[zhuiyi]

Drugs consume our bodies and are addictive, and will make us poor and seriously affect our lives, so we should stay away from him.

[freeyourmind]

Drugs consume our bodies and are addictive, and will make us poor and seriously affect our lives, so we should stay away from him.

Should is the main word there, as in it's your recommendation.  But adults should have the liberty to decide what they do and do not put into their bodies.  Going against your recommendation shouldn't make one end up in prison.

I'd also recommend that you don't eat 500g of sugar per day, or not to eat 15 cheeseburgers per day.  But at the end of the day you have the freedom to make that decision for yourself, and won't end up in prison either way. 

[AntiMasque0]

In favor, i don't know why people fears with this topic.

[BADecker]

The pure and simple answer is this. Drugs can make you well if you are sick. That's why the medical uses them. If we were all well from our home-grown drugs, the medical would be out of business.

The side benefit of illegal drugs is, all the money cops make arresting people for nothing, and confiscating their property.

[BADecker]

'I Was Wrong': Judge Admits Jailing People for Pot 'Haunts' Him After Cannabis Saved His Life

After being diagnosed with a terminal disease, a judge who "hated marijuana" now regrets all those prosecutions as cannabis saved his life.

Prior to this year, the state of Florida was regarded as one of the worst possible states to be caught in possession of cannabis. According to a 2009 analysis by former NORML Director Jon Gettman, no state in this country punished people more severely for minor marijuana offenses than Florida. However, thanks in part to a former Florida judge, all this is gradually changing.

By October 3, for the first time in its history, the state will issue IDs to medical marijuana patients. However, according to the former judge, the law doesn't go nearly far enough.

Throughout the course of his career as a Florida judge, Doug Bench hated marijuana. He admits to locking up hundreds of people for this plant and did so because he thought it was the right thing to do. While it is too late for the now-retired judge to help those whose lives he likely ruined through the persecution of pot, he is taking actions to help countless others now and in the future.

When Bench was diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, which can result in a slow and painful death, his life was saved after realizing the benefits of cannabis in treating his disease. Now, Bench has made it his life's work to wake people up to the "70 years of lies" the US government has told the citizens about marijuana.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/judge-haunted-cannabis-saved-life/.

[Sithara007]

I call bullshit. If all pharmaceuticals were banned as of today, 90% (random fact) of healthy humans would still live to an old age. I know I would anyway, why shouldnt others?

They may live to 50-60 years, but what about their children? By banning the pharmaceuticals, you are banning vaccinations as well. Diseases which were once eradicated will come back, such as Smallpox, Measles, Diphtheria, Anthrax.etc. Millions, if not billions of people will die from them. And have you imagined how worse the TB epidemic is going to be in the third world nations, if the antibiotics are not available?

[BADecker]

Ahead of July 1 pot sales, officials up security and stockpile

Nevada's medical marijuana dispensaries have stockpiled one to two months worth of pot sales, Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said Thursday, in preparation for the start of legal recreational sales at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

So the Nevada Dispensary Association, in conjunction with local law enforcement, is working with the Las Vegas Valley's 37 dispensaries permitted to sell recreational marijuana to increase safety measures at those locations.

"We've been very fortunate in Nevada. We haven't seen many serious security issues thus far," said Andrew Jolley, Nevada Dispensary Association president. "However, we are very vigilant and very concerned about public safety and our employees' safety."

Association officials joined Sisolak and Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, at a press conference to emphasize their hope that opening legal recreational sales would kill illegal marijuana dealing.

"Our goal as an industry is to bring it out of the black market into a safe, tested, regulated market in the most professional way we can," Jolley said, adding that it could take time to realize that goal.

Read more at https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/pot-news/ahead-of-july-1-pot-sales-officials-up-security-and-stockpile/.

[freeyourmind]

I call bullshit. If all pharmaceuticals were banned as of today, 90% (random fact) of healthy humans would still live to an old age. I know I would anyway, why shouldnt others?

They may live to 50-60 years, but what about their children? By banning the pharmaceuticals, you are banning vaccinations as well. Diseases which were once eradicated will come back, such as Smallpox, Measles, Diphtheria, Anthrax.etc. Millions, if not billions of people will die from them. And have you imagined how worse the TB epidemic is going to be in the third world nations, if the antibiotics are not available?

There are definitely useful drugs that come out of the pharmaceutical industry.  If the goal was to make the world's population healthy however, revenues and profits wouldn't increase over time.  But revenue and profits are the goal, so they need as many customers as they can get.  This includes selling substances which may not be in the best interest of the consumer.  But the sales person, is also your consultant (doctor).  Many very addictive drugs are prescribed such as oxycontin or morphine or any strong opiate, which should not be thrown around lightly to people that aren't prepared to get into that game.

Vaccinations and antibiotics like you mentioned are great things that come from the pharmaceutical industry, but it's mixed with a bunch of bullshit as well.  Most people don't do their research and trust a doctors recommendations, and their education has been manipulated for recommendations and solutions to come from pharmaceuticals.  Big pharma also has a huge interest in keeping any naturally growing medicines that can't be patented out of everyone's hands through prohibition.

[whaawh]

I call bullshit. If all pharmaceuticals were banned as of today, 90% (random fact) of healthy humans would still live to an old age. I know I would anyway, why shouldnt others?

They may live to 50-60 years, but what about their children? By banning the pharmaceuticals, you are banning vaccinations as well. Diseases which were once eradicated will come back, such as Smallpox, Measles, Diphtheria, Anthrax.etc. Millions, if not billions of people will die from them. And have you imagined how worse the TB epidemic is going to be in the third world nations, if the antibiotics are not available?

There are definitely useful drugs that come out of the pharmaceutical industry.  If the goal was to make the world's population healthy however, revenues and profits wouldn't increase over time.  But revenue and profits are the goal, so they need as many customers as they can get.  This includes selling substances which may not be in the best interest of the consumer.  But the sales person, is also your consultant (doctor).  Many very addictive drugs are prescribed such as oxycontin or morphine or any strong opiate, which should not be thrown around lightly to people that aren't prepared to get into that game.

Vaccinations and antibiotics like you mentioned are great things that come from the pharmaceutical industry, but it's mixed with a bunch of bullshit as well.  Most people don't do their research and trust a doctors recommendations, and their education has been manipulated for recommendations and solutions to come from pharmaceuticals.  Big pharma also has a huge interest in keeping any naturally growing medicines that can't be patented out of everyone's hands through prohibition.

I really agree that it is not possible to approach the drug trade radically, because there are so many medical prescriptions that help patients get rid of not only pain but also, in a sense, treated with the help of light drugs. This does not mean of course that they need to be legalized in every country, but nevertheless there are such views that some kinds can be legalized.

[freeyourmind]

I call bullshit. If all pharmaceuticals were banned as of today, 90% (random fact) of healthy humans would still live to an old age. I know I would anyway, why shouldnt others?

They may live to 50-60 years, but what about their children? By banning the pharmaceuticals, you are banning vaccinations as well. Diseases which were once eradicated will come back, such as Smallpox, Measles, Diphtheria, Anthrax.etc. Millions, if not billions of people will die from them. And have you imagined how worse the TB epidemic is going to be in the third world nations, if the antibiotics are not available?

There are definitely useful drugs that come out of the pharmaceutical industry.  If the goal was to make the world's population healthy however, revenues and profits wouldn't increase over time.  But revenue and profits are the goal, so they need as many customers as they can get.  This includes selling substances which may not be in the best interest of the consumer.  But the sales person, is also your consultant (doctor).  Many very addictive drugs are prescribed such as oxycontin or morphine or any strong opiate, which should not be thrown around lightly to people that aren't prepared to get into that game.

Vaccinations and antibiotics like you mentioned are great things that come from the pharmaceutical industry, but it's mixed with a bunch of bullshit as well.  Most people don't do their research and trust a doctors recommendations, and their education has been manipulated for recommendations and solutions to come from pharmaceuticals.  Big pharma also has a huge interest in keeping any naturally growing medicines that can't be patented out of everyone's hands through prohibition.

I really agree that it is not possible to approach the drug trade radically, because there are so many medical prescriptions that help patients get rid of not only pain but also, in a sense, treated with the help of light drugs. This does not mean of course that they need to be legalized in every country, but nevertheless there are such views that some kinds can be legalized.

I don't think anything requires banning to be honest.  Consumers need to be intelligent about the purchases they make and educate themselves with what they're putting into their body.  Most people are not even remotely educated on drugs and basically put 100% trust into a doctor's recommendation.  I'm not a fan of highly addictive opiates, but even then I don't think they need to be prohibited to the point where people need to start going to jail.  If you're not going to harm anyone else, you should have the liberty to do whatever you want to do.  But it's not that way with altering your consciousness.  Someone that has no aggression cannot do for example, cannabis, psilocybin, LSD or MDMA legally.  These drugs don't typically make anyone aggressive, in fact if you normally have aggression I'd even say it would lower the aggression.  There is no threat to anyone that isn't there with a sober person.  Yet it's illegal and instead of questioning that authority, the people on the thread encourage their rights being taken away.

[iluvpie60]

There are many drugs that are worse than what is recreationaly used.

Prescribed pain pills are very addictive and get people wanting more and more. They develop problems with the addiction and get into trouble way more than someone who is self medicating with weed.

[Sithara007]

Vaccinations and antibiotics like you mentioned are great things that come from the pharmaceutical industry, but it's mixed with a bunch of bullshit as well.  Most people don't do their research and trust a doctors recommendations, and their education has been manipulated for recommendations and solutions to come from pharmaceuticals.  Big pharma also has a huge interest in keeping any naturally growing medicines that can't be patented out of everyone's hands through prohibition.

So you agree that there are good things which come out of the pharma industry. So the best solution would be to promote such good drugs, while banning the harmful ones. And regarding natural medicine, I agree with you. The pharma cartels are trying their best to destroy them.