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false facts advertised?

Discussion in 'Experienced Cannabis Enthusiasts' started by gunsforgrass, Apr 14, 2007.

  1. i was just watching a commercial and a drug free america commercial came up. so i decided to go there and see what they have to say about bud. well what i read sounded completely wrong. and i also didn't see any websites for their sources.

    was wondering what you guys think.

    http://checkyourself.com/FiveMyths.aspx
     
  2. that website is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. look in the stories section, there is only one about pot and it's mainly because the kid was really stupid and had no self-control lol
     
  3. Everyone should post a blurb on the "moments of truth" section, talk about how marijuana has never had a negative effect on any of our lives.
     
  4. or we can just let ignorant people be ignorant and not worry about it.. seriously why should we care what stupid straight edge people think about weed
     
  5. yes it is really dumb,but all the above the influence commercicals are from this website.

    and one myth they said is its addictive. heres a lil part of the story i got from an ex pothead story.
    "After this, my parents told me that if they caught me again, they were going to send me to rehab. It was a painful situation. I stopped smoking after that until the summer before college."

    so 3 years of not smoking after smoking everynight.




    some people don't care what others say about it. but for me i hate it when people say i have a problem with bud. even tho im getting b+'s in college.
    also because if people don't learn the truth and realize its not harmful it wont be legal. which is what we all want isn't it?
     
  6. who the fuck actually goes to that website.. only kids would believe it anyway and if they did they shouldn't be smoking pot
     
  7. Lol that has to be one of the most idiotic biased websites i've ever seen. My God.
     
  8. hahah check yourself before you wreck yourself, boo ya ca sha. this site is stoopid. lol let them be brainwashed, we can relish in the fact that we are in fact correct
     
  9. Propaganda!!

    :mad:
     
  10. "Smoking marijuana leads to some changes in the brain similar to those caused by cocaine, heroin and alcohol."
     
  11. Some Facts You Just Can't Argue With:
    • Long-term marijuana use can lead to addiction.
    Oh yeah, certainly can't argue with that one..
     
  12. 4. MYTH: Driving While High is Safer than Driving Drunk
    TRUTH: Hardly. In a study reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, even a moderate dose of marijuana was shown to impair driving performance, since it affects alertness, concentration, perception coordination and reaction time – essential skills required for safe driving. Researchers also found that 17% (1 in 5) of crash victims under the age of 18 tested positive for marijuana


    that dosnt even talk about drunk driving. this sidesteps the "myth" worse then cheney sidsteps tax fraud questions.
     
  13. and it says crash 'victims'. that 17% could've been all passengers. and if it was the drivers and they tested positive for it, that means they could have smoked it a day before that or 6 months before. looking at sites like that give me no hope for humanity :(
     
  14. and bull-fucking-shit
    "Therefore, if you smoke pot regularly, you may experience the same breathing problems as those who smoke cigarettes. To put it plainly, walking up flights of stairs will seem difficult, and if you’re an athlete -- that unattractive wheezing and coughing caused by excessive smoking won’t look so hot (or feel so good) on the playing fields."
    if you're a lazy fat ass who doesn't exercise that's what happens. if you're an athlete you wont have that unattractive wheezing and coughing caused by excessive smoking because you keep you and your cardio in good shape. uhhhghghghhg
     
  15. most of the thing said on the sit have been proven wrong like

    1, it has now been proven that academic performance dosnt go down becuse you become dumb its just that most people who do bad at school smoke and so would have had bad grades whether they somekd or not, akso it hhas now been proven that even long term weed smoking cant couse lung cancer...not even once, it says that weedd couses depression but then why wwould it be give to people that suffer depression

    3, like i said it has been proven that weed dousnt cous lung cancer so yea marijuana iant as bad as cigs

    4, driving while high is not only better then driving drunk it has also now been shown that driving high can improve performence, dont belive me just go to youtube and cheek out top gear weed

    5, it has lso now been proven that weed dosnt efect retaining info so...
    this site is a bunch of crap altho at 1 time before the recent discoverys i wouldnt mind such things but no these ites are jokes
     
  16. you lose on the academic preformancce issue man, look at what you typed.
     



  17. I remember watching this car/motoring TV show. I think it was an episode of Top Gear (If your from the UK you've probably know what I'm talking about. Great show). They made this challenging driving course and had this man perform it sober, and then again after smoking a joint. He performed better and more safely while under the influence.

    Of course, that isn't any sort of solid evidence, and I personally don't support driving high, or do it myself. But it certainly isn't as bad as alcohol.

    I think a lot of the "facts" presented against Cannabis consumption are based on deliberate misinterpretation of causality. Eg: Little Johnny smokes a lot of pot, so he does poorly in school - instead of - Little Johnny does poorly in school, so he smokes a lot of pot. It could go either way, but no consideration is given to this.

    It seems as the years go buy, anti-marijuana advocates have less and less solid information to support thier cause. Nowadays, they really have to stretch things to come up with a reason to demomonize weed. I've met individuals who say pot is terrible. Instead of arguing, or ignoring them, I politely ask them to elaborate... they can't ("Why do you think it's so terrible?" "Um....... because its weed.. weed is bad"). It's quite comical.

    On the flip side, a lot of pot smokers, including some people here seem to "ignore away" the reality that any sort substance you put in your body - alcohol, cannabis, caffiene, processed sugar - is probably going to leave you less healthy in the long run than if you hadn't. Everything involves some risk - It's balancing these risks within reason that is key.
     


  18. That is soooo true, exactly what I was thinking, one of our biggest problems in fighting for legalistaion is people who automatically jump to weeds defence and say that it is completly harmless........better to go down the route of it's the lesser of the evils, i.e. cigerettes, alcohol, harder drugs etc........that way it's easier for dumb fucks who don't know how good it is, to swallow the whole, "is it good for you or bad for you debate".............Peace out.............Sid:hello:
     
  19. Reminds me of the www.abovetheinfluence.com website

    One of the things said "causes increased appetite: Pigging out isn't so attractive, is it?"

    ^^^
    Thats the kind of stuff they have against Cannabis nowadays. Its hilarious, actually.
     

  20. thats the show i was talking about on my post
     

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