Principal finds 94 ecstasy tablets in 15-year-old's bag

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpgWAAmVwDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8S8N2OG7sU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbaHhYf_uOs


i love how ron paul presents his views

he should be the president of American, not obama the showpony.

[TrueLight]

well not as long as u have the elites at the top that want to control the world and shoot whoever goes against them... sigh jfk...

[Glockmeister]

which is why i didn't criticize you for doing so.

Although most young people use cannabis in adolescence without harm, a vulnerable minority experience harmful outcomes.

yer and i think you should do the same:

I think you are...

[TrueLight]

what happened to the thread just stalemate.... must have been the ron paul videos that shut u guys up lol

[Glockmeister]

1. I don't think weed is "harmless"
2. I believe that it isn't as risky as alcohol or ciggarettes
3. You article doesn't support the idea that cannabis is just as risky as using alcohol or cigarretes.

I don't know how you could come to that conclusion based on that one article.

I believe there are leprechauns standing under my desk and they are telling me to drink up and get drunk on campus for St Patrick's Week. (This is not a pug for Green Week, which I believe is next week at Monash Clayton).

Just because you believe something to be true, does not mean it is true. Since you are asserting that cannabis "isn't as risky as alcohol or ciggarettes", you are the person who must provide the evidence to show that what you are attempting to assert is true. I shouldn't have to go on the Monash library service and waste MY internet allowance just for your benefit.

What I have asserted is that cannabis consumption is a known risk factor for schizophrenia and have demonstrated that there is scientific evidence to back this assertion up.

[TrueLight]

there it goes again =) ah love the confrontational threads livens things up here

[costargh]

I've never forced you to do anything.

If you wish to go try substantiate your claims with academic references, be my guess. My guess is that you won't find anything that says that cannabis is just as bad as alcohol or cigarettes.

I'm not gonna use academic references because I don't know how to yet (on Monday I have a library class on how to).

3,290 alcohol-related deaths in 1997
In 1998/99, 74% of the 8.661 hospital admissions for alcohol-related assaults were male.

http://www.alcohol.gov.au/internet/alcohol/publishing.nsf/Content/fs-men

In 1998, around 19,000 deaths were attributable to the use of tobacco, accounting for 80% of all drug- or alcohol-related deaths.
 


http://www.aihw.gov.au/drugs/population/index.cfm

I think my point is generally accepted so I don't see why you continue to try and say that cannabis is just as bad.

[Glockmeister]

I've never forced you to do anything.

If you wish to go try substantiate your claims with academic references, be my guess. My guess is that you won't find anything that says that cannabis is just as bad as alcohol or cigarettes.

I'm not gonna use academic references because I don't know how to yet (on Monday I have a library class on how to).

Then why should I believe you? What makes your assertion more valid then my leprechauns example?

[costargh]

Conviniently left out the links to Australian government health department have we?

[Glockmeister]

Conviniently left out the links to Australian government health department have we?

Good attempt, but potentially misleading, as your statistics don't have any reference to cannabis usage... which by the way it's (cannabis) usage may not lead to immediate death by any means.

I removed those that's because the question I ask is far more fundamental and important... and of which you haven't answered yet.

[costargh]

"accounting for 80% of all drug- or alcohol-related deaths."


I'm sure tobacco related deaths aren't on the spot sudden deaths!!!

[Glockmeister]

"accounting for 80% of all drug- or alcohol-related deaths."


I'm sure tobacco related deaths aren't on the spot sudden deaths!!!

I was going to edit to make my point clearer.

Your statistics are interesting, shocking in some respects, but it's logical structure is as good as Andrew Bolt reasoning i.e. pretty crap. The statistics don't make a comparison between I suppose the burden of tobacco/alcohol usage compared to cannabis usage, which is what you want if you want to say that tobacco is more dangerous than cannabis.

[costargh]

Meh whatever... believe what you want to believe.

I think you know deep down the truth... whether you NEED articles from a scholarly journal to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside is up to you.

If you wanna believe in lepracorn thingomabobs thats up 2 you too.

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which is why i didn't criticize you for doing so.

Although most young people use cannabis in adolescence without harm, a vulnerable minority experience harmful outcomes.

yer and i think you should do the same:

I think you are...

i meant this

"You must note that never have I argued whether drugs should or should not be legalised."

[Glockmeister]

which is why i didn't criticize you for doing so.

Although most young people use cannabis in adolescence without harm, a vulnerable minority experience harmful outcomes.

yer and i think you should do the same:

I think you are...

i meant this

"You must note that never have I argued whether drugs should or should not be legalised."

huh? that line was posted after your quote... now I'm lost.