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2004-12-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tu3031 2004-12-15 11:53:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I see things haven't changed in Amherst since I left the area.

Posted by Steve 2004-12-15 12:18:01 PM|| 2004-12-15 12:18:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Was that Cracker or Craker ?
Didnt think they had Crackers in Mass.

Posted by tex 2004-12-15 12:24:32 PM|| 2004-12-15 12:24:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 It warms my heart to see so many young men and women care so passionately about ending the suffering of glaucoma.

Posted by BH 2004-12-15 12:35:30 PM|| 2004-12-15 12:35:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Lol, BH - and I had no idea it was so widespread!

Posted by .com 2004-12-15 12:38:05 PM|| 2004-12-15 12:38:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "What this decision does is effectively close the doors on any foreseeable prospect of the Federal Drug Administration considering marijuana as medicine," said Bruce E. Mirken, director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project based in Washington, D.C.

Well I for one hope they are allowed to carry on doing research (but not sat on their asses all day smoking bongs/vapourizers). Three people i know have MS and a couple others have arthritis . Cannabis is about the only thing that helps them out that doesnt have any serious long term side effects . And yes yes yes I expect to be picked up on the long term side effects :P /yawn..

Posted by MacNails 2004-12-15 1:31:05 PM|| 2004-12-15 1:31:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Many years ago, an author friend tested his hypothesis that many drugs are illegal solely for moral, rather than medical reasons. He explained that there is a large public faction that abhors things that "give pleasure without commensurate pain", because they are inherently immoral. To test his theory, he created an imaginary drug, "perfectly harmless, yet perfectly immoral." It had only two major effects: it radically increased your sex drive (this was before Viagra); and it eliminated your inhibitions. You would have sex with anyone, and repeatedly, but be undamaged and feel great afterwards, guiltless. Sexual orientation, gender and monogamy didn't matter. For several days you would be a sex machine. Shortly after he published this fantasy, written as an "expose" of a new street drug, tongue in cheek, a large number of evil looking undercover police came looking, not for him, but for "the drug", at any price. They menaced a whole neighborhood trying to obtain samples of this new 'threat to America's youth', offering bribes and intimidation with deadly seriousness. And, as he surmised, they found the drug to be deeply, morally offensive.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-12-15 3:29:08 PM|| 2004-12-15 3:29:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 MacNails... have any of your friends with MS or arthritis tried flaxseed oil? I've read stuff about it helping with MS, and it seems to help with my arthritis a lot.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-15 3:34:53 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-15 3:34:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, I've been on chemo. I've smoked dope when I was on it. It helped me.
It's just that when I read UMASS-Amherst and pot in the same sentence, "research" is the last thing that pop's into my mind.

Posted by tu3031 2004-12-15 4:40:45 PM|| 2004-12-15 4:40:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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