What is Obama smoking? Dr. Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general? Not only does the corporately sponsored medical newser lack the “independent voice,” but judging by his weak argument for voting against decriminalizing medical marijuana in Colorado and Nevada, he also lacks a future-forward vision. While he readily admits to the benefits that cannabis provides for Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma, he assume that state referendums are really just a ploy for public to “get stoned legally.” |TIME|
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta Isn’t the Change We Can Weed In
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interesting to note that this sanjaya fellow or whatever his name is…quotes personal statements not actual studies, and of course sanjay is a doctor so he must really be able to come up with better information, as a matter of fact, since he was asked to write an article for a low browTime magazine he couldnt come up with a better article, his first sentence
"Maybe it's because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn't around when marijuana was as common as iPods are today"
is a direct ripoff of the first sentence in the first article that comes up under a search for marijuana, possible given to him by the esteemed Dr. Nora Volkow director of the so called institute with a dot-GOV domain "national institute of drug abuse"
"In the 1970s, the baby boom generation was coming of age, and its drug of choice was marijuana. By 1979, more than 60 percent of 12th-graders had tried marijuana at least once in their lives. From this peak, the percentage of 12th-graders who had ever used marijuana decreased for more than a decade, dropping to a low of 33 percent in 1992. However, in 1993, first-time marijuana use by 12th-graders was on the upswing, reaching 50 percent by 1997. Although the percentage of 12th-graders who have experience with marijuana has remained roughly level since then, there is still reason to be concerned.1 In 2002, an estimated 2.6 million Americans used marijuana for the first time. Roughly two-thirds of them were under age 18.2 Furthermore, the marijuana that is available today can be 5 times more potent than the marijuana of the 1970s.3
The use of marijuana can produce adverse physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral changes, and – contrary to popular belief – it can be addictive."
lets attack his weak argument,
Frequent marijuana use can seriously affect your short-term memory.
SO DOES ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES
It can impair your cognitive ability
SO DOES ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES
lead to long-lasting depression or anxiety
SO DOES ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES
permissive legalization, accompanied by stringent regulations and penalties, can cut down on illegal drug trafficking and make communities safer.
WHAT HAPPENED DURING PROHIBITION?
MOB CONTROLLED CRIME, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEED IS LEGALIZED? NO PROFIT MOTIVE, NO NEED TO KILL ROB OR HAVE A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE WHEN YOU CAN GROW YOUR OWN, ITS A PLANT!
if you get high before climbing behind the wheel of a car, you will be putting yourself and those around you in danger.
BUT IF YOU GET PULLED OVER WITH A CARTON OF CIGS AND GALLON OF VODKA ITS ALL GOOD IN THE HOOD AS LONG AS YOUR NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE, BUT IF YOU GET PULLED OVER AND CAUGHT WITH A JOINT IN YOUR PURSE YOUR GETTING ARRESTED EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE, GET IT!??!! ITS A GAME PLAYED BY THE GOVT AND WE ARE THE VICTIMS
Remember when Roosevelt lifted the ban on alcohol? Pretty much stimulated the economy durning the great depression. Legalize it you idiots. We're all smoking it anyways. Might as well tax it.
ok. you people really are potheads cause its clear you´re missing MORE than a few brain cells. I mean, Obama chose the dude, and i mean, its a miracle we got a black president and not another lame old fart. If you´re a liberal, you gotta understand that Obama isn´t a wing nut. To knock a guy before he´s even shown you what he´s capable of is sad on your part since your only looking at your own agenda and not that of the greater good of the world. World peace is what we´re after, and considering the state of the middle east right now, marijuana legalization is the least of our problems. Try looking at yourselves and realize that what your really doing is not forward thinking, or making the world a better place, just making headlines, creating issues rather that solving them — like any other media.
so jem your saying obama's 'hope' and 'change; is only about world peace not disporportionate sentences for non viloent "crimes", disparities in law enforcement, madoff is treated like a king in penhouse exile while small fry potheads are treated the same as rapists and murderers, kids in the hood are treated like animals while wall street cokeheads never have to assume the position random searches outside scores, i can only hope that a family member or loved one faces jail for a small amount of plant material, tell him or her 'its world peace is what we are after'
and by the way i dont smoke weed. so im clear headed on this topic….right on
No, im not saying any of whatever you said. I said what I said, nothing more, nothing less. Don´t twist my words because it looks desperate. If you don´t get it, then dont.
Ok, you don´t smoke weed, want a cookie?
jelimina get back to the kitchen and get me a beer, stop playing online like your actually intelligent.
the job of the surgeon general is to advise on medical issues, not world peace,
hahaha! sad sad desperate men. i made a good point and you can´t deal!!!! it´s sillarious! everyone´s job should be world peace dimwit… get out an do something about it instead of crying about not being allowed to smoke weed. If you´re an adult, then do what you want, but don´t be STUPID and make a issue out of something that´s not while people are DYING. idiots.
Jelimina,
You obviously have never been touched by the drug war, and to you it seems as trite as kids wanting to get high. the truth is that the prohibition of marijuana, while senseless and xenophobic, is also very harmful. it has incarcerated millions of people, broken up families of otherwise responsible citizens, not to mention wasted billions of dollars in a witch hunt that could have been going to 'world peace' issues such as housing and education. so, rather than wishing for world peace in platitudes, you might consider encouraging the efforts of drug war activists who are working very hard to end the war. yes, it has been a war, with people dying because of it.. and as a peace advocate you should be interested in ending that war.
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.
You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:
Racism
Fear
Protection of Corporate Profits
Yellow Journalism
Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
Personal Career Advancement and Greed
These are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal.
lets refer to the experts to end this conversation once and for all…
"Marijuana leads to homosexuality … and therefore to AIDS."
Carlton Turner – Former Drug Czar (Reagan)
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."
Daryl Gates – Former LAPD Chief
"Under the influence of hashish those fanatics would madly rush at their enemies, and ruthlessly massacre every one within their grasp."
Dr. A. E. Fossier – New Orleans Medical & Surgical Journal (1931)
"Persons using this narcotic [marijuana] smoke the dried leaves of the plant, which has the effect of driving them completely insane. The addict loses all sense of moral responsibility. Addicts to this drug, while under its influence, are immune to pain, and could be injured without having any realization of their condition.""While in this condition [high on marijuana] they become raving maniacs and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence to other persons, using the most savage methods of cruelty without, as said before, any sense of moral responsibility. . . . If this drug is indulged in to any great extent, it ends in the untimely death of its addict."
Emily Murphy – Canadian Prohibitionist (1923
"…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
Harry J. Anslinger – America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)
"I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions." – quoting Floyd K. Baskette.
Harry J. Anslinger – America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Harry J. Anslinger – America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)
Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."
Harry J. Anslinger – America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)
REEFER MADNESS: "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
Harry J. Anslinger – America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
Harry J. Anslinger – America's 1st Drug Czar (FDR – JFK)
"[Marijuana] is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes."
New York Times – Newspaper (1933
"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."
Ronald Reagan – Former President
"Marihuana influences Negroes to to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
William Randolph Hearst – Newspaper Tycoon (1936)
ok jasira, first of all xenophobic is the intense dislike of people from other countries so.. um. you need to use a dictionary or ask someone. And we´re not talking about the drug war, i´m talking about being dramatic when there are other things to write articles about. Many things have broken up families and incarcerated millions of people, or bigger things have done so. You´re talking about billions of dollars, are you retarded not to even stop and think about the war in iraq before you make a statement like that? I think wishing for world peace in platitudes is thinking more about the greater good of the world than just my own interests. I smoke weed, in fact i love weed, but what does making it legal in one country in the world do for us all? Why don´t you write about corruption in nondescript countries, or hello? Pollution? or um.. the rainforests are almost gone and you´re not gonna get that cancer cure, marijuana is helpful for some illnesses but its not a cancer cure. Think wider, and deeper people. Stop living in a bubble.
P.S. I have applied to work for the Marijuana Policy Project. So don´t think I don´t know whats up. But people, other human beings are being blown up right now, and I´m gonna fight for them because I gotta do my part. Making marijuana legal isn´t gonna change the world. It didn´t change amsterdam, or the middle east, or anywhere where marijuana isn´t exactly an issue. People are still poor practically everywhere, and to be someone who actively pushes their own agendas in spite of this, especially such an issue as whatever Sanjay Gupta thinks is priveleged in the WORLD as a WHOLE. If you have this kind of privilege, even to spread some kind of word on the INTERNET (we´re so lucky) you should really use it wisely.
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ok. you people really are potheads cause its clear you´re missing MORE than a few brain cells
hahaha! sad sad desperate men. i made a good point and you can´t deal!!!!
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your not making any sense, this ia a great blog that aggregates lots of information relevant to the little guy, the urban, the hip, those with a healthy skepticism of media, politics, military and how the world works for a select few. thats why i always come back here to see whats up in the world.
your statements as a whole, (go back and reread them) make no sense, would you go on a real estate blog like curbed and make these comments about war and bombs etc.
now you claim to smoke weed and claim to want to work for MPP yet dont really care if your arrested, if your loved ones lose jobs or are incarcerated in some silly pot sting, if your talking about bombs dropping, please explain which bombs and why and where and how it affects you, we should be writing about corruption? whats a nondescrip country?
your saying that we have a privlege to use the internet so we should stop typing about the drug war?
have you seen http://americandrugwar.com/
its a great movie its on IFC if you have cable, its free watch it.
i cant get around your agenda or exactly what drives you to type such blabbering drivel, your not making any sense, as for these wars and bombs and pollution and cancer cures and all these things you talk about make no sense in the CONTEXT of this whole dr. gupta post. just like if you were required to register your religion and sign an oath to a dictatorship, send your first born to military brainwashing school, you would stand by and say its not a problem we have to think about all the dolphins that are dying thousands of miles away, it doesnt make sense, maybe im not making sense, but in a nutshell your talking about acquiescing to propaganda, making disparate comparisions to other situations as a way of making a value judgement on a different and unrelated scenario….
say someone took away your write to vote, your answer, at least we dont live in zimbabwe?
police shoot another unarmed minority, no biggie, its prob not as bad out there as nazi germany.
im sure youll be back, youll type up another diatribe defending your position, your taking it all too personally letting your emotions get the best of you, the original point i think made by animal and some responses here is that dr. gupta is not a good candidate becuase he parrots spoonfed propaganda….
now go stomp your feet and rattle some pots to keep the zombie alien robot hybrid elephants away, everyone will ask why do you do that, there are no zombie alien robot hybrid elephants around here!! and you'll say SEE IT WORKS!!! and continue to so…
Omg, look how much you´ve written just to get me riled up! Sillarious! Foreal. No, im not taking it personally, im taking it as a complement because I cannot believe my point (that this is just another media HYPE) has gone so far! Its pretty amazing. And man, you´re really blabbering on, but what are you trying to say? Is it that you want me to be quiet? … cause i made a good point and yall are stumped cause youre too toasted to give a good rebuttal?
http://www.mpp.org/victims/
pretty amazing list of victims of the drug war.
Tyrone Brown served 17 years of a life sentence for testing positive for marijuana while on probation for a $2 stickup committed when he was 17.
No one involved was ever able to explain the severe penalty.
In July 2000, 36-year-old Matthew Ducheneaux was arrested for smoking marijuana in a park in South Dakota. Ducheneaux was a quadriplegic who used marijuana with his doctor's permission to treat violent muscle spasms. Ducheneaux, unable to tell the jury that he used marijuana for medical reasons, was eventually convicted of marijuana possession and forbidden from using his medicine for a year.
Paraplegic medical marijuana patient Jimmy Montgomery was given a life sentence (later reduced to 10 years) for possessing two ounces of marijuana
Twenty-seven-year-old Jonathan Magbie died while serving a 10-day sentence for marijuana possession in a Washington, D.C., jail. Magbie, a quadriplegic since age 4, used his chin to operate a motorized wheelchair and required a ventilator to help him breathe. The jail could not provide the medical help he needed, and by the time he was taken to a hospital, he was dead. Magbie was a first-time offender who told the judge that marijuana made him feel better and that he didn't think there was anything wrong with using it.