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Summary: 99.9% of people killed in traffic accidents...
Review: ...eat potatoes. So, if we ban the sale of this dangerous vegetable, think of the lives that would be saved.
Cynical? Moi? Sorry, but that's the level of logic that has been applied in the mindless, wasteful and cruel war on the production and consumption of a healing herb that the Lord placed on the Earth, apparently in error, and which the pharmaceutical industry have tried to eradicate.
This is a very welcome addition to the growing number of truly well-researched books that have gone a long way towards debunking the cowardly, hateful lies that self-serving politicians and those who bribe them, have tried to sell us for decades.
Has marijuana "addiction" ruined people's lives by de-motivating them? Possibly. I don't know any such people myself, but I do know a lot of very dynamic achievers who regularly smoke marijuana. Yet alcohol which is fully and widely acknowleged to have ruined the lives of millions of people, as has gambling, is totally legal and freely available.
Do you know anybody who experiences increased aggression while on marijuana? Decreased, yes. That's why a number of police officers have stated that they would rather go into a room full of stoners than a room full of drunks.
There are many things in this world that do create social problems, especially those involving extreme violence. Compared to ultra-violent TV and movie shows, first person shooter computer games and hard liquor, where is marijuana on the scale of things? Nowhere. It is not a factor in increasing violent tendencies, quite the reverse.
If the boys who carried out the Columbine massacre had been found to have traces of marijiana in their systems, we would never have heard the end of it. Yet how much has been made of the presence of traditional pharmaceuticals in the system of either shooter?
In 14 years, we will see the FIRST centennial of woman suffrage. Prior to 1918, it was ILLEGAL for a woman, even a white, university educated woman, to vote in an election, own property or inherit property from her father.
Did that make sense? Was it fair? Was it sane?
No, but it was the Law. Just as it was illegal to be a homosexual, to practice witchcraft, or to commit suicide until well into the latter half of the 20th century.
The Law. Right.
Please read this superb book.
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Summary: Very informative, but very biased
Review: Based on all the other reviews of this book, I was expecting an unbiased account of the facts and fictions surrounding marijuana. While the book was a great read and provided me with a considerable amount of ammunition in fighting against the drug war, it didn't deliver that in quite the way I was expecting.This book is extremely biased, and every negative that is brought up is immediately qualified or discounted, rather than just presenting the facts in a neutral manner. In this respect, I feel that it fails to deliver its promise of objectivity and of being "a book for those who favor marijuana legislation reform as well as for those who oppose it."
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Summary: Marijuana Myths and Facts
Review: Beyond a doubt this is the most lucid statement of marijuana use I have read. It is a damaging indictment to those who support increased criminalization and punishment for users and possessors. Should be mandatory reading for law enforcement officers and members of the justice system.
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Summary: Marijuana myths marijuana review of the scientific evidence
Review: I believe it is irresponsible of these scientist to publish such hog wash. I have not only read the book but I have worked with teenage drug users for 10 years. I can't believe the scientist say there is no such thing as the amotivational syndrome. That is funny all the kids I work with would tell you different. The majority of the teens I work with are high school drop outs, Why? Well, they are involved in drugs ( marijuana), and get to the point that partying with there friends is more important then their education. All the adolescent clients I have now are involved with the legal system due to drug use and poor decision making. Also my experience is that the kids can't enjoy anything without getting high, doesn't that cause a problem? We know for a fact that alcohol has done a wonderful job of breaking up families through domestic violence, financial problems, child abuse, etc. Why in the world would we as a Nation want to legalize another thing that contributes to these same situations? Don't we want to help families and children to be successful? As far as the statements that smoking a joint isn't as bad for your lungs as cigarettes because you don't take in as much as often, so what, the fact is it does contribute to health problems. What difference does it make which one causes more problems? Just because something doesn't cause problems as much as another thing makes it ok to legalize something? The fact is that the marijuana on the street is stronger then the marijuana sold in the 60's. Why? Well because people have gotten it down to a science on how to grow the plant and be at it's optimium. We do that with fruits and vegetables and it is also done for drugs.Without anyones satistics I can say my experience with youth using marijuana is quite different then the book inplies or the person who reviewed this book and put down the drug counselor. I can go on what I see and it isn't good. Why would we want to contribute to making problems worse. How about putting our scientific dollar into finding and funding things such as job training , more computor traing, etc, to help our young people be more successful and more productive. Sorry, I see the kids of the baby boomers that think it is ok to smoke pot and if they could take a look at their lives they may figure out drugs may have contributed to some of their problems. Then again they are to busy blaming it on everyone else. I just can't get over the misinformation in this book whether it is scientific or not we all know we can make statistics look any way we want them to slant. Like I said my experience does not lie.
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Summary: Trippy
Review: I love weed, i love it, but not as much as i love p*ssy
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Summary: Personal Experience.
Review: I must admit right off the bat that I don't smoke marijuana, but I drink. After reading this book I found myself wondering why marijuana is illegal and alcohol is not. A very insightful and seemingly unprejudiced book on the facts surrounding marijuana. Written by a Ph.D. and a M.D. this is not a book by crackpots. Very important facts by level headed people, this is a must read book that goes a long way towards the understanding of the facts. Read this, educate yourself, and form your own opinions.
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Summary: curious
Review: Im actually helping my younger sister write a speech to her class mates about marijuana , giving facts not myths but straight up facts that the classmates would have never known were true, she does not smoke it , but has nothing against it , on the other hand dislikes tobacco . I am a user and have told her things that i have read an leanr about it, as i see it dont talk if you dont know, meaning if u dont no anything actual facts about something u r discussing dont insert things you may think are true , Im 18 an live in new zealand where ther is a pretty high use of marijuana but is still illegal , but lately we have a had a law changed , making prostitution legal . why is this? wouldnt u think a prostitute would have more of a bad effect on a family than marijuana use, i mean what would a parent like to see there 18 year old son/daughter with a joint an a couple of friends or a prostitute? i am also curious as to why over here we have a new las coming out cracking down on drivers under the infulence of marijuana hwere the police carry on them A test kit . Why it is proof that u r less likely to have a accident in a car under the influenece, Im confused and very dissapointed with my country and i also hope that one day my blind an ignorant government will open its eyes and see the harmm it does NOT cause , But i liked the review and made things clearer for me
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Summary: Very valuable addition to the literature on marijuana
Review: Most of the other reviews have already stated how I feel about this excellent book. I would like to fill my review space by bringing up a couple often overlooked points. Some people who are against marijuana (including some reviewers of this book) cite the fact that marijuana smokers flock together and form their own social groups, seem unusually preoccupied with getting the drug, etc. What people fail to realize is that it's the criminal stigma created by the prohibitionist laws which is responsible. If people could go to 7-Eleven and buy a joint, people wouldn't need to spend precious time calling all over town, finding out which of their "hookups" has the stock that evening. You don't find this "preoccupation with scoring some" among alcohol drinkers. Nor do you find alcohol users sticking with other alcohol users. Why? Because in 1933 our government was smart enough to repeal alcohol Prohibition, after which time all the problems associated with prohibition vanished. My second point concerns amotivational syndrome. I am a classical violinist, just finished 7 years of college: 5 undergraduate years and two years grad school. I play professionally with area orchestras. I used to be a 6-hour-a-day practicer. For the past three years, though, I have been burned out. Haven't practiced much, though I'm still in shape enough to play professionally. Coincidentally, these past 3 years have also been my first three years as a toker, and yes, I have been a regular, relatively "hard-core" user. Any government propagandist, if they knew, would gleefully point to my story as an example of why marijuana is life-destroying, evil, and justified in remaining illegal. However, I looked into myself and decided that the REAL reason for my burnout has more to do with my life history. I started the violin at age 3, was pushed hard throughout childhood, and to make it short, I grew up rather sheltered, especially during adolescense. My entire life was the violin and schoolwork. Throughout my undergraduate years also, I was passionately driven to succeed in my chosen field of someday winning a job in an orchestra. Even in college I didn't start truly breaking out of my shell until about the fourth year or so. Not only that, but my goal as an undergraduate was to get accepted into the Cleveland Institute of Music for grad school, which I had gotten rejected from twice. I finally made it! So it stands to reason that after a half-decade of chasing that goal and winning it, not to mention a K-12 life of violin before that, that I would be burned out by the time it was time to actually *attend* CIM. A related note: The worst "sheltered" aspect of my life was musically. My parents raised me pretty much exclusively on classical music. By 2001, I was burned out with just listening to it. I would say that in this context, perhaps the smoking of marijuana didn't do anything to *help* that burnout, but after some very serious reflection, I concluded that the amotivation to practice was destined to happen anyway, whether I ever tried marijuana or not. And my conclusion has proven to be correct! For the past month now, I have gotten my fire for my profession back, I'm once again practicing six hours a day, and I'm STILL TOKING EVERY DAY! That's right, every day. No amotivational syndrome. So I believe that amotivational syndrome has its true roots in life circumstances. P.S. Next time you're in a conversation where the Beatles come up as a topic, try the line, "That band never got anywhere because they smoked that dangerous marijuana."
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Summary: Excellent, unbiased, real look at the truth of weed usage
Review: Such a refreshing, insightful look at the truth about marijuana usage. Marijuana is such a healing and harmless substance. As the book shows, those problems such as 'laziness' attributed to weed usage occurred in the history of the person long before use of taking up marijuana. And what's wrong with laziness etc. anyhoo? This book is such an in depth shattering of all garbage we've been fed about marijuana and is supported by 1/3 of the book's studies supporting the authors well researched conclusions. However, the book makes one even more pissed at how the ignorant and authoratative folks are hell bent on ruining people and this country with their lies and paranoa. I applaud the work and honesty that went into this book by Zimmer and Morgan. ... Thanks so much.
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Summary: A Timely Antidote
Review: This book is a timely antidote to all of the B.S. that is propagated by those like the last revewer. Drug addiction "counselors" are the absolute worst, most biased source of information about marijuana you can find. These people deal with drug addicts and other mentally disturbed individuals on a day in - day out basis and have usually lost all contact with reality in regards to the "drug use" of the vast majority of the population in the real world. There is absolutely no harm in smoking a joint now and then (the actual pattern of use by just about everyone who smokes pot in the real world.) Personally, I find the experience quite valuable in finding new ways to appreciate music, art, food, and sex. "Psychologically addictive?" Not NEARLY as much as television. "Physical withdrawal syndrome?" Nope. (The REAL get-your-kids-hooked drug pushers are the [legal and government-subsidized] tobacco companies.) "The 'astronomical' human toll of traffic and industrial accidents?" NOTHING when compared to alcohol. "The economic costs of marijuana's (so-called) amotivational syndrome?" Believe me, television is WAY, WAY, WAY more "amotivating". Marijuana is the only illicit drug that is used across all social, economic, ethnic, age, occupational, and regional boundaries. It was originally made illegal for racist and political reasons and it is ridiculous that it remains illegal. Get this book, read it, then loan it out to everyone you know.
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