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Comment by Neal on June 30, 2012 at 2:13pm

How did cannabis rank so high? I will have to look at it closer. 

Comment by Michel on June 30, 2012 at 1:46pm

Via ScienceBlogs 

From Pharyngula:

We do not have a rational drug policy. There are potent and dangerous drugs that are socially accepted because hey, we’ve always drunk alcohol and smoked cigarettes, while there are milder, far less dangerous drugs that are damned because they’re new and unfamiliar. And so we throw people in prison for long jail terms if they are caught with some marijuana, while people can go out every weekend and drink themselves into an abusive, obnoxious state, and we just tell them they’re cool.

It is possible to take an objective look at the effects of various drugs on individua..., and ask “where’s the harm?” Here’s an example, the dangers of an array of drugs characterized and ranked.

(Click to enlarge)

There’s lots of small print there, so you may have to click to embiggen, but I can tell you what the extremes are: alcohol is the worst, and psychoactive mushrooms are the least. Heroin and meth are bad, LSD and Ecstasy are among the least dangerous.

And there are good biological reasons for this ranking.

(The rest is HERE)

Comment by Michel on April 23, 2012 at 6:13pm

Cannabis as cancer medication. (Video)

Comment by Michel on April 23, 2012 at 10:19am

@Neal - This is great!!!
Pls post this as a Photo. =)

Comment by Neal on April 23, 2012 at 8:49am

If: 

Comment by Neal on April 21, 2012 at 11:42pm

Comment by Carl Pastor on December 27, 2011 at 11:48pm

yep, insane. yep traditionaly juries can find anyone they want innocent, but in this day of "directions" from judges, i dunno. theres a famous story that when england was executing people for stealing anytrhing. the juries woke up and started finding everyone innocent and the law was changed

Comment by Adriana on December 27, 2011 at 10:10pm

I agree with you, Neal, 100%.

Comment by Neal on December 27, 2011 at 8:30pm

Marijuana laws suck. Thought I posted an article somewhere about how juries can decide someone is not guilty, even though the evidence says they are, when they think the law unjust. Selling 30 dollars of pot and going to jail is a crime in itself. Whoever did the sentencing should be the one locked up.

Comment by Sydni Moser on December 27, 2011 at 6:18pm

Video: Mother Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for $31 Pot Sale Refle...

In 2010, Patricia Spottedcrow, a mother of four from Oklahoma, was sentenced to an astounding 12 years in prison for a $31 pot sale. In October, a judge modified her sentence, reducing her jail time to what is still a stunning 8 years behind bars. Spottedcrow's attorney, Josh Welch, told KFOR, "Nobody understands why this woman is serving this long of a sentence for this type of crime. Look at other states; you can commit this same crime and it's not illegal. That's insane. She sold $30 of marijuana for gas money and food money for her family. It's stupid. It's wrong. But you don't go to prison for eight or 12 years for that. You shouldn't go to prison period."

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/755102/video%3A_mother...

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