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[old hippie 56]

Ya'll ought to check this one out. Here is the link:http://www.justthinktwice.com/

This is the crap they are trying to show the kids now.

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	Good find Old Hippie
	OMFG. Good find hippie.

[Riconoen {UGC}]

I love the smell of propaganda in the morning.

[Trebor]

Oh God, thanks Hippie, that made my luagh so much. It desn't give the "reasons why drugs are bad" but just tells youg people they are uncool. Now, I may be wrong, but aren't most drug users poeple society tells us are "cool".

Qoute the site
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1: Then why did Swim's uncle smoke it during his stint with cancer?

2: Agreed, but if Swim bakes it he doesn't get trouble with his lungs.

3:Yes it does, aren't the Dutch happy?

4: I know, but most people do.

5: WHy is that one highlighted? What are they trying to prove?

6: Sure you can, keep telling yourselves that and it might happen.

[dip]

[paranoid]

[stoneinfocus]

*lol* " gettin sexual active" now that´s bad!!!
what´s up, how did those morons managed to get so much money for their propaganda? -how did it happen, and how come that amphetamine and sleeping pills are OK for a fighter plane pilot, who is navigating/controlling an
30million $ tax-paid instrument?

why is marinol so much better, than smoking or inhalign a vapuourised MJ fume or a cake?

Why is pervitin so bad and the germans are having a lower life span than the polish although they smoke, drink, are poroer and´re using drugs like roids and perv?

questionnnnnsssss.....

[dip]

drugs are only evil in their minds.

[Trebor]

Originally Posted by co-incidence

*lol* " gettin sexual active" now that´s bad!!!
what´s up, how did those morons managed to get so much money for their propaganda? -how did it happen, and how come that amphetamine and sleeping pills are OK for a fighter plane pilot, who is navigating/controlling an
30million $ tax-paid instrument?

why is marinol so much better, than smoking or inhalign a vapuourised MJ fume or a cake?

Why is pervitin so bad and the germans are having a lower life span than the polish although they smoke, drink, are poroer and´re using drugs like roids and perv?

questionnnnnsssss.....

Becuase they make it, they get money.

[darawk]

Shouldn't the DEA, being a governmental agency, not be in the business of promoting a particular political agenda? The "marijuana is not medicine" line is extremely hotly debated right now, and some states completely disagree with them on it. Their job is not to tell people what is and is not medicine, that's the job of the FDA. The DEA should not be putting out that kind of message.

Secondly...I don't know how many people have noticed this but in all the studies linking marijuana to health benefits they almost always use a "synthetic analog" of THC. Which means to me that in all likelihood the primary motivating factor behind the criminalization of marijuana is money for pharma companies. They can't patent THC because it occurs naturally, but they can patent synthetic analogs of it. And once they get that patent, they can sell it exclusively and obviously charge hundreds of times as much. If marijuana were legalized...everyone could grow their own, and nobody needs big pharma. Looks like out and out corruption to me.

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nice points there

[Trebor]

Originally Posted by darawk

Shouldn't the DEA, being a governmental agency, not be in the business of promoting a particular political agenda?

Perhaps, in a democracy.

[stoneinfocus]

But they´re making a bad seting for every drug user... it´s ridicoulus, I donßt want to read signs like "smoking kills" ´cause I know that there´s a chance of dying of smoking.

I don´t want to read at the glass container that I´ll lose respect, my life and future if I were an alcoholic -which is not true; my father is a fascist and alcoholic and was most respected his whole lifetime....

Other than that, I never believed inhaling black, slightly hurting, tarry fumes to be healthy, but I made the decision, because I´m a man and like to choose myself how to life and what to die for and what I need having in my life and what not.

this is called trigger, and is in myhumerous opinion psycho-terror to each and everyone and an absolutely useless one, too.

Swim thinks they all need a new world war, that will destroy most of todays society and citys, at best cuased by a stupid propaganda everybody would be into, like a fanatic, that´d be triggered by the powers, to let them see what life really is about and what really is important, when they´d be staring at the graves adn the ashes of their lives, freedom and beloved -ahhh, swim would be enjoying this scenario.

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awesome post :D

[Tokyo-expat]

Here is some fun filled facts about MDMA from this site:

Ecstasy (MDMA): Ecstasy is a synthetic drug that produces both stimulation and hallucinatory effects and is associated with increased energy, sensual arousal and enhanced tactile sensations. The majority of MDMA is produced in laboratories in Europe and then smuggled into the United States. It produces nerve cell damage that can result in psychiatric disturbances and long-term cognitive impairments.

The user will often experience muscle tension, tremors, blurred vision, and increased body temperature which can result in organ failure and death. MDMA is usually distributed in tablet form and many of these tablets are imprinted with designs or commercial logos. The effects of MDMA are felt within 30-45 minutes, peaking at 60-90 minutes, and last 4-6 hours.

Well the bullshit meter just went off the charts..

[old hippie 56]

The DEA is the one paying for pre-elections raids in the med states, just to drum up support and votes for the supporters of a failed drug war.

[Beeker]

the second I saw the OxyContin™ it occured to me that something is very off here.

[Riconoen {UGC}]

They just promote whoevers in power's agenda. In this case bushes ridiculous and draconian weed is a gateway drug agendo. And where are kids going to get OC, it goes for top dollar on the street theres no way some 16 year old kid is going ot be able to afford 20 bucks a pill. This is just proving tht the drig czar and the bush administration is way out of touch with whats actually going on in this country.

[wynter_nyne]

I've found the drug propaganda as of late to be focusing less on the negative effects of the drugs themselves, and more on a 'don't be a sheep' mentality.
To me at least, this seems like a serious contradiction since, still, the majority of people don't use drugs, so to use drugs makes you more of an individual than to not.

[darawk]

Originally Posted by wynter_nyne

I've found the drug propaganda as of late to be focusing less on the negative effects of the drugs themselves, and more on a 'don't be a sheep' mentality.
To me at least, this seems like a serious contradiction since, still, the majority of people don't use drugs, so to use drugs makes you more of an individual than to not.

It actually does make sense though, if you consider the nature of the anti-drug mindset. The difference is the difference between 'lies' and 'bullshit', as defined by Harry Frankfurt in his little essay-book.

The liar, which the anti-drug people are not, is explicitly distorting the truth. The bullshiter on the other hand, just wants to get their way, and completely disregards truth and fallacy in doing so. The anti-drug propagandists don't care if their information is wrong, right, or anywhere in between, all they care about is efficacy. But, as is evidenced by drug usage trends, they still suck at that too.

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	great post
	Haha, nice way to put it.

[Fresh]

LOL @ marijuana is NOT medicine. Uh yes it is. Oh wait... that's just "scientific" research talking, not FACTS. hahaha ridiculous. I'm not even going to that site.

[darawk]

Originally Posted by Fresh

LOL @ marijuana is NOT medicine. Uh yes it is. Oh wait... that's just "scientific" research talking, not FACTS. hahaha ridiculous. I'm not even going to that site.

Don'tcha know? Things are only medicine when a pharmaceutical company can patent them. Like marinol, for instance.

[Fresh]

^ Exactly. They don't have a way to exploit profits from marijuana, so it must be better to villainize it as an evil, maddness inducing gateway drug. Scientific research is thrown out of the window with a lot of things in our government. The US government goes from the gut lol.