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I don't believe anyone was trying to be petty or even avoiding the topic. It's just hard to read. Especially so for us with less than perfect eyesight. All the text just blends together.
If Rasman could edit his post and hit the return key where he wants the paragraph breaks to be, I will definitely read it. As I am one of those people that believes in making pot legal, but what may seem odd to some, I am against it's use while it's illegal.
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I didn't read it. If people can't take the time to make something readable then I haven't got the time to try to decipher what they might be saying.
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As long as the most incarcerated nation in the world is locking up and fining people for the personal use of a natural herb, I will not "give it a rest". This issue affects too many people, some husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, doctors, lawyers etc. You give your basic rights to personal choices a rest if you want to. And by the way MD7000, the cannabinoids including and especially THC is the medicine. Don't write about what you don't know about!
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The shorter the posting, the less likely someone will just skip over it.
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What a bunch of whiney little *****'s on here! 808 wrote eloquently, and made many valid points. It's as criminal as the Bush war crimes the way we lock up people in this country for smoking this harmless herb. I grew up in the late 60's and always thought when people of my generation came into power that things would change... How wrong I have been. It is worse than ever. Man of the year.. Bernanke? Nobel Peace Prize... Obama? He has three wars going on.
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Every time this subject comes up, the subject is always changed to alcohol by the most vocal of the legalization folks. We aren't talking about alcohol.
BTW, Dave M, you claim to have never seen anyone driving under the influence of weed and you also claim to be an EMT? ...and we can all presume that you are a harmless weed smoking EMT? You are full of it. I lost a few friends in high school to the harmless drug - and they weren't under the influence of anything. The other driver was high - the harmless weed?
rasman - My point is that the weed that is out there now is nowhere near organic (a natural herb as you call it) because it has been so genetically modified (it is a GMO crop) and a decent percentage of the people on this forum scream about GMO crops from time to time as being bad, evil, dangerous...
If it has a legitimate medicinal use, then let it be grown, sold, taxed and regulated as such. BTW, medicinal THC in pill, spray form and suppositories already exist so why the urgent need to continue to smoke it if you have no medical needs for it?
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Originally posted by mdd7000
Every time this subject comes up, the subject is always changed to alcohol by the most vocal of the legalization folks. We aren't talking about alcohol.
BTW, Dave M, you claim to have never seen anyone driving under the influence of weed and you also claim to be an EMT? ...and we can all presume that you are a harmless weed smoking EMT? You are full of it. I lost a few friends in high school to the harmless drug - and they weren't under the influence of anything. The other driver was high - the harmless weed?
So basically you're calling me a liar.. is that your red herring because you can't muster up anything of "merit". Well I'm an EMT and many people here may remember when I came on here in 06 trying to find out if there was work on the BI FOR EMTs. I think your a DRUNK!! I don't believe you lost a friend in High school because he was hit by someone smoking weed I think you made it up for lack of anything to justify your position.
rasman - My point is that the weed that is out there now is nowhere near organic (a natural herb as you call it) because it has been so genetically modified (it is a GMO crop) and a decent percentage of the people on this forum scream about GMO crops from time to time as being bad, evil, dangerous...
If it has a legitimate medicinal use, then let it be grown, sold, taxed and regulated as such. BTW, medicinal THC in pill, spray form and suppositories already exist so why the urgent need to continue to smoke it if you have no medical needs for it?
The answer to this is it's MY RIGHT just like you have a right to be a drunk.. If you want to address the topic with anything of MERIT then do so. If you want to stand by calling me a Liar we'll have to get together next time I'm on the island. (Are you on the BI) As for your accusation of me being high on the ambulance I stopped smoking weed 5 years before I started in EMS. (I've never failed a drug test) I'm a volunteer in very rural area! Regestered EMT.. And I damn sure don't like being called a liar by a drunk keyboard commando that I don't think has the balls to say it to my face.. Your thoughts?
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Blessings,
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"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
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Please provide evidence of this, it is not a GMO crop at all, maintaining strains and cross breeding and selective manipulation is one thing. but i have yet to hear of weed being modified with GENE guns or virus's to modify its genetics.
A golden retriever is not "genetically modified".
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Originally posted by mdd7000
rasman - My point is that the weed that is out there now is nowhere near organic (a natural herb as you call it) because it has been so genetically modified (it is a GMO crop) and a decent percentage of the people on this forum scream about GMO crops from time to time as being bad, evil, dangerous...
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Punaweb has reasonable expectations that people will behave here in a respectful manner. Failure to do so can have consequences. I want to ask the parties involved to back down, slow down and not feel compelled to respond to very potential bait.
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Perhaps some clarification would be needed on the GMO issue. It's been a source of confusion in the past.
A "GMO" crop as registered/recognized by the USDA or FDA means the crop has been modified by "recombinant DNA procedures" in an elective disclosure process under very narrowly defined guidelines. Meaning, a company has the choice to register or not. When a crop is registered as GMO that's what it means. It has a patent gene created by these processes. Obviously there's no weed that qualifies as GMO by this definition. There's many strains of corn that do, or soybeans, as a counter example, and they dominate the food industry.
A GMO organism from a scientific point of view--not an official point of view--means an organism that has had its DNA modified by some means. A common means since the late 50's was radiation mutagenisis by exposure to cobalt-50. Many many crops were modified by this cruder method, but these are not "officially" recognized as GMO crops, (or the hardcore anti-GMO crowd, for some reason) though they are indeed GMO in fact by the scientific definition. Whether you care or not is up to you. It's important to make that distinction, as it can confuse people. Use of such GMO crops is completely ubiquitous and some of them are even certified organic, or so I understand.
As I understand it, even the USDA definition is under review to expand the definition. You can splice genes from wheat to wheat with a gene gun but must report if you spice genes from wheat to shrimp or some such. I haven't followed that closely lately, but it's worth a look.
I bring this up to hope to avoid a bit of needless definition conflict.
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