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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by Sage</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So silly - it is a killer and a life destroyer!!

So if a person enjoys killing people, maiming or torturing them with your view you must obviously think it is alright for them to do so?!!

Clear demonstration here that you must be a user that has already been affected by it!!!

Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade with serious implications for users. Average levels of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive ingredient) in marijuana sold in America rose from 3.5% in 1988 to 8.5% in 2006. 

In the same period the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life.Teens using marijuana to alleviate feelings of depression just compound the problem.

People who smoke "skunk" are almost seven times more likely to develop psychotic illnesses.

As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.  Even worse it is linked to cancers.

The toxic substances in marijuana smoke, especially the toxicity of acetaldehyde, causes damage to DNA.  Because of its lower combustibility it contains 50% more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and  benzopyrene,  than tobacco smoke.  Ammonia levels are 20 times higher while hydrogen cyanide, nitric oxide and certain aromatic amines occurred at levels 3-5 times higher. Users tend to inhale more deeply than cigarette smokers, which increases respiratory burden.
It has been shown that the damage usually starts from the first one!!
THC increases the activity of a pathway that promotes protein synthesis in the brain. This transient increase of protein synthesis is mediated specifically by cannabinoid receptors expressed on the brain’s inhibitory neurons, and correlated with long-term memory deficits.

Cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhibition) and attentional deficits similar to those found in schizotypal or schizophrenia patients. 

Regular use can shrink the parts of the brain which control memory, emotion and aggression. The hippocampus, which is thought to govern emotion and memory averages 12 percent smaller and the amygdala, which has a part in controlling fear and aggression, 7 percent  smaller.  This suggests that heavy daily use may be toxic to human brain tissue.

Blood flow velocity is significantly higher in users and they have higher values on the pulsatility index (PI), which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow. This is thought to be due to narrowing of the blood vessels that occurs when the circulation system's ability to regulate itself is impaired.  This leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain.

The active chemical in MJ called delta-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC) binds to cannabinoid (CB) receptors located on several cell types in various organs.  This greatly increases the risk for heart attacks and strokes in addition to impaired learning and memory.

It can also effect physical health.  Three to four cannabis cigarettes a day cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day. Thus there are rising levels of lung diseases such as emphysema.
It can also effect the unborn child. Scientists have identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains are functionally similar to THC from cannabis and play significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other.  Maternal cannabis use allows THC to travel through the placenta and impair fetal brain development and impose life-long cognitive, social, and motor deficits in affected offspring.

Low doses of Ä-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker facilitate infection of skin cells and can cause these cells to turn into malignant sarcoma.  Men who regularly smoke cannabis have a 70 per cent increased risk of testicular cancer.

And then there are all the car crashes caused by people driving under the influence of drugs that are at this moment being quantified.  But they already show one in five drivers killed is under the influence of drugs and that more drug drivers kill than drink drivers!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So silly - it is a killer and a life destroyer!!</p>
<p>So if a person enjoys killing people, maiming or torturing them with your view you must obviously think it is alright for them to do so?!!</p>
<p>Clear demonstration here that you must be a user that has already been affected by it!!!</p>
<p>Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade with serious implications for users. Average levels of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive ingredient) in marijuana sold in America rose from 3.5% in 1988 to 8.5% in 2006. </p>
<p>In the same period the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life.Teens using marijuana to alleviate feelings of depression just compound the problem.</p>
<p>People who smoke &#8220;skunk&#8221; are almost seven times more likely to develop psychotic illnesses.</p>
<p>As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.  Even worse it is linked to cancers.</p>
<p>The toxic substances in marijuana smoke, especially the toxicity of acetaldehyde, causes damage to DNA.  Because of its lower combustibility it contains 50% more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and  benzopyrene,  than tobacco smoke.  Ammonia levels are 20 times higher while hydrogen cyanide, nitric oxide and certain aromatic amines occurred at levels 3-5 times higher. Users tend to inhale more deeply than cigarette smokers, which increases respiratory burden.<br />
It has been shown that the damage usually starts from the first one!!<br />
THC increases the activity of a pathway that promotes protein synthesis in the brain. This transient increase of protein synthesis is mediated specifically by cannabinoid receptors expressed on the brain’s inhibitory neurons, and correlated with long-term memory deficits.</p>
<p>Cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhibition) and attentional deficits similar to those found in schizotypal or schizophrenia patients. </p>
<p>Regular use can shrink the parts of the brain which control memory, emotion and aggression. The hippocampus, which is thought to govern emotion and memory averages 12 percent smaller and the amygdala, which has a part in controlling fear and aggression, 7 percent  smaller.  This suggests that heavy daily use may be toxic to human brain tissue.</p>
<p>Blood flow velocity is significantly higher in users and they have higher values on the pulsatility index (PI), which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow. This is thought to be due to narrowing of the blood vessels that occurs when the circulation system&#8217;s ability to regulate itself is impaired.  This leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain.</p>
<p>The active chemical in MJ called delta-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC) binds to cannabinoid (CB) receptors located on several cell types in various organs.  This greatly increases the risk for heart attacks and strokes in addition to impaired learning and memory.</p>
<p>It can also effect physical health.  Three to four cannabis cigarettes a day cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day. Thus there are rising levels of lung diseases such as emphysema.<br />
It can also effect the unborn child. Scientists have identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains are functionally similar to THC from cannabis and play significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other.  Maternal cannabis use allows THC to travel through the placenta and impair fetal brain development and impose life-long cognitive, social, and motor deficits in affected offspring.</p>
<p>Low doses of Ä-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker facilitate infection of skin cells and can cause these cells to turn into malignant sarcoma.  Men who regularly smoke cannabis have a 70 per cent increased risk of testicular cancer.</p>
<p>And then there are all the car crashes caused by people driving under the influence of drugs that are at this moment being quantified.  But they already show one in five drivers killed is under the influence of drugs and that more drug drivers kill than drink drivers!!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by heathenfidel</title>
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		<dc:creator>heathenfidel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don't really care one way or another. But God seems to approve:

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t really care one way or another. But God seems to approve:</p>
<p>&#8220;And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by Atlas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Atlas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes for quite literally thousands of years, and if used wisely doesn't pose significant risks. I'm undergoing chemotherapy and have considered it to be an absolute God-send because it's tremendously helped with my nausea and helped me to gain some weight so I'm not a walking twig anymore. I don't have enough to get stoned or impair my thinking, and I use it in safe environments. I feel like it's helped to give me my life back. 

From a Biblical point of view, the primary issues concern obeying the laws of the land and not being controlled by a substance. If marijuana was legalized it would bring in a great deal of much-needed revenue from taxes which would benefit everyone, and it would be better regulated and have more public information about the proper use. If used properly, it will not control you. The largest increase in the number of people in the State of California using marijuana has been in the 65+ age range who take it to help with glaucoma and other health-related issues. People who just dismiss it as being something for irresponsible stoners or "sinners" are not knowledgeable about the positive and legitimate benefits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes for quite literally thousands of years, and if used wisely doesn&#8217;t pose significant risks. I&#8217;m undergoing chemotherapy and have considered it to be an absolute God-send because it&#8217;s tremendously helped with my nausea and helped me to gain some weight so I&#8217;m not a walking twig anymore. I don&#8217;t have enough to get stoned or impair my thinking, and I use it in safe environments. I feel like it&#8217;s helped to give me my life back. </p>
<p>From a Biblical point of view, the primary issues concern obeying the laws of the land and not being controlled by a substance. If marijuana was legalized it would bring in a great deal of much-needed revenue from taxes which would benefit everyone, and it would be better regulated and have more public information about the proper use. If used properly, it will not control you. The largest increase in the number of people in the State of California using marijuana has been in the 65+ age range who take it to help with glaucoma and other health-related issues. People who just dismiss it as being something for irresponsible stoners or &#8220;sinners&#8221; are not knowledgeable about the positive and legitimate benefits.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by rezany</title>
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		<dc:creator>rezany</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>where i live it is illegal and i obey the law of the land. it's not evil and neither is sex, where we are it seems we were created to be pleasure seekers. but if it's earthly pleasures we seek how can we be fulfilled in that? if you love God as much as i do, and trust me that's a Challenge,  He knows what you need, He gives mercy where mercy is due.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>where i live it is illegal and i obey the law of the land. it&#8217;s not evil and neither is sex, where we are it seems we were created to be pleasure seekers. but if it&#8217;s earthly pleasures we seek how can we be fulfilled in that? if you love God as much as i do, and trust me that&#8217;s a Challenge,  He knows what you need, He gives mercy where mercy is due.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by R Rosskopf</title>
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		<dc:creator>R Rosskopf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The natural man is an enemy to God.  To grow spiritually requires more than just the suppression of natural desires.  One must actively seek the spirit of God.  I believe that Marijuana, like most drugs, weakens a person's ability to recognize the Holy Ghost.  It is hard enough to be spiritually sensitive without being in a drug induced haze.  
If you give up drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and any other obviously addictive substances, I can promise you that it will be worth it.  Such things are spiritual poison, and rob the pocket while subjecting the victim to ******* or physical dependency.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The natural man is an enemy to God.  To grow spiritually requires more than just the suppression of natural desires.  One must actively seek the spirit of God.  I believe that Marijuana, like most drugs, weakens a person&#8217;s ability to recognize the Holy Ghost.  It is hard enough to be spiritually sensitive without being in a drug induced haze.<br />
If you give up drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and any other obviously addictive substances, I can promise you that it will be worth it.  Such things are spiritual poison, and rob the pocket while subjecting the victim to ******* or physical dependency.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe marijuana is a fairly benign thing. I definitely think it should be available to people who are ill and could be helped by it. I think it should be decriminalized. That would end a lot of crime and ease the burden on our prisons.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe marijuana is a fairly benign thing. I definitely think it should be available to people who are ill and could be helped by it. I think it should be decriminalized. That would end a lot of crime and ease the burden on our prisons.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Girls. Please help me with my girlfriend? by BE</title>
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		<dc:creator>BE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You sound like an amazing guy who cares a lot about your girlfriend. From the sounds of it, you seem like you would put her first before anyone else, but at the same time, the fact that she is concerned about you taking the tranquilizers demonstrates how she cares about you too. i know its hard to control stress and anxiety because i too struggle with coping with stress and i find it extremely hard to open up to people. But when i finally did open up, i found it really really helped.

i know its sometimes hard to put all your trust in another person, but maybe put your trust in her. listen to what she says... try and stop taking the tranquilizers for a while and rather try and open up to her - its worth a try. if she loves you, then she would be willing to do anything to help and nothing you say would push her away rather make her happy that you confide in her for help. 

i asure you that you she will listen and try her best to help - which is a sign that it isnt too late. 
i wish you all the best - i really do :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You sound like an amazing guy who cares a lot about your girlfriend. From the sounds of it, you seem like you would put her first before anyone else, but at the same time, the fact that she is concerned about you taking the tranquilizers demonstrates how she cares about you too. i know its hard to control stress and anxiety because i too struggle with coping with stress and i find it extremely hard to open up to people. But when i finally did open up, i found it really really helped.</p>
<p>i know its sometimes hard to put all your trust in another person, but maybe put your trust in her. listen to what she says&#8230; try and stop taking the tranquilizers for a while and rather try and open up to her - its worth a try. if she loves you, then she would be willing to do anything to help and nothing you say would push her away rather make her happy that you confide in her for help. </p>
<p>i asure you that you she will listen and try her best to help - which is a sign that it isnt too late.<br />
i wish you all the best - i really do <img src='http://anthonyarmand.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Spiritually speaking how do you feel about marijuana? by poems</title>
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		<dc:creator>poems</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Filthy goddamn junkies, all of you</description>
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		<title>Comment on Girls. Please help me with my girlfriend? by Sasha Quintana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sasha Quintana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>everyday with this kid</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>everyday with this kid</p>
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		<title>Comment on Girls. Please help me with my girlfriend? by EM</title>
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		<dc:creator>EM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stop with the tranquilizers unless prescribed by a doctor, good 4 u wanting to take classes that will help u become a better person. I think ur headed in the rite direction and wish u all the best.
Mayb getting more restful sleep that is enough hours. If u don't spend enough time with her try doing more things with her, things she likes but don't over do it cos she won't take it as u truly wanting to do it. Let her know that ur willing to take her advice and ur trying to improve cos u wanna give her the best and that u need her help. If she can continue to listen u can continue to talk and u can both open up to each other and eventually u will get where u wanna be and ur relationship will be stronger.
All the best.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stop with the tranquilizers unless prescribed by a doctor, good 4 u wanting to take classes that will help u become a better person. I think ur headed in the rite direction and wish u all the best.<br />
Mayb getting more restful sleep that is enough hours. If u don&#8217;t spend enough time with her try doing more things with her, things she likes but don&#8217;t over do it cos she won&#8217;t take it as u truly wanting to do it. Let her know that ur willing to take her advice and ur trying to improve cos u wanna give her the best and that u need her help. If she can continue to listen u can continue to talk and u can both open up to each other and eventually u will get where u wanna be and ur relationship will be stronger.<br />
All the best.</p>
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