John Akpata At Carleton University - April 1, 2008, Part 1

[levanyzzuf]

He's right on the money, but still sounds like a douchenozzle.

[RussLBarth]

no, we want hemp legalized and used for everything. the prohibs use the fact that people can use pot to get high as some sort of excuse for criminalizing hemp.

imagine if the coffee lobby had so much stroke that they managed to criminalize apples, simply because people COULD make apple cider and get drunk.

THAT is what has happened.

[RussLBarth]

1, what is wrong with getting high? People have been getting high since before there was agriculture.

2, why should the government have the right to say who should get high and who shouldn't? why is bing high a bad thing?

[RussLBarth]

the short term memory issue stops when it is discontinued, and as someone who uses every THREE HOURS, and does stand up comedy... I can tell you the memory issue is not so bad.

[RussLBarth]

devestating? hardly. my wife and i use every three hours, using a volcano which delivers four times the medicine as the same amount smoked. if pot did damage, we wouldn't be able to talk. as it is, I can do stand up comedy, which requires a LOT of memory skill, so....

what happens with pot is that it expands the imagination, which makes having and remembering conversations a bit difficult if you don't concentrate.

[RussLBarth]

well it hasn't dulled me any. I don't have a career, I am disabled. pot got me out of my wheelchair.

we use more and more pot, and get healthier and healthier. if you want to convince me that pot is somehow bad, you will have to be a lot more compelling than you have been.

[buttafrumdastuy]

im doing a senior exit project on the benefits of medical marijuana in which i have to persuay the panel of judges i wrote a pretty good essay but im having aproblem figuring out what to do for a project, u got any advice or ideas its a highschool project so it must be appropriate respond a.s.a.p

[RussLBarth]

Why is this guy so patronizing?

"Because people are stupid, in general.

"Was he speaking to small children?"

Sort of... University students....

"And shelter? Yes, is anyone prohibiting the use of marijuana to build shelter or clothes?"

>>>Yes. Hemp is still banned or restricted everywhere.

>It's about...and smoking it ... that's the main point. .....want to keep doing it, and other people don't like it.

> There is no valid reason to prevent people from getting high if they want to.