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[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Amy Winehouse was born in 1983, what?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

[joshthevegan.livejournal.com]

It disgusts me that someone of her (comparative) lack of influence/importance is grouped in with the likes of D. Boon, Cobain and Janis.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I had a dead rockstars party for my 27th birthday with special emphasis on the 27 club (I went as Mr Mojo Risin). One of my friends came as Amy Winehouse, a dead ringer for her to boot. This was in 2008.

[thedabara-cds.livejournal.com]

... But then the private prisons will lose MONEY!!!!
/snark

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

The very concept of prisons being operated for profit disgusts me.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

It's antithetical to a good society IMO. If catching criminals carries a profit motive a natural capitalist move would be to create more criminals.

[theloudcafe.livejournal.com]

heath ledger, too. =(

[hittokiri-korru.livejournal.com]

Mind you that while prescription drugs are legal, using them beyond there prescribed use is illegal.

[beyondfake-0.livejournal.com]

Yup that's the legal windfall.

Tell me, how do you trust a person with the prescribed use of "as needed"?

[hittokiri-korru.livejournal.com]

I think the phrase "as needed" mostly comes up on over the counter medications, but regardless it is still generally bound by other instructions such as "do not take more than n in t hours" , "do not take with alcohol, even if you're a celebrity", and "If erection occurs for more than 4 hours; pick up a hooker"

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

The fact that marijuana remains a Schedule 1 substance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_drugs_(US)) makes a mockery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_cannabis_from_Schedule_I_of_the_Controlled_Substances_Act) of the scientific integrity of the entire Controlled Substances Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act).

1.) It does not have high potential for abuse or addiction.
2.) It has valid, proven, scientifically established medical uses.
3.) It is safe.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Poppycock! I'll have you watch this documentary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness) on the subject.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

FASTER! FASTER! FASTER!

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

But what about the thousands of deaths every year from marijuana overdoses?!!

/okay, so there aren't any

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

I remember listening to a health lecture and the professor had made a good point. Certainly we do not want people getting high and driving but there seems to be no reliable way for us to test marijuana on the road side.

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

LSD, mushrooms, DMT, MDA, MDMA and a whole host of other tryptamines and phenethylamines all fit that bill too.
c'est la vie

[lilenth.livejournal.com]

1. Depends on if you're talking physical or mental addiction. Alcohol for example technically isn't just physically addictive, it's psychologically addictive and that's what causes the physical addiction for many people who become alcoholics. I've known people who've become mentally addicted to weed, about 10% of users will become psychologically addicted, a further 30% will become dependent on it.
2. No argument here.
3. Never met any of the minority of people who rather than mellow munches get violent and plain nasty, or looked at the proof that MJ use as a teenager increases the chance of mental illness at a later date? It's safety has not been proven, claims that it is completely safe are as much baloney as claims that it's a thousand times stronger today than it used to be.

I'm for legalising weed (Hemp is le awesome) and taxing it to take income away from drugs barons, but the facts aren't as you presented them.

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, and Whitney Houston were not using drugs and alcohol the way they are supposed to be used. This might be more effective if you could find people who had legal access to drugs and used them in the prescribed dosages and then died.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

How about using the LD-50 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose) as a standard.

Leathal-dose where 50% of people will die from that level of consumption. Like a gallon of booze will kill ya.

Marijuana does not have a LD-50.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

they used them, however, the way millions of people ACTUALLY use them. Do you adhere to the rules of use for ibuprophen too?

[i.livejournal.com]

Bob Marley

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I don't think cancer counts.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Brain cancer. Correlation != causation....

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

Well, isn't it obvious? Marijuana growers don't have lobbyists in Washington, at least not on the level of Big Pharma and the people producing alcohol :P