Garrett: “Bitchin’. Now if some geek can whip together a study showing that firing the ack ack gun is a boon to prostate health, maybe I can buy myself a quiet pardon from Conan and get back to making people happy with my music.”*
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(h/t Terry Hastings)
Does the ‘dillo know about this?
Heh, sorry but I don’t care what you’re smoking, deliberately sucking burning material and smoke into your lungs is not, repeat not going to ever be more healthy than refraining. That should be sort of obvious to anyone with a shred of sanity.
This has got to come as great news to the hip-hop and rock worlds. Not that they needed the arrirmation to smoke weed, but still.
Snoop Dogg = the picture of health.
This should pump up the “Bob Marley was assassinated” conspiracy theories.
Yee Ha
That may well be true but….Oh who cares, you aren’t raining on my parade. Wee Whoooo
– It will never cease to puzzle me how some in our population want to point at, and bitch and rant about, all the things that kill us, which is practically everything when you get right down too it. That’s what we do as a species. Eat, shit, fuck, wash, sleep, and eventually die. Deal with it.
To my non-friend yuppies everywhere, get used too it. You’re number is coming up too, no matter how many bottles of pierre’ you drink, how many packets of trail mix, or power bars, or how many pretty new running shoes you break in. Its just a matter of when, not whether, and how you choose to enjoy your time. In the end if you do nothing but the bare minimum, you die of anxiety worrying about it. Screw that on a royal chop stick.
TW: The business of living is living, not worrying yourself to death.
Actually, the whole marijuana smoking/lung health controversy would be a non-issue if everybody employed a vaporizer.
Sorry my link did work. Here it is:
http://www.vaporstore.com/images/HFlogo.jpg
Oh, nevermind! I give up. It isn’t allowing me to post links.
Of course, it’s possible to live to be 150 with the IQ of spinach…
– But wouldn’t you choose to be a happy spinach, rather than a hand wringing worry wart that never experiences any of the joys of living. ‘Course to each his own. There are things I’ve never done, simply because they don’t hold any interest for me, not from any judgemental reasons. Tap dancing in front of freeway traffic comes to mind.
Or this:
Playing it hard, one track at a time – In Red Deer, Alberta, in April, Jesse Maggrah, 20, listening on his Ipod earphones to heavy-metal rock music while walking on the Canadian Pacific Railroad tracks, was hit from behimd by a train moving at about 30 mph, but survived with broken ribs and various minor scrapes and bruises. In his hopsital bed Maggrah said he remembered Metalicca hitting a series of screeching high notes, and then everything went black. When He woke up along the side of the tracks immediately after he said the first thing he thought was “Holy crap, dude, youi just got hit by a mean guitar riff and a train at the same time. Rad. Maybe the metal gods were smiling down on me and didn’t want one of their true warriors to die on them”. (Well ok “dude”. But just the same I think I’d look for a better place for your musical enjoyment.)
Living healthy is living happy.
Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man
Bring it on then, Leif. A 33% reduction in the risk of prostate cancer is nothing to sneeze at.
It takes years off your life !!
But its the ones at the end!! Its the adult diaper kidney dialysis years, you can have those years, we don’t fucking want em …
-Denis Leary
Bingo!
“Old schtick never dies, it just fades away.”
Douglas MacArthur’s Final Blog Entry
It’s the Doritos that kills you.
Most of the people I’ve seen with the IQ of spinach don’t get to choose much of anything. Just sayin’.
I do think it’s important to live like a man and take the consequences. I’d just rather still have my mental faculties as the light fades, is all. Niothing about this study addresses what prolonged THC exposure does to the mind.
Which brings me back to most of the people I’ve seen with the IQ of spinach…
But what does the unnaturally prolonged absence of THC do to the mind? The mind was designed to work better with some THC in it now and then, like that jet-dry stuff in a dishwasher.
Actually Speiers, you are not far off the mark.
THC substitutes and mimicks a natural neurotransmitter called anandamide. Anandamide is your brain’s own natural THC.
Go with the seedsw of the Jimson Weed. The effect is more, shall we say, LOCO!
Which only begs the question of why so many pot smokers of my acquaintance have been so stupid they make retarded telephone poles look like Clarence Darrow and Perry Mason all rolled into one. Are you suggesting they lack this neurotranmsmitter and partake of cannabis in hopes of fixing the problem?
Just how much cannabis do they need to smoke? Do we need to transform the corn belt, the soybean belt and the cotton belt all over to cultivating marijuana to help these poor souls?
McGehee,
Maybe they have too much anandamide to begin with. It would certainly explain why people who are inherently dumb tend to be attracted to pot smoking.
Actually, a long time ago the Army investigated synthetic derivatives of THC attempting to find potentially non-lethal chemical warfare agents. One of the agents they invented was dubbed THC-V (V as in the Roman numeral for 5). It is thought by some to be more potent than LSD, microgram for microram. This would make it several dozen times more powerful than ordinary THC.
I’ll add a link here. If it doesn’t appear, then you know I’m still having problems adding links:
http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/thc/app10.html
McGehee-
Which only begs the question of why so many pot smokers of my acquaintance have been so stupid they make retarded telephone poles look like Clarence Darrow and Perry Mason all rolled into one.
Maybe you just know a lot of stupid people? (’Birds of a feather’, and all that…) :o)
T/W: I’m NOT waiting for a reply!
The obvious rejoinder is, I admit, deflected by the fact you’re not waiting around for it. ;-p