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An objective look across society reveals hypocrisy in almost every direction.
“Cannabis causes psychosis” is one of the most popular catch phrases of the prohibitionists.
Well so what? I don’t agree with the statement but that doesn’t matter.
The implication that cannabis should be prohibited because of the danger of psychosis just doesn’t make sense.
As a society we feed our kids Ritalin in greater numbers every year. One side effect of Ritalin is psychosis, yet Ritalin prescription rates have skyrocketed.
Surely the doctors making the prescriptions are aware of the side effects. Clearly psychosis is not something we as a society are too worried about.
So why is the psychosis argument so popular among those opposed to cannabis legalisation?
Simple, it makes people feel justified in their prejudice.
The word ‘prejudice’ is most often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, judgments toward people or a person because of personal characteristics.
Society is prejudiced against cannabis users. Prejudice leads to discrimination.
Discrimination is the prejudicial and/or distinguishing treatment of an individual based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category, “in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated.”
It involves how the group is perceived, influencing the individual’s actual behavior towards the group or the group leader, restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to another group, leading to the exclusion of the individual or entities based on illogical or irrational decision making
HEMP Party in Sydney this weekend measuring the zinc in the soil
The Australian HEMP Party’s Campaign manager Jim Moylan is in Sydney this weekend doing a couple more of his notorious Police wrangling workshops where he teaches pot smokers how to minimise trouble with the law.
President Michael Balderstone says he’s very grateful Jim has the time, enthusiasm and energy to grow the HEMP Party into a credible political organisation. The Party has many new members and branches in all States now, bar WA, which is expected to happen next week when Jim flies west.
HEMP is confident it will run Senate Candidates in every State come election time.
Michael say this weeks suggestion from the director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research that marijuana should be legalised because the social harm associated with it was significantly less than from drinking, stirred up the same old reefer madness born in John Howard’s reign.
“His Cannabis psychosis shadow is still following us and a lot of people, like Miranda Devine, and the Police, seem to believe it.”
“If pot drives you crazy there would be an epidemic in America since Obama got elected!
In fact psychosis is not a big issue there, or anywhere else around the globe.
What about India and Nepal for example, where cannabis is part of the culture?
Cannabis was actually recommended as a treatment for mental health troubles! Maybe it’s the lack of zinc in the Aussie soil!”
“Giving him the benefit of the doubt, maybe Howard’s fear mongering nonsense may have originated from hospital records where all admittances are blood tested and of course anyone who has smoked pot in the last month, or even two, trumps the statistics.
Most “mad druggies” are poly drug abusers but every other drug but fat soluble Cannabis passes through the body quickly, which is often not understood nor taken into account. ”
“Anyway, if statistics are God, they actually show Cannabis use has soared in the last fifty years while mental health problem figures have not increased at all.”
“I’m not saying Cannabis is for everyone, but I am saying smoking this imagination juice in a state of fear can be a recipe for trouble.
It’s a criminal act, a fearful adrenalin pumped arena.
Add to that the massive industry prohibition has created of no quality control regulations or research on new
Cannabis strains that are grown indoors in chemical baths by organised crime, then mulled up with tobacco,
another almost unique Aussie habit.
There’s good reasons why the old indigenous cultures created rituals and ceremony’s to introduce their “sacred plants” to the young adults.’
Pity we didn’t learn from their thousands of years of experience before trying to wipe them out.”
