Comments on: Barbara Kay on the new marijuana: Not your mother’s reefer

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[...] just won’t die, will it? At least Nora only claims it’s 5x more potent, and not the 25x or even 400x I’ve reported on in the [...]

By: jarod

jarod — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:08:07 +0000

i realy dont have much to say about that, except that it sucks when people are so quick to put someone down and even someone whos just trying to help the cause. anyway i ask everyone i know who smokes if they would pay $250 a year in taxs to be able to grow and smoke with know fear of getting thrown in jail and so far everyone said yes further more some even said they would pay up to $500. so how many of you out there would do the same? let us find out then do the math

By: "Radical" Russ

"Radical" Russ — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:03:03 +0000

Jeff, I never smoked marijuana in high school. Didn’t touch it until I was 22 years old. Furthermore, I rarely skipped class and graduated with honors.

But thanks for the mathematical correction. You are right, an 8% increase is not the same as an 8% chance. You’re not making a friend by calling me “stupid”, though.

Sorry that one out of seven of my points in one out of my hundreds of posts was incorrect. You could’ve been friendlier in pointing that out.

By: Jeff Matheny

Jeff Matheny — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:16 +0000

WAY TO CONFORM TO A POT-SMOKER STEREOTYPE, DUDE!

Any argument for legalizing marijuana, which I passionately support, must be impeccable. This counter-attack fails miserably.

You make it quite easy for the enemy to point and say, “Look at the stupid stoner!”

RE:

7) “Long term cannabis use increases the annual risk of lung cancer in young adults by 8% for every year of use?” So, then, after 12½ years of cannabis use, there’s a 100% chance of getting lung cancer?

DUDE…put the bong down. I have a bong next to me right now, but I know when to put it down.

OKAY, first of all, it looks like you shouldn’t have skipped class to get high all those times back in high school.

CHANGE THIS NOW, BECAUSE it makes you look like a, well, stupid stoner. The annual risk of getting lung cancer–do you understand what that means?

It’s your fucking chance of getting cancer in your lungs sometime in the next year. Obviously, very, very low. Much lower than 1%, but let’s imagine it’s 1%.

If a chronic pot smoker increased his or her risk by 8%/year, well, I’m not sure how stupid you are yet….but, an 8% increase to a 1% annual risk would mean a risk increase like this:

Year 1: 1%
Year 2: 1.08%
Year 3: 1.1664

Please don’t hurt the cause you intend to help by further displays of inexcusable ignorance, laziness or plain stupidity.

Otherwise, keep up the great work!