Yeah, like you've been told a few times, that doesn't exactly qualify as "legalization." Personally, I could care less if it is legalised or not, it makes no difference to me.
Oh and Kharn,
Kharn said:
Well, that's excellent, but not exactly unique of weed. Just listen to Tom Cruise rage and rant about Ritalin corrupting little kids mind.
You want to ban all psychotic medicine?
Sounds like Tom has a point. The busy parents in america would rather put their disobedient kids on an amphetamine (Ritalin), rather than tend to the problems they themselves have probably created through a lack of parenting. Bah, typical americans; always looking for the quick and easy way out of the hole they dug for themselves, regardless of how detrimental their solution may be. That ideal is deftly illustrated with the example of parents numbing their children into submission by giving them ritalin and then being able to walk away. The fact is, even the developers of ritalin don't exactly know the long-term effects ritalin has on brain function, and top researchers on the issue have conducted studies that highlight the effects. For example, a quick google search on the issue reveals this and similar studies:
Dr. Baizer of the University of Buffalo, New York presents:
"Clinicians consider Ritalin to be short-acting. When the active dose has worked its way through the system, they consider it 'all gone...our research with gene expression in an animal model suggests that it has the potential for causing long-lasting changes in brain cell structure and function...these data do suggest that there are effects of Ritalin on cell function that outlast the short term and we should sort that out. There is no indication of tolerance, but we have no idea if there is adaptation to the effects."
This is what the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) knows of Ritalin:
http://www.adhd-biofeedback.com/DEA.html
As well as the other ridiculousness therein, I find it particularly odd that we are being told Ritalin is safe by organizations actively being funded by the makers of Ritalin themselves.
I have a few friends that have refused to take the ritalin prescribed to them by psychs and encouraged to take by their oblivious mothers, just because they disliked high school, and because of that, had minor behavioral quirks when attending. Needless to say, they have all become normal, productive adults...maybe because there wasn't anything wrong with them in the first place.
Kharn said:
I here you can get one hell of a kick out of asparin, let's ban it.
And sniffing glue is bad too. Must ban glue.
Yes, but parents aren't being encouraged by counselors/therapists/organizations to make their kinds sniff glue simply because their kids act up in school, but in the case with Ritalin, they are.
agh, WOOT?