[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?
What about ADD and ADHD drugs like Ritalin that doctors like to shove down kids throats. Parents who give their kids any drug should do time!
are you being facetious?
You mean controversial drugs like Ritalin right?
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I think he was joking about the jail time…I hope.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?
What about ADD and ADHD drugs like Ritalin that doctors like to shove down kids throats. Parents who give their kids any drug should do time!
are you being facetious?
You mean controversial drugs like Ritalin right?
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I was joking about the jail time, but it is sad that our kids are poisoned by substances made by big pharma companies, most of them not even studied for long term side effects. Where is the outrage over this?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Weed is possibly the most natural substance in the world in those terms with the least harmful properties outside of the damage done by smoking it specifically.[/quote]
I’m very suprised you wrote this. I had you pegged for someone very against this. My bad.
And I agree with your comment.
[quote]Shire wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Weed is possibly the most natural substance in the world in those terms with the least harmful properties outside of the damage done by smoking it specifically.
I’m very suprised you wrote this. I had you pegged for someone very against this. My bad.
And I agree with your comment.[/quote]
There aren’t many stereotypes that fit me personally.
[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
I was joking about the jail time, but it is sad that our kids are poisoned by substances made by big pharma companies, most of them not even studied for long term side effects. Where is the outrage over this?
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fair point
[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?
What about ADD and ADHD drugs like Ritalin that doctors like to shove down kids throats. Parents who give their kids any drug should do time!
are you being facetious?
You mean controversial drugs like Ritalin right?
I was joking about the jail time, but it is sad that our kids are poisoned by substances made by big pharma companies, most of them not even studied for long term side effects. Where is the outrage over this?
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Have you missed all the marches in protest? All the (usually mothers) protesting and speaking to the Senate?
There is outrage and lobbying going on
sorry, off topic
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?
What about ADD and ADHD drugs like Ritalin that doctors like to shove down kids throats. Parents who give their kids any drug should do time!
are you being facetious?
You mean controversial drugs like Ritalin right?
I was joking about the jail time, but it is sad that our kids are poisoned by substances made by big pharma companies, most of them not even studied for long term side effects. Where is the outrage over this?
Have you missed all the marches in protest? All the (usually mothers) protesting and speaking to the Senate?
There is outrage and lobbying going on
sorry, off topic
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Good.
I haven’t heard much about it, but my question would be why it took so long. Every overactive kid does not need medication for it. Maybe they just need some actual discipline and to be told “Hell NO!!” once in a while. I treat a lot of kids in what I do and it is sometimes irritating what some parents let their kids get away with.
While on the subject of parental figures making poor decisions, why would Mr. and Mrs. Blevins name their child Melvin?
“It ain’t a drug. I’ve done the research, it’s plant. It just grows like that. And if you happen to set it on fire, there are some effects.”
I would not let a baby get high, that is ridiculous and absurd. Boggles my mind. Just kidding, what people do is their own business and as long as the kid does not suffer because of it. It does not bother me either.
When I was a baby my grandma or whatever woman that was taking care of me at the moment happened to figure out I was crying because I was teething, they just put some rum on my gums and it would settle me down.
I have seen my aunt blow smoke into a bottle and let a baby suck on it, I do not know what for. Either way it settled the baby and helped with the problem it was having.
My concern would be the other effects it could have on the baby. Pretty soon it’s gonna be sitting around the house, getting baked, drinking a bottle, eating animal crackers, (man I love those giraffes!!) and watching cartoons all day.
Seriously, did you hear about the woman in Denver who put meth in her babies bottle, and killed the child?
[quote]Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?[/quote]
A little off-topic. You have been warned.
This reminds me of a friend in college, as well as his brother.
Both parents smoked pot during both pregnancies.
Contrary to what you’d expect, both of them came out with near-4.0 GPA’s, had “photographic” memories in that they only needed to read their notes once to remember them (fuckers could close their eyes and READ their notes back to me in their head! Fuckers!!!), but when it came to emotions and interpersonal skills they were a noticeably stunted.
They were too calm and too rational. Like a psychopath, minus the aggression.
The one guy would conveniently sneak off to the bathroom when it came time to pay the bill at a big group dinner, or if he couldn’t pull that off he’d tally up the cash in the pile, look at the total bill, and then just top it off instead of paying his share, stealing the entire tip from the server in the process.
He didn’t “get” why we were mad about it.
The parents were fighting and when the father’s back was turned, his mother cracked him in the back of the head with a frying pan. Guy didn’t feel anything about it one way or another, he just thought it was funny that it actually made “that DING! noise like in WB cartoons”.
Same with my cousins, now that I think about it… Aunt and Uncle are both pot-smokers and alcoholics. The kids are surprisingly intelligent – a lot more than the parents, but they lie, cheat, steal, and generally don’t seem to feel anything about their parents’ horrendously screwed up, low-life, abusive situation.
I talked with a neurologist about it (funny the people you meet in personal training) and she’d recalled some research that THC metabolites in the body can bind to the axons of neurons and cause a myelin-mimicking effect.
In a developing fetus it might artificially shift the balance of grey matter towards THC-mimicked “white” matter.
Anyone else here worked with kids and noticed that the children of smokers are generally more hyperactive, unfocused, and out-of-control than the children of non-smokers?
Just some things I’ve noticed.
ElbowStrike
I hope I never run into these stupid fucks. If anyone did that to my kid. I would beat them senseless. They would spend a lot of time drinking through straws and wheelchairs to walk.
[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?
What about ADD and ADHD drugs like Ritalin that doctors like to shove down kids throats. Parents who give their kids any drug should do time!
are you being facetious?
You mean controversial drugs like Ritalin right?
I was joking about the jail time, but it is sad that our kids are poisoned by substances made by big pharma companies, most of them not even studied for long term side effects. Where is the outrage over this?
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Agreed it is total bullshit. Every other kid is diagnosed with this these days.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Shire wrote:
Couldn’t this cause brain damage to a child so young and still developing?
What about ADD and ADHD drugs like Ritalin that doctors like to shove down kids throats. Parents who give their kids any drug should do time!
are you being facetious?
You mean controversial drugs like Ritalin right?
I was joking about the jail time, but it is sad that our kids are poisoned by substances made by big pharma companies, most of them not even studied for long term side effects. Where is the outrage over this?
Have you missed all the marches in protest? All the (usually mothers) protesting and speaking to the Senate?
There is outrage and lobbying going on
sorry, off topic
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I have not heard about this. About time.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
nephorm wrote:
“Baby! What are you doing outside at 3 in morning?”
“I’m selling weed!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Normally, I’d reply to a thread as such in disgust, but this comment was way too funny.[/quote]
I can’t claim credit. I stole it from a Dave Chapelle bit.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Agreed it is total bullshit. Every other kid is diagnosed with this these days.[/quote]
And every other college kid is dealing his prescription to his friends. I really shudder to think what is going to happen in the next ten or twenty years if long-term negative effects start showing up.
Weed should be kept away from people till their at least 18 IMHO. There aren’t any studies showing the effect on a developing brain and body. After 18, it’s all good (Weed, that is).
It should also be legal in that sense but that’s off topic.
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
While on the subject of parental figures making poor decisions, why would Mr. and Mrs. Blevins name their child Melvin?[/quote]
Are you kidding me? This name is an EPIC WIN on any application or resume.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Agreed it is total bullshit. Every other kid is diagnosed with this these days.[/quote]
After all new uses for a product have been exhausted, the only marketing strategy that remains is to increase consumption.
Isn’t the profit-motive a great thing for society in all circumstances, at all times? 
ElbowStrike
Uh oh. Here’s where I don my “Corporate interests over human interests” argument. 