Cannabis Cafe opens in Portland – OregonLive.com — I hope that events like this contribute to eventual legalisation and a more common sense approach to drugs in general.
Oregon opened another chapter in U.S. marijuana history when at 4:20 p.m. Friday, about three dozen people christened the nation’s first cafe for licensed residents to sit down, sip coffee and smoke marijuana.
“Welcome to a place of our own,” said Madeline Martinez, a leader in the state’s medical marijuana movement and the leading force pushing to open the Cannabis Cafe in Portland. “Welcome to freedom.”
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The only people permitted in the Cannabis Cafe are those licensed to smoke who also hold membership in the lobbying group Oregon NORML. Patrons will be charged $5 a day. They can bring their own or smoke donated marijuana. Oregon law says medical marijuana may not be sold.
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After last week’s announcement of the cafe’s opening, the neighbors in the Woodlawn neighborhood weren’t happy. At a crowded neighborhood association meeting, people complained, among other things, that they could smell smoke from the meetings. Martinez promised to install air filters.
How about processed junk foods? In studies rats were allowed to eat processed junk foods at will for 18 hours a day. Within days they had reduced sensitivity in the pleasure centers of the brain which is a sure sign of addiction. Also, there was increased dopamine stimulation and classic withdrawal symptoms.
Using classic addiction models, junk food fits the bill – along with some obvious health problems. I’m voting for consistency. We should do random junk food screening at WalMarts.
As soon as the general public & legislators clue into the fact that mj smoke & 2nd-hand smoke is just as toxic & dangerous as regular cigarette smoke, those who use & promote mj use will seem as anachronistic as a Lucky Strike TV commercial.
RBG
@RBG
Do you have any non-propaganda statistics that will back that up? Maybe a study from a country that isn’t so hysterically anti-drug as the US of A.
Marijuana is the only “drug” that is completely harmless.
#11 Damn, that MacFarlane is good.
#13 Riiiiight, unlike smoking pot to “deal with stuff”, which is the actual smart thing to do.
#20 Marijuana is not addictive. Really?! You must have a phd in rationalization. Care to tell from which community college?
@pedro
I would say you have a PhD in demagoguery but you aren’t that good at it. I think you just have a BS in rhetoric.
#26 This from someone who thinks being sober is a waste of time. I bow to you.
I didn’t say being sober was a waste of my time. I am saying I PREFER not to be. Due to circumstances beyond my control I have been stone cold sober for way to long. It is starting to chafe.
Pedro: Look it up. read the research. Not addictive. No one ever od’d on it.
It doesn’t take a college degree. Just the ability to read and examine the few facts surrounding the topic.
But, you would rather be spoon fed your facts.
I am sure you feel your opinion is correct, which is why you never bother to research it for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sknoKWsVlAA
For those who want the history.
#29 It is addictive, as any other drug. Alas, you even considered to be like chocolate which is an addictive food. Get it together.
I guess the facts are pretty scary eh pedro? Maybe you can ask someone to read you the truth, as you are obviously blind to it.
You are looking for an argument that doeesn’t exist. The same as you state Marijuana is addictive. I provided a link, wheres yours?
I can send you many more, to include the study done by NY state that when presented to Nixon was tossed out…not because it was wrong, but because it did not support his belief. Go back to the cave or bridge you crawled out of. Let the intelligent people discuss while you sit and gnash your teeth.
Marijuana is NOT drug, it is a plant that no one manufactured. If everyone started smoking oak trees and got high would they outlaw those??
Be responsible with vise in life !!