Re: Marijuana's Effects On Consciousness

"The non drug consumers are bending to accomodate the drug consumer and the governemnts are pandering to the demands of the drug consumers based on a degree of sensible arguments that are hard do deny."

Actually it is cannabis users who are bending to accomadate narrow minded people who think they don't consume drugs, and have bought the government line that Marijuana is a scourge. They are looking for something to blame because they cannot accept that there are people that have evil in their hearts whether they take drugs or not. Cannabis is an herb that provides substances which already occur naturally in the human body it is ultimately, in the greater scheme of things no different than any other herb. And while the human body provides its own cocktail of drugs even "non consumers" get high on adrenaline and countless endorphins manufactured within their own bodies.

Endorphins: Natural Pain and Stress Fighters

Endorphins are among the brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters, which function to transmit electrical signals within the nervous system. At least 20 types of endorphins have been demonstrated in humans. Endorphins can be found in the pituitary gland, in other parts of the brain, or distributed throughout the nervous system.

Stress and pain are the two most common factors leading to the release of endorphins. Endorphins interact with the opiate receptors in the brain to reduce our perception of pain and act similarly to drugs such as morphine and codeine. In contrast to the opiate drugs, however, activation of the opiate receptors by the body's endorphins does not lead to addiction or dependence.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55001

You see even this analysis is misleading...because addiction to endorphins does occur, Adrenaline junkies exist, many are police officers, politicians that lie(and get an epinephrin dump when they get away with it.) Anyone who makes money on the Stock Market, etc.

The Human body creates hormones, those hormones drive people sexually, people do crazy things, they have enough drugs in them already to be as irresponsible as is humanly possible.

Wake up and smell the drug store that is within the human body. And realize that it is irresponsibility not "drugs" that is the problem.