buttons wrote:1)People often get cancer, because they are genetically prone to it. Some substances are believed to cause cancer, e.g. asbestos.
Do you actually know what cancer is?
I'll assume not. In very basic terms it's a mutation of a cell which can't stop growing and dividing hence the formation of lumps.
How it manifests is in a variety of ways which is why you can get
breast cancer, testicular cancer, brain cancer, lung cancer, etc ....
Every single one of us has cells in our bodies and so we're
ALL able to get it.
All it takes is for one cell to misfire and that's it, you've got the Big C
The fact remains that around the same number of cancer sufferers smoked have never smoked. Roy Castle, an aid anti-smoker got lung cancer which they put down to "smokey clubs" he started out in and inhailing second hand smoke.
How convenient.
buttons wrote:2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4305783.stm
Hmmm I read that and I became dubious when I read this:
"
The study, published in the journal Addiction, followed over 1,000 people born in 1977 for 25 years. "
So what they are saying is that, (given it is now 2006 and 1977 was only 29 years ago), they took a bunch of 4 year old children and made them into cannabis addicts to see what the effects would be?
Or perhaps the inference is all these 4 year old children were already addicts???
You also missed the bit where it said "The researchers also took into account factors such as family history, current mental disorders, and
illicit substance abuse."
The report goes on about "chemical changes in the brain" as though it's some sort of fantastic event that shouldn't happen! The fact is that no matter what chemical you put into your body it will have an effect on your brain. Be it chocolate or cocaine, it still has an effect.
The report mentions nothing about social issues, such as the amount of advertising the young are bombarded with today. "You must have this phone, you must wear these clothes, you must behave like this, you must F*** like a porn star, you have to be the best at everything" My god!! If I took any notice of that rubbish I'd be heading towards the lunatic asylum myself.
There's so much pressure on people to get everything NOW, to do everything NOW, to be everything NOW they're out there taking drugs to ESCAPE.
In the 60's they took drugs to be creative, to expand their minds, to chill out and be themselves. These days the kids are taking drugs because they have nothing else, they take them to hide away from the expectations they think everyone has of them.
How else do you explain things like depression in children? Or the reports of kids hanging themselves because they're bullied at school because they don't have the latest phone or the newest clothes?
What's any of that got to do with any drug? The increase in mental issues we're seeing today in people isn't because of a bit of weed, it's because of the world and the amount of pressure people are under to compete, to be the first, to be the best, to live constantly in the fast lane without ever slowing down.
Still there are some things that never change, the good old BBC, as accurate as ever I note
buttons wrote:3) You’re talking nonsense here.
Hmmm, you make a statement but don't validate it, you don't put your point of view across. I wonder why?
Would you care to expand why I'm talking nonsense please?
