The 'Virtues' of Pot
Vote Yes on initiative I-100
Reduce family and community violence in Denver
Alcohol use makes domestic violence 8 times more likely. . .
Marijuana use does not.
Safer Choice *
Change The Climate
Controversial Pot Billboard Goes Up
Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative
WHEREAS, according to the National Institutes of Health, an average of 317 Americans die annually as the result of alcohol overdoses; and
WHEREAS, there has never been even a single fatal marijuana overdose recorded in the medical literature, as noted by the British Medical Journal in September 2003; and
WHEREAS, according to U.S. Department of Justice, “About 3 million crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Among those victims who provided information about the offender’s use of alcohol, about 35% of the victimizations involved an offender who had been drinking”; and
WHEREAS, extensive research, documented in official reports by the British government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, among others, shows that -- unlike alcohol -- marijuana use is not generally a cause of violence or aggressive behavior and in fact tends to reduce violence and aggression;
WHEREAS, it is the intent of this ordinance to have the private adult use and possession of marijuana treated in the same manner as the private adult use and possession of alcohol;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER
Legalise Cannabis To Cut Heroin Addiction
Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco
TOBACCO USE AND IMPOTENCE
If you smoke, you're playing Russian roulette with your sexual function.
Dr. John Mulhall, Director, Center for Sexual Health, Loyola University Medical Center
There's absolutely no question about it. It causes it very commonly.
Dr. Culley Carson, Urology Department Chairman, University of North Carolina
If you smoke, you're about twice as likely to have erectile dysfunction.
Dr. John McKinlay, New England Research Institute
Smoking is clearly hazardous to your erection.
Dr. Lawrence Levine, Rush Medical Center, Director of Male Sexual Function Program
I feel confident that smoking does and can cause impotence.
Dr. Randolph Smoak, Chair, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association
Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life
'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant
The Failed War on Pot Users
USA -- In 2004, law enforcement officials arrested 771,605 people
for marijuana violations, according to federal statistics.
Remember The Failure of Prohibition
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948
Fans Too Relaxed for Fights
Cannabis Helps Keep Fans Calm
Basketball Riots in L.A., Soccer Thugs in Europe
Euro 2000 Soccer Violence Could Vanish in a Puff
California Cops Go To Pot
"Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation"
The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987
Think of the message being sent to the kids?
Respectable Reefer By Gary Greenberg
Mother Jones October 18, 2005 *
If it weren't for the little photo gallery on the wall, the office where Dr. William Notcutt's research assistants keep track of their patients would be just like any other cubicle at the James Paget Medical Center in England. As phones ring and stretchers wheel by and these three women go about their business, the snapshots--Cheryl Phillips, one of Notcutt's staffers, gently holding an emerald green bud of marijuana; a group of people in lab coats smiling for the camera, sinsemilla towering over their heads; a hangar-sized greenhouse stuffed to the gills with lush pot plants--are about the only evidence that this hospital in East Anglia is at the epicenter of one of the most extensive medical marijuana research projects in the world.
Hypocrisy & Double Standards
Marijuana and Sex
Marijuana has been used in one form or another across many different cultures as an
aphrodisiac for thousands of years. Marijuana has been used in India for at least 3,000 years to increase libido and conquer impotence.
Marijuana and Sex: A Classic Combination
Ancient tantrists and modern researchers agree:
pot and sex are two great things that go together
Ganja and Sex
Marijuana: the ultimate sex drug by Chris Bennett
Metro's pro-pot ads get attention on Hill
Cannabis smokers 'number 163 million worldwide'
