Thursday, August 5, 2010
Pot is strong, bad
Posted Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:00 AM
Although I live in Maryland and not Montana, I feel a strong connection to the state because one of my sons spent two summers there playing minor league baseball, and because Montana, like Maryland, experienced the same trauma of having to fight the drug legalization movement.
We discovered drug paraphernalia being sold in 31 outlets in our county just outside Washington, D.C. Another young mother who was a stay-at-home attorney and I co-sponsored a bill to close the shops in Maryland. We won a unanimous vote to pass the bill in 1980.
Because the shops were providing funds to the drug legalizers to pay for their pro-drug work, they literally came out of the woodwork when they started to see us speak at PTA meetings, on radio and TV, at Elks’ meetings and county council meetings. These outlets also sold books and magazines that claimed “marijuana was a harmless drug” that “helped you drive more safely,” made colors brighter, etc. In many of the shops, paraphernalia was sold out the front door and drugs out the back!
The founder of the pro-legalization movement under the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Keith Stroup, wrote a letter to the editor of High Times magazine that stated: “There is no particular evidence that even those few young people who smoked a great deal of marijuana hurt themselves, academically or otherwise.” NORML has little regard for the truth.
Robert L. DuPont, first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has said marijuana harms every major system of the body, including the brain, lungs, reproductive and immune systems. Make no mistake, the legalization movement is using the “medical” marijuana movement to achieve full legalization.
Just this last year, we documented 18 nations, including our own, that link marijuana use to depression, psychosis and schizophrenia.
Today’s marijuana is so potent, even the kids have nicknamed it “skunk”! In 1960, marijuana contained 4 to 6 percent of the ingredient that produces the “high.” Today, it goes as high as 47.5 percent.
To bring attention to the strength of marijuana and the need for legislators to help stop the so-called “medical” marijuana industry, we developed a Skunk Award that is given to any legislator who introduces, supports or signs a “medical” marijuana bill.
I urge the citizens of Montana to stand tall and motivate your friends, neighbors and relatives to say “no” to so-called “medical” pot.
We did get to know a lot of Montana folks because our son lived with a “host” family during the season. In fact, his host was a radio broadcaster and he became our guide around the area. I hope he sees this and helps spread the word throughout your beautiful state.
Joyce Nalepka
President
Drug-Free Kids: America’s Challenge
Silver Spring, Md.
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Joyce Nalepka is the worst prohibitionist ever. Read this article here http://www.cnbc.com/id/36267211/ and you get to see how crazy she is.. This lady is more paranoid than anything. "Just this last year, we documented 18 nations, including our own, that link marijuana use to depression, psychosis and schizophrenia." If this is true, sounds like Mrs. Nalepka has been hitting the bong to much. Google her name and you get see how crazy she really is. In the above link read her little heart filled fake story about Paul. Here is a quote, "Paul later came to see me and said, “You were right Mrs. Nalepka. I’ve lost my short term memory and had to tape all my college classes to be able to remember what the professors were saying.” Paul died very young of cancer." I've smoke pot for 5 years now, through out college and have not once had to record my lecture. And I maintain a 3.5 GPA. Maybe Paul had a tumor? Or he just didn't pay attention in class. Whether Paul is real or not Mrs. Nalepka tried to tie in cancer is related to smoking marijuana. This lady is old and delusional and seems to pull her 'facts' out of thin air.
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Well I'm a Montana MM patient and I don't know where you got your info and if it all comes for Nalepka your just as crazy as her. and I have never heard of 47% THC weed. One of the most potaint strains out their is white widow and it is like 21%. So like everyone else has said site your sources. As for my source any seed bank on the net!
Oh ya, keep your East Coast Maryland veiws thier.
passenger | Apr 22, 2010 08:39 PM ET
As far as doctors having any source of medical facts requiring marijuana especially back then, well it's difficult to do research on something that is illegal to posses, which counteracts her claim that it causes "depression, psychosis and schizophrenia." Who in their right mind would believe some house frau with no medical or clinical training when she claims that it causes these diseases right after she claimed that there is no real medical or scientific data to verify ANY claims on the effects of marijuana?
Schizophrenia is a massively complex disease that is often inherited and/or triggered usually by extreme bouts of stress, along with many other factors. Its too easy to just blame it on pot. Matter of fact, pot REDUCES stress which would contradict the idea that it causes schizophrenia
I don't think people like that should talk when they have no idea what they are even talking about. I have a nerve disease called Reflex Sympathetic Distrophy and I Use to be one very heavy doses of narcotics. Including the Fentanyl patch and Morphine. I had many complications due to those drugs including an Intenstinal Blockage, and a Pancreatitis. These drugs were killing me if I had continued on them I would probably not be alive today. But instead about 8 years ago I got off all my Narcotics and started to smoke Marijuana to regulate my pain. I no longer take any Narcotics for my pain what so ever I just completely smoke and I haven't had any adverse reaction in the 8 years I have been smoking. I was only on Narcotics for 4 years and it was completely ruining my health. I can't believe people like that would rather someone like me kill themselves from a legal prescription drug given my pharmacist then smoke Marijuana and live a much happier and longer life.
Joyce, I hope you got what you wanted from posting your windy drivel. And, I hope you get the satisfaction you're looking for by perching yourself atop the lofty post you've created. I do admire your drug-free youth crusade; I agree with you on that, at least. Kids shouldn't do drugs. Plain and simple. But nobody NOBODY has the right to tell an adult what they can do, as far as marijuana and many other things go.
*works cited taken from the greatest book ever written- "The Book of Common Sense", collectively written by us all (well, most of us).
p.s - I don't smoke weed or do any other drugs. Thanks for playing.
I agree that kids should not be using marijuana or any other drug for that matter! As an adult I feel that I should have the choice to use it or not. I have broken my back twice and I can tell you from personal expierence that Medical Marijuana has been a great help. I have used every prescription medication that has been prescribed for over five years and none of them have helped as much and with as few side effects as Marijuana. I would like to challenge Mrs. Nalepka and ask her or people close to her what prescription medications they are on and I can tell you Marijuana will have far fewer side effects than anyone of them! I have never seen Marijuana with a percentage over 25% like she claims, and I would love to see her documentation on linking it to other conditions that people have.
Wow I am a little irritated with this person. I have lived with horrible pain for over thirty years. I use marijuana. I tried booze and that sure did not help a thing. Thirty years ago many of the doctors, physical therapist, etc. recommended I use it. Please educate yourself with thousands years evidence that exists testifying to the many ailments mankind suffers with that are relieved through the use of this God given miracle! Before you make effort too take away for many what is the only thing that brings some comfort and relief, please update your understanding with a little research.
This author is TOTALLY out in 'right' field. Her info is bogus, her attitude is obnoxious and her 'facts' are ridiculous!!!
My husband uses medical marijuana for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. I use medical marijuana for arthritis and anxiety....we are both mature adults. Apparently Joyce has never had a dibilitating condition, other than her close-mindedness. She obviously has never spent time with a cancer sufferer. The effects of chemo, and the drugs associated with it, are horrible...........without medical marijuana my husband would suffer continually because he is required, by the medical profession and his chronic leukemia, to undergo months of chemo on a regular basis to treat his CLL. Does she think that prescribing morphine, along with a whole litany of other drugs with side effects, is better for my husband than marijuana??? She probably does, because she's still quoting supposed facts from the 80's. She's wrong. I have taken anti-anxiety drugs and suffered side effects...change medication and try again....more side effects.....then there are more drugs prescribed for the side effects.....the cycle continues. Marijuana is natural....there are NO SAFE prescription drugs.
Yes, children should be protected from drugs. But, Joyce Nalepka is, quite simply, wrong about many of her 'facts' and her attitude regarding medical marijuana.
And, Joyce, 'skunk' is simply a strain of marijuana.....there are many names for different strains. It's NOT 1980 anymore. Medical marijuana is legal in Montana. There is NO link between marijuana and depression, psychosis and schizophrenia. And, Mr. DuPont was obviously stating his own thoughts, not facts!
Joyce, you're living in the dark ages. Legalization is the answer.
I agree with all of these comments! Her son spent a few summers here...really...come on. We don't need to be judged by someone who is not willing to be judged. You can keep your thin lipped, constrictive, close minded opinions to yourself. Us Montanans are fiercely proud of our independence and our rights. We definitely don't need some east coast conservative Neo-Regan era crazy telling us what is good or "stong and bad." I can't believe that she would quote Dupont. That's akin to quoting Monsanto. These people have no interest in humanity, all that they care about it making money and controlling anything that they touch. We want none of that bulls*$t here...no thank you.
Ditto on I think every comment everyone made. I did a lookup on the internet and found what a nut this lady is, at least in the sense of information. Great that she wants to save the world's kids from drugs, nothing wrong with that. But I think, yet again, she's a prime example of the ends justifies the means. She's willing to say things that are flat wrong, untrue, if not just crazy.
Well, there really is no need to comment because her statements are like high frutose corn syrup, empty calories.
But as a Farmer, I would be amiss if I did not at least ask her where she found a strain of such superior quality as NONE BEFORE (42.5%)? And hook me up with some of those beans cause Lady you just struck the gold mine of pot. *rofl
I am so gosh darn lucky to have even a 21% strain. Educate yourself, it really works.
Wow I just stumbled across this online and am honestly in shock, that someone like Joyce can continue on, what could be characterized as a rant, for 25 years. I applaud those of you who have done your research and posted it. Reading through her letter and your posts and taking them at face value tells me that she is seeking attention and doing nothing for her movement. Joyce if you have lost family to the "drug war" I am sorry for your loss, but don't demonize a plant or fabricate information for your misguided efforts. Seek therapy.
Been smoking hashish for decades, and it's always been MUCH stronger than 3 or 4%. They used to sell hash oil for bad coughs in the local pharmacy years ago, much stronger than skunk or white widow or anything else you can smoke.
Cannabis can not be patented, which is why it's been made illegal - it becomes a class war from the moneyed exploiters against the people of the fields.
Joyce is bourgeois ignorance personified - don't get mad at her - educate her and everyone else instead - don't waste your time fighting shadows. Help her change and eliminate her self-imposed suffering.
Reefer Madness died as an authoritative source years ago. Quoting propaganda is not science or medicine. Find a copy of Granny Storm Crow's MMJ list and inform yourself. You are not funny, nor are you worth any more of my time.
Lady,
You're not from Montana. You didn't vote this initiative in. So, butt the heck out of our business.
Sincerely,
A Montanan
P.S. Nuts to you and the horse you rode in on.
When the name Dupont popped up I knew she was speaking out her ass and using no brains what so ever!
She reminds me of another women I know, one moment this women is telling me she holds the keys to the gates of Heaven and that I am headed for Hell then the next moment how she spent the night with three men all in the same bed doing...
There needs to be more research done. How does it and doesn't affect a person. However I have to agree that smoking marijuana around small kids is VERY dangerous and Harmful. I have heard alot of pot users saying it doesn't hurt anyone even kids,There has been alot of studies done and proof it is harmful to kids.
marijuana does in fact cause depression and heart problems in some users. I know someone that use marijauna and now has major depression and heart problems including a heart attack.But still smokes it. People smoking it don't care it can damage their bodies all they care about is their pot.
Ok, I've been smoking pot for for over 20 years. I really do think it is beneficial as a medicine and will fight for the right to use it as such. I am, however, also a realist and cannot deny it can have negative effects if used improperly. That being said, most people do not use it as medicine, they use it for personal pleasure. The abundance of med. marijuana has spilled supply onto the streets. Don't even try to say it doesn't. I have seen people selling their "medicine" to friends, over and over and over. This will be the undoing of a lot of pro-medicine work unless curtailed.
I've also worked with a lot of addicts and can defend that it is addictive to those with addictive personalities. It does depress many who over use it daily and does link to mental issues for those with underlying issues.
I am pro medical marijuana but think it hurts the cause when people say there is no downside to having an over abundance of the drug in our community.
This town cannot have THAT many people who actually need this as medicine. This town is a little too baked for that. Many people I know with cards are not just using it for meds.
Until the conversation agrees that both sides have valid points we are not going to get to a place where the legitimate medical users can get meds legally and we can stop the seepage into the recreational market.
@Joyce. We use OUR Elk's Club to hold underage drinking and sexual free-for-alls. It's also a good place to get killed in front of. Maryland sounds boring.
Joyce, you are wound up too tight. Don't bring your Easterner views to Montana. I know that you think you are correct in your views, but they DON'T represent the views of everyone. I don't smoke marijuana anymore because of having to be drug-tested at work, and I value my job more than smoking up. However, I've made it a lot farther in life than many of my friends who were always sober. Screw medical marijuana. Smoke marijuana because you want to get HIGH. I want to get HIGH just like I want to get BUZZED when I drink alcohol. Is there really any difference? You bet there is, more deaths are caused by alcohol than marijuana will ever achieve. I applaud all you guys who are keeping up the good fight. Whether you disguise it as medical (maybe you really do use it medicinally) as or not, live on and live free!
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