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Scaremongering about cannabis on Crimecall right now

  • 26-05-2014 10:30PM
    #1
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone watching this crap? Unbelievable amount of bollocks being spewed by 'experts'

    They deliberately mashed it in the totally unrelated story about contaminated pills.


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  • #2
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Drugs are bad, m'kay?


  • #3
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    How dare they say something negative about Cannabis.
    Cannabis for President.


  • #4
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Anyone watching this crap? Unbelievable amount of bollocks being spewed by 'experts'

    They deliberately mashed it in the totally unrelated story about contaminated pills.

    I haven't seen it as I can't access the RTE shows til they're on the player here.

    What experts were they? What were they saying?


  • #5
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Yeah, I suppose you know more than the doctors OP.


  • #6
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Probably just a load of squares trying to step in on our freak out, man.


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  • #7
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    You could, just, you know....like...

    Change the channel?


  • #8
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    In fairness the amount of young people it has killed down the years is unbelievable.


  • #9
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Everyone who smokes weed dies.


  • #10
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    You could, just, you know....like...

    Change the channel?

    We'd all like to change that channel.


  • #11
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Marijuana cigarettes and jazz, where did the world go wrong?


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  • #12
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    I'm high right now which makes me 1-nil on the losers on crimecall.


  • #13
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    You would have to be smoking wacky backy to be watching RTE!


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I got spiked with 3 cannabis in the one night before and died 3 times.

    Drugs are bad.


  • #15
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    catallus wrote: »
    Yeah, I suppose you know more than the doctors OP.

    Nice appeal to authority you have there. Any other fallacies you want to show the group?


  • #16
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    Nice appeal to authority you have there. Any other fallacies you want to show the group?

    What you mean? The doctor is the one, I'm presuming, that the OP is complaining about.


  • #17
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    Nice appeal to authority you have there. Any other fallacies you want to show the group?

    He's totally, like, a slave to, like, the system, man.


  • #18
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    You could, just, you know....like...

    Change the channel?

    Why would I do that? I was watching the program. Do you change the channel whenever something you don't agree with comes on?


  • #19
    Too Tough To Die
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    So eh, what were they saying?


  • #20
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Everyone who smokes weed dies.

    But not before they get pregnant!


  • #21
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Some people say alcohol's a drug.

    It's not a drug it's a drink!


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  • #22
    downonthefarm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭downonthefarm


    That pesky super skunk again.I smoked some back in nam an I'm still tripping out


  • #23
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Why would I do that? I was watching the program. Do you change the channel whenever something you don't agree with comes on?

    Ahh yeah,that's what remotes were made for.That and switching off the porn channel when someone walks in.


  • #24
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    You could, just, you know....like...

    Change the channel?

    Second time today I've seen a post like this from you. Is it so hard to imagine that people want to discuss things they're displeased about rather than just turning their back all the time?


  • #25
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    catallus wrote: »
    What you mean? The doctor is the one, I'm presuming, that the OP is complaining about.

    It is possible for someone to know more than a doctor, even on medical matters. There's a doctor in my town who also touts kinesiology and chiropracty ffs.


  • #26
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Too Tough To Die wrote: »
    So eh, what were they saying?

    That 80% of the youths (14-18 years of age) that present for addiction treatment have a problem with cannabis, along with alcohol, but Dr. Bobby Smith, the consultant psychologist that was on the show, said that it is cannabis that is the main problem for that 80%; he said that they are presenting with a range of problems namely irritability and addiction; that at the extreme ends of the spectrum there are psychotic episodes along with extreme paranoia; but that the most common symptom was mood instability, particularly outbreaks of anger. Then the report continued onto other drugs.


  • #27
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    A psychiatric nurse once told me that half the people that came into the hospital was because of cannabis,quite surprised by it but there you go.


  • #28
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    kneemos wrote: »
    A psychiatric nurse once told me that half the people that came into the hospital was because of cannabis,quite surprised by it but there you go.

    Obviously a victim of observation bias, wtf would a trained medical professional who deals with events in the real world possibly know about the facts! :rolleyes:


  • #29
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    The pro-weed lobby do themselves an awful disservice by trying to pretend that Marijuana is harmless, or better still, some wonder drug that cures all ails.

    If they were realistic and admitted its a psychoactive drug that can cause some pretty severe consequences in young people they might have more traction. Its when they pretend its completely harmless and would solve all health and economic problems, that they tend to get ignored as quacks.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    catallus wrote: »
    That 80% of the youths (14-18 years of age) that present for addiction treatment have a problem with cannabis, along with alcohol, but Dr. Bobby Smith, the consultant psychologist that was on the show, said that it is cannabis that is the main problem for that 80%; he said that they are presenting with a range of problems namely irritability and addiction; that at the extreme ends of the spectrum there are psychotic episodes along with extreme paranoia; but that the most common symptom was mood instability, particularly outbreaks of anger. Then the report continued onto other drugs.

    Irritability, mood instability and particularly, outbreaks of anger?

    In other words normal teenage behaviour or have we all forgotten what it was like being 14-18 and being told we have "a problem"?

    This is a great reason to legalize weed. K
    Make it harder (like drink) for teenagers to get.


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  • #31
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I didn't watch the show myself, but with the amount of crap added to hash and weed, it's can't be 100%.

    Don't give a crap what anybody says, anything smoked by combustion is far from healthy.


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