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bobby, I haven't caught the DVD, but I'll try to get a copy. I was in Costa Rica this summmer, and they were playing Reefer Madness as the midnight movie at a cafe on the beach in Puerto Viejo de Talmanaca, but I missed it! I was sick at my stomach from swallowing ocean water and had to go...

This thread isn't offering to sell drugs or instructing anyone on how to shoot heroine into their tear ducts. I say it's fair game. However, I would like to throw up a disclaimer/words of wisdom though. If you're under 20 years old and reading this, there's so much more to life than...

It's definitely no worse than alcohol. Some studies have found it to be worse than tobacco on your lungs though. I've been told that only one study was done with driving under the influence of marijuana, and it only used one person, and he did better under the influence. I find that hard to...

I second that. bobby, do I have permission to use that line without paying royalties? :)

Yeah, English doesn't stick to pronunciation rules at all. I'm waiting for words like "through" to start looking like "thru". Maybe widespread text messaging will help accelerate the language's evolution.

Jenn, not to piss you off or anything, but I'm wearing short sleeves where I am, and, yeah, it's real nice! :D Moto, alcohol is just as bad as smoking. It's just that when I'm drinking, the fumes from the alcohol don't go up your nose AND make you uncomfortable (unless your a right wing...

I agree. IMO, child abuse is worse than slamming planes into buildings. Hay, my roommate has the same idea as you about making them realize what they have done, but, as you said, how? I don't think you can do that. I would never ever want to bring back torture as a punishment, but if anyone...

The following is a link to an article about two people who tortured their children. As far as I'm concerned, we can't have stiff enough penalties for these people. Can someone please explain to me why we don't just kill these people? They tortured CHILDREN! Children are the most vulnerable...

I definitely see your point. BTW, I think all the posts to this point are very valid. There are good reasons for the different lines of thought here. That's why I'm thinking the solutions to the problem of funding healthcare may come not from the users of the system, but making the system...

Welsh looks so unique. I've never heard it, but it looks really interesting.

Some of these sound like job requirements. To throw people out of club, you have to be bigger than them. To take care of someone else's appearance, you have to be able to take care of your own appearance (which is why they would never hire me to do anything like that ;) ). If a business...

This is a good example to show how "bad" habits can be relative. Ask the vegetarian, and he might tell you that the carnivore will have inflated healthcare costs and may even back it up with a study that has some nifty statistics. So, why should he hire someone who eats meat? Suppose the case...

Thursday is the Friday of a college town.

Great point. You can get to know people you will never meet and would never have known otherwise. The world's getting smaller all the time. Off the main topic, but on the subject of the world getting smaller, recently I've realized I have two degrees of separation from Viktor Yuschenko...

We brought up high risk jobs. I work as a process engineer in the semiconductor industry, and that can be very high risk because of exposure to a plethora of gases, acid fumes and solvents. Another example I thought of was drilling oil wells, where I've heard that people lose appendages left...

The DaVinci Code starring Tom Hanks

1. I'm trying to call your attention to the reasons why you want it banned or used as a way to deprive people of medical care. What you are saying is, "Hey, he knew that there was a increased probability this would cause him harm, so we can use that reasoning to take things away from him."...

There are risks involved in everything you do. If you open your eyes in the morning, you take a risk that something's about to happen to you. Smoking is a high risk activity, but so is drinking alcohol or driving to work. For some people, work itself is a high risk activity. Can you really...

Well said, Bobby B. One day maybe you and I can write a book called Us vs. Them: The Human Story. :D Sorry! I know that's off topic. I had to give Bobby a high five. I'm boring. I use CNN HLN, CNN's international site and bbc's site.

I've heard that all the second hand smoking research was performed by groups trying to ban smoking, and some use this a reason to discredit it. I don't know anything about the specifics of the research. I also agree that hysteria is a bad thing. One of the underlying reasons THC is...