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Get off my lawn!
0bsessions:
I would like it noted that despite my comparrisons, I will be getting myself drunk tonight.
I know it's bad for me, I just don't really give a shit.
0bsessions:
Tommy, I will bet you $500 that you cannot smoke yourself to death on marijuana. Shit, what've you got to lose? With the American economy as it is, you're only losing like 1/400th of your paycheck if you lose.
RedLion:
Pilsner raised a good point: if marijuana were recognized for what it is--a relatively harmless mind-altering substance, as opposed to the potentially devastating (mentally, physically and socially) alcohol--the problem of prison over-crowding would cease to be a factor.
I can't say--and frankly I don't think anyone can--that either side of this argument is flat out right or wrong. But a large proportion ofl the evidence, both official and anectodal, points to alarmism of the type encouraged by Switchblade being unfounded and baseless.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: pilsner on 14 Mar 2008, 08:11 ---A disproportionate number of overeaters who get gastric bypass surgery become... obsessive forum surfers with really high post counts
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SonofZ3:
Switchblade:
Just the first few articles/sites I found about doctors taking kickbacks from drug companies, and drug companies being more interested in sales than patient well being.
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_ethbio_prescript.htm
http://www.pharmaceutical-kickbacks.com/
http://www.naturalnews.com/001298.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/business/09anemia.html?partner=MW_CUSTOM
I wish this sort of thing didn't happen, but there is simply far too much money to be made in the health care business for corruption not to take place. Although not directly related to kickbacks, if you want proof that health care providers do not always act in the best interest of their patients, and are even grossly negligent, look no further than the recent case where care providers in numerous Nevada clinics used the same IV needles on many different patients. Somehow I doubt an action that causes an infection of Hepatitis C to a patient counts as being in their best medical interest. It may not be a case of kickbacks, but it goes to show that expecting a business to be moral simply because it ought to be is niave.
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