The "official" weed appreciation thread!!!

[kadyo's]

Got to go to sleep, hugh. It's past 11pm here and I have a work early in the morning tomorrow.

[HughJass]

best photo i could get unc k

[HughJass]

heres another i managed to get

[HughJass]

GOVERNMENT STUDY OF MARIJUANA SEES MEDICAL BENEFITS

The active ingredients in marijuana appear to be useful for treating pain, nausea and the severe weight loss associated with AIDS, according to a new study commissioned by the Government that is inflaming the contentious debate over whether doctors should be permitted to prescribe the drug.

The report, the most comprehensive analysis to date of the medical literature about marijuana, said there was no evidence that giving the drug to sick people would increase illicit use in the general population. Nor is marijuana a ''gateway drug'' that prompts patients to use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin, the study said.

The authors of the study, a panel of 11 independent experts at the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, cautioned that the benefits of smoking marijuana were limited because the smoke itself was so toxic. Yet at the same time, they recommended that the drug be given, on a short-term basis under close supervision, to patients who did not respond to other therapies.

The release of the delicately worded report, at a morning news conference here, prompted a flurry of political maneuvering. Proponents of state initiatives to legalize marijuana for medical purposes seized upon the findings as long-awaited evidence that it had therapeutic value. They called on the Clinton Administration, and in particular Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which requested the study, to ease its steadfast opposition to the initiatives.

''This report has proved McCaffrey wrong,'' said Chuck Thomas, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a nonprofit organization in Washington that lobbies for the legalization of medical marijuana. ''We never said marijuana was a panacea and a be-all or end-all. What we have said is there are some patients who don't respond to existing medications, and this report confirms that.''

But the study is unlikely to change the Administration's position. The Department of Health and Human Services, which is already financing some research involving medical marijuana, issued a written statement noting simply that it would continue to finance the work. And General McCaffrey, speaking in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, said, ''This study seems to suggest that there is little future in smoked marijuana.''

General McCaffrey politely praised the analysis as a ''superb piece of work'' and said he would take the recommendations under advisement. But he said there was ''enormous confusion in law enforcement'' about how to handle the issue, and added, ''We've got people with mischievous agendas at work.''

While the study's authors said they had been surprised to discover ''an explosion of new scientific knowledge about how the active components of marijuana affect the body,'' they added pointedly that the future of marijuana as a medicine did not lie in smoking it. Marijuana smoke, they said, is even more toxic than tobacco smoke, and can cause cancer, lung damage and complications during pregnancy.

The true benefits of marijuana, the experts said, would only be realized when alternative methods, like capsules, patches and bronchial inhalers, were developed to deliver its active components, called cannabinoids, to the body without the harmful effects of smoke.

So far there is only one cannabinoid-based drug on the market, Marinol, manufactured by Unimed of Somerville, N.J. It comes in pill form and was approved in May 1985 by the Food and Drug Administration for nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, as well as for anorexia and weight loss associated with AIDS. Some patients have complained that Marinol is more expensive than marijuana and that they do not feel its effects as quickly

[HughJass]

[HughJass]

[$Bullsfam$]

New Jet City is definitely stoner mix tape of the year by far! Definitely the best I've heard from Curren$y IMO especially with features from wiz khalifa, styles p and jadakiss.

Though I think his best songs are without them. He kills and intro and "Mary" is definitely stoner song of the year right now. My man went in!



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[RL_GMA]

This dude's a beast LOL. Multiple big bong rip while downing can of Miller High Life

[HughJass]

This dude's a beast LOL. Multiple big bong rip while downing can of Miller High Life

fuking right hes a beast lol that cough sounded nastyy.

[IIG]

I'm a sativa person myself. I love all haze strains, but silver haze is my all time favorite. But I'll smoke anything that's fire. Haven't had the chance to experience oils and waxes yet, but I can't wait.