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Old 28-01-2004, 12:03   #66
dr wadd
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Re: Re-classification Of Cannabis

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Originally Posted by ntluser
OK,perhaps for clarification you could describe the effect that Cannabis would have if the theoretical surgeon,say 14 stone & male took Cannabis 10 seconds before commencing his session in the operating theatre.
It would depend entirely on mode of administration and the type of Cannabis taken, but I can tell you, entirely theoretically of course, that a few puffs of some good quality skunk would leave him fairly wasted before the first incision was made.

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Originally Posted by ntluser
The gas masks sound a bit extreme but I accept your point that it would be impossible to be 100% sure that you didn't affect a neighbour, but then our prime focus was about passive smoking of cigarettes.
True, but I was just trying to highlight the fact that such a furore is made about passive smoking but people generally are oblivious to other actions that have the same detrimental effect on health, and potentially to a much larger degree.

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As for common sense not being being a reason for abstaining from ANY substance, I have to disagree as there is no way you would get me to consume cyanide, arsenic, hemlock, strychnine etc. which are all substances from which I will happily abstain.
I hate to point this out to you, but both apple seeds and almonds contain cyanide, so if you eat almonds, or like me eat apples in their entirety, you are ingesting cyanide.
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