THE ANC has opened the door for dagga to be legalised . . . but only for medical purposes. Yesterday, ANC chief whip Stone Sizani tabled a motion in the National Assembly that paves the way for the Medical Innovation Bill to be revived and processed afresh by parliament.
This was after the bill lapsed when its original sponsor, IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, died last month after a long battle with lung cancer.
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Well that was interesting. I read the SA Times every day (except Saturday when it's not published). Apparently, the link always takes a person to whatever page I'm currently clicking on - so if I'd been reading about rugby you'd have got that. Anyway I went back and set it to page 1 and that works - except it may \not allow one to go "back". I couldn't anyway - had to reopen PlanBForum all over again.
Helpful old Wiki advises: Dagga can refer to Cannabis sativa, an annual herbaceous plant in the Cannabis genus, a species of the Cannabaceae family and to Leonotis leonurus, more commonly known as "wild dagga"
It's pronounced more like dakher - not like dagger.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Maybe if it is terminal, but allowing cannabis smoking while receiving care for treatable lung cancer would seem to be like walking up a down escalator.
Long Run wrote:Maybe if it is terminal, but allowing cannabis smoking while receiving care for treatable lung cancer would seem to be like walking up a down escalator.
Smoking cannabis is not really an issue because it's not the only way to ingest marijuana. It's helpful for some people but not for everyone. It certainly doesn't cure anything.
YOUNGSTERS who smoked dagga daily before they were 17 had a 60% likelihood of not finishing school and were seven times more likely to commit suicide than those who did not use the drug. This is according to a report on an Australian study appearing in the journal Lancet Psychiatry this week.
Researchers analysed three studies spanning 13 years and linked the behaviour of the teenagers to the way their lives had evolved when they were 30. Teenagers who smoked dagga daily were less likely to attend university. They were 18 times more likely to become addicted to dagga and eight times more likely to use other illegal drugs as adults.
. . . The ANC said on Tuesday that it will revive the Medical Innovation Bill, which proposes the use of dagga for medical purposes.
The bill was proposed by IFP MP Mario Ambrosini, who had terminal lung cancer. He used the drug as a medicine and said it had kept him alive for longer. Ambrosini committed suicide three weeks ago.
A study by Medical Research Council researcher Patricia Albers of matriculants at five Johannesburg high schools found that smokers of hookah pipes — normally used to inhale tobacco — were twice as likely to smoke dagga or cigarettes.
But Albers could not say which came first, dagga smoking or using a hookah.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
YOUNGSTERS who smoked dagga daily before they were 17 had a 60% likelihood of not finishing school and were seven times more likely to commit suicide than those who did not use the drug.
Gee, that looks like one of them there scientific-type things that nobody can argue with...
Well it's easy to see the logical fallacy in a bare statement. There's no saying that they committed suicide BECAUSE they smoked dagga. They could smoke dagga AND commit suicide because their daily lives were crap. However, observe that this was an Australian study - not South African - and we all know that Australia is the nicest place on earth with liberty, freedom and justice for all, eh?
Also, the study did (one hopes) compare losers who smoked dagga with losers who did not. It would be of little use to compare some poverty doomed dopeheads with happy little upper/middle-class winners
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
