ElGatoMagico

I didn't take the time to read the whole thread (I skipped pages 2 and 3) so I don't know if someone already mentioned this. Marijuana, like all plants, has two parts, a male and a female part. The female part is the part used as a drug and the part used for medicinal purposes. The male part has no THC (or very little) so it is as viable as a drug as oregano is. Hemp is the male part, so if growing marijuana was to be legalized for purposes of producing hemp, then every field would have to be strictly regulated and inspected. That said, I'm against marijuana for medicinal purposes there are other alternatives, like being able to genetically engineer the plant so that THC is removed from it. I'm guessing that during evolution, marijuana acquired THC as a means to prevent herbivores from consuming them as it is a toxin. If that's correct then removing THC should have no effect except to make it non intoxicating and therefore perfectly safe for growth. I'm currently a freshman in highschool, and believe me, very few people have any fear of marijuana whatsoever, including myself. I guess it's like sex only being sex if it's intercourse. Just a little note I wanted to mention about the website. I don't think that 50% of the worlds' herbicides are used on cotton, considering that herbicides would kill it by definition! Now here's something a little more abstract, but is democracy all that great without education? How do people help themselves by having their opinion count when it could be detrimental to every facet of society and themselves? That said, there's obviously no alternative that is anywhere close to as good as a democracy.

I agree that it's an extremely important event for the people of Iraq, but I'd say that the effect in this country isn't so great (not as in bad.) A few days ago, it was realeased that in the last 5 years, 3.2 million people have died as a result of the war in the Congo. Currently, Rwandan forces are massacring Tutsi tribes in the north, and pillaging any villages they come across, yet this receives almost no news. In the last week, an estimated 950 civilians died in the Congo. If this war is a liberation mission (which it should not be, not unless we plan on doing the same for other countries) then we'd be helping the Congo as well. It looks more likely now that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (I only consider nuclear weapons to be weapons of mass destruction, because if chemical weapons are weapons of mass destruction, then so is carpet bombing and fire bombing,) which would be an acceptable reason, if they had irrefutable proof before an attack was to take place, which they obviously did not. To sum up my post, kudos to the people of Iraq, but with everything going on in the world, Iraq isn't the biggest evil.