April 23rd, 2008 by Peter Bonginelli
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After several days enjoying the 4/20 holiday I am back and ready to continue development on Chronic Corner. As always, we welcome your posts for the main website and participation in the forums as a way to further the cause for legal marijuana. I hope you all had a good holiday and be sure to let us know of any good times over in the forums!
Chronic Corner has been steadily growing over the past two months as has our movement to legalize marijuana as a whole. Remember to send a letter to your representative and stay active!
-Peter Bonginelli
March 24th, 2008 by Peter Bonginelli
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Hello readers of Chronic Corner and supporters of the cause to legalize marijuana use in America! Your continued support is appreciated and is a crucial part of getting the discussion on marijuana legalization back on the table. As always, Chronic Corner is looking for avid activists and supporters to write their own inspiring content for the blog, and your suggestions are always welcome. Please email any suggestions or comments to chroniccorner@gmail.com. Several of the articles that I have published have reached the Digg and Stumbleupon front pages in the past few days, and have exposed the cause of Marijuana legalization to thousands of people. No change can happen without the will of the people, so lets show America our will! I am very pleased that the congressman of my hometown in MA Barney Frank was the one to submit the new bill to congress in an effort to decriminalize marijuana! -Peter Bonginelli Cannabis Activist
February 18th, 2008 by Peter Bonginelli
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The short answer is yes. There is no lethal dose of Marijuana as there is Alcohol, and no significant changes to brain structure. However, alcohol can severely damage brain function. Many Universities across the country including both Colorado State Universities and Appalachian State University have brought arguments before their schools in an attempt to equalize penalties for alcohol and marijuana consumption.
Intoxication:
Marijuana is much safer than alcohol in terms of temporary impairment. While alcohol causes sever motor skill deficiency rendering one unable to drive or perform other coordinated tasks, marijuana does little other than slow these processes down.
Withdrawal:
Alcohol withdrawal is widely known as one of the biggest reasons it is hard to stop drinking. Marijuana however, has no physical withdrawals (other than the psychological withdrawal of not being high).
Tolerance:
Alcohol tolerance increases substantially with abuse. While marijuana tolerance will increase with use, there is a much smaller difference between a pothead and first time smoker’s needs than there is an alcoholic and a first time drinker.
Dependence:
It is very difficult for Alcoholics to put the bottle down for good. Marijuana has been smoked by nearly 50% of all Americans, and only 1% of that number smoke regularly. Take the total number of citizens in the United States and figure how many people have tried alcohol, and how many are alcoholics, and you’ll be left with a figure 10 times that of marijuana.
Reinforcement:
Reinforcement is one of those qualities that it is hard to measure by taking a substance, but what it really means is potential for addiction. Marijuana has almost no potential for physical addiction (as stated in withdrawals) but can be psychologically addicting. Many marijuana users get used to the lifestyle and quitting the substance isn’t the problem, it’s the social life they have developed around it.
So overall marijuana is safer than alcohol, but much more inconvenient for the paper and oil companies that alcohol and tobacco. What does this mean? It means the drug czar, John Walters, gets tens of millions every year to spread the type of ignorance we are trying to fight. His latest episodes of marijuana propaganda include the myth that marijuana creates mental illness. This is supported by no psychologists in the field that I have read about or talked to, however it does seem that marijuana may bring forth underlying mental illnesses that already exist.
If you liked this article, please check out this new one too! (I site more sources in this article, it is more professional) Vaporizers: Why It Is Time To Legalize Marijuana
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