Prestoned wrote:Dont moan at Puffin. Puffin just posted a link. Didnt make the video, write the book or anything.
Being offended isnt actually anything. Its not like anything changes, just that the person becomes offended.
Either the womans a con artist (intentional or not) or shes helped herself. If shes helped herself, great, if shes a con artist, just ignore them.
Sorry to hear about your illness by the way.
Prestoned I think it is important to point out the effects that such wild claims can have on people and indeed society. While the fact that I am offended may not change anything, communicating that fact may make people think a little about the value of such unscientific claims and the harm they can cause. Encouraging the rejection of medicine for quackery is damaging. To someone who suffers from a illness such false claims are simply insulting. I repeat to give ill people false hope of a
cure is a horrible thing to do. I'd hate to think some kid with crohn's might read this stuff and not knowing any better reject his medical care for an imaginary cure. Ok i admit that I cant stop that happening but as these types of nonsense non-science stories proliferate this is exactly what happens, desperate people cling to false hopes.
And "con-artists" should not be ignored, they should be tackled.
Thanks for your pity btw
(good humoured jest)
Stanky Danky wrote:Sorry I misphrased it ya little bitch. People are getting all up in arms when there is evidence that cannabis could possibly cure something. Still fucking retarded if you ask me. Oh and I wasn't referring to the video when talking about evidence I was talking about your quote.
Very nice Stanky, you really are a wonderful compassionate member of the forum. Why did you have to resort to calling me a bitch though? Aren't your arguments succinct and consistent enough on their own? (those are rhetorical questions dear)
Stanky Danky wrote:
A doctor's view on cannabis isn't evidence, it's just an opinion. And those articles are reporting real scientific results not just interpreting them. Actually that doctor's quote is just an interpretation of the studies. Some of those studies actually provided evidence of cancer cells being killed not just halted.
This is waffle bollox, you dont even know what you're arguing against do you? again rhetorical.
funnily i think you have attempted to sloppily add some of Niall's position to your arsenal of scattered contradictory nonsense. it doesn't help you though, you are still way out of your depth and have to argue obliquely across what is actually being discussed countering points that haven't even been made.
i'm glad that you are more qualified than doctor grinspoon to interpret medical data and studies. where would we be without you?
Stanky Danky wrote:
Maybe we should do the same thing about posting anything that links marijuana to schizophrenia. They will never be able to scientifically link cannabis consumption to schizophrenia. There's at least scientific evidence that compounds in cannabis can kill cancer cells. I think giving people hope for a cure is far better than scaring them with mental illness.
There is as much good evidence for cannabis playing a role in schizophrenia in young people as there is for cannabis curing [insert whatever you want].
You like one, you dont like the other. One plays into your desired reality and the other doesn't.
And still you dont get it. Why bring schizophrenia into it? Its not about cannabis and it effects. Its about science, proof and truth. And not just "the truth" you desire.
WE ARE NOT ATTACKING CANNABIS. Its not about cannabis, its about science versus quackery.
