brains??

See the link for a candidate that admits having used drugs on his bestselling book:

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It would be interesting to see an article on this also. I have seen friends deteriorate after using even mild stuff.

I seriously doubt that your friends deteriorated after smoking pot a few times. It doesn't work that way.

tell so clearly either.

People who eat onions are not good judges of who eats onions and who does not.......................

AllThatJazz wrote the following post at 06/13/2008 3:21 PM: I seriously doubt that your friends deteriorated after smoking pot a few times. It doesn't work that way.

You have a very good statement there:

However, it confuses me, since my wife and I worked especially with youngsters that had these kinds of problems after using a few times or lots of times. Most were in the age catagory of 9-13 years of age.

A simple test, take some sort of pill and give it to 100 people. Guess what, you will have 100 different reactions.

(Some very similiar and some drastic) Just for your information.

Have a great day.

TheMexican:

tell so clearly either.

People who eat onions are not good judges of who eats onions and who does not.......................

There's a huge difference between smoking pot and using harder drugs such as crack or heroin. I'm not defending pot. Most people my age smoked it a time or two when we were young and stupid, but there is simply no way that smoking pot a few times has any negative long term effect. You may want to think it does so that you have ammunition against Obama, but it's simply not the case.

(laughing), well if your doctor, lawyer, dentist, accountant, or boss is under 60, the odds are pretty darn good they have experimented with drugs in college. (And yes, I DO have friends in all of those categories who did). But we all grew up...we are respected members of our communities, we don't cheat on our taxes, we go to church, we raise our children (and yep, we lie).

So you and all other users have a bias on the side of minimizing the impact it may have had on yourselves and others involved in supplying the stuff.

So, let's have another fair and balanced article on this other side of the coin.

I'm not sure what "supplying" has to do with it - osmosis? - or what other side of which coin you mean - but we've seen what years of drug abuse did to Lil Dubya. Scary.

No one is stopping you from writing your "fair and balanced" article on how a few instances of drug use can cause irreparable damage to the brain, and render someone unfit for public office. After all, hasn't the growth of the Blogosphere shown that we can ALL be journalists? I'm sure that we'd find that both candidates, willingly or not, have had some, ahem, foreign substances in their systems. (Do you really think that Senator McCain escaped the needle the entire time he was a P.O.W.?) It could be good to know what the long-term consequences might be.

I'm pretty sure that you'll find SOME outlet for your journalism, even if it turns out to be CharacterAssassins.com. But if the Slate elites turn you down, post your piece here in the Fray, won't you? I'm sure we'd all love to know what your exhaustive and detailed clinical research turns up.

Well since you want to make drugs an issue, how bout we talk about McCain's wife and her past serious drug addiction. Serious enough to be admitted to the Betty Ford Center. At least I think it's past. She looks spaced out standing behind him most of the time. Not only was she addicted for years, she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief program. In 1994, she admitted that she had solicited prescriptions from physicians who worked for an international charity that she founded, the American Voluntary Medical Team. She then filled the prescriptions in the names of her staff. McCain is trying to make an issue of Obama's youthful experimenting, yet his own wife is a thief and drug addict. Anyone else would of been convicted, but oh no, not Cindy McCain. McCain was also well known for his extreme partying during college and while in the military during his younger years. I am sure he did a few hits of his own during his party days. Obama was a kid in college, and as many kids who are on their own for the first time in their lives, they make some bad choices, including experimenting with drugs and alcohol. If everyone was judged on the stupid stuff we did when we were young, we'd all be in trouble.

from the looks of the economy and the sand men running the show all the brains in congress no matter how young are not working very well with their i own oil well stocks teenage moments.

there is a kind of hush all over the worl tonight

a song on the interent

judy in disguise with diamonds

a song on the internet

hot time summer in the icty back of my getting dirt and gritty

but a tnight it is a different world

days cant be like the night in the summer in the city

rainy nigth in georigia

a song on the internet

midnight train to georgia

you are the best thing that ever happened to me .... a song on the interent

(and the republicnan party and

any one over 50)

happy days are here again

elephants and donkeys rule

a song on the internet

You and me and rain on the roof

Maybe McCain should try it.

Better late than never.

A few points on the drug issue.

First of all, George W Bush did cocaine and pot and is on tape admitting as much. He was also an alcoholic. He did far worse than Obama in this respect and he made a lot of effort to cover up his use. He still got elected despite a recently discovered DUI at a "youthful indiscretion" age of 35.

Obama admitted he smoked pot but also admitted he quit it. He has since become a US senator and is clearly an intelligent and gifted leader.

The original poster is trying to imply that experimenting with drugs is a permanant and damaging thing. Were Obama still using you might have an argument, but pointing to something he did in college or high school as a reason not to vote for him now?

Shall we begin wondering how being a POW has affected McCain? What kind of lasting damage could the torture have done? And did they drug him with something worse than pot to make him talk? After all that time in commie hands, is he really a closet commie waiting to take the top spot and convert the whole country? Hell no, maybe he is an alien......

I dont need to look at McCains high school days. The man was the 2nd to last in his graduating class in the naval academy and his f-ckups as a young man in the navy are well documented. In addition to that, he has NEVER worked at a private job-never had to worry about losing his job or his health insurance-he is basically a government employee living off the taxpayer directly. I wonder if he can relate to someone with a job and not just someone in the military. Will he be another Bush, going from military base to base while our country falls apart financially-rebuilding Iraq while our own bridges and roads and schools are falling apart?

We need another military man in power like we need a hole in the head.

And oh yeah-he's old too.

POW-Party of the Old White Men.