08 Jul 2018, 3:27 am
08 Jul 2018, 3:33 am
You're willfully blinding yourself to what's actually going on. I live in a legal state. I've seen MMJ add years to terminal individuals' lives. I've had a medical license for broad autism phenotype symptoms.
Many cannabinoids are anti-inflammatory & many are good for anxiety. Cannabis is thus quite helpful to people addicted to opiate painkillers. You can throw stones all you want but I suggest trying it first instead.
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08 Jul 2018, 1:51 pm
nephets wrote:
22,000? Have you counted them, personally? Nonsense.
These are two sheets that my 8-year-old son recently drew.
You don't need to understand the Chinese characters there. But on the left is an elevator control panel, with Chinese characters for expressions like: open, close, exit, for emergency call only. On the right is a message my son wrote about the ice cream that I picked up from store: "for desert only, thank you." Frankly, the Chinese expressions are a bit odd. But that's not the point.
The point is, my son doesn't speak Chinese, nor does he read or write Chinese. Heck, except for 2 characters, this was the first time he ever wrote all those other characters. Pretty neat handwriting, by the way. What he did was, he entered some English words into Google Translate, and then copied the Chinese characters manually. He also pressed the speaker icon on the browser to hear the Chinese sound of the characters he wrote. Nobody ever taught him how to use Google Translate. He just figured out that if he needed to translate something, he could search on Google and figure out how to translate it. You could try it. Type: "close in Chinese" into a browser's search bar (e.g. Google Chrome), then select Chinese (Traditional) on the right box, and you'll see the character 關. Click on the speaker icon, and it'll read out loud for you.
So, I have decided to mimic my 8-year-old son's skill. I typed in "22,000 cannabis studies." Then I learned that you could obtain the PubMed's abstract/citation counts by using the following URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/?term=marijuana
27,874 "scientific and medical abstracts/citations," is what I got when I clicked on that link. So, there are 27,874 articles. With one click, anyone can start to find out the titles, authors and dates of those 27,874 articles. That number of articles reflects the "chatter volume" of scientists. Let's compare it to the case of autism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/?term=autism
which gave me 42,607 "scientific and medical abstracts/citations." That is, the scientific attention on marijuana is around half of the scientific attention on autism. So, marijuana research should be considered intense.
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My point is, one can learn a lot from an eight-year-old.
