Cramer

Janke.. please provide with the correct answer.. until then.. I will NEVER rest until it is proven!!!!!!!!! > lol.. seriously though Janke.. its driving me crazy.. what's the real answer?

An easier way to look at it...

Stephen's father's son.. is the man's father.

Seeing how Stephen is an only child.. the son he is referring to of his father... would be him.. now read the rest of the sentence... "is the man's father."

This is stating that Stephen is the father of the man in the picture.

Its himself this mans father is my fathers son... so his father's son which would be him

Correct.. his father's son.. is Stephen... but.. there's still the "This man's father is" part.... whose father is the man in the picture? You already answered that... its Stephen.... this would mean.. Stephen has a son. The person in the picture... is Stephen's son..

I'm not following your logic.

The way I see it is:

"This mans father" -> Stephens pointing at a photo of himself - which means Stephs father

"Is my fathers son" -> Stephen's fathers son is Stephen.

The siblings have nothing to do with it IMO. Anyone at any time can be an only child - that says nothing about who's a father and who's a son so it's immaterial.

Then you would be saying Stephen's father... is Stephen.. how is that possible?

This man's father > Stephen pointing at a picture of his son...

Is my father's son... > Stephen's father's son.. would be Stephen..

The man in the picture's father is Stephen.

The reason this sentence was included... "I don't have any brother or sister."... was so that its easier to understand for the reader that the only son.. "his father" has.. is Stephen.

Yeah.. it would be his son in the picture.

-The Spade (506th PIR)

-The Heart (502nd PIR)

-The Club (501st PIR)

-Orange Diamond (Rangers)

-Horizontal Line (Non-Commissioned Officers)

-Vertical Line (Commissioned Officers)

I was incorrect... here are the correct markings...

Spade - 506th PIR

Heart - 502nd PIR

Club - 327th GIR

Diamond - 501st PIR

Diamond with Black Battalion Number - Rangers

Vertical Line - Commissioned Officers

Horizontal Line - Non-Commissioned Officers

I think the horizontal line means Training NCO

Why would there be a training NCO in the middle of battle? The horizontal line is, for sure.. the marking of an NCO.

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This may also be helpful to identifty the positions within the division. Notice the different markings around the spade:

-The Spade (506th PIR)

-The Heart (502nd PIR)

-The Club (501st PIR)

-Orange Diamond (Rangers)

-Horizontal Line (Non-Commissioned Officers)

-Vertical Line (Commissioned Officers)

I'm sorry to reply to a closed thread... but Sgt. Worsham... everytime I see a thread named "Ban Request :: Worsham".. I think to myself... "Worsham did something wrong in the server?!" lol

basically my point lies in that I am a Biology student, and when you look at cross sections of human brain and compare tissues from a marijuana user to those of a non user, there is a scary amount of scaring that has resulted from neuropathy and the brains natural plasticity to try and over come these new obstacles (dead areas thou small can be many) Now I am going to bed, so I won't see any response

You do realize that effects such as this.. are usually caused by HEAVY marijuana use, correct? heavy marijuana use being 6 joints a day for example? When I was smoking weed.. I smoked maybe a dimebag every two weeks.. thats about 2 grams a week... which is about 4-5 joints a week.. On average... I'm sure pot smokers take in about 15 grams a month or so? That would be nearly 30 joints a month.. just 1 joint a day.. and you'd be pretty safe to smoke about 4 joints a day for 5-10 years before anything harmful is found.. so average pot smokers can smoke 1 joint a day, every day for nearly 40 years and be fine.

*sigh* I live in the province that produces what is reported my the "best bud around" I am almost 21 years old and I have never used any. Nor do I have any want to, while some will like to claim there are no "mental effects" think of this, why is it then that a 'recovered' chronic user will still continue to exhibit symptoms of mental 'slowness' and lack of reaction time or perception. (not to mention F'ing up your sense of smell and taste)

That's a very good point.. but Sarsons... side effects of any drug differ from person to person. My father is nearly 40 years old now, and has been smoking marijuana since he was 18 and is experiencing NO LAG in his mental health. He's a damn smart guy, and even a supervisor for a high paid company. My uncle, my father's little brother, is a private high school graduate... St. Pius X High School... now I don't know how you others feel about private school.. but if you have ever been in magnet then taken a transfer to private.. you see how remarkably different it is... "different" meaning harder, and requiring you to focus much more. My uncle is nearly 27.. and has been smoking pot since he was 15... he graduated high school, (from a pvt school...), then to go on to college at Columbia University, (MU). He did drop out of college after a couple years... not because he was stupid... but because he decided to go to work in the family business that my grandfather owns. My grandfather, however, is not a pothead... this shows.. that both non-mj users and potheads can be successful and smart. It just depends on the person.

Look again its there at the top!

I was talking about this part.............

Right here: "So those that are saying we're "shoving marijuana usage down throats"... stop...... don't type any further.... because you are officially not apart of this thread"

If you cant see that then thats very sad.

Look at the implications, seriously i cannot be the only one that knows this shit, seriously i never did the work or studied at school with writing but it still seems i know more than you fuck, peoples opinions as innocent as they may hoped to be, are in fact biases implications that even if your not aware of it, they are still occuring, keep that in mind.

Okay.. just for the sake of this thread.. I'm going to let you have your way.. and continue, ON TOPIC, that marijuana should be legal. That's my OPINION, please state yours.

That's not denying them from their opinions.. its telling them to stay on topic. NO WHERE in this thread are we advertising or telling people to smoke it.. we're giving our opinions on the legalization of it. If you say "don't shove it down our throats"... that's falsely accusing of peer pressure.. when that, in fact, has NOTHING WHAT SO EVER to do with this thread.

PS.. you failed to include, in your quote of what I said... the part about this thread not being for peer pressure.. therefore.. makes it look as if I was telling those with opinions to "gtfo".

You cant deny people the rights to there opinions if you want the right to yours, just keep that in mind cramer.

When did I EVER deny anyone from their opinion?

And where in there did I say it caused cancer? I said, "His lungs are failing."

It doesn't matter... either way.... you are not to say that it was the weed which caused his lung issues if tobacco was present. Unless its a non-tobacco smoker, that smokes the pot on a regular basis then comes up with lung/breathing issues, or cancer... NO ONE can say marijuana causes these problems.

I don't care what you smoke/eat/drink/worship/fuck, just don't be in my face about it.

No means of disrespect Captain.. but no one is in your face about it. I'm not saying "hey! go smoke a joint! its cool! its hip! its not dangerous!".. I'm just voicing my opinion about it.

So those that are saying we're "shoving marijuana usage down throats"... stop...... don't type any further.... because you are officially not apart of this thread.. seeing as "peer pressure" or "advertisement" is not the basis of this topic. Its simply our opinions.

My buddy since kindergarten, his dad is an advent pot smoker. Started when he was most likely your age or younger, I say that because you come off as a 16 year old kid blinded by only what he wants to believe, rather then actually stopping and looking around to see what's really going on. So anyways about my buddy's dad, his lungs are failing from his constant pot abuse. Yes, grant it he does smoke cigarettes... So what, big fucking deal, pot has more tar than cigarettes that's why they say to put it in a bake good or etc. And don't kid yourself we all know that the majority of pot smokers, smoke cigarettes when they're either out in public or they're just out of weed and they just need that fix from the act of smoking. Either way it's fucking bad for you, any kind of smoke in your lungs is bad, that's why people die in fires the majority of the time. (IT'S BECAUSE THEY INHALED TOO MUCH SMOKE. See where this is going now?) You just want pot to be legalized so it's easier for you and your little buddies to get your grubby little dick skinners on a bag of pot. Congratulations you're one of the few who doesn't care about paying tax for your pot, I commend you. Thing is since it's a narcotic just like alcohol and cigarettes there's going to be an age restriction on it anyways if it were legalized, and that's a big IF. Not to mention it'll most likely have the same age restriction as alcohol.

You know whats funny... I don't even smoke pot anymore.... see.. within the past year.. I've actually been entirely pot free because I'll be 18, this Wednesday and its time to grow the fuck up and get a job, education, and work on my future. I just support marijuana. I've tried it before, and I see the effects, and I still decide its better to legalize it. Not because it would be easier for me to get a hold of, (seeing how I don't use it anymore , but because it would put a lot more job opportunities on the table, it will decrease the unnecessary arrests that are happening around the country, and many more positive reason behind the legalization of marijuana.

And for those that are curious... I didn't stop smoking/eating weed because of its effects... I quit simply because its illegal and if I want to get anywhere in this society... I have to stop seeing as most jobs do drop tests.

dont dis the trees. if you live in Cali, support it. If you dont, well ya better move then. legalization is coming soon.

Amen brother!

No i gotta add one last thing.....................Drunks run over stop signs, people that are high just wait for them to turn green XD

Ha. That's awesome. I lol'd, literally.

Then, in the end.. no one is right? Is that what you're getting at?

Have you ever, personally, heard of someone getting cancer, or dying due to the use of marijuana? Now.. how many people have you heard of, or know personally that have died due to cigarette smoking and drinking alcohol? In my life... I have known about 10 people that have lost their lives, voice boxes, and/or body parts due to cigarette smoking and alcohol intake, (this includes my grandmother, my great uncle, a 2nd cousin, my step dad's father, and many more family/friends..) How many marijuana users do I know, personally? I'm in contact with, a rough estimate of about 50 - 60 pot smokers.. including some family, some friends, and friends of friends... but how many of them have lost their lives or gained cancer? NONE. Oh, how I love real statistics.

EDIT:: Also... the funnier thing is.... those alcohol and cig users in my family... were all high school drop outs or graduates who didn't go to college... but about half of the weed smokers I know.... are in college with positive grades, or have already graduated college and are getting paid a damn good amount of money per year. HMMMMMMMMMMMM

Well, all I have to say is.. I'd rather smoke marijuana my entire life, instead of smoking cigs and drinking alcohol. We all know its safer than both of those substances.

1) There is no convincing scientific evidence that marijuana causes psychological damage or mental illness in either teenagers or adults. Some marijuana users experience psychological distress following marijuana ingestion, which may include feelings of panic, anxiety, and paranoia. Such experiences can be frightening, but the effects are temporary. With very large doses, marijuana can cause temporary toxic psychosis. This occurs rarely, and almost always when marijuana is eaten rather than smoked. Marijuana does not cause profound changes in people's behavior.

2) Most people who smoke marijuana smoke it only occasionally. A small minority of Americans - less than 1 percent - smoke marijuana on a daily basis. An even smaller minority develop a dependence on marijuana. Some people who smoke marijuana heavily and frequently stop without difficulty. Others seek help from drug treatment professionals. Marijuana does not cause physical dependence. If people experience withdrawal symptoms at all, they are remarkably mild.

3) When today's youth use marijuana, they are using the same drug used by youth in the 1960s and 1970s. A small number of low-THC samples seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration are used to calculate a dramatic increase in potency. However, these samples were not representative of the marijuana generally available to users during this era. Potency data from the early 1980s to the present are more reliable, and they show no increase in the average THC content of marijuana. Even if marijuana potency were to increase, it would not necessarily make the drug more dangerous. Marijuana that varies quite substantially in potency produces similar psychoactive effects.

4) Marijuana arrests in the United States doubled between 1991 and 1995. In 1995, more than one-half-million people were arrested for marijuana offenses. Eighty-six percent of them were arrested for marijuana possession. Tens of thousands of people are now in prison for marijuana offenses. An even greater number are punished with probation, fines, and civil sanctions, including having their property seized, their driver's license revoked, and their employment terminated. Despite these civil and criminal sanctions, marijuana continues to be readily available and widely used.

5) Moderate smoking of marijuana appears to pose minimal danger to the lungs. Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke contains a number of irritants and carcinogens. But marijuana users typically smoke much less often than tobacco smokers, and over time, inhale much less smoke. As a result, the risk of serious lung damage should be lower in marijuana smokers. There have been no reports of lung cancer related solely to marijuana, and in a large study presented to the American Thoracic Society in 2006, even heavy users of smoked marijuana were found not to have any increased risk of lung cancer. Unlike heavy tobacco smokers, heavy marijuana smokers exhibit no obstruction of the lung's small airway. That indicates that people will not develop emphysema from smoking marijuana.

6) Marijuana has been shown to be effective in reducing the nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma. There is also appreciable evidence that marijuana reduces muscle spasticity in patients with neurological disorders. A synthetic capsule is available by prescription, but it is not as effective as smoked marijuana for many patients. Pure THC may also produce more unpleasant psychoactive side effects than smoked marijuana. Many people use marijuana as a medicine today, despite its illegality. In doing so, they risk arrest and imprisonment.

7) Marijuana does not cause people to use hard drugs. What the gateway theory presents as a causal explanation is a statistic association between common and uncommon drugs, an association that changes over time as different drugs increase and decrease in prevalence. Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States today. Therefore, people who have used less popular drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD, are likely to have also used marijuana. Most marijuana users never use any other illegal drug. Indeed, for the large majority of people, marijuana is a terminus rather than a gateway drug.

8) In 1972, after reviewing the scientific evidence, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded that while marijuana was not entirely safe, its dangers had been grossly overstated. Since then, researchers have conducted thousands of studies of humans, animals, and cell cultures. None reveal any findings dramatically different from those described by the National Commission in 1972. In 1995, based on thirty years of scientific research editors of the British medical journal Lancet concluded that "the smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health."

9) For twenty-five years, researchers have searched for a marijuana-induced amotivational syndrome and have failed to find it. People who are intoxicated constantly, regardless of the drug, are unlikely to be productive members of society. There is nothing about marijuana specifically that causes people to lose their drive and ambition. In laboratory studies, subjects given high doses of marijuana for several days or even several weeks exhibit no decrease in work motivation or productivity. Among working adults, marijuana users tend to earn higher wages than non-users. College students who use marijuana have the same grades as nonusers. Among high school students, heavy use is associated with school failure, but school failure usually comes first.

10) The Netherlands' drug policy is the most nonpunitive in Europe. For more than twenty years, Dutch citizens over age eighteen have been permitted to buy and use cannabis (marijuana and hashish) in government-regulated coffee shops. This policy has not resulted in dramatically escalating cannabis use. For most age groups, rates of marijuana use in the Netherlands are similar to those in the United States. However, for young adolescents, rates of marijuana use are lower in the Netherlands than in the United States. The Dutch people overwhelmingly approve of current cannabis policy which seeks to normalize rather than dramatize cannabis use. The Dutch government occasionally revises existing policy, but it remains committed to decriminalization.

11) None of the medical tests currently used to detect brain damage in humans have found harm from marijuana, even from long term high-dose use. An early study reported brain damage in rhesus monkeys after six months exposure to high concentrations of marijuana smoke. In a recent, more carefully conducted study, researchers found no evidence of brain abnormality in monkeys that were forced to inhale the equivalent of four to five marijuana cigarettes every day for a year. The claim that marijuana kills brain cells is based on a speculative report dating back a quarter of a century that has never been supported by any scientific study.

12) Marijuana produces immediate, temporary changes in thoughts, perceptions, and information processing. The cognitive process most clearly affected by marijuana is short-term memory. In laboratory studies, subjects under the influence of marijuana have no trouble remembering things they learned previously. However, they display diminished capacity to learn and recall new information. This diminishment only lasts for the duration of the intoxication. There is no convincing evidence that heavy long-term marijuana use permanently impairs memory or other cognitive functions.

13) Every serious scholar and government commission examining the relationship between marijuana use and crime has reached the same conclusion: marijuana does not cause crime. The vast majority of marijuana users do not commit crimes other than the crime of possessing marijuana. Among marijuana users who do commit crimes, marijuana plays no causal role. Almost all human and animal studies show that marijuana decreases rather than increases aggression.

14) There is no evidence that marijuana causes infertility in men or women. In animal studies, high doses of THC diminish the production of some sex hormones and can impair reproduction. However, most studies of humans have found that marijuana has no impact of sex hormones. In those studies showing an impact, it is modest, temporary, and of no apparent consequence for reproduction. There is no scientific evidence that marijuana delays adolescent sexual development, has feminizing effect on males, or a masculinizing effect on females.

15) Studies of newborns, infants, and children show no consistent physical, developmental, or cognitive deficits related to prenatal marijuana exposure. Marijuana had no reliable impact on birth size, length of gestation, neurological development, or the occurrence of physical abnormalities. The administration of hundreds of tests to older children has revealed only minor differences between offspring of marijuana users and nonusers, and some are positive rather than negative. Two unconfirmed case-control studies identified prenatal marijuana exposure as one of many factors statistically associated with childhood cancer. Given other available evidence, it is highly unlikely that marijuana causes cancer in children.

16) There is no evidence that marijuana users are more susceptible to infections than nonusers. Nor is there evidence that marijuana lowers users' resistance to sexually transmitted diseases. Early studies which showed decreased immune function in cells taken from marijuana users have since been disproved. Animals given extremely large doses of THC and exposed to a virus have higher rates of infection. Such studies have little relevance to humans. Even among people with existing immune disorders, such as AIDS, marijuana use appears to be relatively safe. However, the recent finding of an association between tobacco smoking and lung infection in AIDS patients warrants further research into possible harm from marijuana smoking in immune suppressed persons.

17) Many active drugs enter the body's fat cells. What is different (but not unique) about THC is that it exits fat cells slowly. As a result, traces of marijuana can be found in the body for days or weeks following ingestion. However, within a few hours of smoking marijuana, the amount of THC in the brain falls below the concentration required for detectable psychoactivity. The fat cells in which THC lingers are not harmed by the drug's presence, nor is the brain or other organs. The most important consequence of marijuana's slow excretion is that it can be detected in blood, urine, and tissue long after it is used, and long after its psychoactivity has ended.

18) There is no compelling evidence that marijuana contributes substantially to traffic accidents and fatalities. At some doses, marijuana affects perception and psychomotor performances- changes which could impair driving ability. However, in driving studies, marijuana produces little or no car-handling impairment- consistently less than produced by low moderate doses of alcohol and many legal medications. In contrast to alcohol, which tends to increase risky driving practices, marijuana tends to make subjects more cautious. Surveys of fatally injured drivers show that when THC is detected in the blood, alcohol is almost always detected as well. For some individuals, marijuana may play a role in bad driving. The overall rate of highway accidents appears not to be significantly affected by marijuana's widespread use in society.

19) Marijuana does not cause overdose deaths. The number of people in hospital emergency rooms who say they have used marijuana has increased. On this basis, the visit may be recorded as marijuana-related even if marijuana had nothing to do with the medical condition preceding the hospital visit. Many more teenagers use marijuana than use drugs such as heroin and cocaine. As a result, when teenagers visit hospital emergency rooms, they report marijuana much more frequently than they report heroin and cocaine. In the large majority of cases when marijuana is mentioned, other drugs are mentioned as well. In 1994, fewer than 2% of drug related emergency room visits involved the use of marijuana.

20) There is no evidence that anti-drug messages diminish young people's interest in drugs. Anti-drug campaigns in the schools and the media may even make drugs more attractive. Marijuana use among youth declined throughout the 1980s, and began increasing in the 1990s. This increase occurred despite young people's exposure to the most massive anti-marijuana campaign in American history. In a number of other countries, drug education programs are based on a "harm reduction" model, which seeks to reduce the drug-related harm among those young people who do experiment with drugs.

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Source: Myths and Facts About Marijuana

I fucking knew it! I said the dude was a hacker.. and all I got in return was "Stfu, no one is hacking". Some pubbers said it in teamchat.

Here is his application... maybe if the Enlistment forum was looked over.. the Steam ID would have been simpler to find........

http://www.1stmarineraiders.com/index.php?showtopic=5034

As for me being his reference, I would like my name removed from his application. I had no idea he was an immature punk. He portrayed nothing of the sort throughout the entire time we knew each other, but since his true colors were revealed... I do not want my name on anything associated with this kid.

Thank you,

Sorry for referring him here,

A. Cramer