[Vision2020] Pot backers all abuzz about Super Bowl link

Mon Jan 20 18:59:30 PST 2014

>From the research I've seen over the course of my work with the Regional
Advisory Committee on Substance Use Disorders, marijuana smoking is shown
to have a lower incidence of causing lung cancer than tobacco.  Other
cancers (I'm too lazy to look up which) show a slight increase.  And,
regular marijuana use is shown to decrease IQ in adolescents by up to 10%.

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:43 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> That is because there has not been adequate research on marijuana smoke.
> People smoked cigarettes for a couple hundred years before it was shown to
> be harmful. It is only logical to assume a high inhalation of smoke from
> any source is harmful. Therefore keep your usage low.
>
> Roger
>
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> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: 01/20/14 15:22
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Pot backers all abuzz about Super Bowl link
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>  A person is FAAARRRR more likely to develop lung cancer from inhaling
> cigarette smoke than from inhaling marijuana smoke.
>
> I do not know of ANY cases where somebody contracted cancer as a result of
> exposure to cannabis.
>
> Do you, Mr. Falen?
>
> Those were the days . . . the bud . . . the bong . . . and the . . .
>
> "Shotgun"
> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Shotgun.mp3
>
>  Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
>  Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2014, at 2:53 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
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> I do not have a problem with the legalization of pot, but there is one
> thing I think the left is overlooking and that is smoke.
>
> There seems to be a major problem with cigarette smoke. why not the same
> with marijuana smoke?
>
> Roger
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: 01/19/14 15:16
> Subject: [Vision2020] Pot backers all abuzz about Super Bowl link
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> Courtesy of today's (January 19, 2014)
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>  Pot backers all abuzz about Super Bowl link
>
> WASHINGTON - If oddsmakers are correct, the Seattle Seahawks and Denver
> Broncos will win today's National Football League conference championship
> games, advancing to a truly historic Super Bowl on Feb. 2:
>
> The Marijuana Bowl? A return of the Bud Bowl?
>
> The teams represent the biggest cities in Colorado and Washington, the
> only states that have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana.
>
>
> Shortly after those voters made their decisions in November 2012, travel
> guide Arthur Frommer said both cities should brace for "a torrent of new
> tourism." Now the two cities might face off in one of the world's biggest
> sporting extravaganzas, giving the media a fresh story hook for the next
> two weeks.
>
> Pot backers are tickled.
>
> "It's something that those of us in the movement have had an eye on for a
> long time," said Steve Fox, who works for a marijuana-industry law firm
> in Denver.
>
> If the matchup does materialize, said Allen St. Pierre, the executive
> director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, it
> will feature "the two most pro-cannabis- legalization cities in the U.S."
> He jokingly suggested that the game be renamed "The Super Oobie
> Doobie Bowl."
>
> There is a more serious side to all this.
>
> Since Jan. 1, when Colorado opened its retail pot shops, it's been legal
> to purchase and use the drug, at least under state law. But it's still
> illegal for NFL players who live in the state to use marijuana because it's
> banned under the league's collective bargaining agreement. That will be
> true in Washington, as well, when the state opens its own shops this spring.
>
> Lobbyists are pushing the NFL to stop punishing players who fail drug
> tests for smoking pot, saying the drug could help them deal with
> concussions and other injuries.
>
> And they want to call attention to the league's cozy relationship with the
> alcohol industry: Anheuser-Busch, for example, pitches its Bud Light as the
> "proud sponsor of the NFL" and once aired ads showing Budweiser and Bud
> Light beer bottles competing in a halftime "Bud Bowl" football game.
>
> "Hopefully there will be a break in the beer commercials for some
> discussion about marijuana laws," said Mason Tvert, spokesman for the
> pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project in Denver.
>
> In September, the organization put up a 48-foot-wide billboard next to
> Denver's Sports Authority Field at Mile High, urging the NFL to "stop
> driving players to drink" and saying that pot represented "a safer choice"
> for the athletes. And the group launched a petition to pressure NFL
> Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the league's marijuana policy.
>
> Fox, the marijuana industry lawyer, pointed out that the Broncos and
> Seahawks both lost key players this season for violating the NFL drug
> policy, reportedly because of marijuana use.
>
> He said the NFL should follow the National Hockey League, which tests only
> for performance-enhancing drugs.
>
> And he noted that the World Anti-Doping Agency responded to more lax drug
> laws in many countries last summer by loosening the marijuana standard for
> Olympic athletes.
>
> Goodell caused a stir last week during an interview with ESPN.com<http://espn.com/>when
> he left open the possibility of the league allowing players to use medical
> marijuana in the future.
>
> With the commissioner even talking about marijuana during the playoffs,
> St. Pierre said the public could expect to hear plenty about pot in the
> next two weeks, even if Seattle and Denver don't win their games.
>
> "I think there will be more references to pot going into the Super Bowl
> week media hype than any previous NFL game in history," he said.
>
> Comedian Jay Leno jumped in Tuesday night during his monologue on NBC's
> "The Tonight Show," saying a Denver-Seattle matchup would give "a whole new
> meaning to the term Super Bowl."
>
> Fox and Tvert boasted that even the visiting teams in Sunday's games - the
> San Francisco 49ers will travel to Seattle, while the New England Patriots
> go to Denver - represent regions of the country where marijuana use is
> allowed for medical purposes.
>
> "It won't be long before it's unique to have two teams in the Super Bowl
> that haven't made marijuana legal," Tvert said.
>
> For this year, at least, it's been a tough season for NFL teams from
> states where all pot use is outlawed.
>
> Among the losers in the playoffs this month: the Carolina Panthers,
> Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia
> Eagles, New Orleans Saints and Cincinnati Bengals.
>
> "If you noticed, the more marijuana-friendly localities really kicked
> butt," Fox said. "I don't know what it really means in the grand scheme of
> things, but it's a nice bit of karma if nothing else."
>
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>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
>  Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
>
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