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I'm willing to be that you know a whole lot of people you would never think smoked but actually do. You don't need to have glassy hands and shaky eyes to have a drinking problem you know, those are just the visible signs of someone with a serious problem.

Just as an aside, I get suspicious whenever people say things like 'studies show' or 'statistics indicate'. Although I agree with the general sentiment Lare (is that a name) is conveying. There have been some attempts to link cannabis with depression and psychosis, but I think the point here is that cannabis can in some cases aggravate an existing condition. It depends on the individual. Anyway if you experience those effects, simply stop.

Why would you expect anything from movies that are spinoffs of toys ?

Someone in the cast is filming using a hand held camera type horror flicks are so lame.

Some people are genetically predisposed to substance abuse, and in the other end of the scale we have people who don't feel much in the way of withdrawal symptoms, be they physical or psychological. Cannabis is probably the easiest of them all to kick. Smoking is bad for your health, cigarettes or joints both, but that's not what we are discussing.

It's possible to abuse cannabis like everything else. If you need a joint to fall asleep and one to steady yourself in the morning that's a definite warning sign. Those are the people walking around in a perpetual zombie state wearing dirty clothes, not taking proper care of themselves. There are however, more moderate and functional users than you could possibly imagine. I'd say more than half the people I know. It probably varies a lot geographically though.

The basic version is free, should tell you what you need to know. http://www.sisoftware.net/

I thought 300 was bad in a good way, I mean it had stunning visuals and painfully bad acting. It also has tanned homo erotic Greeks edging suspiciously towards fascism without offering anything in the way of an excuse. I mean that's not a good thing, but it's an achievement, of sorts. Waterworld has the same 'un-ashamedness' about it's general pitiful lousiness as a movie which is what makes it a candidate for kitsch and bad-good. Just imho of course.

I am seriously considering the 64 mb version of this http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1005/1/ It's about 20-30% cheaper than the competition, although not as fast. Should be a noticeable improvement in load times and boot times though, for the first time in, well more or less ever.

Where are all the cool clan mechs

Did they yank the offending mechs, or is the game still in legal limbo ?

What about her welcome ?

First the ship needed air, then food, power, and now water. Stay tuned for the season finale where they all run out of cigarettes and start murdering each other over the last pack.

Probably because wicca experienced a new age revival around the 1960s and hadn't had much of an actual following for over a thousand years prior to it.

You generally don't use question marks when you are not expecting an answer.

I still have an old pair of hemp pants, the fibers are so tough you can weave it into fabric. Too much of anything is a bad idea, and we are already dealing with the effects of alcohol abuse, like Hurlshot said, disfunctional families, drunk drivers etc. But whats to be done about that, bringing back prohibition ?. If we didn't use so many resources policing drugs we could more effectively do something about those secondary effects. As it is we are presenting an easy avenue for people to make money illegally which we do our best to band aid with policing. Making most drugs legal is the better structural choice, but the public does not agree, certainly not those who typically vote.

I'm not sure I take your point. Excepting maybe drugs that make the user psychotic with long time use, such as meth and ppc, the drugs themselves don't hurt anyone. The majority of the violence comes from users who produce crime to support their habit, as well as the providers who war over production facilities and create political and social instability (for instance south American cartels or the Taliban) and low end dealers beefing over territory. It seems to me one could make a whole lot of criminals of various bent unemployed with one fell swoop. Educators should be tasked with providing medically accurate information about harmful drugs, and there should be a legal age just like there is with alcohol, adults should be left alone to make their own informed choices.

It's fundamentally undemocratic and contrary to personal liberty that the government has to interfere with what you chose to use as recreational drug. If it wasn't illegal we could use all those resources that are pissed away every year on things like rehabilitation and providing real unbiased information about the dangers of a given drug. The world would not end if you let people be responsible for their own lives.

I propose making the 3 point area a little more interesting.

The trailer doesn't tell me what kind of game it is. Space marines look cool on a tabletop, and really stupid up close, and I'm tired of their Warhammer RTSs now.

Anyone else think the aliens looked a little goofy, the CGI a little dodgy ?. I suppose there is still post production, and that it might not be what it will look like, but still.

you know you had 8 weapon quickslots too right? once i started using those, switching weapons was never a hassle. I didn't. The game controls screen didn't deem it fit to inform me that they existed.

Don't you have a bunch of dogs, what are you worried about Coyotes for ?