Re: OT Drugs/Weekly Big Mac vs Daily Joint

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LOL! I defer to your analysis!

From: " Anton " <michaelantonparker@...>

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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:06:10 -0000

Subject: OT Drugs/Weekly Big Mac vs Daily Joint

@@@@@@@@@@ Gene:

> I'd bet that eating a Big Mac once a week is more harmful than

> smoking a joint every day.

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No way!!! If you eat three meals a day, then your one Big Mac meal

is about 5% of your diet. When you think about the nutrient

distribution in traditional diets with starches and things, you could

get all your nutrition from maybe about only about 70% or so of a

high-quality diet. As long as the other 30% doesn't screw you up,

then you break even. Now, if 30% of your diet was Big Macs, about

one per day, then the glycemic load of the bun, the sodium, and the

concentration of chemical nasties in all the ingredients might be

enough to set you back a little, but smoking a joint every day would

probably set you back a fair bit too from densensitization to

neurological effects, carcinogens, etc. I would imagine the joint

would be much worse and the Big Mac would be in the neighborhood of

daily coffee, depending on individual physiology. Now throw in some

fries as part of the 30% and the trans fats and extra glycemic load

might push things a bit closer to the joint. But I can't see any

measurable negative effect from a weekly Big Mac if the other 95% was

a decent NT diet, while a dialy joint's got to be bad news. I

wouldn't be surprised if a weekly joint was harmless though, but I

don't know enough about it. Can't say I've ever tried either one...

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

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In a message dated 2/7/04 3:10:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,

michaelantonparker@... writes:

Gene wrote:

> >I'd bet that eating a Big Mac once a week is more harmful than

> >smoking a joint every day.

I don't think that's a very fair comparison. I'm not sure how to determine

the dosage of each for a comparison, since it's sort of like apples and

organges, and also I think an entire fast food meal should be used, including

fries

and soda, but perhaps a good way would be to make equivalent the percentage of

your waking hours you spend stoned with the percentage of your calories that

come from fast food.

But even that isn't necessarily a solid comparison, since it's really apples

and oranges. But Gene's point might have been that that dosage of pot is

pretty much harmless, and he's probably right.

Chris

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On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:06:10 -0000

" Anton " <michaelantonparker@...> wrote:

>@@@@@@@@@@ Gene:

>> I'd bet that eating a Big Mac once a week is more harmful than

>> smoking a joint every day.

>@@@@@@@@@@

But I can't see any

>measurable negative effect from a weekly Big Mac if the other 95% was

>a decent NT diet, while a dialy joint's got to be bad news. I

>wouldn't be surprised if a weekly joint was harmless though, but I

>don't know enough about it. Can't say I've ever tried either one...

>

I used to tell people this all the time whenever they would catch me

munching on something that wasn't up to the ideal standard I had laid

down....hehehehe....

Now a weekly joint...hmmm...????

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" They told just the same,

That just because a tyrant has the might

By force of arms to murder men downright

And burn down house and home and leave all flat

They call the man a captain, just for that.

But since an outlaw with his little band

Cannot bring half such mischief on the land

Or be the cause of so much harm and grief,

He only earns the title of a thief. "

--Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale