Green Tea: Even Healthier Than Marijuana.

[AssKissinger]

Green Tea


Marijuana

A component of green tea helps kill cells of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the second most common leukemia in American adults, according to new research.

[Dynamic Jointmeister]

Every Day i drunk tea,every day i smoke,that's the way it is!haha!

[sillygirl]

Green tea my arse, know what chills me out! (Just been home for a week, and me step dad totally sorted me out wiv sum stuff from Amsterdam~am totally jonesing now, so blah blah with the green tea shite!!!)

[Big Booger]

At first I thought this meant I could load my bong up with green tea.... ahem ahem.. choke choke...

Didn't work.

[mr. sparkle]

[sillygirl]

gambarimasu......

will try to compensate with good ol' Asahi Super Dry [/quote]

[kurohinge1]

This must be the green tea version of the bucket bong ...

[mr. sparkle]

Oh Man!
The occupyers prevented what could today be the new amsterdam.
There is a long history of cannabis culture in japan, I guess.


taima - the goddess of j-weed

Weed Haikus
In the following Haikus, the feeling of cannabis is clear.
The wandering Zen poet Issa Kobayashi writes:

The cannabis around my hut
also has suffered
From summer thinness.
Just when I hear
The sundown bell,
The flower of this weed.

Basho the Haiku Master writes:

The cannabis- How wonderful it is!
The summer drawing room.
Trees and stones, just as they are.
Ah, how glorious!
The young leaves, the green leaves,
Glittering in the sunshine!

And one more, author unknown:

When all things are hushed,
suddenly a bird's song
arouses a deep sense of stillness.
When all the flowers are departed,
suddenly a single flower is seen,
and we feel the infinity of life.

[AssKissinger]

Basho the Haiku Master writes:

The cannabis- How wonderful it is!
The summer drawing room.
Trees and stones, just as they are.
Ah, how glorious!
The young leaves, the green leaves,
Glittering in the sunshine!

In-fucking-credible!!! (hope that's not fabricated)

[sillygirl]

Apparently it was legal before the 2nd world war.......

[AssKissinger]

Apparently it was legal before the 2nd world war.......

That's the best argument against Hiroshima and Nagasaki I ever heard.

[sillygirl]

Apparently it was legal before the 2nd world war.......

That's the best argument against Hiroshima and Nagasaki I ever heard.

exactly!

[mr. sparkle]

Apparently it was legal before the 2nd world war.......

That's the best argument against Hiroshima and Nagasaki I ever heard.

exactly!

they should bring back the taima culture. it would definitely bring tourist dollars into japan with few ill effects. the only pissed off people would be the police with fewer people to bust.

you can already purchase magic mushrooms right on the street in roppongi--quite legally. i've seen 'em. The chronic is much less of a problem than 'shrooms are, I would imagine.


magic, yes? Y3000

They've planned to outlaw them, but I think they are still there, right?

[Taro Toporific]

you can already purchase magic mushrooms right on the street in roppongi--quite legally. i've seen 'em...
They've planned to outlaw them, but I think they are still there, right?

No shoom no more.
The magic is gone.

Japan culls magic from mushrooms
BBC.com / Monday, 13 May, 2002, 11:03 GMT 12:03 UK
Japan is planning to outlaw the use of magic mushrooms, closing down a legal loophole which has allowed users relative freedom in a country famous for its strict drugs laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1984498.stm

[mr. sparkle]

yeah--'shrooms....

not that I'm into them or anything--but hey, that's too bad.

i always thought that so asenine that you could do time for the muggles but you could shroom out completely legally.

hmmm....now that i look at the date. i believe that may 2002 was the last time i was in japan. so dat exprains dat.

that guy behind the counter looks like he's been dippin' into his own product though, eh?

"you KNOW pongi san? Honto?"

I am planning to go to Miasa next time I come to Japan.


Miasa means "beautiful hemp village"

"Until 1948 hemp could be grown by anybody, anywhere in Japan, without any legal restrictions. Then the Hemp Control Law passed under American occupation required anybody wanting to cultivate the plant to obtain a government license. Initially that law was largely ignored."

The document where Uncle Sam made it illegal


Big tobacco fueled taima ban thru Gen. Doug?
Hmmm--


Legalize Taima NOW!

[AssKissinger]

More good news!

Cannabis Use Not Linked with Psychosocial Harm

[AssKissinger]

Japanese writer enjoys the holy weed.

http://search.mainichi.co.jp/cgi-bin/mdn/search.cgi?keyword=nakajima&no=0&id=200305-26-0526m001.dm0&article=20

The presiding judge pointed out that Nakajima depended on marijuana for healing his mind that has been exhausted as a result of writing his works.

[jpman9]

Where can I find this "Green Tea" you speak of? Been here six weeks and on a bit of a binge.

[AssKissinger]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/11/03/politics1234EST7302.DTL

Montana voters by a wide margin approved a medical marijuana law Tuesday, allowing the cultivation, possession and use of the drug for medical purposes. The initiative shields patients, their doctors and caregivers from arrest and prosecution

[Ketou]

Weed Haikus
In the following Haikus, the feeling of cannabis is clear.
The wandering Zen poet Issa Kobayashi writes:

The cannabis around my hut
also has suffered
From summer thinness.
Just when I hear
The sundown bell,
The flower of this weed.

Basho the Haiku Master writes:

The cannabis- How wonderful it is!
The summer drawing room.
Trees and stones, just as they are.
Ah, how glorious!
The young leaves, the green leaves,
Glittering in the sunshine!

And one more, author unknown:

When all things are hushed,
suddenly a bird's song
arouses a deep sense of stillness.
When all the flowers are departed,
suddenly a single flower is seen,
and we feel the infinity of life.

Hey Sparkle do you have the original Japanese versions of these?

[AssKissinger]

http://www.forbes.com/home/global/2003/1006/038.html

[dimwit]

There are tons of hemp farms in southern Ehime (I remember the shock the first time I saw one). They THC content of the hemp plant at these farms is so low that it is literally like smoking rope; you'd would get cancer before you got high. Nonetheless farmer are still required to do drug tests just to make sure they aren't being sneaky.

My younger brother once tried to smoke something like this when he was eleven. My mother was growning false aralia



which my brother mistook for dope. The first I knew about it was when a smelt a horrible very undopelike aroma permeating my room. I found that he had been secretly trying to cure the false aralia leaves in his closet and was now trying to smoke them.

[AssKissinger]

Green tea doesn't lower cancer risk, US FDA says Thu Jun 30, 8:27 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contrary to what some studies claim, green tea probably does not help prevent breast, prostate or any other type of cancer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.


It said studies supporting the assertions are only weak.

"Two studies do not show that drinking green tea reduces the risk of breast cancer in women, but one weaker, more limited study suggests that drinking green tea may reduce this risk," the FDA said in a statement.

"Based on these studies, FDA concludes that it is highly unlikely that green tea reduces the risk of breast cancer."

Likewise, only one "weak and limited" study shows that drinking green tea can reduce the risk of prostate cancer, the FDA said.

"The FDA also concluded that existing evidence does not support qualified health claims for green tea consumption and a reduced risk of any other type of cancer," the agency said.

[sillygirl]

In recent years the number of Japanese who visit foreign countries, either on business, as exchange students or as tourists, has risen dramatically and many brought back the experience of smoking cannabis. As many as one in fifty Japanese, or over two million people, may have tried it already. There probably are several hundred thousand current users of cannabis in Japan right now.

http://www.taima.org/en/price.htm

[AssKissinger]

VERY cool pic, SG

[sillygirl]

Thanks, but I think I look a bit tired in it.......

[AssKissinger]

Thanks, but I think I look a bit tired on it.......

With all those hands you could tweak both my nipples, rub my tummy, give me a hand job, cup my nut sac, stick a finger in my butthole, pick my nose, give me a haircut and massage my feet all at the same time

[sillygirl]

*SNORT*

[American Oyaji]

I'll have what HE'S smoking!

But seriously. I've got a gal pal in Japan who smoked with me when she was here.

She smoked when she was in Canada too.

She is jonesing now cuz she's in North Tohoku and its hard to get out there.

[Taro Toporific]

Green Tea Compound Stops Alzheimer's in Mice
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News / Forbes.com) -- An ingredient in green tea has prevented Alzheimer's disease-like brain damage in mice, researchers report.
The compound, called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), decreased production of the protein beta-amyloid, which accumulates in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and causes nerve damage and memory loss.
"The findings suggest that a concentrated component of green tea can decrease brain beta-amyloid plaque formation," senior researcher Dr. Jun Tan, director of the Neuroimmunology Laboratory at the the University of South Florida's Silver Child Development Center..more...