Economy Fix or Fail??

[Cavernio]

Originally Posted by Vendetta21

1. Drug lords and smugglers making egregiously high profits on the basis of illegality whilst police are sinking costs into combating their own, otherwise for the most part law abiding, populace. These profits going to groups that stranglehold the security structure of developing nations, the most vivid examples being Mexico, Columbia.

"egregarious"? Is that gregariousness displayed via an electronic format? "Whilst"? This isn't the 16th century, the word is 'while'.
Oh, also, your point is irrelevant because marijuana isn't cocaine or heroin or any other drug that drug lords lord over people. I bet you I would find more fields of marijuana in New Brunswick than I would where cocaine growth abides.

Korny: I'm sure that smoking marijuana is a risk factor for lung cancer. Pretty much all smoke is. Even if the marijuana itself is totally benign, by the very act of filling up one's lungs with unclean air and holding it there, your lungs become less sensitive to having crap in them very, very quickly. This is bad because you're less likely to cough up stuff that shouldn't be in there, (which is pretty much anything besides clean air.)
Also, the girl who was with you who wasn't smoking? I bet you she hadn't smoked marijuana much/at all...I mean, why else wouldn't she have smoked it? That explains her lack of reaction.

[devonin]

Originally Posted by Cavernio

"egregarious"?

No

Originally Posted by "Vendetta21

egregiously

"conspicuous ; especially : conspicuously bad : flagrant"

Best to actually read what people type before you call them on it.

Edit: Also, I consider 'whilst' to be perfectly valid common usage. 'While' is a noun (This might take a while) a conjunction (I'll type this while I wait for a response) and a transitive verb (While away the hours)

Conversely, 'whilst' is unambiguously the conjunction.

[korny]

Originally Posted by Cavernio

Korny: I'm sure that smoking marijuana is a risk factor for lung cancer. Pretty much all smoke is. Even if the marijuana itself is totally benign, by the very act of filling up one's lungs with unclean air and holding it there, your lungs become less sensitive to having crap in them very, very quickly. This is bad because you're less likely to cough up stuff that shouldn't be in there, (which is pretty much anything besides clean air.)
Also, the girl who was with you who wasn't smoking? I bet you she hadn't smoked marijuana much/at all...I mean, why else wouldn't she have smoked it? That explains her lack of reaction.

Marijuana is a risk factor for lung cancer because it's smoke taken into the lungs? See below
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7503

In fact. See below
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7241

About the girl. She wasn't smoking because she was on probation. You would think she wouldn't want to risk it for fear of being drug testing would you not? I was able to convince her that it wouldn't show up on a urine screening and whaddayaknow? I was right.