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If you take an aspirin with orange juice, it can create an ulcer in your stomach?

1 out of every 150 Americans is now in prison or jail.

Marijuana is the most widely used and may be the most debatable unlawful drug today.

It comes from the cannabis plant, which grows wild, or in cultivation.

Marijuana has 412 different chemicals and collects in the fatty tissues of the body. One dose of pot remains in the body for one month. A daily smoke may require up to three months for the last traces to disappear.

One joint has the cancer causing and lung irritation of 16 cigarettes. It can cause increased heart rate and blood pressure, dangerous to people with heart conditions or high blood pressure. Marijuana lowers defenses of the body white blood cells count, affecting the immune system.

Sperm count is low and sperm are damaged in males. Most return to normal after three months after smoking stops.

Eggs are damaged in females. Babies born to mothers who smoke marijuana have a higher rate of miscarriage than non-smokers. Babies carried to full term may be slow to develop and respond, may startle more easily than other children, and may have tremors.

There is increasing evidence of brain damage in smokers averaging 2-3 joints per day. It may be especially harmful to the person who is at the stage of developing into an adult. It can damage the developing reproductive system and learning centers, as well as block the ability to learn the necessary social and work skills needed to survive in the adult world.

THC an agent in marijuana irritates the pleasure center in the brain resulting in the ‘high’ feeling. As this center continues to be chemically stimulated, it loses its ability to respond to normal stimulation such as music, beauty, or humor.

Some of the symptoms of use are red eyed, rapid mood changes, restlessness, intoxicated behavior, chronic cough, chest pains, carelessness, distortion of sensation and perception, time and space distortion, loss of concentration, drowsiness, and a sweet smoke smell.

Some street names for marijuana are; pot, reefer, grass, weed, joint, hash, hemp, roach, and rope.
Marijuana is usually smoked and sometimes eaten.

A Thought To Ponder

In one respect, we are all created equal. Each of us is given 24 hours a day. It is each individual's choice as to how that time is spent. We are free to waste it, invest it, refresh ourselves or produce with it. Most of us are, by circumstance, required to 8 -10 hours each day in production called work.

Another 6 - 8 hours are spent investing or recharging our batteries or sleeping. It is what we choose to do with the remaining 6 - 8 hours that determines where we end up in life.

If just half that time were spent investing in ourselves by learning more, imagine the possibilities. An hour a day in the library, or even surfing the Internet for new information on topics related to our work, would, in a short time, yield more than any monetary investment most of us are in a position to make.

Amick Buella

Bridges or Fences

Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as needed without a hitch.

Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.

One morning there was a knock on John’s door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter’s toolbox. “I’m looking for a few days work,” He said. “Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there I could help with? Could I help you?” “Yes,” said the older brother. “I do have a job for you.

Look across the creek at that farm. That’s my neighbor, in fact, it’s my younger brother. Last week thee was meadow between us, he took his bulldozer to the river levee, and now there is a creek between us. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I’ll go him one better. See that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to build me a fence—an 8-foot fence- so I won’t need to see his place or his face anymore.”

The carpenter said, “I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger and I’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.”

The older brother had to go to town, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready, and then he was off for the day. The carpenter worked hard all that day measuring, sawing, nailing.

About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. The farmer’s eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all. It was a bridge – a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other! A fine piece of work handrails and all – and the neighbor, his younger brother, was coming across, his had outstretched.

“You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I’ve said and done.” The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, the then they met in the middle, taking each other’s hand. They turned to see the carpenter hoist his toolbox on his shoulder.

“No wait! Stay a few days. I’ve got a lot of other projects for you, said the older brother.

“I’d love to stay on,” the carpenter said, “but I have many more bridges to build.”
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In one respect, we are all created equal. Each of us is given 24 hours a day. It is each individual's choice as to how that time is spent. We are free to waste it, invest it, refresh ourselves or produce with it. Most of us are, by circumstance, required to 8 -10 hours each day in production called work.

Another 6 - 8 hours are spent investing or recharging our batteries or sleeping. It is what we choose to do with the remaining 6 - 8 hours that determines where we end up in life.

If just half that time were spent investing in ourselves by learning more, imagine the possibilities. An hour a day in the library, or even surfing the Internet for new information on topics related to our work, would, in a short time, yield more than any monetary investment most of us are in a position to make.

Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as needed without a hitch.

Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.

One morning there was a knock on John’s door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter’s toolbox. “I’m looking for a few days work,” He said. “Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there I could help with? Could I help you?” “Yes,” said the older brother. “I do have a job for you.

Look across the creek at that farm. That’s my neighbor, in fact, it’s my younger brother. Last week thee was meadow between us, he took his bulldozer to the river levee, and now there is a creek between us. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I’ll go him one better. See that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to build me a fence—an 8-foot fence- so I won’t need to see his place or his face anymore.”

The carpenter said, “I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger and I’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.”

The older brother had to go to town, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready, and then he was off for the day. The carpenter worked hard all that day measuring, sawing, nailing.

About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. The farmer’s eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all. It was a bridge – a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other! A fine piece of work handrails and all – and the neighbor, his younger brother, was coming across, his had outstretched.

“You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I’ve said and done.” The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, the then they met in the middle, taking each other’s hand. They turned to see the carpenter hoist his toolbox on his shoulder.

“No wait! Stay a few days. I’ve got a lot of other projects for you, said the older brother.

“I’d love to stay on,” the carpenter said, “but I have many more bridges to build.”

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