Pot

[Bushma]

I'll smoke pot MAYBE once a year usually about once every 2-3 years.  Personally I don't really think legalizing it will do anything but encourage the black market for the stuff.  By the time the states put on all the taxes they will simply price themselves out of the market. 

[Trevor]

Mom is a proponent of medical marijuana use (pot is called 'dagga' here) as she had two sisters - one had cancer and the other chronic asthma - for whom her Mom would prepare a marijuana tea which would relieve the symptoms. Mom told me she tried the tea a few times and she found it very bitter indeed. 

[ER]

It's a little funny that I find it growing wild here from time to time. It may date from the '80s when this was my grandparents' house and my cousins used to go back in the woods and smoke it and toss the seeds.

[Rev. Powell]

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Louie ck drugs are a solution

[Leah]

Anybody who smokes pot should go straight to jail, no get out free card!

I'd like to see an explanation for that statement, if you would be so kind.

Well my username has 420 in it so I was being sarcastic. Personally as someone who has two vices weed and alcohol, it is clear to me which is more harmful. I know from experience that you can excel academically (I was top of my class in 4th year university while smoking daily) and stay physically in excellent shape while smoking once or twice a day. You get drunk even 3 or 4 days a week and these things become extremely difficult as you will feel like crap half of the time and not have the energy to work out hard. Creatively as well it is very common for me to come back from a smoke with new song ideas and record/compose high quality material. Drinking you mostly just end up talking about creative stuff you want to do and never get around to it. As it is now I am cutting down on the drinking significantly but I cant foresee taking away having a spliff at night as I really do love it. There is a limit though, you cant just start smoking in the morning and accomplish much of anything. Everything in moderation even moderation.

As for legality its completely insane that any person would be in jail for smoking pot. I mean my mayor Rob Ford smokes much worse and hes the mayor!

When I wrote that, I thought it was 341. Also, I have heard people say that and not give an explanation.

[tracy]

It's a little funny that I find it growing wild here from time to time. It may date from the '80s when this was my grandparents' house and my cousins used to go back in the woods and smoke it and toss the seeds.

That reminded me of a story Dad used to tell. He was a police officer before we were born and one day he found some pot growing wild in our grandmother's back yard. No idea how it got there but he pulled it up and disposed of it before telling her what it was. Needless to say,she was appalled.

[Ash]

Smoked it for years.  Love it.  Would buy it all the time if it were legal.  Wait, what am I saying?  I buy it all the time and it's STILL illegal here in Iowa!
I'm not a total stoner but I do like to smoke up before marathon gaming sessions on the Xbox 360 or before a bike ride.  (yes, I said bike ride)  Being baked while cranking out miles on a mountain bike is a total blast.  I get into this zone and just fly.

Never had the urge to do harder drugs so I never bought into that whole "gateway drug" theory.

[JaseSF]

Of course, I don't do any recreational drugs and never will but I am in favor of legalization. The war on drugs indeed is not working and honestly legalizing it might just take a lot out of the hands of those who lace pot with other drugs to get people hooked or worse...also perhaps a bit less in the control of organized crime. I would be wary of people driving under its influence though.

It's ultimately people's choice what they do and making some things illegal isn't necessarily going to get people to do what others think best.

[lester1/2jr]

How many weed smokers do you ever see on Intervention? 

[Rev. Powell]

How many weed smokers do you ever see on Intervention? 

Or on Jeopardy?

[lester1/2jr]

We don't know

[Allhallowsday]

How many weed smokers do you ever see on Intervention? 

Or on Jeopardy?

On Jeopardy?  ...Every night. 

[Trevor]

How many weed smokers do you ever see on Intervention? 

Or on Jeopardy?

On Jeopardy?  ...Every night. 

"What is.........ohh, these colors man, the colors....." 

[Rev. Powell]

Relax, dudes, it's a joke. Puff up a fattie. 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I've pumped a widish range of legal, illegal, and semi-legal stuff into my system over the years, and none of it stuck (oustide of coffee).  Its a good buzz, less fattening than booze (minus the munchies), but its still not my thing.   I worry about legalization and how some people (kids mostly) will latch onto it.

Legalizing in my mind is complicated. Its an "easy" high and I think that it feeds addictive personalities due to  its "natural" and "herbal" and "medicinal" properties.  So in that way I think its more addictive as people think its "clean" and more wholesome than other highs.  And yes it is addictive, you can't see a "wake and bake" user and not see that.  BUT we don't need to be spending billions busting people with it either.  Its not the evil drug of Reefer Madness, but it's not harmless neither.

I lived in the Netherlands, and the approach was interesting, yes it was legal, but there was a sort of social stigma associated with using it (analogous to maybe going to nudie bars here).  You never saw professionals in the pot shops, or grannies or anything like that. 



-Ed