I happen to have a minor in substance abuse studies...

I have been to more AA and NA meetings than I care to remember...

I ride with AA and NA members, and attend meetings with them...

You could say that I am a friend of Bill W...

You win MT... I don't know chit

 

IBTL

 

Remove booze, and replace with water. Thats how I view it. About as harmful. Water doesn't have all the benefits of MJ, but thats ok.

So how about now ? Harful ? Drinking water ?

I also advocate responsible smoking. However much I KNOW it does not effect my driving, I will not ever advocate it. Driving stoned can get you a dui just like booze. If you kill someone, they will use MJ as the reason, and that hurts the whole cause.

Let say someone drives her. So, wake and bake. Go to work folding envelopes for a paper company. Lunch break = more smoke. After work, smoke while you wait for your ride. Gets home, gets a call from boss, congratulating her on being the most dedicated, and folding the most envelopes (cuz she is baked, makes you concintrate). To celebrate, she goes into her room, packs a fatty, smokes, then passes out. Wake a few hours later with killer munchies. raids her kitchen. More smoke, back to bed.

Who'd she hurt ?

I can come up with em too !

Now, seriously, use common sense. Unless you have smoked pot for a long period in your life, you don't know how it makes you act. Memory tests have been done on people stoned, and the same people not stoned, no difference. SAT test have been done, no significant difference. IQ tests, lung capacity tests, etc etc etc all have been performed a LOT. Lung capacity will decrease when smoking. However, MJ smoke is the only smoke shown to clear up, after quitting. Thats right, your lungs will improve after you have quit. If your that concerned about your lungs, just eat brownies, take the pills, or the topical sprays. Many other ways to ingest THC.

 

Read the quote in your post again, and this time think cigarettes instead of weed. Would your response be the same?

- NCSU

Edited to add: Damn MT, GMTA!

Edited again to add: If we're talking about the smoke being unhealthy, sure, it is. So was that Krispy Kreme doughnut this morning, and that caffeine in that 64oz super slup I had for lunch.... lets not even talk about dinner!

 

Yep, it would, as cigs ---nicotine---is highly addictive, but, according to our hypocritical society, they are legal...all about the money.

Yep, in the end, I would agree...

Tim C.

 

So have you sat down with every adult friend you have that smokes cigs and give them the "another nail in the coffin" speech when they light up? The legality of any substance is not the topic of conversation in this thread... We've seen what happens when we talk about that

How much do you think stands to be made if weed were legalized? It's already a HUGE cash crop, just all the cash goes underground.

- NCSU

 

You have a minor in reefer madness theory. Congrats. Now, step into the real world.

AA = nothing to do with pot

NA = you'll get laughed out of the room if you go in for pot. You can't be addicted to pot. It destroys zero lives. Much more affordable.

"you ever suck **** for weed man ? "

Think about how quickly someone degrades when hooked on heroin for a long time. Now think about someone who has smoked for 40-50 years. You can point the heroin addict out in a crowd. Pot user shows no signs. Do the same with booze, cigs, anything. Pot doesn't hurt anyone. Never has, never will.

So, by your credentials, I would say your as qualified to discuss this, as I am to discuss Advanced Theory of Tabla. ZERO

You have zero experience, zero creds, zero street knowledge. Face it, you don't know chit about this topic. You can still have your opinions, but you have yet to offer facts.

 

That data may be inaccurate. In most stated a driving under the influence of marijuana goes in the books as a DUI-D. A DUI-D has no record of what type of Drug was suspected or detected.

Not to mention, I imagine there are many unreported pot related deaths that are looked at as accidents. E.G. someone forgot to do something that resulted in the death of another.

 

Hmmm you seem hellbent on defending weed no matter what. You like it, you use it...There is no convincing a pothead of anything. The dirty little secret is that I know much more than I shall ever disclose in this forum (me giving you the finger)...

 

I would venture to say, more of the "pot deaths" are deaths that woulda happened anyways, the guy just happened to be high.

You foget to do something, results in a death. how is the MJ's fault ? Other then the old stereotype.... it has been shown to not hurt the memory as bad as you'd think. And if it does, its not like its bad ONLY while high.

Like I said, I would bet a HUGE percentage of "pot deaths" or deaths that were unavoidable while sober, but they happen to be stoned.

No negative side effects.

NO DEATHS.

 

I'm not going to attack or defend anyone in this thread, but I found this online and thought it was interesting.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/marijBroch/M....html#longterm

 

No facts...just a potheads opinion...whats that worth?

MT, you're one crazy SOB that would die defending his weed causes. Weird chit IMO...

 

A true friend will smoke a bong with the addict and talk about life as they listen to Bob Marley, that's what a true friend does.

Repeat after me:

Pot is good, Pot is great.
Alltogether now....

 

If a pothead reads the above, they dismiss it as anti-weed propaganda... They are the equivalent of todays Neo ****'s that claim the Holocaust was a hoax...

I laugh at JBMX for trying to reason with the pothead... Its an act of futility. And yet I **** away my time doing the same.

 

Yep, I guess I have---but then again, very few of my friends---and none of my relatives smoke. I did tell a fellow offical a while back, at half time, (in a "smoke-free facility") to put the ****** cigarette out and that if he wanted to kill himself slowly that he wasn't going to do it when I was around---and involved with his 2nd-hand smoke...yep, I did...so what do you say to that?

TSC