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I ususally stay out of the discussions on this board mainly sticking to mindless banter because most of the time you guys (for the most part) seem to usually know what your talking about. But man are you so far off base here.
First off smoking a joint does not effect you the same way drinking does. And that my dear has been proven. Smoking a joint as it was so laughingly put above basically does just what he said. You pretty much just want to veg out and watch tv or do some other type of sedintary activity. The last thing it makes you want to do is get in a flippin' car and drive around mainly because your to paranoid to do anything else.
Said this many times before in many other threads. You won't see someone get behind the wheel of a car and kill a family of five after smoking 4 joints, but give someone 4 drinks of beer, jack and coke etc.....and yeah it's a receipe for disater as we have all seen time and time again. Alcohol makes you feel invincible like nothing can harm you and for the most part that's a correct statement. When working a car accident where a family of five has been killed 9 times out of 10 when the drunk person is extricated from the accident they usually will walk away with nothing but minor injuries possibly a broken bone but most of the time just scratches. Because of the effect the alcohol has on the body. You will not pass out or have a black out from smoking pot, unless your smoking Hydro or Kind Bud and even then not. Or at least that's been my experience. You just get tired and look for the nearest bed or couch.
Again WOW!! Do you live under a rock or is this an April Fools joke. You can't be serious? Well let me dispell your mythological thinking. Well Hmmmm.......I'd say this is a serious conversation and I seem to be holding my own pretty well and I've smoked pot for the last 30 years or so. I'm a college educated person who recently went back to school earned my second degree and I eat fairly healthy. Oh I have the odd piece of chocolate now and again but who doesn't. On one of my jobs I held as a receptionist I had 15 incoming lines and took between 1000 and 1300 calls per day. And did it quite well, well enough to win the customer satisfaction award in 2000. Guess what......was smoking pot when I did that.
Oh and to further repute your assumption regarding Pot smokers and basically that they can't hold jobs. My husband has smoked pot for as long as I've known him which is going on 17 years now. He's held the same job for the last 15 years with the Sweeping Company he's worked for. He started out blowing leaves around a parking lot when the business started with three trucks within two years he was moved into a second in command position and over the course of the last 13 years has built the business to having a fleet of 12 trucks whie working his way into upper management making $20.00 per hour. He ran a 22 man crew per night and the company is now a 2.5 million dollar business and the owner back in October moved him into the office as the owner's assistant and will be selling the company to him. And upon his move into the office wrote him a letter stating to Steve that his business and company would not be where it is today without the help and expertise of my husband who built the company to the multi million dollar business that it is. All while he's continued to smoke pot.
Most if not all of my friends smoke pot. Dan has smoked for 30+ years and has worked for the University of Texas for the last 25, Jan has smoked 30+ years and runs and owns her own boutique, Tim has smoked for 20+ years and recently graduated with a 4.0 in computer science and now works for a major fortune 500 company in their IT department. It doesn't lead to other drugs unless you as a person make that choice. People don't sit down smoke a joint and say OOOOOooooOOOOo since I smoked that joint now I think I'm going to go try crack. It doesn't work like that, although society would like you to think that.
Oh and one other thing.......if and when I go to hear live music and I do live in Austin and it is "the live music capitol of the world" if it's a band I like then yes, I will try to get to the front of the stage. If I'm going to pay $25 I at least want to see the show, but here's the newflash honey, I wear ear plugs. Yes that's right this pot smoking rebel who can't hold a job and shoves twinkies in her mouth 24/7 wears ear plugs.
And as a person who has had to endure Cancer not once but twice in my life, I can honestly tout the medicinal purpose of Pot. It does wonder for the blinding nausea that's caused by chemo but it also helps restore some semblance to your appetite that is totally wrecked after chemo.
For my daughter who is Bi-polar/manic depressive it's helped to keep her on an even keel since she won't take her medication. Actually the stuff they prescribed for her made her into a zombie. When she self medicates with Pot she's been able to thankfully move out of our house after three years, hold down a job for the last year and again thankfully pay all her bills without having to rely on us. I'm not saying it's the end all be all to her problems alot of this she had done on her own under her own steam and making up her mind to do it. However, I don't think she could have gotten as far if she didn't have the pot to keep the outburst under control.
And from hemp, you already know this argument. Clothes, rope, paper, medicine etc.....
I watched a documentary the other night on the "so called drug war" and the "drug Zar" at the time back in the 30's or 40's what ever the year was it became illegal said, and these are his exact words as he stated them on the documentary "how am I going to be able to convince the american people that a weed that grows freely is illegal".
It's not what you think it is and it's illinformed people that don't really know the first thing about it that spout off repeated rethoric about it that continue to perpetuate the ignorace around Pot. Oh but I'm so sorry since I'm supposed to be nothing but an ignorant pot smoking simpleton maybe I shouldn't use such big words.
I ususally stay out of the discussions on this board mainly sticking to mindless banter because most of the time you guys (for the most part) seem to usually know what your talking about. But man are you so far off base here.
First off smoking a joint does not effect you the same way drinking does. And that my dear has been proven. Smoking a joint as it was so laughingly put above basically does just what he said. You pretty much just want to veg out and watch tv or do some other type of sedintary activity. The last thing it makes you want to do is get in a flippin' car and drive around mainly because your to paranoid to do anything else.
Said this many times before in many other threads. You won't see someone get behind the wheel of a car and kill a family of five after smoking 4 joints, but give someone 4 drinks of beer, jack and coke etc.....and yeah it's a receipe for disater as we have all seen time and time again. Alcohol makes you feel invincible like nothing can harm you and for the most part that's a correct statement. When working a car accident where a family of five has been killed 9 times out of 10 when the drunk person is extricated from the accident they usually will walk away with nothing but minor injuries possibly a broken bone but most of the time just scratches. Because of the effect the alcohol has on the body. You will not pass out or have a black out from smoking pot, unless your smoking Hydro or Kind Bud and even then not. Or at least that's been my experience. You just get tired and look for the nearest bed or couch.
Pot is not harmless at all. There are very bad consequences to society and individuals that come from people using pot. Pot ****s your thinking all up, and I'm just not talking about when people are high. Have you ever tried to have a serious conversation with a habitual pot user? If you had you would know that pot is in no way harmless.
And what about the way they live their lives. Eating all that junk food all the time. At concerts who do you think stands right by the giant speakers. That's just a couple of ways stoners take care of themselves. That's not to mention the fact that stoners will usually use other drugs as well.
And what about the way they live their lives. Eating all that junk food all the time. At concerts who do you think stands right by the giant speakers. That's just a couple of ways stoners take care of themselves. That's not to mention the fact that stoners will usually use other drugs as well.
Again WOW!! Do you live under a rock or is this an April Fools joke. You can't be serious? Well let me dispell your mythological thinking. Well Hmmmm.......I'd say this is a serious conversation and I seem to be holding my own pretty well and I've smoked pot for the last 30 years or so. I'm a college educated person who recently went back to school earned my second degree and I eat fairly healthy. Oh I have the odd piece of chocolate now and again but who doesn't. On one of my jobs I held as a receptionist I had 15 incoming lines and took between 1000 and 1300 calls per day. And did it quite well, well enough to win the customer satisfaction award in 2000. Guess what......was smoking pot when I did that.
Oh and to further repute your assumption regarding Pot smokers and basically that they can't hold jobs. My husband has smoked pot for as long as I've known him which is going on 17 years now. He's held the same job for the last 15 years with the Sweeping Company he's worked for. He started out blowing leaves around a parking lot when the business started with three trucks within two years he was moved into a second in command position and over the course of the last 13 years has built the business to having a fleet of 12 trucks whie working his way into upper management making $20.00 per hour. He ran a 22 man crew per night and the company is now a 2.5 million dollar business and the owner back in October moved him into the office as the owner's assistant and will be selling the company to him. And upon his move into the office wrote him a letter stating to Steve that his business and company would not be where it is today without the help and expertise of my husband who built the company to the multi million dollar business that it is. All while he's continued to smoke pot.
Most if not all of my friends smoke pot. Dan has smoked for 30+ years and has worked for the University of Texas for the last 25, Jan has smoked 30+ years and runs and owns her own boutique, Tim has smoked for 20+ years and recently graduated with a 4.0 in computer science and now works for a major fortune 500 company in their IT department. It doesn't lead to other drugs unless you as a person make that choice. People don't sit down smoke a joint and say OOOOOooooOOOOo since I smoked that joint now I think I'm going to go try crack. It doesn't work like that, although society would like you to think that.
Oh and one other thing.......if and when I go to hear live music and I do live in Austin and it is "the live music capitol of the world" if it's a band I like then yes, I will try to get to the front of the stage. If I'm going to pay $25 I at least want to see the show, but here's the newflash honey, I wear ear plugs. Yes that's right this pot smoking rebel who can't hold a job and shoves twinkies in her mouth 24/7 wears ear plugs.
And as a person who has had to endure Cancer not once but twice in my life, I can honestly tout the medicinal purpose of Pot. It does wonder for the blinding nausea that's caused by chemo but it also helps restore some semblance to your appetite that is totally wrecked after chemo.
For my daughter who is Bi-polar/manic depressive it's helped to keep her on an even keel since she won't take her medication. Actually the stuff they prescribed for her made her into a zombie. When she self medicates with Pot she's been able to thankfully move out of our house after three years, hold down a job for the last year and again thankfully pay all her bills without having to rely on us. I'm not saying it's the end all be all to her problems alot of this she had done on her own under her own steam and making up her mind to do it. However, I don't think she could have gotten as far if she didn't have the pot to keep the outburst under control.
And from hemp, you already know this argument. Clothes, rope, paper, medicine etc.....
I watched a documentary the other night on the "so called drug war" and the "drug Zar" at the time back in the 30's or 40's what ever the year was it became illegal said, and these are his exact words as he stated them on the documentary "how am I going to be able to convince the american people that a weed that grows freely is illegal".
It's not what you think it is and it's illinformed people that don't really know the first thing about it that spout off repeated rethoric about it that continue to perpetuate the ignorace around Pot. Oh but I'm so sorry since I'm supposed to be nothing but an ignorant pot smoking simpleton maybe I shouldn't use such big words.
The mighty Bob Mould 
comes from there, though, so the place clearly has some significant merit. 
Totally screwed up his life, and now he has to take antipsychotics.
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