No, pot doesn't make you stupid.....

[buster]

Barkley, in some instances sure. Overall though, I disagree with you. I'm not advocating pot, but I don't believe the gov. shouldn't be able to tell you what you can/can't put in your body.

People are not being killed with pot. It may kill them in a different way, but so does working 15 hours a day and drinking alcohol. I mean it's silly really.

We advertise, promote drug use. Alcohol, tobacco and pharm. companies spend $$'s and dollars in advertising drugs. We are a drug society. Pot is just a small, insignificant drug IMO.

Let's substitute our efforts by going after more child predators, or other criminals that are doing severe harm to society. Waste of money doing this [censored]....

 

[oilyriser]

Pot smokers make better workers than violent offenders.
http://unicor.gov/

 

[SecondMonkey]

Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
Wrong Buster- how many friends have you had that ended up hooked on coke, meth, pain killers etc?

That is SUCH a stupid arguement. I bet those people hooked on coke, meth, pain killers, etc, also started drinking milk first. Does that make milk a gateway drug? They probably all went to Mcdonalds at some point to. Did that make them wanna try meth because it was a better high than a cheeseburger? It's easy to make the "well they started on pot" arguement because more than 40% of the US population admit to smoking it at some point in their life. That does NOT mean they started smoking crack, meth, etc.

As for the guy going to the hospital "sick" I find that very, very hard to believe. The only possible way would be if he was somehow alergic, but that's rare. More likely the media got it wrong or took it out of context like they usually do.

Furthermore, on the subject of pot, I smoke it every day, so I know what I'm talking about. I have a license from the state of Oregon that allows me to do so. It really helps me with the various medical problems I have - one thing it has never done, and I have never seen done to anyone smoking pot - is being so sick that you have to be hospitalized. Ridiculous!

And Barkleymut - I have never once smoked crack or meth, so your arguement is totally ridiculous and made up. I hardly even drink alcohol...

 

[Gary Allan]

I imagine that the guy who ate the brownie went to the hospital because he didn't know what was happening to him and really thought (as he should) that something was seriously wrong. Pot brownies can be quite potent and there's little loss in the digestive intake process. He probably hallucinated (not too vividly) and couldn't cope with the situation.

I doubt that he was truly "ill" ..but I can't imagine him calling it anything else.

 

[Barkleymut]

All I know is that every single person that has ruined their life with "heavy drugs" was a pothead in High School. I still have yet to meet someone who started out on the hard stuff.

Just my observation.

 

[Gary Allan]

Did any of them also drink?

 

[Barkleymut]

2 yes, 2 no....its just my observation from 4 guys I knew in HS that ended up being junkies. I also did not watch them day in and day out in the years before they became meth/crack heads. All I know was that these guys smoked a lot of pot in HS and now they are using your (government) money since they can't hold down a job.

 

[Crashbox]

Perhaps he has a condition known as Overall Deficit Disorder...

 

[oilyriser]

it's self medication for a mental problem

 

[Gary Allan]

It may sound funny ..but if you've ever seen the massive state hospital facilities (most in states of incredible decay and mostly unused/abandoned in place) ...you'll realize that a good bit of our visible dysfunctional society was once neatly tucked away out of sight. I figure if you just didn't fit in with what some figured they wanted to look at in "Leave it to Beaver" land ..you ended up there.

 

[mikeg5]

should of just dried the brownies out and smoked it........with a glass of milk

 

[buster]

Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
All I know is that every single person that has ruined their life with "heavy drugs" was a pothead in High School. I still have yet to meet someone who started out on the hard stuff.

Just my observation.


Some do, some don't. Most of all the people I know that smoke are successful and intelligent people. I realize that like anything else, it can also cause harm. Just remember, alcohol kills far more people than pot. As to how many lives it "destroys", I can't tell you that.

 

[Gary Allan]

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As to how many lives it "destroys", I can't tell you that.


Well, I'm confident that it has destroyed less than alcohol ..at least from an historical standpoint. Probably in the current view too.

 

[SecondMonkey]

Originally Posted By: buster
As to how many lives it "destroys", I can't tell you that.


I think the only time marijuana ever "destroys" anyone's life is when the police find it and they go to prison over a plant. That will ruin your life for sure. Smoking it; however, won't, unless you were dumb to begin with.

Seriously, I'm on doctors orders right now to smoke pot and have a glass of whiskey before bed.

My doctors agree that it is much healthier for me than some of the other drugs they prescribe.

 

[SecondMonkey]

Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
its just my observation from 4 guys I knew in HS that ended up being junkies.


I've had 4 different vehicles in my life. All were old and beat up.

There fore, every car in the world is old and beat up.

(that's how dumb your arguement sounds)

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: SecondMonkey
Originally Posted By: buster
As to how many lives it "destroys", I can't tell you that.


I think the only time marijuana ever "destroys" anyone's life is when the police find it and they go to prison over a plant. That will ruin your life for sure. Smoking it; however, won't, unless you were dumb to begin with.

Seriously, I'm on doctors orders right now to smoke pot and have a glass of whiskey before bed.

My doctors agree that it is much healthier for me than some of the other drugs they prescribe.


Well, I don't want to swap places with you to legally smoke pot

..but I don't see it as the demon weed that some do. I guess it was just too popular and too hard to detect the effects of in an economical manner. I guess taxing it was too difficult.

I also agree that there are plenty of users of all kinds of stuff that are also losers. They would be losers no matter what and will find things that will keep their 3 operating brain cells entertained at some level that they can integrate. Sheep and/or cows probably top them in the brain pan comparisons.

 

[buster]

Everything in moderation.