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I think it's inevitable that any thread relating to drugs will just become a drug talk thread.cronxeh said:Mind bending. And let's not turn this into drug discussion thread
I think it's inevitable that any thread relating to drugs will just become a drug talk thread.cronxeh said:Mind bending. And let's not turn this into drug discussion thread
Gale said:my parents both smoke pot. my father is nearly 50 and my mum is 45. They smoke more than i do, cause i don't often. and mostly when i do smoke, its for free with friends, or i steal theirs. i even believe they're probably growing it out my property somewhere. 6 acres is a lot of room to be growing pot.
Would you care to elaborate on that? I've always been curious about things like this.loseyourname said:Yeah, my dad is a regular marijuana smoker, but he does it to relieve his back pain without having to take the addictive, stomach-lining destroying vicodin that is prescribed to him.
Jameson said:To the people who have never smoked pot, might I ask why? Never interested you, health reasons, breaking the law?
You know you probably didn't do it properly.Math Is Hard said:I tried it once when I was 14. Felt nothing. Tried it again at 26. Felt nothing.
Never did it again.
wasteofo2 said:For instance, from my experience, highs usually last around 2 hours. Do the pain-relieving properties of marijuana just last for the 2 hours you feel high, or do they linger for longer than that? Does marijuana have something that can relieve pain over the long-term, or is it just that when your dad feels particularly strong pain he'll smoke marijuana?
Also, where does an adult get marijuana from? Is it just like some random dude who sells pot to whover wants to buy it, or in CA is there some way to get it through the state medical system?
All of the above. Never smoked a cigarette either and go out of my way to avoid second-hand smoke as well (even if I wasn't concerned about the health effects, it just smells bad).Jameson said:To the people who have never smoked pot, might I ask why? Never interested you, health reasons, breaking the law?
My only real issue with marijuana as a pharmaceutical (as opposed to being used recreationally) is that if it's being smoked, then others around you can be "dosed" with it too, rather than just the patient getting it. If someone is terminally ill, and it works, I don't see how it is very different from any of the other highly addictive narcotic painkillers that can be prescribed...I think it's even less addictive than those even. The problematic side would be someone who has chronic pain and treats it to maintain a "normal" long life, in which case I'd be concerned about the lung cancer risk somewhat outweighing any benefits.loseyourname said:*Sorry, but I have to rant about this. The fact that people are so concerned about the effects of marijuana but then prescribe vicodin for chronic pain really pisses me off. My ex-wife was addicted to vicodin, an addiction she first succumbed to after hip surgery, and the crap that it can do to you is far worse than anything that marijuana can do. There is no reason for the ridiculousness of legislation. The best I can tell is that Nixon scheduled marijuana because it was the drug of choice for hippies and he hated hippies. Nothing more.
Math Is Hard said:I tried it once when I was 14. Felt nothing. Tried it again at 26. Felt nothing.
Never did it again.
Are you sure you weren't just suffering oxygen deprivation? You can get quite a loopy feeling just holding your breath too long too, especially if you've just replaced all the oxygen in your lungs with carbon monoxide!JasonRox said:Inhale until you can't inhale no more, and hold it in as long as you could. That seemed to work for me.
Moonbear said:Are you sure you weren't just suffering oxygen deprivation? You can get quite a loopy feeling just holding your breath too long too, especially if you've just replaced all the oxygen in your lungs with carbon monoxide!
I once did three buckets in a row and sat on the floor. Then my friend jumped into the room wearing a gas mask and waving a teddy bear at us. I laughed for ten solid minutes. That is, if anything, an underestimate. No BS. That's a good reason for doing it.mattmns said:May I ask the people who have smoked pot why they smoke/d it?
Seconded.Gale said:i like feeling my body...
I don't think anyone's condoning giving it to kids.pattylou said:I'd also heard that it can "stunt growth"...
True enough, it can, and in more than one way. It can make sex difficult for men if you're incredibly stoned, much like alcohol can. It can also make sex really, really, really good. I mean... REALLY good.pattylou said:... or "interfere with sexual function."
It's acid that lasts 8-10 hours. Shrooms last but a few.wasteofo2 said:Maybe shrooms one day, when I have like 8 hours or whatever in which I have no responsibilities at all.
That sounds like amyls?wasteofo2 said:Oh man, that stuff is still around? I remember a few years a buncha people I knew were doing that. It trips you out extremely for a pretty short amount of time, right?
Bollox.motai said:But I remember in the DARE programs a long time ago we are all fed the line that all drugs are bad (except for pharmaceuticals which are specifically prescribed to you) and that smoking marijuana is equivalent to getting high on a powerful narcotic like heroin or cocaine.
As a stupid cigarette smoker (but down to two a day \o/), I agree - tobacco smoke smells terrible and is one of the four mains I want to quite (the others being money, health and self-loathing at being addicted to something).Moonbear said:Never smoked a cigarette either and go out of my way to avoid second-hand smoke as well (even if I wasn't concerned about the health effects, it just smells bad).
The first few times it really got to me (and in post-high ruminations), there was also just the pure fascination with an altered state of consciousness in itself. Most people don't know, or don't really realize in any appreciable sense, that there are many, many more modes of consciousness than just 'normal' waking consciousness and dreaming, nor the extent to which, and manner in which, these alternate modes of consciousness are different from normal consciousness. Unfortunately, though, I do not think it is possible to communicate these points in anything more than a very hollow, surface scratching kind of way to one who has never experienced the effects of psychoactives. Langauge can only go so far in describing subjective experience, and even then it's only effective to the extent that speaker and listener share a common base of conscious experiences.
russ_watters said:And most adults I know who smoke a lot of pot have a lot of problems.
It's not addictive in the strictest sense. It can be addictive in the "oh, I just must have chocolate" sense.Kerrie said:But don't let anyone tell you that marijuana is not addictive.
Could that be because people who smoke on a frequent regular basis are frequently, regularly stoned and so frequently and regularly observed to be stoned? The effects of a joint can last hours. People who smoke a lot feel the effects of it less, but nonetheless are still affected. It's no more true to say that smoking a joint makes you oblivious and disconnected than it is to say drinking scotch makes you clumsy and disorientated.Kerrie said:In my experience, I have found those who smoke on a frequent regular basis are oblivious and have no connection to those around them.
El Hombre Invisible said:It's not addictive in the strictest sense. It can be addictive in the "oh, I just must have chocolate" sense.
A huge argument against the legalisation of cannabis is the statistical 'evidence' that people who smoke a lot of pot have problems in life, so cannabis is bad. The fact that normal people don't waste their lives away smoking pot doesn't seem to occur to them.
Yes, I thought that was obvious from my previous post.Anttech said:Hmm very true.. I take it from your responce that you have taken mind altering drugs before then?
It's most certainly the case that with frequent smoking, the user will gradually need higher and higher doses to achieve the same subjective effect. I don't know how that relates to the issue of pain relief though. It seems somewhat plausible that any pain relieving properties of using marijuana might last longer than the ~2 hour subjective high itself.Moonbear said:If someone uses marijuana for chronic pain, how long does it work? The problem with most painkillers is that tolerance (accompanying addiction) develops and higher and higher doses are needed to block the pain, or a different class of drugs needs to be used. Is marijuana any different?
Holding one's breath for 30 seconds, or even holding in cigarette smoke (carbon monoxide) for 30 seconds, certainly does not have any effect that can be confused for holding in marijuana smoke for 30 seconds. My own experience and experience observing others agrees with Jason's explanation.Moonbear said:Are you sure you weren't just suffering oxygen deprivation? You can get quite a loopy feeling just holding your breath too long too, especially if you've just replaced all the oxygen in your lungs with carbon monoxide!
Could that be because people who smoke on a frequent regular basis are frequently, regularly stoned and so frequently and regularly observed to be stoned? The effects of a joint can last hours. People who smoke a lot feel the effects of it less, but nonetheless are still affected. It's no more true to say that smoking a joint makes you oblivious and disconnected than it is to say drinking scotch makes you clumsy and disorientated.
yes it can be, but just the same as someone can be a workaholic..I can guarantee that marijuana can be addictive in the mental sense-maybe not for you personally
What were the withdrawal symptoms?Kerrie said:As a former pothead myself of 10+ years, I can guarantee that marijuana can be addictive in the mental sense-maybe not for you personally, but I have seen it grip people who feel they need it.
I'm sure all of these are legally sold in the UK. Certainly products containing or made out of hemp wood, hemp cloth and hemp oil are sold legally.Kerrie said:I think the biggest argument of why cannabis is illegal is because of the threat that hemp-the non THC relative of cannabis-has on major corporate industries such as lumber, cotton, and the big one-oil.
Meanwhile the lifestyle associated with drinking appears of no concern to anyone. It's hardly an argument, is it. "Legalisation of cannabis will introduce a drug culture." "Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't listening due to this group of pissed-up 14 yr olds trying to set me on fire for no reason."Anttech said:IMO The reason with Marjauana is illegal in some countries is because of the perceived "lifestlye" associated with people who smoke it. Which maybe true in some cases, but in my experience no where near as much as it is perceived
If they just allowed it to be smoked at home, no-one would be none the wiser anyway - that's what we're doing now, just illegally.Anttech said:When it is legallised you will find that normal people will come out of the woodwork who were smoking maruajana before it was made legal...
When cannabis was given a lower classification in the UK, a Guardian reporter sparked up a spliff outside a police station window to see what would happen. Nobody cared. The only people who care about cannabis staying illegal are those who benefit financially from it and those who have no idea what it does, and more importantly what it doesn't do. Fools and villians.Anttech said:Police won't even arrest you for possesion, only dealing. They just don't have the man power, and need to be concentrating on real crimes...
I'm sure all of these are legally sold in the UK. Certainly products containing or made out of hemp wood, hemp cloth and hemp oil are sold legally.
I know. Once you get the conditions right, the stuff grows like wildfire. It's actually quite scary how fast it grows. A friend of mine grew it in his loft. It got out of control and he was worried about the logistics of disposing of an illegal plant in bulk quantities. Heh heh.Anttech said:Yes they are.. It is also a very good renewable source, Marajuana is a very easy to grow in the right climate, thus it is called "weed"
How about, up in smoke ;-)It got out of control and he was worried about the logistics of disposing of an illegal plant in bulk quantities. Heh heh.
El Hombre Invisible said:What were the withdrawal symptoms?
I'm sure all of these are legally sold in the UK. Certainly products containing or made out of hemp wood, hemp cloth and hemp oil are sold legally.
the most practical reason to legalize is because of the effect it has on the legal system (at least in america).
Where these people also cigarettes smokers and, if so, did they continue to smoke cigarettes after they stopped smoking grass?Kerrie said:withdrawal symptoms are anxiety and moodiness for those who need it on a mental basis. of course marijuana addiction is nothing like heroin addiction or alcohol, but it can still have some control and grip on a person and their choices.
I agree. Smoke-driving not a good idea.Kerrie said:all in all, i don't think we need to glorify marijuana as a substance that ik okay for all to use. it still affects people's choices that ultimately can affect another-just like alcohol or any other narcotic. if it ever became legal to consume, i think the laws we enforce for alcohol should be consistent for pot. the most practical reason to legalize is because of the effect it has on the legal system (at least in america).
Anttech said:How about releasing funds and resources to the law enforcement agencies to actualy tackle crime? I think that is a very practical reason also.
BTW- I don't consider smoking marajuana any more of a crime than drinking, or even inflicting harm upon oneself by hitting there own face!