Smoker Poll!!!!

I'm just goina take a real wild guess, a stab in the dark, that you "jointman69" are probably not totally agaist the idea of pot. Errr, could I be right?? Not that your name gave it away or anything. LOL!!!

 

yes indeed.

 

Thank you very much sweetie!! Groovy isn't it? I've just had it done as a tattoo on my upper left arm.

I think you may have ever so slightly missunderstood me, I really didn't mean they would nessacerily 'know' they would want to get into any other harder drugs. I just ment the type of person who does go from pot to something harder would have anyway, pot or not. It is, as yourself put, because of their 'addictive nature' that I ment, and not because canabis 'intises' them into the idea of other harder drugs. That's all.

 

no way, you must be a psychic! howd you know???!!
lol

 

Just a lucky guess, I suppose!

 

no marijuana... what's that?

 

And now for something completely different ... NOT! .. I completely stand behind tarabelle, if pot wasn't a black market drug to begin with it probably wouldn't even be an issue today. I still believe it was the 'Jack Webb' personification in the early '60s that pushed weed and LSD into the Schedule I class they're in today.
What harm comes from smoking pot? You get hungry, you get paranoid. OMG, we can't have that. We need socially accepted forms of reality respite, like alcohol. Don't get hungry, puke. Don't get paranoid, be the Man you Think You Are. Get into a couple bar fights, that'll really turn the women on.
"Gateway drug" to me is an expression that provides an easy escape for drug counselors. If a person is unhappy with the way things are going, that person is going to find a way to make life more bearable, plain and simple. After all, humans are composed of 90% water, and water always takes the path of least resistance.
And as for smoking in general, what's up with that? C'mon, a secretary died in 1972 from lung cancer after working with smokers for 10 years in an office, even though she didn't smoke? Ok, but how do you explain her co-workers living on retirement today? Tell me again how seat belts save every life on the highways.
It's a little truth sprinkled here and there, a few lies that won't change the statistics, a little dictatorship in a world of democracy. It wont' hurt a thing. Until it comes down to making the laws.

 

I did daily from about '80 to '90, but then slowly started to puff less and less frequently. First, I stopped buying it..... that made toking a little less regular, like a couple times a week instead of a couple times a day. In the last year, I have smoked about three joints altogether, the last one took me a month to finish.... at least I think that was how long it took... I can't exactly remember actually... uh... I can't remember very much at all actually... bummer, maybe that whole memory loss thing really was true...
Or maybe.... huh?

 

ah duh, look at my name for crying out loud lol

 

What a great post. You know your stuff.

 

Marijuana: please identify :sunglasse

ha j/k I know what that stuff is. It's that thing that makes people drown children in pools and fug up their sibling birthday parties and stuff.

The gateway is a paradox. Agreed on the black market as well as to what effect the misinformation campaign has on choices made. As it stands m is lumped in with everything else, in which most of the everything else can indeed lead to dire addictions and tragic outcomes. So kid sees all the bs, the dare classes etc.. and gets this picture that pot is such a wickedly bad thing. Then one day they try it. Lo and behold, "I didn't kill anybody, I just laughed my ass off and ate a bunch of donuts".. Now that it's already been established as part of the harder drugs, kid says well that was bullshit, how do I know they're not lying about the other drugs too. A group of researchers and educators did a paper on that. I think it's over at maps or someplace but thinking about it makes alot of sense. The gateway effect could be triggered by misinformed decisions perpetuated by the very 'information campaign' that touts the gateway theory.

 

So true, I'm sure. Why can't they see that prohibition will never work, especially in light of their smear campaigns?

 

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The whole misinformation thing that is pushed at the youth is what helps to create addicts. On one hand they are being told that marijuana is a gateway drug; and on the other, they are fed prescription drugs at 100 times the rate of any previous generation. The media has deemed the upcoming generation as generation Rx; hopin' those kids are smart enough to smoke one & forget about the zoloft & the oxycontin!

 

I'll confess, if anyone's interested.. I've been high 99% of the time since I discovered weed in 1978.. Heck, I'm doing bong hits now.. I love to get online and do bong hits and drink coffee..My two drugs of choice.. I don't think weed is anymore a gateway drug than alcohol or Mommies Zanies.. and I guess however you choose to get high could be a gateway drug, if you choose to do harder drugs. You gotta start somewhere..I smoked pot for over 20 years before I had any desire to try harder drugs. . Then that was more because of peer pressure, because The b/f plays in a band and I was around drugs in the bars.. So it had more to do with my crowd than using "gateway" drug..

 

I sure am

 

I'm sure I like you!

 

You sound like a cop. I am looking for all of you smokers out there. Don't sound so coplike huh

 

Oh for heaven sakes! It is no big deal.
0 (zero) people have ever O.D.ed from pot. 0 have ever died from it.
More people die from alcohol poisining and liver disease then anything else.
YES, I do. But what I do in the privacy of my own home shouldn't be anyones biz.

 

I smoke sometimes, yes. But in a city like mine, I'm one of the many people who do. You're almost an outsider if you don't. But outsiders are accepted here too. I kinda like my town.