Cannabis pros and cons

There's nothing wrong with a little weed here and again. Or every day. It just depends on how you let it take hold of you. Or, I suppose, if your personality is addictive, you may be screwed anyway.

Bottom line is, cannabis is great, and there's nothing wrong with indulging as long as you can determine the times when it should be used, and shouldn't. (i.e. at your 5 year old sister's b-day party)

I have seen many more pros than cons to this magical plant. In fact, I can't think of any cons. Not to me personally, anyhow. It just makes everything I do just that much more enjoyable when I'm high. Like riding a rollercoaster.

 

you said you wouldn't preach..... to much is always bad. smoking a littlebit of weed once in a while will do no harm at all. that doesn´t means you should stop experiencing life like you said, it is wonderfull overhere. and weed only made me realise it more and makes me realise it more and more every time i´m high. your post does not seem to be fixed on the cons of marihuana usage allone but on bad habits in total.

if you say weed shouldn't be used because it does harm to a little number of user. why not prohibit tv and candy as well, the make you fat because you eat unhealthy and don´t get enough excercise because you need to see a show on tv. BTW tv kills your creativity. there are so many things out there that make victims because people can't handle them, i don't think weed is the worst of em. not everyone becomes a zombie type of person because of weed, i have actually never met an abuser that couldn´t function in society.

 

Ah, alternative view points! To be honest with some of you about your responses, I can see where the cult of personality of the drug culture has taken hold. Not surprising! I've been around long enough to have read and heard decades of debates about, analysis of, support for, surveys against and personal testimonies concerning every aspect of Pot and it's relatives. I've also seen the changes in attitude that most people go through as they (and I) got older about where Pot fits into individual lives and the overall affects it has had on society. For the individual part, I compare pot users to a lot of the Harley owners. For years Harleys were (and are still) known to be THE bike to own here in the states. Now, Harley's weren't the best bike to own mechanically. Many other styles of bikes were a better buy for reliability, cost, etc., but that wasn't the reason why soooo many people bought their rides. Most people buy Harley's specifically for the IMAGE!!! The outfits, leather, jargon, special gatherings, a ton of accessories, memorabilia, T-shirts, and great paint jobs. In other words, a marketing agency's wet dream. And in order to enjoy this image, (here come's the denial part) riders chose to overlook known fustrations with mechanical/electrical problems (I knock no ones ride, but Harley's exist in this realm). Most Pot users do the same thing. Just fill in the blanks. However, with Pot the biggest sales group are youths, still in school or just out, experimenting and justifying a really terrificly cool image, that cult of druganality. The forum letters from the older types support different attitudes that kinda debunk the wonderful world of weed that some of ya'll have bought into. Does time and experience dull the youthful exuburance of the almighty weed? I'd take a yes vote to that question to Vegas and bet the farm on it! Hey, my generation was the same way! But then again, it's been that way for quite a while!! You and I will not agree on this subject for another ten or twenty years. I'm just here to give you the chance to save 50% on your phone bill or 10 - 20 years of unnecessary experiencing that has left a heavy toll of people just like you. The scariest line I have read is the one that says, "I have actually never met an ABUSER that couldn't function in society."! (?????) I'm glad we understand individual consequences and we're looking out for each other! Take care out there!

 

HEMP726 - NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo! You listen to the radio, man! Me? I've ALWAYS gone to the street for my education, my brand of mental stimuli, my puff on the pipe of reality! I want to stare straight into the eyes of he who tells me so! I want to smell the lies and taste the truth as it is served, not as it is pictured in the magazine. Even my enemies will make the effort to attack me in person! Them that wait for the truth to be brought to them will be spoon fed whatever crap their laziness will allow! Must life be encapsulated for you and brought to you on a platter before you'll digest it? If I wanted to know about Pot and how it affects people I wouldn't go to a radio, your bag...I'd go to where Pot users lived, I'd go to where they hung out and see what they do while high, then I'd go to the clinics where they are being treated for the physical results, and the wards for the mental results. Woah! Hey...I did!! What would possess me?!? How broad is your concept, man. How real is your world? Tune in for some more RealityRadio, it beats....reality? NoNoNoNoNoNoNo! Tell my ears, for my eyes will only lie to me! Script my wisdom, my brain will only confuse me with the FACTS as I'm TOLD! Only askin' about weed? Not about booze or any of that Jazz??? McFly...it's all about.....the head!

 

I am really not happy with the way you took what I said out of context

"My band dumped me..God, I need pot to hold me together!"

THis isn't an accurate summary of what i said at all and THis misrepresents all my posts

I never ever ever ever said I needed pot to hold me together in fact I said that i didnt need pot at least once




I always felt like there was something left for me to experience and I always wanted to know what...

and so i became interested in trying weed...

FIRST: I studied weed for quite a while


I read NORML

I re-read my D.A.R.E. book
and I read posts on here as well as anti pot sites...

I watched all those anti drug ads on those prop sites and read articles in medical books and online before I even took one puff...

I weighed the risk and consequenses and came to what I believed was the best decision for me

So i tried weed...

It just felt natural...

like "hey, maybe you finally found a hobby"

Everything afterwards just came to me eventually...
I enjoyed the way this made me feel and It was finally something for me to have fun with.

"If that's your best defense for pot usage, or doing anythings else for that matter, then you don't give much thought to anything you should be giving serious consideration to."

this i think i just discredited

"seems to be summed up by your statement of, "who cares"! " read it over... i didnt say that ONCE!
now this is putting words in my mouth and in a way to make me seem ignorant, this is discrediting my character... which is a dirty way to win a debate of this sort.



My main point of my posts was

people have hobbies...

Someone in a basement... has a model train that they love...

they spend many hours in the basement adding cars and landscape to the train set and making tracks. they buy quite a bit of extra features for their set such as extra tracks trains, etc.
they think "this is costing me quite a bit of money, but heck... it's what I enjoy doing, to ME it's worth it"

that's a hobby, it's normal, it's his passtime he has a passion for it.



now we'll have a look at my hobby

I enjoy smoking weed and anything related to the weed culture...
I post on threads like this about it and like to buy bongs, pipes, and any other kind of accessories for my hobby I realize i spend a bit of money on it... but weighing it against my other hobbies... it turns out to be the cheapest... what do you know? so it's not absorbing all my cash. I also have a job so it doesn't take up all my time... I also spend time with my family and dont go to work stoned... I wouldnt drive stoned either.

I have fun with my hobby and it doesn't consume my entire life, mind, time or money... and I am somewhat harmless while doing so.. why cant i be allowed to enjoy my hobby in peace?

cause it's illegal?











yup













I would also like to point out that.. say i end up in another good band my weed involvement will drop significantly


also that i dont plan on being a stoner all my life... it's just my thing for now
until another hobby interests me... you dig?

 

man your last few posts have been somewhat weak

there are two sides to the propoganda remember

 

Hey Dark - Weak? Ouch! After I've poured my soul out over these keys.....! I thought it was Pulitzer Prize winning stuff. Good news is, that's all I have to say! Have a happy trippy-dippy life!

 

that's exactly what i mean...

 

u have to lsiten to it to understand man im not saying that should be ur only guide or w/e u tihnk but it just gives me or insite into scientific government studies with how marijuana and human body react to one and other and how the rest of the country is feeling about marijuana use and criminalization. give it a try before u knock it man

 

im just gonna say this some of you might agree some of you might not

leafs make bttr music lets say band like nirvana, pink floyd, yes, iron maiden, ect.. they all smoked they all rock

 

i got through the first two pages of this thread....and i hear ya all...i didnt read the next three pages ...sorry maybe i missed something...but hear me....i am a 54 yr old mother and grandma (Nina) and i have smoked my weed for 40 yrs (yeh i started at 14...but the first bag was oregano hahaha). I will be honest...I did more than weed for many years...bad drug. ..but i have never considered weed a drug. Thats bullshit. I was also (and prob still am) a drunk...hear me out now. But coming through all I have...there is just no reason for you guys to be freaked about pot. It's not mystical. ...(that comes from the inside)...its not psychedelic....its not a carcinogen. I think I saw someone say its what you make it. Well kinda. So is alcohol then. I do drink whiskey (love it)and I do smoke my ganja. But I also make diamond willow items, I babysit my 18 month old grandson 4 days a week, I clean (a lot!) ...and then there is all the stuff that we do because we live in a national forest...My life is good...and my doobie is just a part of it. It's not a party tool (but alcohol is ha ha) ...
If I have any advice for younger people...leave the friggin hard drugs alone alone alone....they will fuck you up...for many years.
Ok I am done...

 

oh yeh...and leaves can be used to make hash...do your homework you guys! smooches!

 

If you guys smoke weed for 40 years, you'll have to use an ellipsis instead of a simple period for... every... single... sentence...

 

I always wanted to know what that was called...


I use it probably too much as well (refer to previous posts)

but i kinda felt it made it read better.

but that's just me

 

I've read every response to the question, and I found that some of them sounded highly uneducated, but granted, they were probably written by fifteen-year-olds, and I understand where those kids' minds are at right now.
Timetraveler, I completely understand and appriciate what you're saying. I see your point, and I know how hard you're trying to stress your opinion, and get through to people. But, the fact is, people will have their own opinions, and as right as you think you are, someone else feels the same way about their own opinion. I think everyone should be willing to LISTEN to other people, and embrace what they're saying, whether or not they agree (which I think Darksideofthemoon did do).

I smoke weed. I've been smoking for four years now, and I love it. The only cons I've experianced from smoking have been occational sore throats. I've never been in trouble with the police, because I smoke either at my house, at my boyfriend's house, in the woods, or in my car out in the country, where the police do not frequently drive by. That's not to say I never will get in trouble - I just take procautions.

Weed is a part of my life, but it doesn't define me. I think that weed has enhanced who I am. I used to be painfully shy and insecure, but once I started smoking, I stopped caring what other people think about me, and I am just a genuinely honest, real person, and I think I'm a pretty nice girl. I know that I'm smart, and I don't think that weed has changed that at all. My grades have not suffered due to smoking pot, my family life has not suffered. I work at a flower shop, and I do not smoke before I go to work, or while I'm at work, because there's a time and a place for everything, and while I'm working is not the time or place to smoke. I am responsible about my marijuana usage, and I feel that being responsible is the only thing that's necessary.

I do STRONGLY agree with Timetraveler about experiancing life outside of drugs, and chasing "natural" highs. I am just as content to go roll around in a field, walk through the woods, play on a swingset, go on a road trip, listen to music, talk to people, and do everything that I do when I'm high when I am NOT high. If you don't have that balance, if life is less meaningful when you're sober, than you've got a problem, in my opinion.

However, to each their own. Smoke if you want to. Don't smoke if you don't want to. Be safe, be careful, and live your life to the fullest. Just don't harm anyone else in the process.

 

sum smokerz are pos an most are cons on dare way 2 jail.

 

well do i feel stupid! i can't imagine what you guys are thinking of me. Yeh i do use a lot of periods after a sentence....I guess its just my flow of thought. I want to redeem myself a little. I was pretty drunk when I wrote what I did. Timetraveler and msmoonlight...you both made a lot of sense. I really have smoked pot for 40 yrs...but there was so much more until about 3 yrs ago. From where I was to where I am...it's a big difference. Yeh, I do drink whiskey...but we just came out of the Sturgis Rally and drank for about 3 weeks. We are winding down now. The whiskey is almost at a standstill. But I still have my ganja. Seriously, my doctor knows I smoke pot. It has helped for me many times with pain, panic attacks, and not being able to focus. I have been busted with pot. It was no big deal. I am just a country girl who likes my laid back life and enjoy my family (who are really awesome) and live and let live. Sorry I sounded like such an idiot last night.
I defend my right as an adult to smoke if I so choose. I defend everyone's right to make the choice. The focus has to be on who you are and what you are doing with your life...when you do that, you can relax with a doobie at night.
Peace, live long and prosper
Silly me

 

You didn't sound like an idiot, sister. I got your message, and appreciated everything you had to say. Please don't feel stupid. Some folks would rather focus on irrelevant matters as opposed to the meaning of the posts. I don't see smoking pot as a drug either. I've been busted too, and have had to quit for awhile due to probation. I miss smoking..everything about it. Overcoming drug addiction is a very hard thing to do..been up and down that road a few times myself. The way I see it, until you've experienced it and have walked a mile in someone elses shoes, then you really don't have a say in the matter. I'd like to cut off every pointed finger I've ever had in my face..

 

Thanks sugarmaggie. I appreciate the understanding. Addiction is a very very hard thing. I have been to treatment 3 times...last time was about 18 yrs ago. Its been a long broken road but it led me to where I am now and I love where I am now. I am very lucky. Some days are easier than others, but its all good.
I hope all is better for you now too.
Peace

 

now your just picking on my english, i'm not a native english speaker, my english is not perfect. offcourse i meant a casual marihuana user.