Do you think smoking pot is a good idea overall?

I think that if you wanna smoke pot, then it's a good idea that you do so.

 

Agreed, and I have done a lot of different shit.

 

i said no, because pot caused 9/11 and it was POT tha shot JFK, and pot is the secret to bush aND blair being such sharp bumchums. to hell with weed, meth is a shitload better

 

it's stupid because why do you need other peoples opinions on somthing like this

You cant figure out for yourself if it's good for you or not? You cant look at your life situation, conditions, emotions and figure out wether letting a son or daughter should smoke or not?

 

I agree 100% with this post. Also, the gateway drug concept is bullshit. Most of the time the reason people try other drugs is either because they want to, or assume the government and other people were lying about the bad drugs like they did with pot.

 

Instant coffee is the real gateway drug. I know from firsthand experience. It leads to iced tea abuse. After awhile you get jaded and start swigging mug after mug of hot cocoa. Oh the terrible hell of it all. But now I'm clean and sober thanks to choco-anon.

Is smoking pot good? What is "good"? Its obvious that smoke is not healthy but I've never had to light up 20 jays a day like some people do with legal and federally subsidized tobacco. Amotivational syndrome from pot? Really?

If your so worried about your lungs then add a little of the herb Pantagruelion to your scrambled eggs and bacon (or if your vegan then add it your oatmeal which everyone should eat anyway because it IS good for you).

 

pot changed my life for the better... i was gonna be tight ass and straight edge like the rest of my family. now i am laid back... am doing what i have a passion for... and enjoying life so much more.
i beleive pot should be decriminalized like it is in some states of aus... i also belive that the media makes it worse than it is.
if my kid smoked pot, i would probably make sure they were buying it out of their own money... and then i would have a toke.

 

what the hell are you talking about?

I dont need other ppls opignon, I am just curious. This is the marijuana forum where you useually discuss issues related to marijuana. So I thought I could start a thread to talk about this. that's all. Dont like the thread? or maybe you think that this isnt a topic worthy of being discussed here? no problem just leave. simple as that

Offcourse I can figure out if it's good or not for me, what made you think I couldnt ? IMO one should not smoke more then once or twice a week, for some ppl maybe even less otherwise the mental addiction starts to kick in and pot becomes a bad habbit. Since I am a daily smoker smoking 2-4 times a day I consider it bad for me , at least in these large amounts. A bit of moderation would certainly be very healthy for both my lungs and my wallet to say the least.

This has absolutley nothing to do with "my son or daughter'. I dont have kids and I dont intend to have any, ever. So this is just of a hypothetical question.

 

Sorry dude but I disagree with you here. Pot is 100% a gateway drug imo.
Maybe it's not for you but for the majority it certainly is.
I would have never thought of taking harder stuff to get high untill the marijuana high got old and started being boring.
Marijuana got me addicted to getting fucked up. after a few years of smoking my tolerance got so high that MJ wasnt enough to get me fucked up anymore So I am left with an addiction to getting fucked up and marijuana which is no longer enough to get me there. What do I do? start searching for something else that will get me fucked up. that's how I started pills.

 

Smoking pot is a great idea...much better than any other narcotic out there...as long as you smoke weed responsibly that is.

Besides marijuana isn't usually the problem, the person smoking it is.
Kind of like handguns: guns don't kill people, dumb gun owners do.

 

I agree with you it can be a gateway drug. From food to sex if it feels good it can be addictive.

Honestly my man, if you are using to cope and have drifted from the original fun of being stoned, you really should get some help. Its not a matter of being weak its the support and understanding that you are in a common situation. I have found that those that "have been there" really understand and can help strenghten resolve during trying moments.

Drugs are a pandora's box and we need a hand to close that lid once in a while.

-Bill

 

^^ perfectly said, if you are a weak willed person then yes it CAN be a gateway. bisexual god you kinda conflicted statements, your opinion does not go for anyone else, thats why its YOUR opinion. it really depends on the person. i love other drugs but weed is the one that i plan to do till the day i die.

o didnt answer the kid question: if i found out my kids were smoking i would just tell them that they are only allowed to do it at home, and with me besides theyll proly get it from my plants

 

I get that too man

definitely

 

ive had alot of good times with weed, and several horrible periods caused because (at least in part) of weed, but i dont regret starting. ive learned way too many life lessons through my experience for smoking weed to be a bad idea.

 

Do you realise that pot could be better then ALL narcotics out there but still be bad for you? I agree on the second part of your post though.

 

just because something isnt good for you, doesnt mean its a bad idea to do it. and on the smoke inhalation subject u keep bringing up, studies have shown that cannaboids can actually kill/prevent cancerous cells and if you vape or even water filter the smoke the risk is almost non existant.

 

Yes, in your opinion, which is just that, your opinion. Its not based on hard evidence. Harry Anslinger, the big anti-marijuana man from the 1930's and 1940's also thought reefer was a gateway drug. He said that 'they start with marijuana but after awhile become jaded and then switch to heroin'. He said this load of tripe before Congress and they bought it. Funny how what you say sounds just like the load of unadultered BS Anslinger said. Are you sure you are not channeling him now?

Bisexual-god, I've used pot since I was 20. It never led me to take any other drugs, it isn't a gateway to other drugs. If there is a gateway drug in my life then I'd have to list coffee and cigarettes because I frist started using both of these legal drugs when I was 12 years old, glue at 13, and booze when I was 15. I've quit tobacco and now drink my coffee cut with chicory. I quit glue after a year (at age 14) and quit boozing a long time ago when I discovered pot. I wish I'd had pot when I was a teenager but back then it was ahrd to find and everyone told us how dangerous it was. When I first smoked pot I discovered how wrong everyone had been. The most dangerous thing that ever happened to me because of pot was the police.

I've noticed over the years that there are people whose only goal in life is to get "fucked up" be it from pot, booze, pills or huffing gasoline. They are afraid of who they are and use chemicals to run from themselves and put on a mask. Then there are people who use drugs as a way to connect with the god within themselves, with other people, or the universe. For them it is an ecstatic experience. Seems to me, from what you have written here, you are hiding from something.

 

I am not saying that pot will eventually turn you into an H addict. What I'm saying here is the majority of ppl tend to get very curious about knowing how the effects of 'harder' drugs are like after sufficently experimenting with pot. I know many ppl who tryed harder stuff only after pot got old for them. It had that effect on me thus I concluded that pot is a POTENTIAL gateway drug, meaning that it has the gateway effect only on some ppl, the majority from what i've seen, not everybody though.

Overall ,This still makes pot a gateway drug IMO.

I'll try to calrify why.
take smoking tobacco for example. Not EVERYONE who smokes gets lung cancer but still a consistent portion of smokers do, making smoking commonly considered to cause lung cancer. same thing for pot. A gateway drug for a consistent part of users but not all of em. making pot a gateway drug.

 

Marijuana isn't a gateway drug. hahaha but I do love it when people call it that.

The only reason people turn to harsher drugs after being disappointed at how much they don't get all fucked up from weed...I blame that on misinformation and irresposibility on their part, nothing else. Everyone knows pot doesn't jack you up like other synthetic narcotics do...everyone who cared enough to learn about what it was they were taking anyway.

 

I disagree. Useually during the first year of smoking especially the first few monthes pot can be quite of an extreme experince. I remember having a bad trip one of the first times I smoked where i wasnt able to tell if I was actually dreaming or not.

Good pot does get you very fucked up . When you get too used to it tough, it looses its magic, so some start searching for something else that will get them high enough.