Doesn't this suck??

If you find your way into New York City... I'll smoke with you... and you can drink with me.

then we can explore the city in a state of pure inebriation.

 

yes!

 

necessarily?

 

It can be for those with stress.
Not a bad thing thou

 

GhostinNYC-I head up to ny every once in awhile. Mostly just to the art museums, but I'd like to explore the rest of it.

 

I live near Toronto, so any Toronto smokers can PM me and I'll hang out, I have nothing better to do in my shitty town

 

hmm when i'm high, my perception of the world changes... all that i percieve is my reality... thus being high alters my reality... i smoke to get high... ergo... i smoke in order to change my reality... yup yup, mine's escaping from reality

 

I suppose it isn't really escaping from reality...more like enhancing

 

haha, toronto... i've only been in the airport there. i have a stopover of like 5 hours there on the 21st, fuckin hate that airport. well, airports aren't really my thing in general, though for some reason my dad likes to hike around in them. wierd.

 

Yeah, the thing I hate about airports is everyone talking on their cellphones. I don't know how it is in Canada, but here in the US as soon as you get off the plane everyone pulls out their cell phone and then they are on it again until you board the next plane. I can understand you want to call your loved ones and stuff, but, it kind of gets annoying that they have to be on their phone constantly

 

if youre smoking weed to 'escape' reality, then by using that word youre clearly taking the drug to ignore problems.

which is very unhealthy.

i dont believe in taking drugs to cure anxiety as a good thing. the only use of weed that is good in my oppinion is when you see more of the world than you would without it, or when you bond with people while on it.

when taking it by yourself to cure anxiety, you will start to forget which anxieties are productive, and lose sense of the real problems in life. this is not my oppinion but observation; marijuana as an escapist drug is the cause of most pot smokers demise.


all im saying is that if all your friends are telling you that youre escaping reality, and theyre right, then you need to take a good look at what is so wrong with reality that youre escaping it, and why you dont just turn to heroin and get it over and done with.

 

LOL I love airports lol Pearson does kind of suck however. I'm fo real tho about the smoking, if anyone feels like taking a road trip (I alas do not have my full license yet) to come and visit me to toke up, I'm all for it!

 

but does "escaping reality" have to mean escaping your problems? can't you escape reality just to experience something different from "reality"? or are you saying "escaping reality" automatically carries a negative, escapist connotation?

 

about the escape thing....
I sort of used the wrong words , and I think my friends and I are on a whole different line of thought. I use pot to see more and enhance the reality. I don't really have any major problems to try to escape from. My life isn't bad compared to most people's lives. And these friends that are saying this, have never smoked pot before, so they really do not understand what it's like to be high. They think that when you smoke pot you forget about everything, and when you come out of it you're completely apathetic towards everything. I don't think that's true, at least from my experience. When I used the word escape I meant that I was escaping from the "realistic" everyday reality, and trying to find that "high" feeling where you can experience things you can't normally. That's all.

stonerbill, yeah I do agree that alot of people do use pot for the wrong thing, and definitely have the wrong idea about it

novictimnocrime, I think that I just explained sort of what you're thinking alittle bit

 

Just move to Philly, seems like everyone smokes here

 

*passes her new bong to flowersinmyhair with a fresh green bowl*

toke up, mama!

 

::glady takes bong and takes a long, deep hit::

thanks, girl

 

imo it would depend on the diagnosis, as "mental illness" is an umbrella term

 

I would so smoke with you if we lived closer, you seem very chill

 

bill obviosly meant self medicating, like using alcohol and mj to forget about yer problems, i doubt he meant legimate medications for doctor diagnosed illnesses