Pot - Have you inhaled?

[marty]

[QUOTE=flyin] (see the summer issue of "NORMAL NEWS" ) are agreeing that pot influences the area of the brain that some mental illnesses and conditions like epilepsy, it states that it could be positive effects and further testing is being carried out
also it has been found to be a cure for cancer!!!! not straight out fix the cancer but used in treatments ( esp during kemotherapy)
[QUOTE]

a CURE???????????? it's accepted it provides a relief from, but a CURE????????????????? that's a huge leap of faith. and it's NORML, not NORMAL, and the people in there certainly aren't.

i think you need to either have another smoke, or cut it out all together.

[NC]

:spudwhat:

[spudchucka]

Now who's getting devious?

1. You used the phrase in connection with a discussion of what is right and wrong. This whole thread is to do with the use and abuse of legal and illegal substances. It is reasonable to infer from your statements that you support the continued criminalization of marijuana, and would not oppose the banning of presently legal substances, more because of your own experiences and conscience than from the findings of scientific research and logical argument.
If that constitutes "twisting" and "manipulation" it says more about your perception than my intention.

2 Anyone who drinks alcohol at all has an addictive personality??? Did I refer to binge drinking? How about distinguishing between "use" and "abuse" for a start?

Sorry Mike, I'm not going to play the games you want me to play so quit fishing.

My thoughts on prohibition were covered in the other pot thread, surely you haven't forgotten.

I'm sure you have a good dictionary collection, you can look up the meanings of use and abuse for yourself.

Does someone who takes cough medicine have an addictive personality?

[MikeL]

Sorry Mike, I'm not going to play the games you want me to play so quit fishing.

My thoughts on prohibition were covered in the other pot thread, surely you haven't forgotten.

I'm sure you have a good dictionary collection, you can look up the meanings of use and abuse for yourself.

Does someone who takes cough medicine have an addictive personality?

Aw, you're no fun any more. I guess I'll have to go find someone else to fish for. I mean with.

[bikerboy]

Sorry Mike, I'm not going to play the game...................Does someone who takes cough medicine have an addictive personality?

Addiction can take many forms; authority, power, or the need to control other people's lives, etc. It can be learned and is far more insidious than weed.

Besides, I thought this was a poll and comment thread on whether one or does not smoke pot?? Not another opportunity for people to tell others how to think and live.

:spudwhat:

[spudchucka]

You'll have to try harder too, different bait to Mike but just as useless.

[hobdar]

My experience dealing with people who use dope from all walks of society has been bad....no contest, worse when it affects there ability to look after their responsibilities ....especially there kids....and has often lead to violence in various forms and occasionally to police involvement due to risk to others or self..and in some instances to innocent kids...

My humble opinion don't start, if you have started please stop...if you don't want to stop please make sure you and others around you remain safe (esp your kids)...and don't do it around me... oh yeah and if ya can get a copy of the following book, it is probably in your local library...

find the book "The Great Brain Robbery" A drug education book written by Tom Scott (Cartoonist) and Trevor Grice..

it is a kiwi based book which is very informative and useful resource for those of us with kids/teenagers and is designed to provide parents, teachers, and young people easy access to vital information on teen drug problems, adolescent drug addiction and alcoholism. Problems with Alcohol, Amphetamines, Barbiturates, Caffeine, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Hallucinogens, Inhalants, Marijuana, Nicotine, Narcotics, Opiates, Cannabis, Steroids, and other drugs of abuse challenge educators, treatment professionals, prevention specialist, counsellors, the clergy and parents. But, most of all adolescent substance abuse challenges the teenagers who use the drugs, and those who love them and watch them suffer.

here is a cut down version i found online http://www.brainrobbery.com/

[Skyryder]

Grew pot once...............on a potters wheel. Still got it somewhere. Also had a joint..............leg of lamb.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

But on a serious note. Of the two drugs that are smoked in this county Nicotene is a poison and is legal Pot is not and is illegal. Think that should say something to all one way or another.

Skyryder

[bikerboy]

You'll have to try harder too, different bait to Mike but just as useless.

Like fish in a barrel mate, no bait required.

[bikerboy]

But on a serious note. Of the two drugs that are smoked in this county Nicotene is a poison and is legal Pot is not and is illegal. Think that should say something to all one way or another.

Skyryder

Yeah funny that, so is alcohol, or the "something better" often refered to on this thread.

[Biff]

Excuse my dredging up this old thread, but this poll closed today, so in order to experience 'closure' on this debate I though I'd be kind enough to present the results to you.

Overall 59 people stretched their fingers and voted - thanks.

People who smoke most/every night - 8.47%
People that smoke more than one night a week - 8.47%
Those that smoke every now and again as a treat - 11.86%
Only when offered - 16.95%
Never have, never would - 28.81%
I used to, but no longer - 23.73%

Therefore:

A little under 70% (69.5%) of those people who voted either have or currently do smoke pot. Leaving around 30% that never have, nor would they.

Now I find those figures remarkable. While I appreciate that we bikies may not be a true representation of society I think it’s fair to say that we all come from a broad base of social economic backgrounds if nothing else. I’d never have guessed that the ‘I dos’ would out-number the ‘no thank yous’ but such a large margin.

Let's just hope that I don’t have a bad day and decide to present the names of all those that admitted smoking it to the police, otherwise this place would be mighty empty!! (before you skip town, this is a joke).

[vifferman]

I didnt vote yet.

Hookah.

[Hitcher]

The title of this particular survey was misleading. "Have you inhaled?" covers contingencies that the survey did not provide for, like those behind-the-bike-sheds moments of one's yoof. The survey was actually about "do you smoke marijuana".

Any scientific validity is questionable as, it could be argued, the types of people attracted to participate in the poll were those already predisposed to the consumption of marijuana. Nevertheless, the outcome is interesting and food for thought.

[vifferman]

Nevertheless, the outcome is interesting and food for thought.

Or smoke for lungs.
Or (arguably) various substances for brains. Or thought.
Or summat.


Look - there you go! Yet another alleged data point for vifferbabe's hypothesis that allegedly inhaling said substances on a handful of alleged occasions fooks your brain forever....