On Marijuana

[Skyryder]

Big read with links.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stori...naIllegal.html





Skyyrder

[CookMySock]

While that's an interesting historic read, it doesn't help the current situation. Weed fills the brain with fog, and makes ordinary jobs into onerous ones. Having said that, one of my mates is ALWAYS stoned all day, and he runs his own business from home, and he's sharp as a tack. I'm not against the stuff at all, but I have to agree that there are problems and not just benefits.

Steve

[awayatc]

My mind doesn't need chemical altering....

I like to stay in charge of myself.....

[scumdog]

I drink (at times)

12 hours after I finish there's very little alcamahol in my system, nil effect any more.

How does cannabis compare to that?

[jrandom]

Weed fills the brain with fog, and makes ordinary jobs into onerous ones. Having said that, one of my mates is ALWAYS stoned all day, and he runs his own business from home, and he's sharp as a tack.

Yes, I've never been able to understand how wake-'n'-bake stoners manage to operate so well. We all seem to know someone like that, eh.

Me, I can only indulge in a smoke when I don't have anything needing doing. I certainly couldn't work stoned. Then again, I couldn't work drunk, either.

Certainly the current legal position vis-a-vis cannabis in most Western countries is rather silly. I'd try to do something about it, but oddly enough, I seem to lack motivation...

[jrandom]

12 hours after I finish there's very little alcamahol in my system, nil effect any more.

How does cannabis compare to that?

Assuming you're smoking it, it doesn't take twelve hours to return to sobriety after your final toke. More like two or three.

A lot of people confuse psychoactive levels of the stuff with the fact that its metabolites hang around in the body for some days.

In my experience, people who are always stoned are, quite simply, always smoking.

Smoking anything is pretty bad for you, though. Eating properly prepared cannabis is a far healthier option, but you have to be prepared to set aside a solid 12-18 hours of your life to put your feet up and be amazed by the awesomeness of the universe.

Good for holidays camping up the beach, etc.

[LBD]

I drink (at times)

12 hours after I finish there's very little alcamahol in my system, nil effect any more.

How does cannabis compare to that?

Its Cabinnis you alcamoholic....n it grows wild over here and no one cares...still illegal to use it but.

THC stays in your blood for weeks, it is a problem for users who have random DNA testing at their work, when it shows positive even though they would not be under the influence.

[Sully60]

I drink (at times)

12 hours after I finish there's very little alcamahol in my system, nil effect any more.

So that's why the police never breath test drivers in the morning?

As Jrandom said the psychoactive effects from smoking disappear fairly quickly as opposed to the impairment caused by alcohol.

[awayatc]

at the pubs carpark last night was a very obviously extremely drunk character
steadying himself against the drivers door before swiping over the car's roof....,
Stumbling onto the next car he did the same thing,
So I asked him what he was doing...
"juzz tryin to find my car..." he slurred
But how can you find your car by swiping the roof.....? I said
" easy....." he answered....
"mine haz got blue and red lightz on it...."

[CookMySock]

12 hours after I finish there's very little alcamahol in my system, nil effect any more. How does cannabis compare to that?

The difference is, 12 hours after a substantial piss-drinking session you will emphatically not be in good shape at all. You WILL be severely dehydrated, and depending what you have been drinking, your guts might not be in good shape either. You will be very tired, and you will have some difficulty keeping your emotional state in order. In fact, this could extend to more than 48 hours, and while you will be technically legal to drive, you KNOW you should not be just for these reasons, and I doubt that any except the hardcore drinkers would contemplate doing a 700km ride while hung over, and if they did, it is more likely to be a hellava mission than a enjoyable tour.

12 hours after an average to greater-than-average stoner session, you will usually have no after effects at all. You sleep like a log, don't get hung over, and you don't get a crook guts.

That is the main reason I prefer weed to drink - the after-effects are miniscule in comparison. It is also abundantly clear to stoners, that people have feelings and that these are important, while this particular factoid seems lost on piss heads, who blindly proceed at all costs.

Does that answer your question?

Steve

[nallac]

The difference is, 12 hours after a substantial piss-drinking session you will emphatically not be in good shape at all. You WILL be severely dehydrated, and depending what you have been drinking, your guts might not be in good shape either. You will be very tired, and you will have some difficulty keeping your emotional state in order. In fact, this could extend to more than 48 hours, and while you will be technically legal to drive, you KNOW you should not be just for these reasons, and I doubt that any except the hardcore drinkers would contemplate doing a 700km ride while hung over, and if they did, it is more likely to be a hellava mission than a enjoyable tour.
Steve

And thats why i only get on the turps the friday night of the cold kiwi...

[smoky]

I love to get stoned and do 200 Klm/hr around the Coro on my bike. high speeds while totally ripped off my face on dope - it's an awesome feeling, take my helmet off and just wear a tee-shirt and just enjoy the stoned as feeling at high speeds - wicked man, freaky dude

think I'll try using 'P' to stay awake on the grand challenge next year

[CookMySock]

I love to get stoned and do 200 Klm/hr around the Coro on my bike.

Yes, I saw the wink. 200k? You wouldn't be able to.. You would get to about 85km/hr and that would be WELL into the category.

edit: We should do a stoner trackday. Everyone tokes up large and then gets on the track.. It would be funny as fuck.

Steve

[awayatc]

Everyone tokes up large and then gets on the track.. Steve

Crack you mean...?
Stoner Crackday.....

Don't see the novelty

[smoky]

It's a funny thing, but everyone reacts differently to dope

As a teenager growing up in Huntly, it seemed like everyone smoked it, I tried smoking it a lot, but never really got stoned??
I had a mate who only needed to smell the stuff and he was stoned

I have found the same with normal pain killers, they don't work that well on me - doctor said there are people with a high resistance to the chemical effects of certain drugs!
For some reason most red heads are the same! (I'm not a red head)