On Marijuana

[McJim]

I spent about 2 years stoned out of my tiny mind between ages 18 and 21. Held down a job just fine. Smoked when I woke up - had a splif at morning tea, coupla splifs at lunch time and a good smoke on the way home.

I only stopped after I started losing chunks of memory and forgot words and people's names.

Everything in moderation I suppose.

[munterk6]

Sooooooo...now we know who the stoners are, huh?

[mdnzz]

Sooooooo...now we know who the stoners are, huh?

I think their theme song is

Roll Roll Roll your joint....
twist it at the ends...
light it up, have a toke....
and pass it too your friends....

[MSTRS:Me]

Everything in moderation I suppose.

Including moderation.

[alanzs]

Time to legalise it. I don't need more government intervention in my life, so tax it if you must, but nobody really believes that the current prohibition works.
The drug war is a policy that was founded on lies and continues on and on and on. The only people who profit are the drug cartels/gangs and law enforcement agencies. Time to change the way we think about this whole drug issue.

FREEDOM IS THE ISSUE.

[Boob Johnson]

Fun when you are younger but you grow out of it (no pun intended )

Just gets boring after a while I think, would much rather have a clear head, clean lungs.

Not to say that a wee choof at a concert once in a blue moon doesn't hurt

Agreed the current laws need looking at. Decriminalisation like South Australia is the answer IMHO.

[Paul in NZ]

I couldn't give a rats arse.... Never met anyone yet (I lead a sheltered life) that was better off because of it though... met a few that thought they were but bloody hell, if that was better off I'd have hated to see em before... Delusional....

[Bren]

Have smoked it a bit in my earlier years...Don't smoke it now..





...maybe I should smoke again


...might be better than the Viagra...

[Paul in NZ]

Have smoked it a bit in my earlier years...Don't smoke it now..





...maybe I should smoke again


...might be better than the Viagra...

Maybe you just won't care as much?

[Skyryder]

It’s just pure coincidence that after I posted this thread there is a piece on the CALL TO DEBATE LEGISLATION OF DRUGS. This is no the Chch Press 18 4 09.

A British report by Transform suggested Britain could save £14 billion (NZ $40 billion) by introducing a regulated drug market. The article continues in that the real cost of NZ prohibition in NZ have not been highlighted nearly enough.

I’m not convinced that commercial development of a drug industry be it pot or any other drug is the way to go. Although I have long advocated the decriminalization of marijuana.

I have not read this link but Leap is also mentioned in the Press article. It’s law enforcement based and argues for reform. A rarity indeed

http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php


Another link that I have not posted up the ‘Urban Grower’ is worth a look for those interested. There’s a video on rolling joints. This guy turns it into an art form.

Skyryder

[Ixion]

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..

Ditto. Tried it. "What's it supposed to do?". Tried it some more "What's it supposed to do?". Waste of time. Might as well hang over the garden rubbish fire. Tobacco was the same . Never found any painkillers that work, though I've never tried the heavy duty stuff. Aspirin, paracetamol, waste of time. "What's it supposed to do?". Rum works, but.

[Paul in NZ]

A British report by Transform suggested Britain could save £14 billion (NZ $40 billion) by introducing a regulated drug market. The article continues in that the real cost of NZ prohibition in NZ have not been highlighted nearly enough.

Skyryder

Yeah - just think how much lowering the drinking age saved us eh??

[Skyryder]

Yeah - just think how much lowering the drinking age saved us eh??

I don't see the connection.

The lowering of the drinking age had nothing to do with saving dollars but all to do with increasing the beer consumption as it was loosing out to wine sales. Shiply sold this as a social thing. I might add that I was never conned into this assumption but saw it for what it was. Doug Meyers hand in social engineering and increasing profits for the brewing industry.


Skyryder

[jrandom]

... all to do with increasing the beer consumption

I call bollocks to that particular conspiracy theory.

The drinkers brought into the fold by the lowered-age law (who were all under 18 anyhow - 18-year-olds were already drinking because they looked 21, etc) don't drink beer. They drink that sugary alcopop shit.

[Skyryder]

I call bollocks to that particular conspiracy theory.

The drinkers brought into the fold by the lowered-age law (who were all under 18 anyhow - 18-year-olds were already drinking because they looked 21, etc) don't drink beer. They drink that sugary alcopop shit.

Cal it what you like. At the time there was an in depth article on this in one of the papers. I can remember seeing a rundown on sale volume of beer and wine for the past five years. The breakdown consistantly showed a lowereing of beer volumes and an increase of wine. Some time earlier on one of the TV Sunday type programmes, don't recall which one they did a piece of wine growing. Wine sales were up on this too.


The alco pops only came in after and were deliberaltly targetted to the twenty year olds and younger, and female at that.


If ya know anyone involved in politics at the time of the lowering of the drinking age and if they know what they are about they will be able to confirm my 'conspiracy' to you.


Skyryder