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Tyler · 03-09-2008, 09:38 PM

Don't smoke too often, but loving doing it when I have some.

No hangover, enjoyable times, very social, and everything seems funnier!

algernon · 03-09-2008, 09:45 PM

Oh, and there's the ever-popular "Die Hippie Scum" bumper-sticker, as well. I guess the Miners vs Hippies is the region's Hattfield & McCoys.
For the record, I think there are a lot worse substances people take. Decriminalization/taxation would add a lot of dough to the government's coffers, I would think.

metallicat · 03-09-2008, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by algernon

Oh, and there's the ever-popular "Die Hippie Scum" bumper-sticker, as well. I guess the Miners vs Hippies is the region's Hattfield & McCoys.
For the record, I think there are a lot worse substances people take. Decriminalization/taxation would add a lot of dough to the government's coffers, I would think.

But that isn't why potheads care about decriminalization. They only want it decriminalized so they can smoke to their hearts content, and not worry about prosecution.

Burninator · 03-09-2008, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

But that isn't why potheads care about decriminalization. They only want it decriminalized so they can smoke to their hearts content, and not worry about prosecution.

Well of course, but that is incentive for the government to legalize it.

MelBridgeman · 03-09-2008, 10:17 PM

i smoked 3 joints while reading this thread

PYroMaNiaC · 03-09-2008, 10:35 PM

I can't say that any of the three times I've tried pot were enjoyable. I couldn't feel my legs, my mouth didn't want to move, both necesseties for me in a fight or flight response. I think I'll just be natural the natural way.

Kybosh · 03-09-2008, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by PYroMaNiaC

I can't say that any of the three times I've tried pot were enjoyable. I couldn't feel my legs, my mouth didn't want to move, both necesseties for me in a fight or flight response. I think I'll just be natural the natural way.

Ditto, just give me some good old fashioned toads to lick.

Azure · 03-09-2008, 10:52 PM

Its your choice....and I think it should be made completely legal.....but I don't like anything that takes away the control I have over my body.

Winsor_Pilates · 03-09-2008, 11:06 PM

Used to smoke a ton, now I smoke on rare occasions. Just smoked one now.

Ironhorse · 03-09-2008, 11:19 PM

Tried it two times, and couldn't really understand what the big buzz was all about; just made me woozy and nauseous.

Haven't done any since.

prarieboy · 03-09-2008, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Wookie

I know a girl who works at an organic food market, whined to me that I buy food at safeway. Don't you know how bad that is, what chemicals are in it, blah blah blah... I asked her, don't you smoke weed? Her response "it grows in the ground"

Actually it doesn't. It can, but what you smoke is probably from someones basement hydropnic operation that is fed with all kinds of granular chemical fertilizer. Not quite the same thing. Maybe the folks in Nelson BC have access to an all natural plot but I bet most people don't.

I gave that up years ago. I think long term use tends to replace actually doing things with smoking pot. Not much of a trade off really.

FlamesAddiction · 03-09-2008, 11:58 PM

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Actually it doesn't. It can, but what you smoke is probably from someones basement hydropnic operation that is fed with all kinds of granular chemical fertilizer. Not quite the same thing. Maybe the folks in Nelson BC have access to an all natural plot but I bet most people don't.
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That's true. The pot that most people smoke has been chemically and genetically altered by artificial selection. The amount of THC in pot today is no where near the level that nature intended.

alltherage · 03-10-2008, 12:00 AM

I had a few too many hoots one time when I was a yougster and it threw me off... but then I tried it again and we've slowly grown a great relationship.

Dope-AS-Fack · 03-10-2008, 07:53 AM

Im 18, been smoking regualry since I was 16 with regular breaks in between

I love weed, but to much is a bad thing, its starts effecting everything once you start smoking everyday

Currently on a break from it cause really, its been doing nothing to me last few weeks besides make me hungry at night

North East Goon · 03-10-2008, 08:04 AM

I believe it is a viable medical aid in certain situations. People that need the added appetite, or in constant pain. I personally think it should be legalized, heavily taxed with THC levels controlled to a more natural state. All taxes accumulated for this should go directly to our sagging health care state.

habernac · 03-10-2008, 08:25 AM

my uncle is a burnout from the 60's. Chronic weed smoker. He pretty much took care of the fact that no one in my family would go near the stuff. It turned him into a useless human being. Can't work, no motivation, just a lazy bum.

RyZ · 03-10-2008, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Wookie

That's meaningless! Heroine was used, so was coke, people used to burn Witches.. Just cause something used to be done, or was practiced for a long time doesn't make it okay.

That's one thing I hate about weed! The mentality that so many users have. That it's like a cool smoke, you're just mellow, or it grows in the ground, or blah blah blah... Get off your high horse!! (not referring to you WestEnd) You're a pothead! just like drunky here is a drunk!

I know a girl who works at an organic food market, whined to me that I buy food at safeway. Don't you know how bad that is, what chemicals are in it, blah blah blah... I asked her, don't you smoke weed? Her response "it grows in the ground"

"It's not as bad as booze"
"It shouldn't even be illegal"
"I'm a friggin hippie"

Man do I loathe people like that!

Piss off!

Sounds like you are the one on your high horse. You are probably that person that never smoked it or smoked it twice 25 years ago and want to talk about it. People have as much reason to listen to you as a Mexican travel planner that's never been to Mexico.

Wookie · 03-10-2008, 10:27 AM

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Sounds like you are the one on your high horse. You are probably that person that never smoked it or smoked it twice 25 years ago and want to talk about it. People have as much reason to listen to you as a Mexican travel planner that's never been to Mexico.

First of all, you have no idea what I have or haven't done and as such can't speak for these things. I however can speak for the people I've come across that think weed is fine, a harmless drug, and preach about how it's not a problem to get stoned every day and work in hippie food marts.

You smoke it? Great, I don't give a Sh. What I do give a sh about is the people who preach that it's not really a drug, it's not that bad for you and compare it to booze.

The problem with that comparison is people who get drunk every day are alcoholics! So like I said, pothead hippy is no different than drunk drunky!

I'm not on a high horse, you wanna smoke it and have a good time? great, I don't care, I'm not all that impressed because i don't think it's great for you, but I'm not going to whine to you about it because I don't remember friday night because of way too much Rum. And as such I'd be a hypocrite, lilke the people I referred to originally in the post that you clearly couldn't understand. Maybe you just took a hit?

Russic · 03-10-2008, 10:31 AM

Never been a fan of the "it's natural" argument. I truly agree with fotze's point that there are a lot of people out there who preach only to themselves. I know a lot of potheads that talk about how safe it is, and yet when they wake up it sounds like they're about to hack up a lung. It's growth may be natural, but burning it and inhaling it certainly is not.

I really like weed, but I will never claim that it is a safe practice. It's a drug just like alcohol, and just like alcohol it can have harmful side effects.

Wookie · 03-10-2008, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by fotze

I think he is more poking at the justification of it all while railing against other less than healthy things. Its hypocrisy. When anyone with a vice makes justifications of it such as "its not as bad as xyz" or "it grows in the ground" or "I do it but I try and counteract it with eating organic food", they are not trying to convince other people it is alright, they are trying to convince themself.

If you drink you know deep down that it is bad for you in spite of all the justifications that can be made, some with eating french fries or smoking dubes.

I think wookie is just railing against hypocrisy which is everywhere. IIRC he drinks pretty good on occasion but is also a bit of a health freak which is in some people's eyes, contradictory.

If earth child is railing against you for shopping at Safeway (mind you Safeway does suck for other reasons) for the health reasons but burns stuff and inhales it, then they are being ridiculous. Ya, ya herb is a gift from the earth and whats from the earth is of the greatest worth we all know Ben Harper.

My personal rule of thumb is that I cannot look down upon anyone for their health decisions because I do unhealthy things myself. It would make me a liar and a hypocrite.

Fotze's got it.

I'm only getting on the hypocrite hippies, and i only use the term hippie because it's fun

I make a contradiction the odd time I anhiliate myself, but.. it helps me keep on my ridged path the other 360 days a year