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Displaced Flames fan · 03-03-2011, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by robocop

no one would ever vaporize 5-10 joints a day

vaporized weed is not superheated gas

is that clear enough for you

1. HOOT clearly stated he does vaportize 5-10 joints worth a day.
2. I never said vaporized weed is superheated gas. I said smoking anything produces superheated gas.

Who is unclear again?

RubberDuck · 03-03-2011, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

No, I don't have friends who smoke pot. I prefer not to be associated with illegal substances. I have two kids. My group of friends are perfectly successful without having anything to do with pot. Thanks.

Funny thing is, someone you know and respect is a closet pot smoker and you will never know it. Why? Because, people who are professionals and upstanding members of the community who are pot smokers will never divulge that information to you until they know that you are too.

Keep the blinders on, that how it should be.

Displaced Flames fan · 03-03-2011, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sliver

Many in my group of 30-something friends smoke pot. All of them have post-secondary educations, professional jobs and families. You don't need to be a scientist to see not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout.

Interesting. What happens when one of them gets busted for possession? No concern for their jobs or families?

Maybe the laws in Canada are leniant enough that it wouldn't impact anything. I don't know.

Here, someone like you describe is risking everything with this activity. How smart can someone who does that be?

I definitely agree that not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout. At the same time, to deny as Hoot did that it causes a lack of motivation in some (not all) users is assinine.

RubberDuck · 03-03-2011, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Interesting. What happens when one of them gets busted for possession? No concern for their jobs or families?

Maybe the laws in Canada are leniant enough that it wouldn't impact anything. I don't know.

Here, someone like you describe is risking everything with this activity. How smart can someone who does that be?

I definitely agree that not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout. At the same time, to deny as Hoot did that it causes a lack of motivation in some (not all) users is assinine.

It's pretty rare that someone gets busted for posession anymore. The cops know they have better things to do.

HOOT · 03-03-2011, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

I definitely agree that not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout. At the same time, to deny as Hoot did that it causes a lack of motivation in some (not all) users is assinine.

So you are 100% certain that every person who smokes pot isn't motivated and can't be successful?

BigBrodieFan · 03-03-2011, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by HOOT

Is everyone of your friends successful? That's pretty amazing!

Well, the ones I have now are. The one who smoked pot all the time got caught with it in her car while driving her kids from Kansas to Colorado. I haven't really talked to her much since she had to move into her mom's basement and had her kids taken from her.

BigBrodieFan · 03-03-2011, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Interesting. What happens when one of them gets busted for possession? No concern for their jobs or families?

Maybe the laws in Canada are leniant enough that it wouldn't impact anything. I don't know.

Here, someone like you describe is risking everything with this activity. How smart can someone who does that be?

I definitely agree that not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout. At the same time, to deny as Hoot did that it causes a lack of motivation in some (not all) users is assinine.

Canadians are definitely punished way more harshly for drunk driving. Americans have much stricter punishments/laws when it comes to possession/drugs.

BigBrodieFan · 03-03-2011, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by HOOT

So you are 100% certain that every person who smokes pot isn't motivated and can't be successful?

I think the smoke is in your eyes Hoot. He never said anything like that. Get some Visine, Dude. Seriously.

RubberDuck · 03-03-2011, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

Well, the ones I have now are.

And you are delusional if you think that you know what they all do behind closed doors. Like I said before, because they know your stance on it, you will never know if any of them smoke when you are not around.

HOOT · 03-03-2011, 12:06 PM

I won't waste much more time searching but this is what I found in about 2 minutes of searching. There are many myths about Marijuana and there are many good things that could come from the plant, not just medicine wise. It's not a perfect drug, none are, but it's far from the worst thing out there for the human body.

Studies were probably done by some pothead scientists though!

http://www.usask.ca/research/communi...om_on_head.pdf

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Most "drugs of abuse" such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine suppress growth of new brain cells. However, researchers found that cannabinoids promoted generation of new neurons in rats'
hippocampuses.

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"Chronic use of marijuana may actually improve learning memory when the new neurons in the hippocampus can mature in two or three months," he added.

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The team injected laboratory rats with a synthetic substance called HU-210, which is similar, but 100 times as potent as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for giving marijuana users a high.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052501729.html

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The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.

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While no association between marijuana smoking and cancer was found, the study findings, presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference this week, did find a 20-fold increase in lung cancer among people who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day.

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Still, the positive aspects of marijuana are becoming more plentiful as further research is done. McKim says it's not surprising that THC and compounds like it could have medicinal effects.

And life goes on...

HOOT · 03-03-2011, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

Well, the ones I have now are.

Are they more successful than all pot smokers?

Displaced Flames fan · 03-03-2011, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by HOOT

So you are 100% certain that every person who smokes pot isn't motivated and can't be successful?

Did I say something even remotely close to that?

Displaced Flames fan · 03-03-2011, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by RubberDuck

It's pretty rare that someone gets busted for posession anymore. The cops know they have better things to do.

Well that makes it ok then. After all, it wouldn't be the busted persons fault anyway.

Sliver · 03-03-2011, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Interesting. What happens when one of them gets busted for possession? No concern for their jobs or families?

Maybe the laws in Canada are leniant enough that it wouldn't impact anything. I don't know.

Here, someone like you describe is risking everything with this activity. How smart can someone who does that be?

I definitely agree that not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout. At the same time, to deny as Hoot did that it causes a lack of motivation in some (not all) users is assinine.

It would be terrible if they got into legal trouble for doing something that shouldn't be illegal. I don't think any pot smokers like that smoking pot is illegal.

That said, I think the probability of somebody getting caught smoking a joint in their house and watching The Matrix is pretty low.

Sliver · 03-03-2011, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Well that makes it ok then. After all, it wouldn't be the busted persons fault anyway.

Are all laws just in your view?

RubberDuck · 03-03-2011, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Well that makes it ok then. After all, it wouldn't be the busted persons fault anyway.

Well, you are in Kansas so here are some of the other laws in Kansas that you must blindly support:

Kansas’s Strangest Laws – Stupid, Weird, Dumb, Funny, Crazy, Strange Laws Of Kansas

It is illegal for restaurants to sell cherry pie a la mode on Sundays.
If two trains meet on the same track, neither one of them can proceed until one of them has passed.
Rabbits cannot be shot from motorboats.
When crossing the highways at night, pedestrians must wear tail lights.
You’re not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.
In Derby, it is considered a misdemeanor to screech your tires while driving, it can cost you 30 days in jail.
In Lang, it is illegal to ride a mule down Main Street in August, unless the animal is wearing a straw hat.
In Natoma, it is illegal to throw a knife at anyone wearing a striped shirt.
In Topeka, it is unlawful to transport dead poultry along Kansas Avenue.
In Wichita, a man’s mistreatment of his mother-in-law may not be used as grounds for divorce.
In Wichita, it is illegal to carry a concealed bean snapper.

http://www.strangestlaws.com/kansas-strangest-laws/

RubberDuck · 03-03-2011, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by RubberDuck

Well, you are in Kansas so here are some of the other laws in Kansas that you must blindly support:

Kansas’s Strangest Laws – Stupid, Weird, Dumb, Funny, Crazy, Strange Laws Of Kansas

It is illegal for restaurants to sell cherry pie a la mode on Sundays.
If two trains meet on the same track, neither one of them can proceed until one of them has passed.
Rabbits cannot be shot from motorboats.
When crossing the highways at night, pedestrians must wear tail lights.
You’re not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.
In Derby, it is considered a misdemeanor to screech your tires while driving, it can cost you 30 days in jail.
In Lang, it is illegal to ride a mule down Main Street in August, unless the animal is wearing a straw hat.
In Natoma, it is illegal to throw a knife at anyone wearing a striped shirt.
In Topeka, it is unlawful to transport dead poultry along Kansas Avenue.
In Wichita, a man’s mistreatment of his mother-in-law may not be used as grounds for divorce.
In Wichita, it is illegal to carry a concealed bean snapper.

http://www.strangestlaws.com/kansas-strangest-laws/

Point: The government isn't always up with the times.

Huntingwhale · 03-03-2011, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by RubberDuck

Well, you are in Kansas so here are some of the other laws in Kansas that you must blindly support:

Kansas’s Strangest Laws – Stupid, Weird, Dumb, Funny, Crazy, Strange Laws Of Kansas

It is illegal for restaurants to sell cherry pie a la mode on Sundays.

I would hate to live in that town if this law wasn't in effect.

Reaper · 03-03-2011, 12:51 PM

nm

valo403 · 03-03-2011, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Interesting. What happens when one of them gets busted for possession? No concern for their jobs or families?

Maybe the laws in Canada are leniant enough that it wouldn't impact anything. I don't know.

Here, someone like you describe is risking everything with this activity. How smart can someone who does that be?

I definitely agree that not everybody who smokes pot is a burnout. At the same time, to deny as Hoot did that it causes a lack of motivation in some (not all) users is assinine.

Risking everything? Hyperbole much?