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Do You Smoke Weed? (Even on Occasion?)
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I smoked weed for about 15 years of my life (Im 32 now BTW). I use to smoke it occasionally in my teens, but it then turned into a daily routine when I was about 23-27 years old. My friend use to live about a minute from me, and with me having a key to his place, I would always be there burning blunts. I ended up quitting because the last two times I smoked, I got panic attacks.
I find it ridiculous that alcohol is legal, yet marijuana is illegal. Alcohol is by far the deadlier of the two.
I find it ridiculous that alcohol is legal, yet marijuana is illegal. Alcohol is by far the deadlier of the two.
I'll agree with NON-hydroponic's weed or augmented weed that is more the common now-adays ... but a pure dreadlock's weed ... GANJA au natural! Its a plant with side affects of HUNGRY & SLEEPY
and a case of hyperventalating. Unfortunately smoking a substance with a sweet and pungnant smell that the upperclass just cannot deal with - partly because you don't see too many suites on the street or park toking - the persona of smoking herbs. There was a time where liquor was illegal but that didn't go so well for the politicians or police force.
You're absolutely sure about that?
Not a single death?
So a death from cannabis poisoning with no alcohol or other drugs mentioned on the death certificate wouldn't count?
Maybe an allergic reation or causing an asthma attack...
I think his "DIRECT" is stating the drug specifically kills the person. Which of course isn't the way people die from drugs. No drug DIRECTLY kills anyone.
I really don't see how getting lung cancer from smoking spliffs isn't a case of the drug directly killing someone. Unless it has to be by a bale of weed falling on you in a dealer's warehouse...
I've had the occasional smoke in the past but mostly it made me feel sick so it wasn't for me. I know lots of people who do it regularly and other than non-productivity I don't see any real problems with it. I am sure they know the tobacco they put it in is bad.
I consider myself very open minded and never hide the fact I tried it or that years ago I did other stuff. I was upfront with myself and accepted the risks. In my case the use of substances in my past have helped me to read about things and not pass judgement on others for their choices without the facts.
It may be true that there is little in life that is both fun and safe for us. We take chances everyday. Some are greater and put us closer to harms way, but thats who we are. Each of us is different and we find our own boundries.
I think problems arrise when we fail to see those boundries or go crashing headlong through them in some quest to fill the empty parts of our own lives.
Someone once told me 'whatever your vices; when they start to dictate your life it is time to stop'. I like to think I've applied this in my life (apart from the ciggarettes which continue to run my life).
I consider myself very open minded and never hide the fact I tried it or that years ago I did other stuff. I was upfront with myself and accepted the risks. In my case the use of substances in my past have helped me to read about things and not pass judgement on others for their choices without the facts.
It may be true that there is little in life that is both fun and safe for us. We take chances everyday. Some are greater and put us closer to harms way, but thats who we are. Each of us is different and we find our own boundries.
I think problems arrise when we fail to see those boundries or go crashing headlong through them in some quest to fill the empty parts of our own lives.
Someone once told me 'whatever your vices; when they start to dictate your life it is time to stop'. I like to think I've applied this in my life (apart from the ciggarettes which continue to run my life).
Agreed. Smoking anything (weed, baccy, strawberry leaves...) is pretty bad for the lungs. Try standing downwind from a wood fire and see how long you last. Or a backfiring coal fire in someone's house when the wind is in the wrong direction.
I'm gonna be an old fart, but I'm not keen on the modern weeds. I stopped smoking years ago as it just wasn't fun any more.
I preferred the stuff that made you giggly and talk ****. The modern stuff, you just pass out or become all quiet. It's all like how strong can you get it, skunk skunk, gold bar, golf ball and so on. (showing my age here).
Someone mentioned single malt liquor above. It's like wanting for a good pint of well pulled bitter or a decent sipping malt when everyone else is chugging cheap vodka or swigging white lighting cider.
Ah t'were better in t' old days where's me walking stick?
I preferred the stuff that made you giggly and talk ****. The modern stuff, you just pass out or become all quiet. It's all like how strong can you get it, skunk skunk, gold bar, golf ball and so on. (showing my age here).
Someone mentioned single malt liquor above. It's like wanting for a good pint of well pulled bitter or a decent sipping malt when everyone else is chugging cheap vodka or swigging white lighting cider.
Ah t'were better in t' old days where's me walking stick?
Hell no, this is so wrong. That's how most people die from drugs.
My mother died as a direct result of consuming too much alchohol.
Don't even try to play that. It's called overdosing.
You're talking here about the difference between indica and sativa. Older times it was the sativas making the rounds that had a cleaner headier high and grew easy outside in an equatorial climate (lots of back-in-the-day pot came from mexico and south america). As the drug war ramped up and importing became more difficult, entrepreneurs learned that indicas are on average easier to grow indoors and outside at higher latitude and they yield more weight per plant than their tall and lanky sativa sisters, so the regular commercial buds you see on the market these days, the afghan derived strains especially, your kushes and g13 crosses and the like, are going to have the more indica traits of lazy sleepy narcotic high. Better for pain relief and appetite stimulation but not as good for socializing. True sativas are less common due to the more specific environmental conditions they prefer and the fact that they can take up to a third longer to finish than your average indica, but the choice is there, especially if you're in a cannabis friendly region.
So you take an overdose and you instantly drop dead?
or
The drugs trigger a chain of events that causes the death?
The underlying cause of death would be the drugs or alcohol, but the final cause of death would be organ failure, respiratory failure, or even inhalation of gastric contents.
It's a subtle difference, but a relevant one.
So for someone to say "No recorded deaths as a DIRECT result of marijuana in all of human history" is technically correct as this is not how things would be recorded, but there are cases of people being killed from smoking marijuana with no other substances involved.
With respiratory failure, the difference is often too subtle to call: the drug can make you so zonked that your autonomic responses simply forget to work. I know.
With cannabis though? Now I haven't put in depth research into this or anything but I'd never heard of that. (genuine curiosity.) I've always thought that it's nearly impossible to properly overdose on cannabis alone without consuming absolutely MASSIVE amounts of it, making it remarkably "safer" in that aspect than many other substances, probably including paracetamol/acetaminophen even.
Drugs like heroin, absolutely. There is a tiny margin between being high and nearly dying by just plain "forgetting" to breathe. That's scary.
I feel the exact same way. However the roles of alcohol and weed reversed.
I have friends who do both nightly, for them each enhances thenhi or buzz. But to me alcohol always seems like a mission to get tipsy; you gotta drink and drink then you feel it. With weed, one good hit and you're golden.
To each his own, im not hatin.