Well, it’s not for everybody.
Remember, pot good, tobacco bad. You wonder why there are so many nut jobs out there now.
I remember in the sixties my friends who used pot daily just became stupid. Their vocabulary was reduced to two phrases; wow and far out. A couple of my peers went onto full blown psychosis and schizophrenia. They were admitted to the mental hospital and released as Thorazine zombies. I can’t imagine using it now with the normal cognitive decline of aging.
I get so tired of these “killer weed” fanatics. Coming-of-age in the ‘60s in Cambridge, MA., I could probably have counted the people I knew who DIDN’T smoke rope on one hand. Sure, there were a few crazies among them, but they were already crazy before they started smoking it. Self-medicating with the weed, as it were. These weed-paranoiacs don’t get that. Correlation is not causation.
I’m not advocating for legalization. The underlying social problem with hemp is that it encourages useful people to become slackers. Or maybe it just reveals the inner slacker who was always there. We’ve got enough welfare leeches as it is.
Pot is bad for you, and so are alcohol and tobacco. There’s no good reason for putting anyone in jail for using any of them in their own home.
Marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, despite what its proponents proclaim. Alcohol intoxication wears off in a matter of hours. Cannabis intoxication can last for months.
Whereas someone intoxicated with alcohol usually knows he is intoxicated and that his judgment is impaired.
This is how marijuana can act as a gateway drug for more destructive drugs:
When judgment is impaired by marijuana, and the persons doesn't realize it, he can be easily persuaded to try cocaine, heroin, or some other highly addictive drug, something he would never do if not intoxicated. Soon he is irretrievably addicted for life.
People who say that marijuana is harmless are either lying, kidding themselves, or ignorant. It's more dangerous than alcohol, and alcohol is very dangerous.
Marijuana is ubiquitous in the USA. It's being pushed relentlessly by America's enemies whose objective is the destruction of the USA. Those who join the push are useful idiots.
Marijuana is to 21st century America as opium was to 19th century China. (Remember the Opium Wars?) It might be part of China's revenge.
Do not be fooled. Marijuana is very dangerous.
In these dangerous times, sobriety is a top-priority.
Chasing drugs has always been one of my favorite pastimes. I can tell you from personal experience that yes, weed can bring symptoms of schizophrenia to the forefront. The first time that happened to me I was extremely scared. In all the intervening years, however, this has only happened like a couple of additional times, i.e., that the weed was so powerful that I started to hallucinate - and in those subsequent events I wasn’t frightened at all, although I imagine some of the people around me might have been.
The worst thing that happens to weed-smokers - in my opinion - is that you get addicted and it is a TRUE PHYSICAL ADDICTION, not like what pot advocates say, i.e., that it’s a “psychological addiction.”
I have a few times experienced the symptoms of “weed addiction” which are very unpleasant - you get emotionally unstable and depressed, anxious and fearful. (The thing is, with me, once I recognize symptoms of withdrawal of any type, I start thinking “all right, that’s enough” and I just sort of repress the h3ll out of it and drink lots of water until it’s over - in the case of weed, withdrawal can last for nearly a week. It’s almost worse than heroin withdrawal because with that you have fevers, chills, aches, and vomiting, so you have an excuse to stay home from work - not so when you’re withdrawing from weed, that’s more like breaking up with a favorite boyfriend but you’re not sick enough to take a day off.)
So I’ve seen people go out of their minds withdrawing from weed - I’ve received some verification from others I know, like one guy said his brother is one of those people who, if he can’t smoke, gets the “insane heebie-jeebies” and you can’t even stand to be around him. A typical scenario is that your pothead friend will run out of weed and if you stop by his/her house you’ll be treated to what looks like a nervous breakdown with accusations that you’re doing something effed-up to him or her.
People who have to be drug-tested are the worst: There are lots of hard drugs, cocaine for example, that in spite of their hardness don’t stay in one’s system for long and won’t show up on a pee test even just a couple of days after a binge - however, you can smoke one joint one time and you’ll still test positive a month later. A few people I’ve known who were on parole expressed EXTREME upset because if they could just smoke some (relatively harmless) weed every so often, they wouldn’t be as tempted to go out and find some crack or heroin. (Personally I think that’s how so-called “parole” is rigged: To make it pretty easy for the offender to re-offend and keep going back into the system over and over. It’s money for the machine. And, personally, that’s why I think the whole thing about “parole” is bogus and a money hole for the taxpayers - judges should sentence fairly and the offender should do EVERY DAY OF HIS SENTENCE unless some mitigating factor is uncovered that reduces the offense. But back to the subject.)
Now weed is “legal” in Colorado so I can smoke weed all day long if I want to. :)
But - all joking aside - this is not true legalization. If it WAS, you could have your own field of plants outside your house, or grow a bunch of plants in your house, or have your cousin in Alabama truck a few pounds over for resale every couple of months. There wouldn’t be this nuisance of state-operated weed stores where heads have to show an ID to buy weed and have to pony up a HUGE amount of $$$ to trade in weed, but ILLEGAL ALIENS can of course do WHATEVER THE H3LL THEY WANT. The “legal weed” trade, in the end, supports organized crime and in particular the cartels of M3xico and S America.
In fact, I think the “legal” craze has been more of a gateway to hard drugs than anything that came before it: I get to witness this pretty much every day because (as promoted by Dan “Blackface” Bongino) our illustrious former Denver mayor, CO governor, and senator J Hickenlooper and his organized crime pals invested in the “vaping” fad which makes it much, much easier for youth to get their hands on all kinds of smokables, including crack and meth. So neighbs have this “vaping” den where idiots can do “legal” drugs “safely” - and of course some people absolutely freak out on the legal stuff because they’re not used to ANY drugs, right? They’re just neebs who maybe snort coke once a year on Stupid Bowl Sunday or whatever and so a “vape” or a “chewable” makes them jump out the window if you don’t watch them.
(Note: Hickenlooper in fact got busted some years ago for promoting vaping to the underage, did you know that? He got probation. Just an interesting factoid you can look up.)
Now we all know that vaping is A) for f*gs and B) is just as or perhaps even more of a health hazard than smoking. (If you smoke and take too big of a drag, coughing will result which prohibits future overindulgence, but if you “vape” there’s no irritating sensation - and you’re inhaling an oil straight into your bronchial system, WHERE IT WILL SIT FOREVER. And like that won’t eventually cause problems. Sure, Dan. I know! Let’s get Rush to vape after his cancer diagnosis! It’ll be SO FUNNY.)
I know this will not make me more popular, but: Why should any substance be criminalized? If people are stupid enough to make a lifetime out of something they KNOW is harmful, why waste time and money trying to save them? (I was going to say something about traders who sell products they know are harmful, but a lot of y’all still - after all is said and done - still have a great deal of trust in the medical establishment and I’ve already opened up too many cans of worms this week, and it’s only Tuesday.)
Whatever makes you feel good, I guess.
The distiller sector did an excellent job of getting laws in place against marijuana. Are they still at it?
BTW - how does Big Pharma feel about marijuana? Do they see it as an opportunity or a threat?
Hmmmm .... if enough people get whacked on weed...can we sell this new anti-anxiety drug?
I really don’t have a problem with people drinking alcohol or smoking weed in the privacy of their homes. The only thing I would ask is respect the sanctity of human life and don’t get behind the steering wheel and put my life in danger. This coming from an old ‘used to be hard partying Marine.’
I have known several people whose minds are shot because of marijuana. Add in alcohol and others drugs.
It isn’t just the pot, it is all the other drugs being added to it that are driving people insane. The brain and neurological damage is irreversible.
Oy vey.