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People Who Smoke Marijuana Are...

People Who Smoke Marijuana Are...


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To answer the original question;

People who smoke marijuana are:

Raiding your fridge.
 
Feel better? Well **** yeah they make you feel good. That's the whole damn point of using them. But feel better ABOUT yourself? How? Do people actually take drugs thinking that they will be better people for it? Is that seriously what you guys are suggesting, or do we have different definitions of "feeling better about oneself"?


I asked a specific question, do you have an answer to it? Or are you just going to type at me and try to make my mind "explode into anger" (whatever that means)

Feeling better about ones self is a very difficult process for depressed people. so they take drugs HOPING it will make them a better person though it doesnt.to answer your question, no. it doesnt help them feel better about themself, by the time they realize it doesnt their addicted.
 
Once again, it is not the Pot or the booze, that make some people act like fools. they were fools already. Stop blaming the pot, or Beers.
 
People who smoke marijuana are just like everyone else. They are world famous celebrities and ordinary people like you and me. They are your college professors and nice old ladies from your neighborhood. They are politicians,they are garbage men. They are murderers, they are preachers. They are goofballs and dead-serious disciplinarians. They are lazy slackers and world class athletes who are the best in the world at their sports. The silly stereotypes need to stop. Smoking marijuana doesn't determine who you are. It's just a rather pleasant activity that responsible adults may or may not choose to partake in.
 
It's been my experience that people who routinely smoke pot function at a lower intellectual and social level than those who don't. That's admittedly based upon a biased sampling.
 
I don't even understand how it's possible. How *could* drugs make you feel better about yourself?

Maybe you just have a different definition of "feeling better about oneself". My definition of it is "feeling like a better person". Like, feeling more valuable as a person for having done the drug. I fail to see how smoking a joint could possible elicit the feeling that I"m a better person for smoking it. It just doesn't make sense to me.

There are actually people out that *actually* feel that using some particular drug makes them a better person? They actually go through the thought process that if they use xx drug, they will be a better person for it?

No wonder they're seeing you, because that's ****ing insane.

I think maybe its a question of semantics and word play.
1-You are quite right in that the use of drugs doesnt make people feel better about themselves...more valuable to society because they use drugs...a better person because they use drugs.
2-maybe it could have been said better AND read better...people OFTEN use drugs because they feel like crap about themselves and using drugs gives them a temporary break from feeling like crap about themselves. That could EASILY be seen as feeling GOOD about themselves...but a more accurate description is truly to STOP feeling like they are worthless, defective, scumbags, garbage, in pain, etc.
3-To your point...many addicts feel far WORSE about themselves AFTER they use again...guilt from relapse.
 
To quote Dave Chapelle....everything is better on weed.
 
I picked other because it depends. I've never used it and I have mixed opinions of those who do depending on what they are using it for and how often and when and where. It's pretty much the same opinion I have on alcohol use, although I will admit that I am a goody two-shoes who doesn't like to get in trouble so no one will ever smoke it in my house with my knowledge and I will not be around anyone elsewhere while they are smoking it. These are also to protect my own health. And it smells awful.

I think medical usage of marijuana is ok. I understand that some people are truly sick and mj can help them feel better. As long as they aren't putting someone else at risk by doing it or by their actions after doing it, it's no big deal to me.

I don't think I'd ever turn anyone in for smoking it but I'm also not going to say that I think it's ok for recreational purposes. Anecdotal as my experiences may be, I prefer to rely on that than others' stories when there's so much conflicting information and it's so hard to determine what might have been. The people I have known that smoked pot, whether just occasionally or frequently, didn't seem smarter or dumber while smoking it. They did seem to zone out with occasional moments where they'd join in conversation and then zone out again, but I haven't been around too many while they smoked, so I don't know if this is how it is for everyone. I know a couple of people who smoke pretty much everyday. They're pretty dumb and neglect their three kids, but I don't think it's all because they're smoking marijuana. They might still be that way without the weed, but I'm sure it doesn't help them.
 
Oh i know what crunk is.

I was wondering what you were referring to. And weed cookies are excellent, chocolate chip with a happy ending!
 
When was this vote you mentioned, and why did I not get the memo?

even if we could vote there are international treaties we are bound to that created the entire drug scheduling and basis for the current drug war that we did not vote on.

"We the people" have NOT voted on the question of legality of scheduled drugs, nor can we at this point unless we vote for constitutional amendment, win supreme court battles asserting the supremacy of state constitutions (commerce clause interference there making this highly unlikely), or we renig on treaties we crammed down the throats of the rest of the world.

btw.. legalization is not to be confused with decriminalization, that we can do and still adhere to international treaty, much like Portugal and Holland has done... it does nothing to address supply or deal with the black market though, it just makes minor possession a "civil": infraction similar to a parking ticket.

Yeah, that sounds odd doesn't it. I mean we don't push for either legalization or decriminaliation. We don't push to have laws overturned. I certainly don't.
 
It's easy to honor something when it has no effect on your life...

Well, were it legal I would probably get high every now and then. But it just isn't something I need to fulfill my life.
 
Sure, but you have to look at the bigger picture. When you make substances illegal you are creating a black market and breeding criminals. To this day we have millions being arrested and organized crime flourishing because of a political agenda.



That's your choice, smoke or don't smoke... But I think you should look at the bigger picture and the politics of Marijuana before you close your case.

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I have signed pro-pot petitions. Pass legislation and I will support it. But as long as it remains illegal I will abstain in order to lend no support to violence.

Look deeper within yourself to see that you are the one missing the "big picture". The facts are;
The current laws breed crime and violence. (I accept that truth)
To purchase illegal substances is to support and strengthen those who will commit that violence.

We cannot accept one and deny the other. We cannot deny truth.
 
Yeah, that sounds odd doesn't it. I mean we don't push for either legalization or decriminaliation. We don't push to have laws overturned. I certainly don't.

The road to tyranny is paved with complacency. We accumulate more and more laws and restrictions, yet never consider removing ANY once they are in place. Who are we to question any laws on our books, or push to have any removed? We feel as if we cannot make a difference, or that it is the will of the people (when oft times it is a snow job), or that "it does not effect me" (it does), so we just continue to amble along like a pack of apathetic lemmings marching to the cliffs edge.

We should push to have laws overturned and removed, especially when they are as prohibitive, damaging, ineffectual, and overly expensive as the ones attached to a no-win, feel good, politicized "War on Drugs". You may continue to wallow in complacency.. I won't, and I hope many other will not as well.
 
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