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Re: Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?

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Post by zimbabwe »

lionhearted wrote: post #49
zimbabwe wrote: post #34

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Elizer, I'm going to respond to you not because I disagree with what you said, but because you stated concisely the view that's opposite the one I hold, and I figure it might be neat to provide the foil view. I don't hold my mind's current state sacrosanct. That is to say, I respect my mind incredibly, but I don't have any belief that says my mind was built the way it was for a reason, or that there's something wrong…

I did a heck of a lot of research before I tried drugs at age 19, and then had a lot of fun on drugs for a few years before giving it all up entirely. My main issue with most drugs is that you can get most of the positive effects of the less addictive drugs with training, without the nasty side effects. My favorite was hashish, which I found cleaner and more clear thinking than marijuana, though it's less readily ava…

Excellent points all.

Anybody who wants to use social drugs should take a look at meditation and self-hypnosis, because you can get the same emotional states that you'd get with drugs through a little practice. As lionhearted mentioned, hallucinogens are the one exception.

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Post by rbanffy »

zimbabwe wrote: post #44
tokenadult wrote: post #41

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Evidence for the biographical statement in your post?

http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesi... PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD? GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago. PLAYBOY: What does that mean? GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently. PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye. GATES: [Smiles] PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer o…

Knowing Bill Gates used LSD just made the drug even less attractive than it was before...

I don't want to be like him. ;-)

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Post by Locke1689 »

jrockway wrote: post #30
Locke1689 wrote: post #26

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Poorly worded. I think what he meant to say was, "Marijuana is a psychoactive drug that has an effect on the brain. Therefore, I prefer to protect my most valuable asset against inadvertent harm." :)

Do you ever stay up too late? You're harming your brain.

Just to be clear, I was translating, not giving my own views on the subject.

Re: Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?

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Post by paul9290 »

Eliezer wrote: post #11

Remember, just because people who advocate keeping marijuana illegal are horrible human beings, doesn't change the fact that marijuana is a psychoactive drug and we don't really understand the human brain all that well. My own brain is idiosyncratic and doesn't always react as expected (e.g. to caffeine) and I've heard friends say that they think that taking marijuana during college might have permanently dulled the…

Each to his own and for me it's about living and enjoying life to the fullest and safest. You can always sit on the sidelines and play it safe; whatever floats your boat. That's not me!

Mary Jane for me is no big deal, though I don't use it anymore. In college I enjoyed it with friends weekly; it was fun and it even landed me a job at a major record label out of college; jump started that career and made me 3 out 100 in my music biz degree to land such a job! Though I no longer participate or smoke it had a great positive impact on my life and it was hell of a lot of fun! It's boring now to me and I have out grown it!

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Post by sgibat »

zimbabwe wrote: post #50
aswanson wrote: post #48

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You spoke of LSD in the GP and that is what I am speaking of. Of course there are no stories of overdoses of marijuana, but that's a straw man because, again, you spoke of lsd. Did it ever occur to you that those who trip and dont come back can't tell you what they did because they're gone ? A large number of mentally destablized homeless in the San Fran area from the Haight-Ashbury era seem to suggest that there are…

I spoke of LSD with the implication that LSD is much worse than marijuana in terms of lasting effects (flashbacks in this case). I used it only to provide some frame of reference in the real argument, which is over marijuana. You went after my mentioning LSD despite weed being the topic here. That's a straw man, if you care about being syntactically correct. Find me the story of somebody who was "lost" in LSD and I'l…

You probably already know this, but just to clarify, LSD flashbacks are not biological, but psychological, similar to Vietnam flashbacks or other PTSD inducing events.

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Post by elai »

zimbabwe wrote: post #51
lionhearted wrote: post #49

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I did a heck of a lot of research before I tried drugs at age 19, and then had a lot of fun on drugs for a few years before giving it all up entirely. My main issue with most drugs is that you can get most of the positive effects of the less addictive drugs with training, without the nasty side effects. My favorite was hashish, which I found cleaner and more clear thinking than marijuana, though it's less readily ava…

Excellent points all. Anybody who wants to use social drugs should take a look at meditation and self-hypnosis, because you can get the same emotional states that you'd get with drugs through a little practice. As lionhearted mentioned, hallucinogens are the one exception.

I know its very unhealthy, but how about sleep deprivation or fevers? I've never really hallucinated, so I wouldn't know.
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