Michael Phelps: Dope Smoker

[Vereya]

Except when being near the weed makes you swell up like a blowfish.. :angryfire:

That goes for Tobacco or any ragweed family products.. Yes even Tomatoes...

SirFrancis - that's too bad! I used to think that my allergies were bad enough, but having allergy to pot is just too unfair!
Talking of pot, the last time I smoked I was actually thinking that this world is a hard place for someone who is allergic to nuts. :lol:

 

[Artryru]

Have you ever tried to see things from a different perspective? :smile:

Interesting suggestion, but when I want to see things from a different perspective, all I have to do is sit back and watch all my friends get high. Damn, they're funny!

 

[Cannuck]

And speaking of cognitive skills, perhaps you could show us how you measure of against the works of these pot heads.

No problem. Convince as many as you can to come here and debate. Personally, I don't generally fall for the halo effect

 

[Vereya]

And about this poor cognitive skills stuff I would like to see what you think about people who have smoked pot in this list.

Now just how do your achievments stack up to theirs?

Thanks for the info, Unforgiven!
Louse May Alcott and Queen Victoria... Who would've believed it?

By the way, that's all a load of BS about cognitive abilities. (load of BS is a phrase I learned here, at CanCon, talking of cognitive abilities :lol I've learned a lot of new things over the five years that I smoke pot almost daily. It might hinder the ability to concentrate, in a slight degree, but so might depression and boredom and unwillingness to concentrate on the task at hand. Just don't do things that require serious concentration while under pot, and that's it.

 

[Cannuck]

No matter how much you like to pretend you know statistics on pot users, its simply not that case.

I haven't said I know statistics on pot users. You seem to have this continuous need to put words in my mouth. I can only assume that you can't refute anything I've actually said so you have to make stuff up so you can correct me on it. You may think you are fooling people....well...perhaps you are. I won't mention any names.

 

[Vereya]

Interesting suggestion, but when I want to see things from a different perspective, all I have to do is sit back and watch all my friends get high. Damn, they're funny!

Pot's good. It's really good. In the sense that it is almost universal. Getting high, having a good time, fooling around - you're welcome to it, if that's what you want. I've got a good stock of funny pot stories, jokes that were hilarious, and great times. One thing I enjoy is dancing at night in my kitchen, alone and wearing a nightie - just like a kid when parents are away, not a responsible and serious person that I am :lol:
And if you need some serious analysis, if you want to detach yourself from the personal factors that might obscure your view, if you need empathy and intuition - pot is there for you. If you need inspiration and creativity - there you go! Just open the things that are blocked in your mind, and make use of them.
Like any tool, what pot does depends on what you use it for.

 

[L Gilbert]

Observation is coloured by ones own judgments on life. Cunnuck bought a house by 23. Actually you probably convinced some bank to give you a mortgage which I suppose is an accomplishment at that age.

By 27 I was squatting in the forest of BC after spending eight years rising through the ranks of Northern Telecom from file clerk to engineer. My views of life and reality are considerably different. I look at someone with a university degree with disdain because I look at our forests and the number of people who die from prescription drugs every year (to name just two) and see that this was accomplished by people with degrees.

People who "accomplish something" of their lives can be just a shallow or ignorant as a homeless person. In fact it has been my observation that street people are probaly more aware, more intelligent than most with degrees. Just because our society sets standards for accomplishment doesn't necessarily make those accomplishments worth while. Just look at all the rich and famous people in Holliwood who are totally screwed up.

lol
Yup, people who spend years studying dentistry are less competent with teeth than Joe Homeless who spent a year in civil engineering class. lmao

Anyway, I don't smoke pot. It bothers my stomach. Wife and kids smoke it but not every day.

 

[Praxius]

While I agree 23 is not a kid (I was my mothers second child at that age), lets not kid ourselves. Pot smokers also own homes, I know a heavy pot user who had his own home paid for by 22. No matter how much you like to pretend you know statistics on pot users, its simply not that case. If it were, our society would have collapsed because 1/3rd of our population smoke pot.

I don't own a house myself, mainly because I haven't decided where I want to settle down yet for the long term, however I have been living on my own since the age of 18 (11 years now) and doing quite well for myself actually.

If the only basis someone has to compare pot smokers to non-smokers is if they own a house, that's a pretty sad example, since I also know plenty of people who do smoke weed and own their own houses.... as well as some owning their own companies.

 

[L Gilbert]

Pot stinks, too. Unsmoked or smoked.

 

[Praxius]

Pot stinks, too. Unsmoked or smoked.

Not as bad as tobacco.

 

[VanIsle]

Pot stinks, too. Unsmoked or smoked.

It doesn't just stink. The smell is disgusting. Cigarettes stink but pot is way worse.
Just heard on the radio that they are considering charges against the fellow who was/is the main topic of this thread.

 

[lone wolf]

Yeah ... I have often wondered why I would burn something in my home that has an aroma like burning raincoats ... but I forgive it fast too....

 

[Zzarchov]

It doesn't just stink. The smell is disgusting. Cigarettes stink but pot is way worse.
Just heard on the radio that they are considering charges against the fellow who was/is the main topic of this thread.

Prove it isn't tobacco.

 

[Unforgiven]

No problem. Convince as many as you can to come here and debate. Personally, I don't generally fall for the halo effect

Was that a little too lofty for you? Sweet heart your cold bias is showing. ;-)

 

[Unforgiven]

Thanks for the info, Unforgiven!
Louse May Alcott and Queen Victoria... Who would've believed it?

By the way, that's all a load of BS about cognitive abilities. (load of BS is a phrase I learned here, at CanCon, talking of cognitive abilities :lol I've learned a lot of new things over the five years that I smoke pot almost daily. It might hinder the ability to concentrate, in a slight degree, but so might depression and boredom and unwillingness to concentrate on the task at hand. Just don't do things that require serious concentration while under pot, and that's it.

Most welcome!

You know Leary said that some people who take LSD or other psychedelic drug for the first time, find that once they see the openness of mind, they don't need to take another dose as simply knowing that so much more is possible is enough to fill their lives with wanting to learn more and experience that mind expansion under their own power.

I found that to be a very interesting approach to learning something.
It's simply opening a door and letting natural curiosity take over.

 

[Unforgiven]

Pot stinks, too. Unsmoked or smoked.

Most herbs do.

 

[Artryru]

Pot's good. It's really good. In the sense that it is almost universal. Getting high, having a good time, fooling around - you're welcome to it, if that's what you want. I've got a good stock of funny pot stories, jokes that were hilarious, and great times. One thing I enjoy is dancing at night in my kitchen, alone and wearing a nightie - just like a kid when parents are away, not a responsible and serious person that I am :lol:
And if you need some serious analysis, if you want to detach yourself from the personal factors that might obscure your view, if you need empathy and intuition - pot is there for you. If you need inspiration and creativity - there you go! Just open the things that are blocked in your mind, and make use of them.
Like any tool, what pot does depends on what you use it for.

Oh yeah, I understand completely in the way that only someone who hasn’t tried it can. I was the innocent, naïve teenage that was like ‘holy crap, my dad smokes pot’. What I never noticed was that he had all my life - it was just so surreal that I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it.

 

[Stretch]

people need to realise that this is a smokescreen.....our economic world as we know it is on its way south.....and "they" are trying to distract us with this dude smoking weed...IT"S GOOD FOR YOU!!!!! do some research!!
If everyone was honest enough to stand up and say I smoke....it would be legalised in no time.



I smoke! :lol:

 

[Cannuck]

There's a surprise.

 

[Stretch]

I held down a responsible job for 26 yrs and help raise 4 kids....no police involved..... ever!
all my kids smoke.....one has a child.... all are gainfully employed, and have been since they left school.