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Sal

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If you had a 40 year old bi polar child as i do, and you knew that child would destroy a full years hard work after spending a weekend getting totally bonged. What would your attitude about pot be?
What if you also knew that the descent into bi polar was triggered by pot at age 15 ish?

You must be confusing me Sal. My step son is a pot user and nearly never drinks. Not my choice but........
apologies skook, I used the pronoun "he".
 

Sal

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People incapable of making the correct choices in life due to mental illness should not hamper those who can. They need other protections, restricting everyone due to a few is not the answer.
 

coldstream

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That is my point. Should we make it illegal for everyone because a few have a problem?

I think we are going to find out that there is no such thing as a 'moderate' pot smoker. It draws all users into a state of more or less continuous intoxication by way of its physical properties. The only difference will be in the gravity of disruption it causes in people's lives.. which will go from moderate.. to disabling.

Some will function at a relatively high level.. but many will end up recluses. Whatever the case it will work to destroy individual potential by driving one into morbid self absorption.. even if it doesn't produce outright psychosis.
 
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skookumchuck

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Bi polar is triggered by piss poor diet, sleep and behaviour. If Skookumf*ck was a better parent it wouldn't have hit that early.

Some research.....Cambridge Journals Online - Psychological Medicine - Abstract - Opposite relationships between cannabis use and neurocognitive functioning in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Typical drug user. Blame someone else. Perhaps if there were better parents in your family there would be more breeders. Do you really believe the crap you copy paste? What happened to my other children who are all normal along with their children?
 

taxslave

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I think we are going to find out that there is no such thing as a 'moderate' pot smoker. It draws all users into a state of more or less continuous intoxication by way of its physical properties. The only difference will be in the gravity of disruption it causes in people's lives.. which will go from moderate.. to disabling.

Some will function at a relatively high level.. but many will end up recluses. Whatever the case it will work to destroy individual potential by driving one into morbid self absorption.. even if it doesn't produce outright psychosis.

B U L L S H I T
Quit watching reruns of Reefer Madness.
 

darkbeaver

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They had a premature 'smoke in' in Denver last summer to celebrate the imminent legalization of cannabis. I saw a clip on it as a part of a program on the Nat Geo Channel of the developing marijuana industry in Colorado. It ended up in gang related gunfire as dazed, confused zombies ran from the park in terror. So much for the Age of Aquarius.

At least it takes the pure poppycock of 'medical' marijuana off the table.. and correctly labels it for just what it is.. a powerful culture based intoxicant.. nothing more.

I just don't think anything good is going to come from this. All of the knocks on mj are true. It causes apathy, anti-socialization, isolation, long term health issues associated with smoke inhalation. It takes people out of constructive lives and places them stoned in their parent's basement as life passes them by. Habitual long term use will lead to paranoia, extreme reclusiveness and ultimately psychosis.

That's a shocking disregard for botanical evidence Coldstream cannabis is far more than cultural based intoxicant. All of the knocks on MJ come from it's competition . The plant was mans best friend before the slobbering dog. It's utility is unsurpassed by any other plant. It is one of the original gifts of God.
You should have your mouth and head washed out with soap.
 

petros

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I think we are going to find out that there is no such thing as a 'moderate' pot smoker. It draws all users into a state of more or less continuous intoxication by way of its physical properties. The only difference will be in the gravity of disruption it causes in people's lives.. which will go from moderate.. to disabling.

Some will function at a relatively high level.. but many will end up recluses. Whatever the case it will work to destroy individual potential by driving one into morbid self absorption.. even if it doesn't produce outright psychosis.

Air seems to do you right in.

skookumchuck said:
What happened to my other children who are all normal along with their children?

If you were sober, might have noticed they spent as much time eating dinner and hanging out at friends as possible ya f-cking drunk.
 

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I think we are going to find out that there is no such thing as a 'moderate' pot smoker. It draws all users into a state of more or less continuous intoxication by way of its physical properties. The only difference will be in the gravity of disruption it causes in people's lives.. which will go from moderate.. to disabling.

Some will function at a relatively high level.. but many will end up recluses. Whatever the case it will work to destroy individual potential by driving one into morbid self absorption.. even if it doesn't produce outright psychosis.
How do you know ? first hand experience ?
 

skookumchuck

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Air seems to do you right in.



If you were sober, might have noticed they spent as much time eating dinner and hanging out at friends as possible ya f-cking drunk.

Nice try loser. I have not been drunk more than 3 times in 50 years. I also get by nicely without the use of recreational drugs, never found myself needing drugs for fun. What is it like? Does one spend an inordinate amount of time on an internet forum, hammering out one or two word posts then hugely enjoying all the standing applause?
 

coldstream

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How do you know ? first hand experience ?

Right.. a daily user for about 2 years (along with various hallucinogens, but weed was the dope of choice).. mid 70s (and sporadically prior).

It destroyed a year of university.. by the time i quit i was paranoid, depressed, sedentary, goal less, solitary, apathetic and socially averse. I was becoming sloppy.. took little interest in grooming, diet, exercize and sports, or, intellectual pursuits. Those are all aspects of neuroses.. but what scared me was that i was seeing clear signs of developing psychoses, in myself and my fellow pot smokers.

It wasn't just me.. most of my friends quit about the same time i did and for the same reasons.. we didn't want to go through life in an isolated daze.

My advice for people who want to bury themselves in their parent's basement in a cloud of cannabis smoke is.. get a life. :)
 
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taxslave

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Proving a tax bonanza is what is going to make pot legal in other jurisdictions. No government can resist a revenue stream that people are basically demanding to pay.
 

Liberalman

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I would never spend my hard earned money to smoke Marijuana if it became legal I would just enjoy the second hand smoke.