Re: Poll of the week - Weed
I've smoked it on numerous occasions, but not for a long time. I wouldn't especially recommend it or otherwise, although I have an ex-mate who's a total dope casualty, but then he smoked it all the time (almost literally). Probably not the best thing to do, but certainly not the worst either.
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Iv tried it a few times, but on all occasions I spewed my guts up and turned into a total paranoid freak! However, I do know loads of people who smoke it all the time and it relaxes them, so I have no objective to it...
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I've smoked weed everything from Krypto to Endo... It is very relaxing... I don't see a problem with mature people smoking it on the occasion... If you can smoke it and still handle responsibilities I don't think its bad... However for me it came to a point where weed wasn't enough of a high... That's why I stopped hitting it...
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No. No drugs and no sex, and I have the brazen cheek to call myself a student
As for the legalisation, here's a fact: Britain has harsh drugs laws and has the highest number of drug addicts per capita in the EU. The Netherlands has liberal drugs laws, including legalised cannabis, and has the lowest number of drug addicts per capita in the EU. Now, _some_ may think there's a bit of a link there? No? Some people certainly don't think so...
Quote:Wrong wrong wrong. It will mean more drug addicts and more crime. Drugs laws must be toughened with any 3 drugs offences bringing an automatic life sentence with no parole. That way drug crime will be cut. Its about time Mr Blunkett got tough instead of behaving like the wishy washy liberal he seems to be.
John Cooper, Slough, UK
I think that twat has been smoking more than weed Why bother with facts when you get some grotty little rightwing tabloid pushed through your letter box every morning?
Britain also has the highest rates of unwanted teenage pregnancies and STD transmissions, with the Netherlands (lets face it, the most sexually UN-repressed country in the EU) having the lowest
I've smoked the very occasional joint in the past. Can't say I really like it that much and doubt I'll ever be tempted to have another one.
I don't think an occasional smoke is any worse for you than a good drinking session but taken regularly I personally don't believe it does your head a lot of good. I've known someone in the past who had smoked it regularly for years, he was completely screwed up and seemed to live for it. The feeling it gives can be addictive for some people, and that's where the harm lies.
At the end of the day though, it's an individual's choice, and I don't condemn anyone who enjoys it sensibly.
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If people smoke it that is their personal choice. The one aspect of drugs that I do not like is the dealing. These are people making lots of money illegally and off of the addiction and in some cases misery of others.
Why not legalise and tax it? That way the burden that smack heads will inevitably place on the NHS could be somewhat offset by the addtional funds earned.
NB: There is a distinction between smack heads and those using it occasionally for re-creation.
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Smack is heroin, a drug derived from an opiate, with high potential for addiction.
Weed, cannibis, causes a mild high and is a natural plant substance from leaves or flower buds that is non-addictive except to addictive personalities, just as likely to be addicted to candy or chips.
But Honour's point is well taken in that the problem with any illegal drug is marketing. Make them both legal, heroin with a prescription, organize the production, distribution, and sales, and solve the problems of the greedy middle men (or women) and the major cause of drug related crime. Tax the product? Of course, as alcohol or any other legal drug is. But use the tax money to treat those who do become addicted to either product.
Oh, forgot to answer. Yes. Smoked dope for nearly ten years daily, and at the same time finished University and Graduate School and worked full time job with no adverse effects, no hangovers the next morning, and no need for the drug if I didn't smoke it for a day, a week, or a month. It can increase paranoia in some, but is generally relaxing and stress reducing.
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I smoke it, don't buy it. My mates usually have some when i go back home and we have a spliff or two. Nothing better than having hysterical laughing fits over something completely not funny!
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Marijuana is a slap on the hand misdemeanor in California for possession to use, as it is in a number of other states. A few states have provisions to allow the growth of a few plants for personal use. Several states, including California and Oregon, have a medical marijuana laws that makes it legal to buy and sell if you have a prescription from a doctor saying it will ease nausea or pain for some illnesses (AIDS, terminal cancers, and others), but the federal government (yes, Bush, the old state's rights conservative) says state laws are, in this case, overruled by federal law. States with such laws are not prosecuting. It pays to know your state's laws and practices. Even for harder drugs, many states, like California, have decriminalized addiction, seeing treatment as a more viable option than imprisonment as long as the criminal acts are self-abusing.
It is not a small country and the legal variations are complex. Small amounts of marijuana are generally overlooked in any large city, but not highly addictive drugs like crack cocaine and heroin. The laws are, of course, biased against the poor—the only heroin users or addicts I have ever known have never faced the law and never been arrested, as they were able to afford their drugs and eventually entered into treatment with help from family or doctors. Had they been poor, they would be a greater target for police scrutiny even if they supported their habits through work instead of theft. But this is not unique to the States. Poverty creates problems everywhere, and the poor—no matter how decent or noble—are suspect by the social sin of being poor, made worse by racism, ethnic, and nationalistic biases. Oddly, gays, because of the disposable wealth of single males, are relative free of scrutiny for drugs, and drugs of many types are easily available in gay dominent areas, though gays (and this is a gross generalization) tend to find addiction and addictive drugs objectionable. America's first season of QAF did a fair job of showing the acceptance of marijuana by main characters along with the abhorance of crack, though a major gay character did attempt to aid a crack cocaine addict because he was gay.
A number of conservative politicians and thinkers have come out in favor of legalization—with controls—of all drugs to lower crime rates and to cut down on such problems as the American war on drugs abroad, programs that do little for America or the countries involved. Either the European or American version of the film Traffic demonstrates this problem well. Poorer countries supplying drugs would be foolish to continue internal wars to produce drugs if we (the European and American using communities) could lower demand for drugs by coping with drug problems in our own countries.
Phil, That answers the land-of-the-free question about as well as I can without getting into greater specifics of individual drugs, state laws, and attitudes that vary from city to small towns all across the country. I am far from an expert on such laws, though I personally vote for decriminalization of many so-called victimless crimes.
Re: Poll of the week - Weed
I smoke it sometimes, don't buy it.
A couple of my friends do and I'll share it with them, only problem is that I dont smoke and I have cravings to smoke the next day or whatever.
The problem is, the feeling of being high is great and hence you want to feel high again, some people then smoke it all the time and can't sleep without it. I think that's when it becomes a problem.
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I don't smoke it myself.
A friend of mine goes through phases of regular smoking it and gets very paranoid.
I tend to be of the opinion that such things shoud be legal unless there is an overwhelming case for criminalisation, but that while they are illegal they should be punished. (I suppose I am a hypocrite as I wouldn't dream of shopping my mate for it).
Why bother with facts when you get some grotty little rightwing tabloid pushed through your letter box every morning?
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