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In reply to the discussion: A question: When Pot is legal nationwide... [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)68. "But it gets you HIGH!!!!!!!This is HUGH!!!!!!"
I always laugh when people say that. For some of us, it gets us high the same way an anti-depressant lifts the mood of the anti-depressant ingestee. Some people do not find this effect in cannabis. They get paranoid, or have strange thought patterns.
Each person reacts differently to cannabis so there can't really be a blanket statement about its impact on society. Strains of cannabis are different. Some make you sleepy, some ease pain and seizure activity, some make you hungry, some ease nausea, or help you focus while easing pain, acting as an anti-depressant and giving an appetite.
So say I am a cannabis user. My mood is lifted, I feel as if I can be productive without getting bogged down in depression or other symptoms ( "I" being the person who partakes of cannabis ) rather than spending the day unproductively in bed, in pain or too weighed down by PTSD or my cancer or my MS to function.
I am not reliant on pharmaceutical products - which carry risks of side effects like suicidal ideation, profound weight gain, lack of libido, ones head can practically fall off while one is driving in one's sleep, for crying out loud - that many pharmacies have trouble carrying anyway and that I cannot afford, having absolutely no insurance or access to health care.
All things being set right, I could grow this plant for free. How conservative is that, both fiscally and in terms of small government?
How sinful that brains tell people that things will be okay. That their bodies are not in pain anymore." You get PLEASURE from easing your symptoms? How DARE you!!!! You should be "low."
Well, shopping, eating, football, personal stock market gains and good beer get you high, too. Anyway.
As to the OP, maybe a few more people will try it for symptoms. Pharm sales will go down, but things will level out. And maybe ( my choice above ) people who are eating, sleeping well, not in pain or nauseated will make better citizens and will, after all, meet in the public squares and sing kumbaiya....
Each person reacts differently to cannabis so there can't really be a blanket statement about its impact on society. Strains of cannabis are different. Some make you sleepy, some ease pain and seizure activity, some make you hungry, some ease nausea, or help you focus while easing pain, acting as an anti-depressant and giving an appetite.
So say I am a cannabis user. My mood is lifted, I feel as if I can be productive without getting bogged down in depression or other symptoms ( "I" being the person who partakes of cannabis ) rather than spending the day unproductively in bed, in pain or too weighed down by PTSD or my cancer or my MS to function.
I am not reliant on pharmaceutical products - which carry risks of side effects like suicidal ideation, profound weight gain, lack of libido, ones head can practically fall off while one is driving in one's sleep, for crying out loud - that many pharmacies have trouble carrying anyway and that I cannot afford, having absolutely no insurance or access to health care.
All things being set right, I could grow this plant for free. How conservative is that, both fiscally and in terms of small government?
How sinful that brains tell people that things will be okay. That their bodies are not in pain anymore." You get PLEASURE from easing your symptoms? How DARE you!!!! You should be "low."
Well, shopping, eating, football, personal stock market gains and good beer get you high, too. Anyway.
As to the OP, maybe a few more people will try it for symptoms. Pharm sales will go down, but things will level out. And maybe ( my choice above ) people who are eating, sleeping well, not in pain or nauseated will make better citizens and will, after all, meet in the public squares and sing kumbaiya....
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I would think it would take something to stronger than pot to come up with that theory
BainsBane
Mar 2014
#6
Your post about intelligence is hilarious for at least 3 specific reasons...
Lost_Count
Mar 2014
#122
I'm suggesting that you slipped in that study because I wanted you to prove your assertion
bravenak
Mar 2014
#60
Are you unsure or even denying that marijuana causes physical and mental impairment?
Lost_Count
Mar 2014
#112
I agree it doesn't increase intellectual prowess. Neither does eating a fuckton of twinkies.
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#89
No, no amount of pot will turn an cranky, nasty jackhole into a decent person.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#58
Maybe the a-holes destroying our country start smoking spliffs and not be such gigantic a-holes? nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#52
will it make people write polls that ask three questions while providing only one answer?
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2014
#83