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Thu Sep-16-04 06:09 PM
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Poll question: Non pot smokers, 'why' don't you smoke weed? |
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:11 PM
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1. I smoked it in the 70's several times |
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with friends....It makes you drowsy and slow....I hate the feeling. It was a chore.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:11 PM
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as I get high using spiritual practices. But I would use marijuana medicianally if I found I needed it. And I have always supported legalisation.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:17 PM
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4. Personally, I would not want to be sick/ill. |
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Edited on Thu Sep-16-04 06:18 PM by liberalnurse
and smoke dope at the same time! :scared:
Now, apparently people have a better result and it has support as being therapeutic.....I just would refuse. It would not work for me. I guess I'm a control freak....I always have to be in control of myself.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:29 PM
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runs in my family-my uncle went blind from it. I know of a friend who was able to stop his glaucoma and keep his vision only by smoking marijuana. I don't take any form of drugs if possible, but if it is necessary for my vision, I'd take marijuana.
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:27 PM
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17. I'm glad that it is an effective treatment. |
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I know if I had to smoke it...I'd probably be non-compliant. It really would be a struggle.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:17 PM
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everytime I tried it, my eyes got all red, I felt very weird--kind of light-headed, and I had the strangest cravings.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:18 PM
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5. ever hear of drug testing? |
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own company and all employees have to go through it as well as owners to enter areas that are heavily OSHA regulated.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:19 PM
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illegal...
too expensive......
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:20 PM
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I don't much care for mindless escapism. I want to see the world as it is, not as the drugs trick my mind into seeing it. I don't even drink coffee :)
Besides, who needs the lung damage?
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:20 PM
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quite often but it makes me stupid. Seriously, I am not a good drinker either so I gave it up. I occasionally drink but not a lot. Since it is illegal (shouldn't be) I decided it was best to raise my family without the risk and without having to deal with those issues with teens. Those are my only reasons. If offered and I was among friends and felt safe to make an ass of myself I most likely would smoke some, maybe not, I don't know anymore. Heh, go for it.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:21 PM
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:22 PM
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Been there, done that.
It screws up your head, makes you paranoid and if you get busted, costs mucho $ to go to court, get fined, loose your job, have to apply for security clearances all over again, etc.
I KNOW it's not fair, but that's reality.
Did all of that (good & bad) back in the 70's. Getting high is cool, all the other stuff is bad.
My reason? It's not worth the hassle.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:23 PM
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11. I tapered off by the early 80s. |
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and now that I am volunteering on a historic railroad ( have my rules card for Brakeman ), i am subject to FRA drug testing
plus i hate spending the money.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:26 PM
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:32 PM
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I love the unwordly, "dropout" associations of pot-smoking; in fact, "The Big Lebowski" is one of my all-time favourite films. But I believe the brain is a very sensitive instrument and fear that young people risk doing themselves harm with it.
With so many health-scare stories in our newspapers, you sometimes wonder what might *not* be bad for your health. But I'm also inclined to believe reports of research findings relating to damage cause by pot to other organs. I also wish I'd learnt a lot earlier about the damage done by ordinary cigarettes, that I read in one of John Grisham's books about a prosecution of the big tobacco companies. Hair-raising to read just about the harm done to the hairs in your nostrils, which are designed to protect your respiratory organs.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:40 PM
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15. Plenty of opportunities, never had any interest. |
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I'm hardly a nerd; every one I kknow smokes it, I simply don't care to.
Idon't smoke and drink very little also.
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Thu Sep-16-04 06:42 PM
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16. I found it just kind of boring after awhile |
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Has it gotten any more interesting or exciting in the last 25 years?
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:29 PM
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18. I don't like potheads. |
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Why would I want to be something I dislike with a passion?
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:30 PM
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19. Because it gives me anxiety attacks |
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My poor ADD brain reacts quite opposite to it as most...I start thinking about all the crap I've done wrong in my life, starving kids in Africa...what if ebola becomes airborne...what if my pencil becomes possessed and flies into my eyeball...
Y'know, the usual. :D
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:34 PM
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21. Whoa, glad I never started then. |
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That is seriously messed up. Just imagine George: "The terrorists are OH MY GOD FLYING RIGHT AT ME!"
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:33 PM
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20. Never was interested in trying it... |
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I've been in situations where I could have if I wanted to, but weed is just not my "thing". Personally I think it should be legal, and anyone who wants to do it should be able to without being in fear of losing their job, getting arrested or even losing financial aid if you get busted. Thats a big one for college students
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:39 PM
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:44 PM
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23. Stopped because it made me paranoid |
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Edited on Thu Sep-16-04 07:45 PM by PDittie
I'm talking, sitting around the campfire in the wilderness with an overwhelming sense that the FBI was crawling out of the woods to get me.
Then there was the cognitive diminishment. The "stupids".
Didn't like that at all.
Having started when I was 16, by the time I was college-age I had had enough.
Until I was 40, occasionally (maybe two or three times a year) I would be around friends who were consuming, and I would partake. I found that a small amount actually was pretty pleasant (a toke or three), but any more than that brought on the creeps.
So I quit altogether about six years ago.
The really sad thing is that my friends, the ones who have been smoking dope on a regular basis for about 25 years?
They're morans.
Seriously.
I can tell they don't have the snap they used to; they believe everything they see on FOX; they have a running-in-the-background paranoia about terrorism, losing their guns, having their taxes increased, etc.
They respond almost viscerally way to simple concepts (good/evil) and don't really have the ability to think in a complex way.
I think, like their Glorious Leader (a burnout himself, of course) it's a symptom of chronic use.
JMHO.
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:51 PM
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24. Sorry--it's a GUY thing... |
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Most women I know don't like to lie around slacking and eating junk food.
Plus once you've been paranoid and freaked out, or spent 50 bucks at 7-11, that's the end of that!
Personally, I prefer substances that make you speedy--like caffeine. (And that's all I'm gonna say! Eveything else is in my past, including alcohol.)
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:09 PM
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Thu Sep-16-04 07:53 PM
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25. Because it makes me eat junk food, laugh inappropriately, and sleep. |
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Why would I pay good money to do the same stuff I do sober? :shrug:
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:05 PM
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Psuedo-counter-culture. I'm straight edge (don't drink or get high), because I'm the exact type of person you would expect to be high 99% of the time. People expect me to do it, so I don't.
Also, I'm a nerd.
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:07 PM
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The urine nazis are always on the lookout.
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:12 PM
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30. drug testing has definitely put a crimp in my toking habit... |
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:10 PM
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29. Been There, Done That. |
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I spent about 3/4 of my high school days completely stoned.
Real life eventually beckoned.
I like it better this way.
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:13 PM
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31. moon rocks are POINTY!! |
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that and there's those pesky drug tests to get jobs :(
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:14 PM
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32. because I am old fashion and prefer a nice glass of booze |
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kidding, I think if I did, it would give more to the myth that I am a potdealer.
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:15 PM
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1) Penalties for getting caught are too risky for me. 2) I have asthma 3) Cash is tight
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:16 PM
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34. I stopped smoking pot maybe 9 years ago |
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I really haven't had a desire to do it since.
It's probably best I abstain, anyway -- I don't really need to put something in my system that makes me more scatterbrained, paranoid, horny, vertigo-addled, etc. than I've already been of late without the use of chemicals.
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:22 PM
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35. It Got Old. I Grew Up. Smoking Pot Is An Albatross. |
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It opened doors when I was younger but once they were open... the pot smoking became redundant.
Mostly, it was a social lubricant for me. I don't need it anymore.
It's expensive.
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Thu Sep-16-04 08:28 PM
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Just one of those intuitive things. I never even experimented. And I took a lot of shit for not succumbing to peer pressure. Too bad I ignored the same intuition about some of women I've been involved with.
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