What Do You Like To Do When. . .

[rusty pins]

Ok. It's someone's personal choice if they want to do drugs, drink booze or smoke pot. Personally, I don't do any of it, not necessarily because some of it is against the law, but because I don't want to smoke pot, do drugs or booze that will mess up my mind, even temporarily. Yes, some people will say that it dosn't mess up your mind but actually enhances it. That may be true to a point. I'm thinking Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote some of his best songs when on drugs as he claimed it opened up and expanded his mind! Then I look at his life in the late 60's through the 1980's. He was totally messed up, still has brain damage from all the drugs and has never (and won't ever) fully recover from those days of drug usage. He's not the only one. So, occasional pot smoking. Is it as bad? I'm sure it's not, but I'm one who just dosn't want to smoke pot or do any drugs except for perscription drugs needed to overcome a medical issue. I don't even like them but use them only when a doctor prescribes them for an illness. My take on it is, I don't do it but if you feel like you want to do it, that is your businss and not mine to tell you not to. All I will ask, though, is that if you do drugs, smoke pot or drink booze, please don't get in your car while under the influence and drive. You may feel that you are OK to drive, but if you are under the influence, yes, your judgement is impaired! It has been proven with many studies! After all, why do you smoke pot or drink booze if not to get buzzed? Isn't that your purpose in doing it to begin with? Anyway, please don't drive impaired. You may hit me walking across the street or on the highway in my own car. There are enough lunatics on the roads these days without adding to it by driving impaired. Now, I'm not talking about a little drink or a couple puffs. I'm talking about smoking or drinking to the point of getting buzzed. Not even drunk, but buzzed or impaired. Otherwise, do as you want to as it's not my place to tell anyone not to drink or smoke pot. It's just not for me and never will be.

[Kapitan]

I skimmed the whole thread, most posts seemed to be bashing marijuana on the sole basis of legality in most places.

It's not necessarily illegal everywhere, and in general it's proven to be less harmful than tobacco or alchohol (Although many smoke it with tobacco.)

I advocate it's legalization, and regulation, and consider it a lesser 'drug' than the two aforementioned ones.

It's about common sense; People say about driving. Yeah, don't drive while under the influence of anything! Even cough medicine in some cases.

As for smell; Many people I know, even those who don't smoke it, enjoy the smell. It can also be eaten, and thus only smells while cooking it into something (As does everything being cooked?), or vaporized and thus not put smoke everywhere. Hash/etc. also tends to smell much less prominent than the green.

My general opinion is, arguing against a cannabis thread on a legality basis on the internet is kind of daft given it's not illegal on a world-wide basis by some Earthpolice organization and alcohol and tobacco being legal in all the places weed is illegal. I myself am not afraid to admit I smoke it regularly as it helps with some hereditary joint pain and general mood and because, hell, I enjoy it more than any 'legal' alternative. I dislike alcohol and rarely have some when socialising out and about with people who don't smoke cannabis (However I more regularly smoke and socialise in much more relaxed settings than rowdy pubs), or a beer with a meal once in a while which I'm doing even less due to alcohol giving me jaw pain if I drink it while eating. I also don't regularly smoke cigarettes; Except tobacco in joints so it's not a blunt every darn time and those rare times when drinking.

If you have a blind aversion to it "because it's bad and illegal!", do some research into it, relating it to legal drugs, both recreational and medicinal. Doesn't mean you have to go smoke it, of course, personal choice, but if you have an opinion, ensure it's based on facts!

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Also, I do like to smoke while padded. Tis relaxing and if you're too baked to move (Although I don't advocate getting THAAAT baked too often) it makes things a lot easier =P

But then again, I'm smoking a lot so most times I'm padded I'm smoking anyway or vice versa.

Oh! And alcohol makes me pee lots. So if I know I'm going to be drinking I generally HAVE to be padded, or will use the excuse of going to be drinking alcohol to get extra thickly padded because of that fact. With smoking, I more have the choice.

[waynecook52]

the more

someone posts in this thread the more they associate themselves with illegal activity ....

perhaps you could start your own thread about why we shouldnt have posts about pot on the iternet ......

sarah, I have read all these posts to this thread and I got to say I like yours the best.

[drynot]

As for smell; Many people I know, even those who don't smoke it, enjoy the smell. It can also be eaten, and thus only smells while cooking it into something (As does everything being cooked?), or vaporized and thus not put smoke everywhere. Hash/etc. also tends to smell much less prominent than the green.

Don't kid yourself. Pot smoke smells horrible. I don't want to smell it and I shouldn't have to smell it regardless of how you and your friends feel about it. Besides the legality of it, your right to enjoy it does not give you the right to expose others to it no matter how hard people want to legalise it.

[sarah_ab]

well drynot, i wasn't seeing him saying he was exposing others to it at all...

aside from the fact even the NIH has done studies which show the benefits of the active ingrediant in MJ for a multitude of medical conditions...

There are many ways to ingest MJ that do not involve smoking it.... you can make an oil/balm and put it on your skin, you can cook it into food, or you can make tea with it, or make a cooking oil or butter with it....

but the point is, the OP was asking for those who do enjoy MJ what they like to do when taking it... he wasn't asking for a lecture on the legalities of it....

i mean do you guys honestly think people are not aware of the legal status of MJ in their respective countries? Thats like telling a fat person they are fat... do you honestly think they don't know?

its a waste of time... and honestly, in no way shape or form contributes to the intent of the post. Again if you want to discuss teh ethical, moral and legal implications of partaking in MJ than go create your own thread where this is the topic and let those who do enjoy MJ and art, or diapers, or music etc.... have this topic to discuss....

[Kapitan]

@drynot, You remind me of a babysitter I had as a kid, who screamed in my face that petrol doesn't have an oddly nice smell to it when I made a passing comment. It smells nice, I think so and most I personally know except one or two people would likely agree or at least say they're neutral on it. You stating it smells horrible doesn't change those opinions, regardless of if they're friends or even people I smoke with. Although of course, my opinion on that doesn't change your opinion on it!

Yes, fair enough, to each their own, you don't like it, but in my experience most don't have a major problem with it, and it isn't potent enough to bother neighbours or anyone except those in the same room unless you're smoking some daft super high grade crap that welds you to the sofa and say nothing but "Dude, wut?" instead of giving you a nice relaxed high you can function on. Same room, or at most same flat/apartment depending on the stuff you have and how you use it, seems to be the limit on how far the smell reaches from what I've gathered in the years around those who smoke and smoking myself. And what about your stinky alcohol breath or cigarette smoke when I'm out and about? Hell even coffee breath in my face when dealing with people? I don't want that, but, I put up with it without yelling at each person who smells funny. I don't wave a spliff in peoples faces in the street, but I get smoke blown in my face from cigarettes all the time. So in the words of Ruby Rhod "Bzzzzz!" *Shoos away*

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All in all; If people ask politely to move your cigarette smoke, you do it. Same with weed in my opinion. Although the only times you're likely to smoke in an open area or in enough proximity for others to really smell or be exposed to it, those people will be people you're comfortable smoking around anyway, such as at specific gatherings, festivals, etc., where most people congregate around the smoke as opposed to flee it xD

[drynot]

Honestly though...perhaps you smokers just are not aware of how far the smell of this crap actually carries. I live in a....I guess its about 20 or so apartments here in this building and quite often I come home to the hallways smelling like shit because people figure they can smoke this garbage wherever they like....most specifically in their apartments. Now if you were to ask...and it has been done...that they smoke elsewhere where they aren't going to bother the neighbours...all you get is attitude about how they are allowed to do whatever they like in their own place. You end up looking like the asshole because you want them to have a little consideration for their fellow neighbours.

When it comes right down to it...I'm all for an outright ban on smoking ANYTHING....regardless of the benefits. If by you smoking something causes someone else around you grief then your rights as a smoker are null and void in my opinion. In the town where I live...they had to put up signs on the walls and paint no smoking signs on the ground in front of the mall entrances because people would sit out right in front of the doors smoking. Everyone entering the place was subjected to their cigarette smoke.....which is a problem. Smokers do not have the RIGHT to expose anybody to their second hand smoke...PERIOD.

[Kapitan]

I don't really know that problem personally, as I live in a place that's only hallway is the outside. Neighbours know I smoke it because I have my front door open a lot but they have no problem with it and when it's the school holidays and/or neighbours kids are around I just keep the frontside doors & windows closed and so far have had no complaints - Some even turn up with offerings of their own to smoke in return for the times they stop by and I share without them having any. I'm always courteous, and avoid smoking anywhere I think it'll cause even a slight problem. Plus, the mentioned fact of various other ways to make use of it without smoking it, or by reducing the potential smell that can carry. Several Americans I know who live in such apartments with lots of others avoid smoking in the hallways or heavily in their own apartments because of the issue of being in the same building with the smell. If they outright refuse to respect that, it's the person being an arse, not the substance itself.

I agree any kind of smoke is the consent of the people it affects, and usually when in a mixed group of smokers & non smokers we accommodate for it by having a smoking area far away from the main group. Then again, I live in an area very used to, and open about, it. So it's more a case of finding an isolated place or higher room, asking people about it, and otherwise assuming if they have a problem with it they'll just say so, so we can move or wait!

It's just not something to target at a specific kind of smoker, in my opinion second hand cigarette smoke is much more disgusting in smell (except a few really nice brands) and also worse for you from what I know (Including weed+tobacco mixed joints, although I smoke them.).

See what I'm sayiiiin'? xD

Also, thank you, you reminded me I need to do some cooking to have some non-smoking ways of getting my good ol' THC!

[BabyAltair]

I would not ask that last question were I you. I am sure that there are those who would: Remember STINKY, Squish & Proud!

The big attribute of pot smoke is that it is acrid. Cigarettes are not in small doses and some cigars and pipe tobaccos are actually aromatic amd "smoked" is an ingredient in some foods and back in the day, the smell of burning leaves was pleasant and we all had our favorite incense: Mine is sandalwood as well as mosquito chaser

You just like being a dick to people or what?

Don't talk condescendingly about other people's likes or dislikes when you like dressing up as an infant and wearing diapers. No one cares what you think about pot. I don't smoke it, but I'm not gonna come in here and throw a fit about other people smoking.

Do I come into your sissy forum and throw fits in there about not wanting to be associated with the perverts who have massive daddy issues that you MUST be to be a sissy? (It's a satirical analogy to point out the hypocriticalness of the posts, I have no problem with sissies, I don't actually think any of that. It doesn't do anything for me, but I'm cool with you guys liking what you like.) I mean come on, smoking pot automatically makes you an ignorant criminal who wants to be in jail, according to you, so you must have something wrong with your head to dress up like a little girl. Right? Right?

A lot of your posts have an air of condescending superiority complex, and it's pretty irritating, honestly. It's not your business, you have no part in it, you don't take part in it, you disagree with it. We don't come screw with you over things we don't like. Return the damn favor.

[Maurepas]

Just having smoked it isn't illegal, only possession/selling/buying/etc., having done so in the past is nothing, and therefore this thread really can't be used as evidence against anyone.

Anyway, when I've smoked I'd generally play videogames or watch stupid shows or whatever. That game a while back that was meant to induce synesthesia totally worked when I was high.

As far as my incontinence, it was both a help and a hurt, I made the mistake of smoking it with no protection at a friend's house, on the one hand, it made the urges practically go away, and with them the pain of having said urges. On the other hand, I didn't notice when I had to pee and my weak urethral sphincter just let it go. Went home with wet pants and they were left with a wet couch,

But, with protection it's certainly pretty nice

[Benjamin]

Getting back to the original post. I haven't smoked since college, but always enjoyed my 'high' time. I enjoyed the way it can bring out a feeling of child-like curiosity and creativeness. It was always such a thrill to go on a long relaxing walk by myself in the park high as a kite, thickly padded, and grinning like a naughty fox who just ate the biggest hen in the coupe. Loved to smoke near a creek when it was overcast and listen to the water, loved to play on synthesizers and figure out favorite pop songs diapered and high. Yeah, I have nothing but great memories of diapers and pot and I haven't smoked in a couple of years. Don't mind all the haters on this thread, they have no idea what there missing, too bad for them!