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I'm indifferent towards Marijuana

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  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.

    Only socially. In other words, almost never.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Socially, and very occasionally for my own personal recreation. I'd say I have a few sessions each month. 

  • SaturnSaturn
    edited 2012-11-10 23:12:34
    Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!

    Likewise, socially. I did last night with a few friends. And yeah, a few times a month.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    Never have.


    Not necessarily opposed to the idea, but I don't have many friends who do.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-11-10 23:18:18
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Not necessarily opposed to the idea, but I don't have many friends who do.



    Pretty much the same with me. Also, never smoked anything in the first place, so I dunno how that would go. Also, my parents would figuratively hang me.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    I don't have many friends who do.



    Probably another factor for me.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    I used to toke up every now and then in college. Now I don't do it so much since I really have no idea how to get my hands on it. 


    I could probably ask my sister, actually, but I don't want to encourage that.

  • NoimportaNoimporta

    If by insignificant, you mean, causes a lot of people to be sent to jail for many years just for possessing or using something that is less dangerous than cigarettes or alcohol



    The thing about alcohol is that it can reasonably argued that many, if not most, people (myself included) drink it because they like the taste of the drinks, not to get drunk, while pot is only smoked to get high (or to alleviate chronic pain, but that's a very small minority). With cigarettes, though, I have no clue (OK, I lie, it's money and the fact that lawmakers like to smoke)... I mean, we ("we" being "most countries") go out of our way to prevent people from smoking them, and to get them to quit, yet we allow them to stay legal, while banning much milder stuff. Marijuana is depenalized here, though, so I really don't give it much thought.


     


    Tried it once, by the way... didn't particularly enjoy it, but I might have to give it another shot.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-11-11 02:01:57

    In Oregon it's basically de facto decriminalized in that the authorities don't really care that much.  They'll use it as an excuse to nail you for something else though.


    Speaking of, as for how many people are actually arrested for possession,



    "Out of the total number of state inmates doing time for any drug offense, 83 percent had a prior criminal history. In other words, the large majority were not first time offenders. They were people who had committed crimes in the past, and nearly two thirds of them (62 percent) had multiple prior convictions. Marijuana accounted for just 13 percent of all state drug offenders.



    Looking at it from the broader perspective of the entire prison population, BJS noted that in 1997 marijuana was involved in the conviction of only 2.7 percent of all state inmates. About 1.6 percent of the state prison population were held for offenses involving just marijuana, while just 0.7 percent were incarcerated with marijuana possession as the only charge.



    Further narrowing the field, by excluding those prisoners with criminal histories, BJS found that only 0.3 percent of all state inmates were first time marijuana possession offenders (see Figure 1). And this statistic, it’s worth noting, refers to possession of any amount—even as much as a hundred pounds or more—not just “personal use” quantities.



    Recent BJS estimates based on prisoner surveys show that at midyear 2002, approximately 8,400 state prison inmates were serving time for marijuana possession (any amount), and fewer than half of them were first time offenders. The point here is inescapable: Of the more than 1.2 million people serving time in state prisons across America, only 3,600 individuals were sentenced on a first offense for possession of marijuana. Again, this figure includes possession of any amount.



    Source


    While there's something to be said about people getting disproportionately shafted for what's basically a misdemeanor every once in a while, and that it's still a huge miscarriage of justice when it happens, the fact of the matter is that it doesn't really happen nearly as often as marijuana advocates would have you believe.

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I don't do drugs, you can cringe now.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Tried it once, by the way... didn't particularly enjoy it, but I might have to give it another shot.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Marijuana has to be taken two, three, perhaps four times before one actually feels significant effects from it. If you're going to try it at all, it may as well be for those <5 times, until you get a significant effect and discover what it's actually like. 

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    So it's like alcohol, eh? You feel the effect after a couple of drinks most times.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2012-11-11 08:59:56
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Not really, 'cause if you're having five joints, yourself, over the course of a session, then you're going to be absolutely out of your mind. Probably either passed out or functionally useless for anything but deriving amusement from everything. And hungry. I meant more in terms of general experience -- you have to have some in a handful of different occasions, because the first one or two times you smoke it, you're probably not going to get anything out of it. 


    Here's the general timeline of marijuana use over a long period:



    1. The non-effect stage, where it doesn't do crap. 

    2. The basic high stage, where it becomes enjoyable and funny. 

    3. The "greening out" stage; expect to pass out or vomit here as you and your body adjusts to your own personal limits with the substance, much like alcohol. 

    4. The sleepy stage, wherein weed does nothing but make your tired and hungry.

    5. The anything goes stage, where you become properly aware of different kinds of weed having different effects. Congratulations! You can now take your first steps into the world of a pot connoisseur. 

    6. The illegal growing stage, where you dig out a secret chamber under your house and set up the necessary equipment to grow your own stock.

    7. Pfftt, ahaha, whee-oh-ho-ho, aw man, is anyone else really hungry?

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    edited 2012-11-11 09:08:31
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I've read that car light theft - specifically the headlights from a porsche - is quite a problem in Netherlands (? IIRC). Apparently they are held as the perfect light (and heat?) source for cellar-based weed plantation.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    I wouldn't know for sure, but I don't doubt it. 


    Although anyone who wants to grow really good weed needs to take a few botany classes, or least have an in-the-know botanist friend. In fact, if you want to try weed, you can probably ask anyone in a botany class and they'll hook you up. There is no botany class free of at least one pothead. Ever. 

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    So it's like people study chemistry because deep down, they want to blow shit up, eh?

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Yeah. Or like, how some people study history because deep down, they want to be a knight. 


    Or a princess. 

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I didn't remember what were you studying, but now I know.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    I thought Alex was studying journalism back in the day. 

  • SaturnSaturn
    Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!

    So it's like people study chemistry because deep down, they want to blow shit up, eh?



    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8fcklZliy1qcbssn.gif

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Hmm, a quick look around only shows the Telegraaf(local Sun equivalent) as a sauce on the headlight-stealing story, so methinks it is conjecture(moar likely, the headlights are easily removable with those models and the drug story is later tacked on because the headlights have the same specs as smartshop hallogen lamps-those are by no means cheap, but not so expensive as to be worth the risk of headlight theft).

  • KrakenKraken

    Clearly deep down he wants to expose corruption in both ways, both with the point of a pen clad in fedora and coat, as well as with the edge of a sword, in chainmail.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Actually, I was doing lit and trying to transfer into journalism after a year of psych went sour. But then I was kind of sort of entirely kicked in the teeth by administration so


    I consider myself a student of history, though, albeit an unofficial one. 

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.



    Everything I got out of high school science in a nutshell.

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Also, I am reminded of this Cracked article: http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_357_19-things-college-students-suspect-about-real-world/?view=article. I'm thinking of the number eighteen foremostly, heh heh.


    That blowing shit up story, I was told it by my chemistry professor.

  • SaturnSaturn
    Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!

    Seriously, Nova, that GIF basically is high school. You've even got the obligatory scene girl in the background.

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    My high was kinda mundane, compared to what I hear from Anglophonic films and Internet. No cliques of this kind separated more stringently than Indian castes, enforced pecking order, so on. Just some geeks and metalheads in the mix.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    In Australia, most schools enforce uniforms. Also, I went to a private Catholic school, which is about as far removed from US public schools as can be. 

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    I had the good fortune of going to private schools with sizes of around 50-200 students, so things weren't that bad for me.

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