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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rory on May 09, 2011, 05:06:40 PM
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Let me get this out of the way before i start... Do not talk about others or you doing it if you don't want to... do not insult other people for doing it.
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The name "Marijuana" came off of "Cannabis", which is now-a-days called "Weed". This was used as medicine around 4000-3000 B.C. in the Asian parts of the world, Buddhist's used it around Before Christ. It was first outlawed in the southern region of Africa in 1911... basically Cannabis was being outlawed in the early 20th century. It was finally outlawed in America in 1937... Before that, 1920 was a time where people would smoke it publicly... Even before that in the 17th century, slaves would grow it, then the master would smoke it. Mostly it was Tobacco, not Cannabis, but it was still a most used crop at that time. Most people smoked it from there on, but today people still use it for medical reasons. It's most known for being a drug you inhale and get "High" on... Here is a picture of what modern day Marijuana looks like, i call these nuggets... They are about 1 gram... (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Cannabis_macro.JPG/220px-Cannabis_macro.JPG)
Now people say you can't die from Marijuana, thats untrue... Lung cancer is the most effective disease from Smoking Cannabis. Other body effects are normally just affecting what the chemicals do to your brain... You become, well, temporarily retarded, thats how i put it... But it's not your brain thats partially disabled, the chemical makes the cells die out, thats what makes you high. The body effects are shown on this diagram, and this is also how you know people have been smoking it recently... (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bodily_effects_of_cannabis.png/250px-Bodily_effects_of_cannabis.png)
From my experience, it might me very scary at first... I was breathing like a dog, i didn't know where i was, what i was doing, or what i was going to do. I could barely walk in a straight line, and i couldn't do almost anything right. My eyes were read, and i didn't wanna move. I also did think a little different about what was going on. I thought i was dead... and i also thought i was sleeping and having a dream.
In conclusion, it's a drug that is natural, it's now used mostly for smoking, but is also used for medical reasons. In my opinion, don't make people try it, and don't encourage them if they don't, don't abuse it. Over all... have fun with it...
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I am not agaist it nor do I support it but, the only reason why it was made illegal, from my understanding, is that the fern can be turned into paper and is cheaper and more effective, and so, the lumbering companies got pissed of as they would go bank rupt and it was made illegal and has been since then.
Cannabis causes many health risks but, not as bad as alcohol and tobbaco.
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Now people say you can't die from Marijuana, that's true. There has not been 1 death ever recorded that showed death from marijuana use alone. You would have to smoke 100x your body weight in marijuana to overdose and die. It doesn't make you become temporarily retarded, that's stupid to say. Although it is proven that it does affect short term memory it is not going to make you throw your arm and drool on yourself. In fact, many people drive safely everyday on cannabis.
"the chemical makes the cells die out, that's what makes you high", this is complete and total bullshit. The chemical is naturally found in our brain and it is just silly to think that the killing of cells is what makes you high. To understand the effects of THC we need to take a look at how our brains function. The brain is operated by around 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) which all process information about specific functions. The neurons communicate with each other through neurotransmitters, which are chemicals that control the signals sent between the neurons, and receptors which receive these signals. Foreign chemicals, like THC, can mimic or block actions of neurotransmitters and can therefore either stimulate or diminish the communication between sets of neurons. When you smoke a joint, the cannabinoids from the marijuana that you smoke make their way into your bloodstream via the lungs. Within seconds the bloodstream carries the cannabinoids all over your body and into your brain.
As soon as the cannabinoids enter the brain they immediately behave like neurotransmitters and begin to bind to very specific cannabinoid receptors that certain neurons have.
How can it be that humans have these special cannabinoid receptors? For any drug for which there are receptors in the human brain, we have to ask ourselves the logical question: why do these receptors exist? The answer is quite simple; there must be in the human brain a compound that is pharmacologically similar to THC and that is naturally produced in the brain. In order for these cannabinoid receptors to exist there must be some kind of natural THC already present in every single human brain.
In conclusion, It's a drug that is widely used for recreational purposes as well as medical reasons. In fact, 15 states now have medical marijuana and prescribe it for a number of reasons from aids to chest pain. Your not going to die from smoking weed nor go retarded. Marijuana affects everyone differently so to each his own. I do condone marijuana have been using it for over 5 years regularly, recreationally and medically.
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mad brah? we should all get together and have a sesh
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Lol thc should know, DOTN YOU GET IT YOU DIMWITS THC IS IN WEED HAHA, smart people joke.
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Rory, you're like 14...Why are you smoking?
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Rory, you're like 14...Why are you smoking?
Its just as legal for him as it is for the rest of the Us
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Rory, you're like 14...Why are you smoking?
Its just as legal for him as it is for the rest of the Us
I agree with this statement. In fact, you would be surprised the amount of young people that get in cannabis alone these days. I myself smoke every once in awhile but I do it once to twice a month or sometimes even less. I only do it when i'm with people or at some party or concert, I don't do it alone ever. As far as body effects go, I don't give a shit considering I do it casually. I know of plenty of people who have smoked much weed in there youth and are doctors, lawyers, and generally very successful. I also know of people who fail at life. I don't think cannabis has any sort of effect on ones future if uses right.
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Now people say you can't die from Marijuana, that's true. There has not been 1 death ever recorded that showed death from marijuana use alone. You would have to smoke 100x your body weight in marijuana to overdose and die. It doesn't make you become temporarily retarded, that's stupid to say. Although it is proven that it does affect short term memory it is not going to make you throw your arm and drool on yourself. In fact, many people drive safely everyday on cannabis.
"the chemical makes the cells die out, that's what makes you high", this is complete and total bullshit. The chemical is naturally found in our brain and it is just silly to think that the killing of cells is what makes you high. To understand the effects of THC we need to take a look at how our brains function. The brain is operated by around 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) which all process information about specific functions. The neurons communicate with each other through neurotransmitters, which are chemicals that control the signals sent between the neurons, and receptors which receive these signals. Foreign chemicals, like THC, can mimic or block actions of neurotransmitters and can therefore either stimulate or diminish the communication between sets of neurons. When you smoke a joint, the cannabinoids from the marijuana that you smoke make their way into your bloodstream via the lungs. Within seconds the bloodstream carries the cannabinoids all over your body and into your brain.
As soon as the cannabinoids enter the brain they immediately behave like neurotransmitters and begin to bind to very specific cannabinoid receptors that certain neurons have.
How can it be that humans have these special cannabinoid receptors? For any drug for which there are receptors in the human brain, we have to ask ourselves the logical question: why do these receptors exist? The answer is quite simple; there must be in the human brain a compound that is pharmacologically similar to THC and that is naturally produced in the brain. In order for these cannabinoid receptors to exist there must be some kind of natural THC already present in every single human brain.
In conclusion, It's a drug that is widely used for recreational purposes as well as medical reasons. In fact, 15 states now have medical marijuana and prescribe it for a number of reasons from aids to chest pain. Your not going to die from smoking weed nor go retarded. Marijuana affects everyone differently so to each his own. I do condone marijuana have been using it for over 5 years regularly, recreationally and medically.
Blame the D.A.R.E program for telling me this shit...
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Now people say you can't die from Marijuana, that's true. There has not been 1 death ever recorded that showed death from marijuana use alone. You would have to smoke 100x your body weight in marijuana to overdose and die. It doesn't make you become temporarily retarded, that's stupid to say. Although it is proven that it does affect short term memory it is not going to make you throw your arm and drool on yourself. In fact, many people drive safely everyday on cannabis.
"the chemical makes the cells die out, that's what makes you high", this is complete and total bullshit. The chemical is naturally found in our brain and it is just silly to think that the killing of cells is what makes you high. To understand the effects of THC we need to take a look at how our brains function. The brain is operated by around 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) which all process information about specific functions. The neurons communicate with each other through neurotransmitters, which are chemicals that control the signals sent between the neurons, and receptors which receive these signals. Foreign chemicals, like THC, can mimic or block actions of neurotransmitters and can therefore either stimulate or diminish the communication between sets of neurons. When you smoke a joint, the cannabinoids from the marijuana that you smoke make their way into your bloodstream via the lungs. Within seconds the bloodstream carries the cannabinoids all over your body and into your brain.
As soon as the cannabinoids enter the brain they immediately behave like neurotransmitters and begin to bind to very specific cannabinoid receptors that certain neurons have.
How can it be that humans have these special cannabinoid receptors? For any drug for which there are receptors in the human brain, we have to ask ourselves the logical question: why do these receptors exist? The answer is quite simple; there must be in the human brain a compound that is pharmacologically similar to THC and that is naturally produced in the brain. In order for these cannabinoid receptors to exist there must be some kind of natural THC already present in every single human brain.
In conclusion, It's a drug that is widely used for recreational purposes as well as medical reasons. In fact, 15 states now have medical marijuana and prescribe it for a number of reasons from aids to chest pain. Your not going to die from smoking weed nor go retarded. Marijuana affects everyone differently so to each his own. I do condone marijuana have been using it for over 5 years regularly, recreationally and medically.
Blame the D.A.R.E program for telling me this shit...
Well you can't blame it on yourself for believing it blame the government for creating a huge lie. The gov. is paying over $600 a second to the DEA every day. That's spending billions in taxpayer money on the marijuana drug war alone. They will never win this "war" on marijuana.
In 1937 the drug was outlawed in the states and mainly because of the logging companies, let me explain. Cannabis hemp is another form of the plant. This plant cannot get you high but 1 acre of hemp can put out more paper than 4 acres of trees. 1 acre of hemp takes about 3-4 months to grow, but the trees take many years. The logging companies didn't want hemp legal because they were going out of business, they supported the outlaw all the way.
Look around you, everything your looking at or almost everything your looking at can be made from hemp. Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for fiber (textiles and paper) and food. The products that can be made from hemp number over 25000.
Something that can give us so much, why is it illegal? It's illegal because of the big pharmaceutical companies, they would lose loads of business if this medicine were legal. Marijuana can help with a number of things, heres a list of things medical marijuana can help with http://forum.grasscity.com/medical-marijuana/703395-do-you-qualify-mmj-recommendation-check-here-updated.html
So why all the hate on a plant that has been around for so long that has so many nutritional and medical qualities? In the end, all the propaganda needs to stop about marijuana. People need to be informed of the truth, that the government has been lieing in our faces.
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I've seshed with friends on multiple occasions however growing older and seeing my future, I cut off of it. The fun you have with pot is fine but in the long run, itl screw you over if you want to get into a decent job. Especially a government job.
I have the same amount of fun with a 12 of keiths and a micky of vodka.
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I've seshed with friends on multiple occasions however growing older and seeing my future, I cut off of it. The fun you have with pot is fine but in the long run, itl screw you over if you want to get into a decent job. Especially a government job.
I have the same amount of fun with a 12 of keiths and a micky of vodka.
You can have your fun with alcohol and ill continue to smoke a few joints. I don't drink nor smoke cigarettes, they are so much worse for you than cannabis.
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Rory, you're like 14...Why are you smoking?
Ya know I have always been thinking that.
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Rory, you're like 14...Why are you smoking?
Ya know I have always been thinking that.
You are 14 too, sico
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Well i'd like to sit and "Smoke Weed Everyday" but i have homework to do..
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Well i'd like to sit and "Smoke Weed Everyday" but i have homework to do..
I do also.
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Well i'd like to sit and "Smoke Weed Everyday" but i have homework to do..
I do also.
It doesn't hurt my education and I smoke everyday. Study high, take tests high, get high grades ;)
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Being high reduces stress right?
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Rory, you're like 14...Why are you smoking?
Ya know I have always been thinking that.
You are 14 too, sico
Yes and I do not smoke loads of weed I have tryed it. That is all.
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I don't smoke loads, i smoke maybe 3-2 weeks, stopped for a while now. Smoking another one in the summer.
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Being high does a lot of things.
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I noticed... If you look at my experience, you should know how i felt.
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And people don't think you can get addicted to weed. A physical dependence is very unlikely, but a psychological dependence is very possible. Weed can cause addiction.
(Also, finally reached my 100th post. Confetti... NAO!)
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And people don't think you can get addicted to weed. A physical dependence is very unlikely, but a psychological dependence is very possible. Weed can cause addiction.
(Also, finally reached my 100th post. Confetti... NAO!)
This man is right. There may be nothing that makes a full on addiction, but if you smoke regularly(say once every week or one a day etc.) then you will get psychologically addicted to it.
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And people don't think you can get addicted to weed. A physical dependence is very unlikely, but a psychological dependence is very possible. Weed can cause addiction.
(Also, finally reached my 100th post. Confetti... NAO!)
This man is right. There may be nothing that makes a full on addiction, but if you smoke regularly(say once every week or one a day etc.) then you will get psychologically addicted to it.
So i'm not addicted.
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There is no doubt that you can get a mental addiction... Back when I was a kid (14-15) I smoked weed...
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And people don't think you can get addicted to weed. A physical dependence is very unlikely, but a psychological dependence is very possible. Weed can cause addiction.
(Also, finally reached my 100th post. Confetti... NAO!)
You guys need to slow down saying marijuana is psychologically addictive, what isn't? You can be psychologically addicted to just about anything, from drinking mtn dew, to riding quad bikes, to having sex. Marijuana is nothing, I smoke it everyday, but i hold back on smoking for a few days too. I'm not addicted mentally or psychologically. Well I'm just as addicted to weed as I am minecraft, its fun and I enjoy it everyday, but I in no way, shape or form NEED minecraft.
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THC420, What they mean by it's psychologically addictive is the fact that marijuana makes life easyer... So when people that smoke it a lot don't have it they have a hard time cooping with life. Therefore it's psychologically addictive.
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THC420, What they mean by it's psychologically addictive is the fact that marijuana makes life easyer... So when people that smoke it a lot don't have it they have a hard time cooping with life. Therefore it's psychologically addictive.
I smoke it a lot and on the days I don't have it I don't have any problem coping with life. I don't smoke weed to cope with life, I smoke weed because I can and I enjoy it. Weed doesn't make life easier..
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THC420, What they mean by it's psychologically addictive is the fact that marijuana makes life easyer... So when people that smoke it a lot don't have it they have a hard time cooping with life. Therefore it's psychologically addictive.
I smoke it a lot and on the days I don't have it I don't have any problem coping with life. I don't smoke weed to cope with life, I smoke weed because I can and I enjoy it. Weed doesn't make life easier..
If you're psychologically addicted to it, it makes life easier.
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14 and 13 year olds are cool when they smoke because they're such a badass rebel against society.
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@THC420 Well weed does make life easyer, because weed makes you relaxed and it reduces stressed therefore making life easyer...
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Well I don't believe it makes life easier and that's coming from a guy who's been smoking the herb for 5+ years. Alcohol makes life easier if weed does..
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14 and 13 year olds are cool when they smoke because they're such a badass rebel against society.
You are just stereotyping marijuana smokers.. What makes you think they are such bad asses and are rebelling against society? Because they smoke weed? Marijuana doesn't make you rebel against anything. I started smoking weed around 12ish and it didn't make me hate the world. Please learn your facts and quit stereotyping so much. What you said is just like saying 13 year olds think they are cool when they chew gum at school because they are such a bad ass and are rebelling against society ::) ...
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I don't smoke loads, i smoke maybe 3-2 weeks, stopped for a while now. Smoking another one in the summer.
I already know you live in the suburbs of a northern city, because the only 14 year olds who smoke weed are suburb stupid teenagers that want to rebell against society for no reason. You also like or have friends that like bands of the following: Fall out Boy, Green Day (The new gay one), My Chemical Romance, American Rejects, and/or PANIC! At the disco. WHy the hell are you smokin weed boyie. Do you have parents, you could get arrested.
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I smoke weed because I like the feeling of it and it's fun to do with friends. Who the fuck came up with all the rebelling shit? Man, the naive people.
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I don't smoke loads, i smoke maybe 3-2 weeks, stopped for a while now. Smoking another one in the summer.
I already know you live in the suburbs of a northern city, because the only 14 year olds who smoke weed are suburb stupid teenagers that want to rebell against society for no reason. You also like or have friends that like bands of the following: Fall out Boy, Green Day (The new gay one), My Chemical Romance, American Rejects, and/or PANIC! At the disco. WHy the hell are you smokin weed boyie. Do you have parents, you could get arrested.
Are you really that naive? You've made a few sweeping statements in there and it just makes you look stupid.
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I don't smoke loads, i smoke maybe 3-2 weeks, stopped for a while now. Smoking another one in the summer.
I already know you live in the suburbs of a northern city, because the only 14 year olds who smoke weed are suburb stupid teenagers that want to rebell against society for no reason. You also like or have friends that like bands of the following: Fall out Boy, Green Day (The new gay one), My Chemical Romance, American Rejects, and/or PANIC! At the disco. WHy the hell are you smokin weed boyie. Do you have parents, you could get arrested.
I live in a house in southern Connecticut, i don't smoke weed with MY friends, my friends don't like nor i don't not like Fall out boy or Green Day, i like all types of music. I have parents, i smoke weed because it's my choice...
I answered all you're questions now.
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I don't smoke loads, i smoke maybe 3-2 weeks, stopped for a while now. Smoking another one in the summer.
I already know you live in the suburbs of a northern city, because the only 14 year olds who smoke weed are suburb stupid teenagers that want to rebell against society for no reason. You also like or have friends that like bands of the following: Fall out Boy, Green Day (The new gay one), My Chemical Romance, American Rejects, and/or PANIC! At the disco. WHy the hell are you smokin weed boyie. Do you have parents, you could get arrested.
I live in a house in southern Connecticut, i don't smoke weed with MY friends, my friends don't like nor i don't not like Fall out boy or Green Day, i like all types of music. I have parents, i smoke weed because it's my choice...
I answered all you're questions now.
You are calling him stupid and you are the one that said "The only 14 year olds that smoke ARE SUBURB STUPID" Don't call others stupid when you yourself cannot even use correct grammar or string together sentences. Derp.
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I don't smoke loads, i smoke maybe 3-2 weeks, stopped for a while now. Smoking another one in the summer.
I already know you live in the suburbs of a northern city, because the only 14 year olds who smoke weed are suburb stupid teenagers that want to rebell against society for no reason. You also like or have friends that like bands of the following: Fall out Boy, Green Day (The new gay one), My Chemical Romance, American Rejects, and/or PANIC! At the disco. WHy the hell are you smokin weed boyie. Do you have parents, you could get arrested.
Now that has just got to be the most biased opinion on marijuana smokers I've ever read. How did you tell he lives in the suburbs of a northern city because he smokes weed? You know he's rebellious how? Marijuana doesn't make you listen to a certain type of music, I like all music. Marijuana definitely doesn't make you rebel against society if it does, we would like to know how. I could go on and on but I'm stopping .<--- there
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I really dont know why a 13 year old/ 14 year old is smoking. I have no problem with someoen smoking weed at like 18 or 20, BUT AT 14. Cmon
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I really dont know why a 13 year old/ 14 year old is smoking. I have no problem with someoen smoking weed at like 18 or 20, BUT AT 14. Cmon
I kind of have to agree here. I know some 13/14 year olds who smoke weed, and I'm pretty sure they're not only doing it for a high, but also they think it makes them mature. Smoking weed, in my own opinion, is immature and idiotic. Doing any kind of drug is plain out stupid. Sure, having a few beers would be fine, but when you're at least 21.
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This is turning into a flame/debate thread. This isn't needed, and half of you "smokers" here are way too young and I hope you get arrested.
Locked to prevent any further issues.