Yeah, alot of it is "stoner logic" but I'll admit this; my neighbor (who has his "medicinal" (lol) card) gave some THC/CBD balm for some mega arthritis I have in my wrist from torn ligaments.... dang, the shit really works. I tried it at their house that first night, swelling was almost gone the next day... I gave $30 to him to get me some the next time he went to the dispensary. Almost time for a refill
Freaking steroids.....but I actually fall into the legalize everything and tax it mindset. If you want to do meth, knock yourself out. Just keep it away from me and my family
Reading these posts, I am really freaking boring. I have never used anything even weed. Most of my family are addicted to something (crack, herion) and I watched that growing up. I did everything in my power to stay away from it. To this day my aunt is a crack addict, she has been using since she was 13 and she is going on 60 now
I will say, she was my favorite aunt growing up. We would always hang out at or around her house. Come Halloween she would always buy us the good shit and just wanted to keep the change..... My uncle died due to drugs and alcohol when I was in my early twenties, got a cousin that has overdosed 3 times from herion....the list goes on and on
My uncle hasn’t done anything but smoke weed for the last 20-25 years or so. Doesn’t even drink really, but he did tell me that from his youth - crack was far and away the best drug ever created. Sorry to hear about your uncle & cousin though man.
Thanks man, my uncle was pretty damn cool....I remember I was grounded (I grew up real shitty) one summer, my grandparents lived right next door to us. Well my uncle seen me in the room and cut a small hole in the screen and slipped me $20 thru it. Said it was my bail money. Every time I go back to New York I visit his grave sight and always leave a $20 for him
Some of the Schedule I drugs are randomly deadly. Others are guaranteed to kill over a year or two. Still others induce psychosis. All of those need to be banned except for the purposes they are used professionally. However substances on that list do not produce any of those results and are fairly innocuous compared even to legal substances like tobacco and alcohol. That's the hypocrisy in the list.
I worked the absolute shittyist parts of Las Vegas for years. People will do what they want and it was obvious. It really doesnt matter what law enforcement or the court systems do, they really just delay the inevitable. When one dealer goes down 8 more pop up. Thats why i tend to gravitate towards just legalize the shit. Now with saying that, if you over-dose tuff shit. That was a shitty decision someone made. Not to sound like a dick, I dont really feel sorry for addicts. Everything they are doing they did to themselves. I am not gonna get into the aspects of mental health treatments or recovery centers but we all make decisions and have to deal with the outcomes.
In the early to mid 70's everybody in my peer group smoked weed. I lived in a neighborhood that was very mixed socio-economically, with mix marriage kids, white kids, black kids and a fast-emerging Puerto Rican and then Dominican population. We had middle class kids, lower middle-class and poverty line all living in a roughly 10x7 block area. I can count on the fingers of one hand the boys that did not smoke at least casually, out of maybe 200 I knew. Girls it might have been a few more abstaining but definitely not more than a few more. Alcohol on the other hand was much less abused with a mainly male cohort drinking Olde English 800, Budweiser and Pabst - mostly out of cans. The places to gather and get high were street corners, parks and the cribs of older peers. One thing that was very different back then as opposed to now is the range of ages in a hangout group. When I was 14 I was hanging out with 26 year olds in some cases. We'd go to their places to get stoned and watch Boxing After Dark on HBO. We'd catch rides down to Matrix Studios, a major party center, to watch them jam in their homemade bands. I vividly remember being taught how to box by a huge 19 year old when I was 14. Lots of bruises but generally he restrained himself and I still throw a mean left hook. Because of the society that is in place now this sounds kind of like a pervy older vs younger setup but that's just because our society is very screwed up right now and has been for a generation. As one of the younger guys in the group I never had anybody make moves on me. A couple of the older guys were gay but they were a couple and kept their attentions to themselves and nobody hassled them about their orientation. They didn't do anything to hide it and nobody cared - particularly given that they were some of the people providing opportunities at boxing, studio jams, etc. They'd also grown up in the peer group and everybody knew them from when they were kids. To give you an idea of what the neighborhood was like: Ron Perlman grew up on the north edge of the neighborhood, Freddie Prinze lived right across the street from me and Garrett Morris lived on the south edge of the neighborhood.
I might be mistaken but I think that is the number one issue with schedule I is that they are substances deemed to have zero medical benefits and therefore not allowed to be used even in scientifically controlled experiments. It's 100% political and needs to be reevaluated by legit scientists not gov't toadies. Sent from my Pixel 5a using Tapatalk
The mental image of Brad kicking ass and taking names in the ring I'm just struggling with right now.
I nutted myself once with nunchuks in the 5th grade does that count? Edit: not to mention the Duncan YoYo accident, which I have mostly blotted out of my memory due to the trauma. Who knew those things wrapped so tightly when a spinner went wrong?
Well the House just passed a bill for the decriminalization of weed again, unfortunately I doubt it passes the Senate.
