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Would you smoke if it were legal?

Would you smoke if it were legal?

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Stoked said:
I'm not sure the following people are the "needy loser" type:

Sir Richard Branson
Michael Phelps
Michael Bloomberg
President Obama
Ted Turner
Stephen King
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bill Clinton
Bill Murray
Kareem
Bill Gates
Chris Farley
Carlos Santana
Chris Rock
Conan O'Brian
Drew Barrymore
Eminem
John Lennon
Neil Diamond...

All current or past "potheads" There are many, many more.
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What makes you think those people on the list aren't needy?
Also the definition of "loser" is up for debate and depends on the person using the word. Some people are quite rich and successful, but are still "losers" in other aspects of life.

I am not saying any of these people on the list are definitely losers, but they are all needy in that they desire greatly to have power, money, respect, and/or attention from as many people as possible. I would say that most of them don't fit the lazy stereotype that is often associated with "potheads".

Also saying someone stopped smoking pot, and later became very successful should not be an endorsement that smoking pot was good for them. For your list of people that are or were "potheads" there is a much larger list of people that are or were "potheads" that are not successful.

Some people may think I was smoking pot as I posted this because it makes so much sense, and is awesome, but I was not. This is me, all natural. Things just slow down for me naturally, and I see the whole world in slow motion. I don't need to escape my world of troubles, they usually need to escape from me.
 
babe said:
I was a very heavy smoker when I was six. I smoked every butt I could scavenge from the dust of the rodeo bleachers, occasionally finding a whole pack. I rinsed out beer cans or bottles for the last drop. I let grapes rot so I could get the zingy taste of "new wine".

I clearly remember the day all that changed. I had found a whole pack, and I was sitting on telephone poles lying on the ground behind the bleachers when a man walked by, took a good look at me, and declared my identity. Saying "You're MJ's son, aren't you?????" with a very knowing smirk on his face. I didn't know why I was so ashamed of that until many years later. I only knew my dad had left town and shacked up with some wicked woman, and left my mom to fend for herself with all his kids.

Years later, my older sister told me how she had seen my dad in his shiny blue Mercury cruisin The Strip with hookers hanging on his arm. And an older brother told me how Professor MJ had come out of the science building to smoke a while at the busiest sidewalk on campus in the 100% Mormon, Church-owned college with the cool indifference of a devil-may-care teenager. And how when presented with a chalice as an award for being the "Most Popular" Professor, he had set the awards assembly ablaze by just turning that mug over, and complaining "What??? No Beer???".

I would have gone the way of my Father except for that mirthful man who was mocking both me and my father by seeing my early resemblance to him.

Likewise, if society just hooted at it, instead of banning it, the whole drug culture would probably just fold.
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Well done good sir. This is the post of the thread! What could be said in one sentence took you a page and a half. Kudos!!
 
JazzSpazz said:
What makes you think those people on the list aren't needy?
Also the definition of "loser" is up for debate and depends on the person using the word. Some people are quite rich and successful, but are still "losers" in other aspects of life.

I am not saying any of these people on the list are definitely losers, but they are all needy in that they desire greatly to have power, money, respect, and/or attention from as many people as possible. I would say that most of them don't fit the lazy stereotype that is often associated with "potheads".

Also saying someone stopped smoking pot, and later became very successful should not be an endorsement that smoking pot was good for them. For your list of people that are or were "potheads" there is a much larger list of people that are or were "potheads" that are not successful.

Some people may think I was smoking pot as I posted this because it makes so much sense, and is awesome, but I was not. This is me, all natural. Things just slow down for me naturally, and I see the whole world in slow motion. I don't need to escape my world of troubles, they usually need to escape from me.
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He didn't say neddy and/or losers. He said "needy loser". As in the type of loser is a needy one. So by pointing out that they are not losers disqualifies his statement right of the bat.
 
Michael Phelps cannot be considered a loser. He has more Olympic gold medals than any human being in the world has ever had.

"Hey Michael, you just won more gold medals than any human in history! What are you gonna do now?"

"Bong rips"
 
The legality has never been an issue for me. I've just never seen the appeal of inhaling smoke into my lungs so I'd probably pass, from the left hand side.
 
Gameface said:
I don't get it.
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One thing to get could be that having Olympic medals does not mean you don't have issues, and big problems in life.

There are more things in life that I identify with a successful life than money, gold medals, being in movies, or being the president... and they all have to do with the people in my life, myself included.
 
JazzSpazz said:
One thing to get could be that having Olympic medals does not mean you don't have issues, and big problems in life.

There are more things in life that I identify with a successful life than money, gold medals, being in movies, or being the president... and they all have to do with the people in my life, myself included.
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So basically your arguement is that since you do not consider them successful they are not? The real arguement is not that they are needy but that they are "losers".
 
I smoked weed all through high school and college, the only problems it caused me was I gained a little weight, and I wasted a few weekend nights playing fifa and watching crappy movies that I got into only because I was high. It didn't affect my schoolwork, my relationships, or my intelligence. I never got into fights while I was high, I never drove when I was high, I never did any of the terrible things that drunk people do when I was high. I did the terrible things drunk people do when I was drunk, but thats a different topic. I am now married with a daughter and I haven't smoked weed in 3 years. I have nothing against it, or the people that do it, I'm just over it and don't have a desire anymore. If someone wants to smoke weed they should absolutely 100% be able to do it without fear being arrested.
 
If we legalize it, then all the righteously indignant moral compasses would have an even higher horse to ride.

Win win.
 
dalamon said:
Lol, what? No where in the Quran does it say anything remotely close to this.


Are you referring to the hookah? It originated in India/Pakistan, and Persia. Historically, none of these nations were muslim. Regardless, smoking is typically frowned upon in the Middle East, and typically by Islam altogether.
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It was a joke, but clearly you've never been there. Smokers are everywhere:

Above are the statistics of total adult smokers of tobacco, rated through percentage of total adult smokers. It says:

1. Yemen 44.50%
2. Turkey 44.00%
3. Lebanon 40.50%
4. Jordan 29.00%
5. Israel 28.50%
6. Cyprus 23.10%
7. Iraq 22.50%
8. Qatar 18.80%
9. Kuwait 15.60%
10. Bahrain 14.60%
11. Oman 8.50%
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Word?

Of course those on the high end are your more liberal ME countries, but if you extend beyond the ME boundry into the most populous Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, where 67% of males puff, you go through the roof in smokers. I think that's where GVC got into smoking while on his Mormon mission.

Again, it was just a joke towards our Phoenix Imam in training. Not intended as a sleight to Muslims, but it does have basis in reality. America is like 20%, but the big difference is that it's more in your face in the ME.


On another note, I want to Haj someday and trek to Makkah. Go undercover Muslim if you will. Do you think I could pull it off?
 
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Not just yes i would smoke it if it were legal but HELL YES... sadly it is illegal and i dont smoke because of drug testing.
 
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