Legal marijuana - good or bad? Any personal experience?

[Gameface]

A medical MJ ballot initiative looks like it will be on the ballot this November in Utah. Our legislators won't act so we'll give them something far beyond what they would have ever considered.

But I assume, even though medical MJ has overwhelming support right now, as soon as the LDS church expresses it's objection to this initiative this thing is as good as dead. We'll see.

http://fox13now.com/2018/03/26/it-l...juana-will-be-on-the-november-ballot-in-utah/

 

[Lakers_Slapper]

What do you have to explain to your daughter? How is it any different than someone who drinks? Or smokes a cigarette? Or drinks a coffee?

I drink alcohol on occasion. I explain that.
I explain smoking by explaining that you can get cancer by smoking. (I've lost 5 family members in 15 years to smoking related cancer)
Coffee, I don't explain. There's nothing wrong with it. Why would i?
Smoking pot, I voted to legalize it. There are advantages for people IN MEDICAL NEED. There are also people not in need who abuse it (like any other substance, it can be abused) my issue is this, the law states you cannot smoke it outside of a public place (like a grocery store) but people don't give a ----- . They do anyways. I don't want to see a person drunk on their --- outside of every store I go in either. Or cracked out or sober and just screaming for no reason. Smoke weed all you want, I don't care. But do not question me on the conversations I choose to have with my 6 year old daughter. I smoked weed for years. I don't now. That choice is mine to make. Yours is to smoke weed in front of a 6 year old girls face. If you choose to make this decision, it's yours and you own it. You own everything that goes with it. And if it's me, my daughter and her mother, her mother and her will bein the store. It will then beme and you having a wordless conversation.

 

[Lakers_Slapper]

It's just weird to me that people are freaked out about explaining to their kids why people smoke marijuana. Kids probably see adults drink wine or beer on a regular basis, but explaining to them why people do a much less dangerous and less life impeding (you can do a lot more **** high on weed than you can drunk or buzzed on alcohol) thing is strange.

I'm guessing right now your in your teens or early 20's. I'm also stating the obvious by saying you have no kids. I voted to legalize weed. I know the benefits of medical marijuana. I've smoked more weed in the last 20 years than what your eyes will see. My parents had plants growing in the window seals of our house. They are still together and they both still smoke weed. Both great people. But is that normal? No.
Do people abuse it? Of course, as they do with alcohol, tobacco, etc.
I also am friends with many people in their 40's that smoke weed and they're idiot's. Weed is a 1st priority. I have other friends who smoke and are successful business people. It comes down to, out of those who I know and who I've met, there are fewer successful people who have self control with it, than people who don't.
My job as a parent is not about what I like. It's about installing the best beliefs in my child I have and I know how.
Again I voted to legalize it, but it gets abused like anything else.
If people used it for its purposes, there's no issue. But here in las vegas Nevada where in live, it doesn't get used that way. Nothing does however.

 

[uncle f]

I am sceptical of the opponents to legalization. Big pharma has billions of reasons to oppose it. I'm sceptical of any op ed piece with criticisms against it's lagalization. So many can be bought and paid for by those who oppose it.

I am therefore shocked and heartened to hear that Mitch McConnell has introduced a bill to legalize marijuanna's little brother, hemp. Hemp contains 50 times less thc than pot, but still is on the list of controlled substances. It has many uses and is one of the world's most adaptable plants that grows without harmful effects to the environment. Hemp puts fear in corporate America. Amazing and the natural thing to do when both of these plants are as free to use as is the air we breathe.

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/380287-mcconnell-bill-would-legalize-hemp-as-agricultural-product?amp

That's not exactly accurate. THC varies by strain. Also, you can already buy cannabinoidol from the shelves. People take it for anxiety. I'm going to try it for a separate reason.

 

[green]

I drink alcohol on occasion. I explain that.
I explain smoking by explaining that you can get cancer by smoking. (I've lost 5 family members in 15 years to smoking related cancer)
Coffee, I don't explain. There's nothing wrong with it. Why would i?
Smoking pot, I voted to legalize it. There are advantages for people IN MEDICAL NEED. There are also people not in need who abuse it (like any other substance, it can be abused) my issue is this, the law states you cannot smoke it outside of a public place (like a grocery store) but people don't give a ----- . They do anyways. I don't want to see a person drunk on their --- outside of every store I go in either. Or cracked out or sober and just screaming for no reason. Smoke weed all you want, I don't care. But do not question me on the conversations I choose to have with my 6 year old daughter. I smoked weed for years. I don't now. That choice is mine to make. Yours is to smoke weed in front of a 6 year old girls face. If you choose to make this decision, it's yours and you own it. You own everything that goes with it. And if it's me, my daughter and her mother, her mother and her will bein the store. It will then beme and you having a wordless conversation.

What? Dude, you have so much straw man you might burst into flames. lol. Again, what is there to explain?

I live in a small town in Oregon, and weed here is VERY prevalent. There are about 13,000 people and a weed shop on every corner. It's a tourist town, and while the scenery is beautiful, I'd bet more than 1 or 2 people come here every weekend to partake. I've never seen a person smoking weed outside. Our librarian is a small older woman and she reeks of it, but I've never seen anyone smoking it.

And who is smoking weed in front of a six year old? LOL.

And your last sentence? Dude, you need help. lol. Turn down Rush and Hannity and use some common sense here man.

Wordless conversation...that's rich. ha ha.

 

[green]

I'm guessing right now your in your teens or early 20's. I'm also stating the obvious by saying you have no kids. I voted to legalize weed. I know the benefits of medical marijuana. I've smoked more weed in the last 20 years than what your eyes will see. My parents had plants growing in the window seals of our house. They are still together and they both still smoke weed. Both great people. But is that normal? No.
Do people abuse it? Of course, as they do with alcohol, tobacco, etc.
I also am friends with many people in their 40's that smoke weed and they're idiot's. Weed is a 1st priority. I have other friends who smoke and are successful business people. It comes down to, out of those who I know and who I've met, there are fewer successful people who have self control with it, than people who don't.
My job as a parent is not about what I like. It's about installing the best beliefs in my child I have and I know how.
Again I voted to legalize it, but it gets abused like anything else.
If people used it for its purposes, there's no issue. But here in las vegas Nevada where in live, it doesn't get used that way. Nothing does however.

I'm starting to think you don't have teeth. Yet, here I am the one responding to you, so what does that make me? lol. Amused.

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm guessing right now your in your teens or early 20's. I'm also stating the obvious by saying you have no kids. I voted to legalize weed. I know the benefits of medical marijuana. I've smoked more weed in the last 20 years than what your eyes will see. My parents had plants growing in the window seals of our house. They are still together and they both still smoke weed. Both great people. But is that normal? No.
Do people abuse it? Of course, as they do with alcohol, tobacco, etc.
I also am friends with many people in their 40's that smoke weed and they're idiot's. Weed is a 1st priority. I have other friends who smoke and are successful business people. It comes down to, out of those who I know and who I've met, there are fewer successful people who have self control with it, than people who don't.
My job as a parent is not about what I like. It's about installing the best beliefs in my child I have and I know how.
Again I voted to legalize it, but it gets abused like anything else.
If people used it for its purposes, there's no issue. But here in las vegas Nevada where in live, it doesn't get used that way. Nothing does however.

You could just say that you think it should be legal.

 

[Red]

When I first sought out marijuana, I did so because I was interested in experiencing different states of consciousness. So I read about pot, and approached using it, within the broader spectrum of hallucinogenic substances. I wanted to know, simply put, what shamans experienced in altered states. By the late 60's, that desire had expanded into experimenting with popular hallucinagins of the day. LSD, peyote, psilocybin. But it did begin with pot, and at first I experienced interesting temporal and spatial distortions with pot. Those elements disappeared with time, but at first it was a mild hallucinagin, and I got to see reality through different filters so to speak.

And still today, when I smoke certain grades outdoors in a natural setting on a beautiful day, it renders the world sacred. There is a sacredness to the natural setting, and I appreciate that. I don't really care what the law would say to me about that one way or the other. It's my cognitive liberty. If I want to experience altered states of consciousness, and I am not harming anyone otherwise, the state has no right to tell me what I can do with my consciousness. It's a matter of cognitive liberty. I am responsible about it. The state can stay out of my life in that respect.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/psychedelic-drugs/471603/

Not exactly a cause celebre I realize. Just how I happen to feel about my right to experience different states of consciousness in a responsible way. I function just fine in the consensus reality of everyday life, but I'm not shy about experiencing altered states either.

 

[Lakers_Slapper]

What? Dude, you have so much straw man you might burst into flames. lol. Again, what is there to explain?

I live in a small town in Oregon, and weed here is VERY prevalent. There are about 13,000 people and a weed shop on every corner. It's a tourist town, and while the scenery is beautiful, I'd bet more than 1 or 2 people come here every weekend to partake. I've never seen a person smoking weed outside. Our librarian is a small older woman and she reeks of it, but I've never seen anyone smoking it.

And who is smoking weed in front of a six year old? LOL.

And your last sentence? Dude, you need help. lol. Turn down Rush and Hannity and use some common sense here man.

Wordless conversation...that's rich. ha ha.

I'm glad everything is so cheery and chipper in your (unmentioned) small town of Oregon.
Yes I've probably seen different things than where you live given. I live in a town you may have heard of called Las Vegas, Nevada. You wouldn't understand what I see, because of your Cute and quaint little small bumpkin town.
As far as your Rush and Hannity comment. It was a nice touch, but I am an established Democrat and in no way would I give those idiot's a second of concentration. And forgive me for saying this, but your experience is something I don't really take into consideration because I've forgotten more than you'll ever learn. Reading your entire reply, I have taken into consideration that I'm conversing with an idiotic specimen of human life, so your statements are taken with a gallon of salt.
I'm happy to hear that your small town is doing so well and not having the same results as the large city of which I live.
God bless the simple minded folk of your little 6 toe town. Your making all 11,000 of them proud with each idiotic comment from your lifeless brain.

 

[Lakers_Slapper]

I'm starting to think you don't have teeth. Yet, here I am the one responding to you, so what does that make me? lol. Amused.

It makes you an idiot. You assume something of someone you don't even know. You assume I have no teeth from reading a very articulate statement that's above and beyond your elementary comprehension. I have no choice to assume that the better part of you ran down your mother's left leg.
I have a feeling that my intuition is more accurate.

 

[Getting Traded]

I generally dislike marijuana and have no interest in smoking or eating it. I don't need help relaxing, being lazy, finding life fun or interesting or the other recreational reasons people take it.

I think legalizing it is a great choice.

For one it has real medical reasons to take it that are way better for people than other medicines.

But even just for recreational reasons I think it's good to legalize it.

It's not harmful, it's not addicting, and the government shouldn't being telling people what to do with their personal lives when it doesn't effect other people.

This series about the medical benefits of "Cannabis" is absolutely eye-opening: https://thesacredplant.com/

 

[Getting Traded]

I’m not for legalizing it. Worse, I really oppose the medical push. If people want to push for it being legal, fine, but I hate when it masquerades as a medical issue or when it’s sold as a panacea. Or even worse, the idea that it should be legalized to replace people’s opioids, when in reality they’d use it as a supplement to their opioids.

Infection, you're a pretty smart guy but you're brainwashed and totally oblivious to the truth about marijuana: https://thesacredplant.com/