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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2012 at 16:19
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Last week, I had one of the most astounding experiences in my life: listening to my brother explaining why he considered weed as a "hard drug" (while I remember having seen him smoking some joints and I'm nearly sure he may have experimented with ecstasy a dozen years ago).

He was rather convincing.
What did he tell you? in my experience weed is one of the softest drugs out there, even softer than the legal normal cigarettes.


Indeed, I'm also curious.
Well ciggs had zero effect at all, but when you're piss drunk it's certainly a lot more debilitating than weed.
And never done anything else but shrooms, acid, ecstasy and all seem much harder. Could've been just his personal tolerance and all
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2012 at 16:16
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

it hinders research unlike something like alcohol which enhances it in an acceptable range. 


can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean by this at all
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:23
Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

I only ever partake in the prescence of a few of my friends who buy the stuff.  I've never bought any though, but don't use enough of it to have anyone accuse me of freeloading. LOL


Yeah that was pretty much it, spot on.


Has been years, cliche I know but feel too old nowLOL
Could agree, deff not a group thing and while it was enjoyable was never that great.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 22 2012 at 12:11
I'd say I'm an avid smoker. I try not to way overdo it though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2012 at 10:22
Not anymore. It's enjoyable, but it's not a group activity and it hinders research unlike something like alcohol which enhances it in an acceptable range. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2012 at 00:20
I really don't deal with weed much.  I only ever partake in the prescence of a few of my friends who buy the stuff.  I've never bought any though, but don't use enough of it to have anyone accuse me of freeloading. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2012 at 00:40
I write papers stoned all the time but I avoid being too high when studying for tests. I think it's possible to handle a weed habit during school if you have enough of a tolerance and react well to weed in general. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2012 at 05:01
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

  
In my experience the key is the basic education you received as a kid, until let's say 13 or 14 years old. I was fortunate to receive a very good education and my family was a normal (albeit sadly motherless) respectable middle class family.
When I became a teen and beyond I lead a somewhat wild life, but the education background was always there, I still had to maintain a certain lifestyle within my family, understood the importance of studying and working etc, so that "cultural hook to the normal society" always kept my feet on the ground and prevented me from crossing the line. You go wild but eventually you stick to what you were taught it's right as a kid.
 
People born and raised in less stable environments and not getting such a good basic education are probaly more at risk of taking the wrong turn, which is a sad thing.
 
yeah, I do believe that a good stable environement helps as well.... As the elder of three boys, I was the one breaking grounds and often getting in trouble for my mistakes ... yet my brothers did a few as well, but avoided many, because they learned from me....
Yet that didn't stop the younger one to have a slightly bigger drugs (incl alcohol) problem; partly due to some "dangerous" friends, that seemed to prance/prey on younger teens... I had to intervene twice to drive a few away... yet to this day, my brother is still more prone to drugs than I am
 
I was fairrly careful not to do drugs at school, and never did at work either... Though whenever studying, we sometimes did major bouts of smoking and it actually help us concentrate... flying colours in the next day's exams
 
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Coming back to upper professionals into drugs, they also have higher revenues, which means that they don't have to go to street dealers to get their cut-down junk... Most likely doctors know how to get medical-grade hard-drugs, with lesser side-effects.
Most countries have actual custom tarifs to import these drugs " legally" for hospital uses
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2012 at 13:21
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Last week, I had one of the most astounding experiences in my life: listening to my brother explaining why he considered weed as a "hard drug" (while I remember having seen him smoking some joints and I'm nearly sure he may have experimented with ecstasy a dozen years ago).

He was rather convincing.
What did he tell you? in my experience weed is one of the softest drugs out there, even softer than the legal normal cigarettes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2012 at 11:06
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

But I've seen quite a bit of dudes that took the wrong turn... Is it weed, alcohol or did they habe a predisposition at self-destruction?
 
That's the big question. I know many many people (my circle of close friends included, fortunately) who have done drugs (and some still do) and they are perfectly fine and lead perfectly normal respectable lives. Many would be surprised how many business high executives, doctors, lawyers etc consume coke in my native Spain, it's really unbelievable.
But I know a very few who also took the wrong turn.
 
You can not make a direct correlation but if you are close to drugs you have very probably a higher probability of getting into trouble.
 
In my experience the key is the basic education you received as a kid, until let's say 13 or 14 years old. I was fortunate to receive a very good education and my family was a normal (albeit sadly motherless) respectable middle class family.
When I became a teen and beyond I lead a somewhat wild life, but the education background was always there, I still had to maintain a certain lifestyle within my family, understood the importance of studying and working etc, so that "cultural hook to the normal society" always kept my feet on the ground and prevented me from crossing the line. You go wild but eventually you stick to what you were taught it's right as a kid.
 
People born and raised in less stable environments and not getting such a good basic education are probaly more at risk of taking the wrong turn, which is a sad thing.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2012 at 09:28
I alsi liked gerinski's intervention...
 
I have similar experience, though I never really smoked tobacco and stopped getting plazstered through alcohol devades ago (still enjoy a good drink though)
 
I'm glad I did indulge in weed, but yeah, like him, I sometimes wonder what I'd do if hadn't... wopuld i be in a better mental, physical or intellectual shape??
 
I'm kind of glad I dipped really dipped in the weed as lifestyle or constant party habits... had plenty of buddies that did, can't say they're better or worse off if they had done without it... I guess if I don't find it bad for them, it's pretty well worked out for thm, then
 
But I've seen quite a bit of dudes that took the wrong turn... Is it weed, alcohol or did they habe a predisposition at self-destruction? Don't know for sure, but weed probably played a partial role... It's probably better to avoid doing the rasta/ganja bit/attitude for too long, because the longer you do it, the harder it will be to swerve away from it...
 
 
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2012 at 07:14
Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:


Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Smartpatrol, if I'm not mistaken you're still very young so you're looking for advice and experience, not just people telling you "i have smoked a lot" or "I have never smoked". […] but getting into a lifestyle where the norm of everybody around you is consuming is dangerous.
 


 
Very good post! Clap (I only quoted the beginning and the end; those interested can scroll up and read the whole post – it’s worth it.)


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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

I never found weed particularly addictive, normal cigarettes or alcohol are much more physically addictive. What happens is that it becomes a lifestyle, when you and your friends consume drugs it becomes very difficult to stay away or control the magnitude, you are together so consuming becomes the norm, and one pushes the other and the magnitude or the kind of drug being consumed can easily get out of control. It's not the physical addiction but the "social" addiction which can become very dangerous


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2012 at 03:01
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Last week, I had one of the most astounding experiences in my life: listening to my brother explaining why he considered weed as a "hard drug" (while I remember having seen him smoking some joints and I'm nearly sure he may have experimented with ecstasy a dozen years ago).

He was rather convincing.



I really don't feel like there's any way to consider weed a hard drug. It's so much milder than anything else that one can think of as a 'hard drug'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2012 at 17:30
I ran into a friend of mine a few years ago that I had lost touch with a few years before that.  I thought he'd be the last person to quit.  He had quit drinking a few years before I had lost touch.  He said the reason he quit smoking pot was because it was making him stupid.  He was living in Florida where apparently you can easily get some really strong stuff.  Still smokes cigarettes like a chimney.

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2012 at 17:01
Last week, I had one of the most astounding experiences in my life: listening to my brother explaining why he considered weed as a "hard drug" (while I remember having seen him smoking some joints and I'm nearly sure he may have experimented with ecstasy a dozen years ago).

He was rather convincing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2012 at 10:00
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Smartpatrol, if I'm not mistaken you're still very young so you're looking for advice and experience, not just people telling you "i have smoked a lot" or "I have never smoked". […] but getting into a lifestyle where the norm of everybody around you is consuming is dangerous.
 
 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2012 at 20:39
Used to be avid many moons ago, until most of my group of 'friends' migrated to whacking up speed (and beyond) - sh*t went seriously pear-shaped after that..........weed doesn't cause problems on its own, nasty people who dick with the weed do..... lucky I've survived until now.......and clean (and a bit 'loopy' Wacko).  Prog is my preferred 'drug' of choice these days, with a bit of alcohol now and then, but I don't wanna fumble and damage an LP or something while pissed......... 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2012 at 20:21
Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

have you ever considered that maybe it's the other drugs you did that affected you? just wondering, i've seen a lot of people post things similar to you and it always seems like they mention that they did other drugs besides cannabis but never seem to think that maybe that's what had impacted them negatively.
 
I guess that they all contribute, but don't ask me why, I have the feeling that in terms of affecting long-term brain performance, cannabis (in both forms hash and weed) is the one which has had the most negative effects. Maybe only because it's the drug I consumed when youngest and therefore when the brain is still most vulnerable, other drugs I only tried when already an adult.
And in any case I can not be sure that my (relatively minor) problems are related to drug consumption at all, it's only a guess or a feeling.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2012 at 15:15
Sweets - best drug ever.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2012 at 14:42
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

 
And I stopped with illegal drugs but I still smoke and drink. I can not say for sure but possibly once addicted to something you remain addicted to something even if it's not the same "something". You just need some addiction to carry on.
 
I'm glad you said that, because even though I successfully quit drinking a few years ago, I get the feeling that my body still craves something.  In my case, I think it's sweets. Makes sense, since alcohol is chemically related to  sugar (maybe a chemistry person can confirm or deny this, I'm no expert).   Never had much of a taste for candy before, but now I get cravings for it, and my weight has increased as a result.  Just another hang-up I have to get over, I guess. Unhappy
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