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Sean Trane 
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 Posted: November 01 2012 at 04:06 |
 Blacksword wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
I'm fed up with the whole world of blokes in vests drinking buckets of Stella then fighting each other, or beating up their girlfriends by the local kebab van |
You not coming to the prog-curry, then?  The last one wasn't that bad...
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Jim, I don't want to wake up in a police cell again, with a medical examiner picking bits of a Pallas album out of my face, and having to explain to them what a 'prog curry' is..
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You guys still hold these prog curry events??  ... I took part in the first one... fun evening, even if it was a shame it ended so early (damn early OK last calls)... I could stand doing another of those... Richard, Andy, Alan , Chris, Simon, moi (and my better half for the first part) and some other bloke I can't remember his name now... ========== And yup, booze does more damage than weed... and sometimes more towards innocent bystanders But I do drink more than I toke nowadays... but very rarely go behind the point of being tipsy...
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Andy Webb
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 21:48 |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 20:58 |
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Wait...ummm...what was the question again? And are you gonna eat that Twinkie?
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 13:56 |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 12:12 |
Blacksword wrote:
I'm fed up with the whole world of blokes in vests drinking buckets of Stella then fighting each other, or beating up their girlfriends by the local kebab van |
You not coming to the prog-curry, then? The last one wasn't that bad...
Edited by Jim Garten - October 31 2012 at 12:13
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 11:04 |
UMUR wrote:
Used to smoke often, but never on a daily basis. Since I´ve had kids (which I´ve now had for 8 years), I´ve smoked very few times (and not because of moral issues, it´s just that I seldom get the opportunity to smoke these days). If I want to get intoxicated I still much prefer weed over alcohol. When I smoke weed I´m fine the next day. Maybe a bit heavy headed but that´s it. When I drink alcohol, I´m busted for days. |
I know that feeling. I rarely drink heavily now, partly because it makes me feel so bad the next day, but also I tend to get sick before I get happy drunk. So when I'm done drinking most people I know are just warming up.
Although I rarely smoke weed now, it's a far more pleasant and satisfying experience. The pubs around where I live are pretty rough too. I'm fed up with the whole world of blokes in vests drinking buckets of Stella then fighting each other, or beating up their girlfriends by the local kebab van. You don't seem to get that behaviour very much among the stoner brigade.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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UMUR
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 10:02 |
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Used to smoke often, but never on a daily basis. Since I´ve had kids (which I´ve now had for 8 years), I´ve smoked very few times (and not because of moral issues, it´s just that I seldom get the opportunity to smoke these days). If I want to get intoxicated I still much prefer weed over alcohol. When I smoke weed I´m fine the next day. Maybe a bit heavy headed but that´s it. When I drink alcohol, I´m busted for days.
Edited by UMUR - October 31 2012 at 10:09
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manofmystery
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Posted: October 31 2012 at 09:47 |
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I've never had it and never will but I also strongly object to its prohibition. Do with your own body as you please.
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 Time always wins.
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Syzygy
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Posted: October 30 2012 at 16:50 |
I've been through phases of being an avid smoker and an occasional smoker. I haven't partaken at all for about 5 years, though. Although I was certainly familiar with the stuff from an early age, I didn't get into smoking the herb regularly until I was in my 30s and had stopped drinking (which was way more damaging).
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 29 2012 at 14:05 |
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To paraphrase Bill Hicks..I used to smoke as much as the average touring prog rock band in the 70's...
Generally, I don't remember much..
Where's the Jaffa Cakes..?
Edited by Blacksword - October 29 2012 at 14:07
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: October 29 2012 at 13:52 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
[QUOTE=Snow Dog] used to grow my own too. Nothing like a free buzz[/qoute]
Did it ourselves for a couple of years. Much milder than that available from dealers & considerably more pleasant... As I said before, though, was a long time ago. |
Oh yes...milder....a very long time ago....twenty five years at least. |
mid-90's for me.... Yaeh, milder, mellower but biological ... And tasted much better because I took my seeds from Thai or Ganja from the mountains >> so already used to colder and wetter climates
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 16:10 |
Sumdeus wrote:
I think it's really funny that someone drinks coffee and alcohol regularly but is afraid of making a habit of smoking weed. Those two are so much more addictive and harmful than weed
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Well, they're both cheap and can't get me in legal trouble, except for alcohol, but then again I barely drink more than a beer at a time and I don't have a drivers license yet.
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Pekka
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 15:34 |
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Oh I know, I do. Big Brother is still legal after all.
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Sumdeus
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 15:25 |
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yeah and i'm trying to say you shouldn't just say yay to everything that's legal because the government peddles a lot of very harmful stuff on to us. Especially addictive substances. They want you to be dependent so you keep buying
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Pekka
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 15:01 |
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Maybe you're addressing this issue more broadly and not just replying me, but my entire point was "legal -> easy and entirely riskless to obtain and use -> I say yay", not that everything the government allows us is beneficial for our health.
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Barah86
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 13:54 |
Sumdeus wrote:
Salvia is totally legal and sold in stores to anybody here but it's a
super strong psychedelic that shouldn't be f**ked with by people who haven't had previous experience with something more mild like LSD or mushrooms.
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Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man. 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 13:46 |
Jim Garten wrote:
[QUOTE=Snow Dog] used to grow my own too. Nothing like a free buzz[/qoute]
Did it ourselves for a couple of years. Much milder than that available from dealers & considerably more pleasant... As I said before, though, was a long time ago. |
Oh yes...milder....a very long time ago....twenty five years at least.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 13:44 |
Snow Dog wrote:
used to grow my own too. Nothing like a free buzz |
Did it ourselves for a couple of years. Much milder than that available from dealers & considerably more pleasant... As I said before, though, was a long time ago.
Edited by Jim Garten - October 28 2012 at 13:45
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Sumdeus
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 13:22 |
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Eh, the government sells a lot of terrible drugs legally, I don't think that means anything. Salvia is totally legal and sold in stores to anybody here but it's a
super strong psychedelic that shouldn't be f**ked with by people who haven't had previous experience with something more mild like LSD or mushrooms. unfortunately lots
of kids think "oh it's legal and i heard it makes you trip out, let's
try it!" (just like my friends and i did in middle school) and then they
do it and freak out cause they're not at all prepared for such an
intense experience. so yeah I don't think just cause the government
sells something to the public means it's good. Also being in California makes it really easy to smoke pot legally, everyone and their grandmother has a medicinal card nowadays
I dunno, to me it's just like... people who drink coffee every day end up needing it every morning to function... people who drink alcohol everyday end up dying quite young from liver diseases and other sh*t... people who smoke pot every day don't really end up with any issues or problems for it. smoking isn't healthy sure but weed smoke barely does anything compared to tobacco or something. I smoke weed every day but I can still go through an entire day without it and I'm not gonna be freaking out cause I'm sober, I'm just probably gonna go get stoned at night to relax. But it has no hold on me like most drugs try to do.
Edited by Sumdeus - October 28 2012 at 13:31
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Pekka
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 07:43 |
Sumdeus wrote:
I think it's really funny that someone drinks coffee and alcohol regularly but is afraid of making a habit of smoking weed. Those two are so much more addictive and harmful than weed
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There might be some truth to the last point, I don't deny that, but coffee and beer/wine/whiskey/younameit are easy. Legal's good, I like that. I like buying and doing my modest share of drugs without the slightest fear of getting into any kind of trouble because of it.
And I've never had any interest in putting a cigarette in my mouth, so that goes for joints too.
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