Poll: Opinions on Cannabis?

[Kair]

The textual sentence "I will NEVER use it." really just sounds like a denial of the truth.

It has been proved that it is not harmful, not addictive and it is probably a better alternative to ethanol.

Your local church tells you that Cannabis is the Devil's plant. The pope used to tell people that the earth was flat.

If you do not wish to inject this narcotic, do not do so because either
1) IT IS DRUGS!!!! - Chocolate, Coffee, Cigarettes, Sugar all are drugs/narcotics by the same definition.
2) IT IS A GATEWAY DRUG!!!! - The wish for an alternate reality is the gateway. Rational use of marijuana has absolutely no gateway effect.
3) IT IS HARMFUL TO SOCIETY!!!! - Ban ethanol first before trying to keep away THC.
4) 5) 6) I do not have the time to list all arguments of the biased.

If you do not wish to use it, it is completely fine, just do not do so because of socially inherited bias.

 

[terrible cheeb]

i use it most days and have been since i was 12 (18 now), it just makes everything better. food tastes better, musics is better, im better at games when high, im more creative, sex is better, it relaxs me and lets me think more clearly.

before people then try claiming im a lazy waster, im currently doing A levels ( physics, photography and psychology), learning and competing in martial arts competions ( brazilian jiu-jitsu) and produce music.

I am fully aware of the stigma surrounding cannabis, but most of this is due to uneducated opinons based on 70's propaganda and the only reason cannabis was made illegal is due to the cotton industry in the begining of the last century.

 

[MirrorSweep]

It's overrated.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Meh, not interested in trying it. I've nothing against it, I just find it seems...unpleasant.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

-Snip-
Mind asking what plans? I've assumed political. I can't help but pry. Also, I'm not sure how it messes people's lives up. As long as you have a strong sense of free will and can control yourself there should be no addiction.

You are unworthy of knowing my plans
Right, now that I've gotten that out of the way...
No, my plans do not have any political element, although, if I wish to better serve my people, I could look toward such a course as a political career.
If I use any illegal drugs, ever, I will be unable to donate blood ever again.
And as for messing lives up, if you could see the people in my area, you'd understand.
There are a lot of (weak-willed) drug users in my area, and they are a hazard to anyone they are near. Not to mention thieving bastards, and little vandals.
They steal to continue their habit. It ruins their lives, and the lives of their victims, and families. At least here, it does.

 

[terrible cheeb]

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Mind asking what plans? I've assumed political. I can't help but pry. Also, I'm not sure how it messes people's lives up. As long as you have a strong sense of free will and can control yourself there should be no addiction.

You are unworthy of knowing my plans
Right, now that I've gotten that out of the way...
No, my plans do not have any political element, although, if I wish to better serve my people, I could look toward such a course as a political career.
If I use any illegal drugs, ever, I will be unable to donate blood ever again.
And as for messing lives up, if you could see the people in my area, you'd understand.
There are a lot of (weak-willed) drug users in my area, and they are a hazard to anyone they are near. Not to mention thieving bastards, and little vandals.
They steal to continue their habit. It ruins their lives, and the lives of their victims, and families. At least here, it does.

i fear you may be generalizing slightly here. not everyone who smokes weed is a scummy degenerate criminal. those people that live near you are fuck ups. if they didnt start smoking weed, they would drink alcohol, if not that that then smoking crack or something like that. people like that are always going to fuck up, then they always blame what ever it is they choose to alter their mental state.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

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i fear you may be generalizing slightly here. not everyone who smokes weed is a scummy degenerate criminal. those people that live near you are fuck ups. if they didnt start smoking weed, they would drink alcohol, if not that that then smoking crack or something like that. people like that are always going to fuck up, then they always blame what ever it is they choose to alter their mental state.

Nope, I'm not generalising. I specifically said "In my area" in my previous post.
Sure, there are bound to be better people out there who abuse certain illegal substances, but where I am, which were the ones I was on about, they are, as you summed up my post about them, "scummy degenerate criminal(s)".
Oh, and they do drink alcohol here as well. It is quite a problem.
Drunk chavs, drugged-up chavs, chavs that couldn't get their fix, etc.
It isn't just the substances they abuse, you are correct, they are messed up. But the substances certainly don't help, whereas without them there would have been a chance at molding the little buggers into something better for society.
I'm just glad they aren't like this everywhere, I wouldn't wish these scum on anyone >.>

 

[terrible cheeb]

-Snip-
i fear you may be generalizing slightly here. not everyone who smokes weed is a scummy degenerate criminal. those people that live near you are fuck ups. if they didnt start smoking weed, they would drink alcohol, if not that that then smoking crack or something like that. people like that are always going to fuck up, then they always blame what ever it is they choose to alter their mental state.

Nope, I'm not generalising. I specifically said "In my area" in my previous post.
Sure, there are bound to be better people out there who abuse certain illegal substances, but where I am, which were the ones I was on about, they are, as you summed up my post about them, "scummy degenerate criminal(s)".
Oh, and they do drink alcohol here as well. It is quite a problem.
Drunk chavs, drugged-up chavs, chavs that couldn't get their fix, etc.
It isn't just the substances they abuse, you are correct, they are messed up. But the substances certainly don't help, whereas without them there would have been a chance at molding the little buggers into something better for society.
I'm just glad they aren't like this everywhere, I wouldn't wish these scum on anyone >.>

"cant get their fix"? cannabis isnt addcitve

"molding them into something for society"? society is already fucked tbh and not due to drugs but humanities innate, greedy nature.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

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"cant get their fix"? cannabis isnt addcitve

"molding them into something for society"? society is already fucked tbh and not due to drugs but humanities innate, greedy nature.

Please, I beseech you, knock that into the heads of the addicts in my area, I'm sure that'll stop them.
And yes, they could have been made into something more useful for society.
But that chance was lost. Society may be fucked in your opinion, but the death-throes could have at least been delayed longer.

 

[DSK-]

I have no use for cannabis or drugs. I don't see the point in using either for recreation or from escaping from reality.

Also, I've been in a car with two people smoking the stuff and I didn't get affected at all :/

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

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Mind asking what plans? I've assumed political. I can't help but pry. Also, I'm not sure how it messes people's lives up. As long as you have a strong sense of free will and can control yourself there should be no addiction.

You are unworthy of knowing my plans
Right, now that I've gotten that out of the way...
No, my plans do not have any political element, although, if I wish to better serve my people, I could look toward such a course as a political career.
If I use any illegal drugs, ever, I will be unable to donate blood ever again.
And as for messing lives up, if you could see the people in my area, you'd understand.
There are a lot of (weak-willed) drug users in my area, and they are a hazard to anyone they are near. Not to mention thieving bastards, and little vandals.
They steal to continue their habit. It ruins their lives, and the lives of their victims, and families. At least here, it does.

That's a pretty damn good reason. In fact, I don't think there could be a better one.

Also, given the people you're surrounded by who give that example, it's understandable why you'd have that view. The people who do drugs constantly around my area are usually either complete wastes of space or are very intelligent and hard working. The people who are wastes of space were already predicted to be that before they even started doing drugs. There's still a lot of time for the addictions and criminal activity to kick in though.

 

[JochemDude]

Cannabis isn't illegal in holland, with us its either a Hard-drug or a soft-drug. soft-drugs can be bought at coffee shops (no they don't sell coffee their just named that way) cannabis is one of them. also in holland we have the lowest amount (percentage, obviously) of people who are addicted to drugs. why does our system works that well. by drawing the line between 'safe' drugs as cannabis and the 'dangerous' drugs like xtc, heroine or cocaine people will be less likely to use them. think about it. if you had the choose between a legal rather safe but satisfying drug like cannabis or a illegal hazardous to you and loved one's, madmen like meth or heroine. The choice is rather obvious then

 

[mrwoo6]

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"cant get their fix"? cannabis isnt addcitve

"molding them into something for society"? society is already fucked tbh and not due to drugs but humanities innate, greedy nature.

Please, I beseech you, knock that into the heads of the addicts in my area, I'm sure that'll stop them.
And yes, they could have been made into something more useful for society.
But that chance was lost. Society may be fucked in your opinion, but the death-throes could have at least been delayed longer.

But as it is your "area" that this problem has spawned from, is it not more likely that peer pressure is the problem? not cannabis? perhaps People being ignorant of the drug? It seems to me that the people themselves, not the drug itself is the problem. if it wasn't crannabis it would be something else.

for example. if i lived in a area were everyone fought over coke-a-cola but the rest of the world. or in-fact, the civilized of the world were fine taking it. whose to blame? the people? or the coke-a-cola?

look at Holland. its not a big mess of chavs stealing and fighting is it?

 

[Chelsizzle]

Never have, never will. Don't really care about it that much.. I've been around it my whole life (I'm literally the only one in my immediate family who hasn't tried it) and I'm just kind of tired of it.

 

[Spookimitsu]

Oh great. Another thread full of people judging stuff because they're so worldly and obviously know everything about it after watching that after-school special and outomatically believed the strawman.

The ignorance. It burns my eyes.

^^This

Never have, never will. Don't really care about it that much.. I've been around it my whole life (I'm literally the only one in my immediate family who hasn't tried it) and I'm just kind of tired of it.

I can still appreciate this however.

 

[DanielBrown]

People can be HILARIOUS high.

As well as dangerous.

Don't anyone try to compare it to being drunk either, I have seen people who have been drunk and people who have been high, and it is not the same.

Have you ever seen a guy who was high beat a guy up senselessy for a little thing?

I know I have seen drunk people do it a lot at the bars. But at my local coffeeshop 0 violence ever occurs.

I have gotten beaten up for wearing an up side down cross. During the trial I learned that he was high at the time. Also saw a stoned guy flipping out on the subway once... Have never seen any fights at the pubs or while being at a party, but I don't believe it doesn't occur just because I haven't seen it. Why would you think stoned people never go crazy?

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I've tried it a few times, and it's never really done much for me at all. I don't avoid it, but I don't seek it out, either.

 

[JIst00]

I smoke on occasion to chill out. I used to blaze constantly through my late teens early twenties, but I tend to just pick up a little here and there these days, and only smoke when I'm gonna sit down with my book and relax for a bit. For example, I shall get a smalla mount for over xmas to recover from the hecticness of the holiday period.I dont smoke with friends, my days of "sessioning" are long sinec done.

And I dont drink very often, so smoking a bit of dope is my way of spending "me" time.

 

[Yopaz]

All drugs have side-effects.

Cannabis is no different so you're running the risk of whatever.
If I may be so blunt, I look down on smokers in general and more so if it's cannabis.
It's arrogant and fairly pointless because no matter how high you get, there is always a low.

Jus' my opinion.

Hehehe you're a blunt one.

I have never tried it, never intend to try it. No reason really.

 

[Epic_Mushroom]

I've only tried it twice and I'm not in a hurry to do so again. It seems to get me violent, if not aggressive, when I'm already on edge. However, I don't mind when others smoke it, as long as they don't force me to be a passive participant.