Marijauna Myth's

[Blitanicle99]

I haven't read half this thread, Ill admit but honestly any of those who are thinking weed is the dumbest thing in the world, go for it. Keep thinking whatever you want. Theres no pressure, theres no badass story on how I figured out my life while on drugs, nothing. I just simply choose to do it.
I have openly done this drug off and on for awhile, I have experimented with different pychodelics and other drugs and I choose not to do the ones that make you see Reindeer dancing ontop of your car while explaining to you that you should walk into waffle house naked. Those drugs are fun, but are fun in an immature way. Ive have snorted, eaten, smoked, and licked (acid stips) just about fucking everything with the exception of two drugs, which are Meth and Heroine.

And to sum all those drugs up, shit I don't know but they are not as fun as people make them out to be. However, coming back to cannibus I have never had a bad experiance, never gotten sick, never been "too high" to do something. And trust me when I say this, those of you who say "oh you haven't smoked enough", trust me I have. I am not proud of that, just stating that I have been to the places in the drug world you hear about and met some fucking people. What it comes down to it all is simply this.

If you can function your life, and drugs do not rule your life, as in you make it your daily goal of smoking at any time you are not at work or at school or elsewise, then your fine. If you hold a good job, make decent grades and your habits do not affect other people than do as you do.

Otherwise, cheers and tokes.

[BURRITO_mike]

i love you haha and mary REPS!

[ATL_EG]

x1trillion!
so many good points in this thread

[zumolives]

I look at it this way...

Michale Phelps smokes weed...Wins 8 gold medals in the Olympics.....and smokes weed...?


ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

one love,
zumo

[zumolives]

I SMOKE TIRES!

too much reading, but i know i dont smoke weed, or smoke anything!

[RL...]

Weed is awesome. PERIOD. But it should not be legalized because the american ppl love to get addicted to things, such as tobacco, alcohol, and food, and are weak. Weed would just be something else to get abused,(even more than it does now).

What we need to figure out is why do ppl want/need to get high? Why are ppl trying to escape reality and feel better. Obviously because their reality is stressful or whatnot. The American ppl need to learn a better way to cope with things rather than smoking or drinking. As smoking weed will only make things worse, you have less money, wasted valuable time, and are stupidly happy/lazy.

Society's progress would slow or come to a halt if they weed were to be legalized. It's too improbable.

With that said I love weed and I smoked a fat blunt last night.

[zumolives]

YES! thank you for typically stereotyping potheads??? ok, look if it its legalized and people use it to cope THATS NOT MY PROBLEM! If you start using it for that wrong purpose then you have completly misunderstood weed. Why should I suffer due to the fact someone else cant hold there shit together? I firmly believe if it was legal I would finally accomplish world peace.

with this all being said anyone wanna help leaglize this shit? I got a pending coming up im really wanting to make some noise.

Weed is awesome. PERIOD. But it should not be legalized because the american ppl love to get addicted to things, such as tobacco, alcohol, and food, and are weak. Weed would just be something else to get abused,(even more than it does now).

What we need to figure out is why do ppl want/need to get high? Why are ppl trying to escape reality and feel better. Obviously because their reality is stressful or whatnot. The American ppl need to learn a better way to cope with things rather than smoking or drinking. As smoking weed will only make things worse, you have less money, wasted valuable time, and are stupidly happy/lazy.

Society's progress would slow or come to a halt if they weed were to be legalized. It's too improbable.

With that said I love weed and I smoked a fat blunt last night.

[Master Shake]

PLEASE TRY TO PROVE THIS WRONG)))) .

Brain Damage

Marijuana is psychoactive because it stimulates certain brain receptors, but it does not produce toxins that kill them (like alcohol), and it does not wear them out as other drugs may. There is no evidence that marijuana use is a cause of brain damage. Studies by Dr. Robert Heath claimed the contrary in experiments on monkeys, but Heath's work has been sharply criticized by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences on three primary counts:

its insufficient sample size (only four monkeys),
its failure to control experimental bias, and its misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as "damaged".

A far superior experiment by the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) involving 64 rhesus monkeys that were exposed to daily or weekly doses of marijuana smoke for a year found no evidence of structural or neurochemical changes in the brains of rhesus monkeys. Studies performed on actual human populations will confirm these results, even for chronic marijuana users (up to 18 joints per day) after many years of use. In fact, following the publication of two 1977 JAMA studies, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially announced its support for the decriminalization of marijuana.

Contrary to a 1987 television commercial sponsored by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), marijuana does not "flatten" brain waves either. In the commercial, a normal human brain wave was compared to what was supposedly the (much flatter) brain wave of a 14-year-old high on marijuana. It was actually the brain wave of a coma patient. PDFA lied about the data, and had to pull the commercial off of the air when researchers complained to the television networks.

In reality, marijuana has the effect of slightly increasing alpha-wave activity. Alpha waves are generally associated with meditative and relaxed states which are, in turn, often associated with human creativity.

it may not cause brain damage, but it could lead to short term memory loss.

when i smoked, i would listento people, then within that very day, i would have forgotten key points to which what was said, important or not. kinda like selective hearing.

i don't smoke now, and i remember shit a lot better than i did before.

it doesn't cause brain damage, it just causes people to be forgetful to remembering key points in which things that may have been important to the fellow person, and the effects of mary causes one to easily forget, due to the relaxing, munchies, notgivingafuck, etc.


i don't find anything wrong with it, i mean, its not like its hurting anymore. and besides, legalizing it could just boost the economy up, but since the gov't can't find a way to tax it, its keeping it from being legal. but truth of the matter being, i bet the gov't is probably taking what have been from tickets/major busts and easily putting back into the economy and then keeping what ever profit is made from it, on top of whatever fines and shit people are getting nailed with.
i think that there is VERY FEW true cops still left, most of them are probably crooked as fuck cause of their position thinking they can get away with anything or that they "are the law".
man fuck the police, and burn it down bitches!
smoke a blunt and tell the po-po to go fuck with the guy robbing the bank, you're just chillin on the park bench.

[Brick]

MONDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking marijuana over an extended period of time appears to greatly boost a young man's risk for developing a particularly aggressive form of testicular cancer, a new study reveals.

In fact, researchers found that men who smoked marijuana once a week or began to use the substance on a long-term basis while adolescents incurred double the risk for developing the fastest-spreading version of testicular cancer -- nonseminoma, which accounts for about 40% of all cases.

"Since we know that the incidence of testicular cancer has been rising in our country and in Europe over the last 40 years and that marijuana use has also risen over the same time, it seemed logical that there might be an association between the two," said study co-author Janet Daling, an epidemiologist and member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's public health sciences division in Seattle. "And when I analyzed the data, we found a fairly strong relationship with this aggressive type of testicular cancer."

No link was found between the drug and a less aggressive and more prevalent form of the disease, known as seminoma, which strikes 60% of testicular cancer patients.

The findings were published in the Feb. 9 online issue of Cancer.

According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, testicular cancer is very rare, accounting for just 1% of cancers among American men. Nevertheless, the disease is the most common type of cancer for American men between the ages of 15 and 34, the study noted.

Across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, testicular cancer rates have increased by 3% to 6% in the past half-century. That has led some researchers to suggest that the upward trend might be the product of increased exposure among young men to one or more external factors, including a simultaneous and comparable rise in the use of marijuana.

Along those lines, the researchers noted that the testes could be particularly vulnerable to the effects of marijuana, given that the organ -- along with the brain, heart, uterus and spleen -- carries specific receptors for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

As well, previous human and animal research has indicated that marijuana use might lead to reduced hormonal production (particularly testosterone), poorer semen quality and impotency in men.

Daling and her team explored the notion of a marijuana-testicular cancer connection by analyzing data on 369 testicular cancer patients that had been collected by the Adult Testicular Cancer Lifestyle and Blood Specimen Study.

Participants were between the ages of 18 and 44, most were white or Hispanic, and all were residents of the Seattle-Puget Sound region. All had been diagnosed with the disease between 1999 and 2006. The men reported any history of marijuana use, as well as alcohol and smoking habits, and the same information was collected from about 1,000 healthy men.

The researchers found that current marijuana use was linked to a 70% increased risk for the disease.

Independent of known risk factors, nonseminoma risk was particularly high among men who used the drug at least once a week and among those who had started using it before age 18.

Though Daling emphasized that the findings are preliminary, she suggested that attention should be paid.

"We know very little about the long-term health consequences of marijuana smoking," she cautioned. "So, although this is the first time this association has been studied and found -- and the finding does need to be replicated before we are really sure what's going on -- this does give some evidence that testicular cancer may be one result from the frequent use of marijuana. And that is something that young people should keep in mind."

But the prospect of a causal relationship between marijuana use and testicular cancer raised a lot of unanswered questions for Gary Schwartz, an associate professor in both the department of cancer biology and the department of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

"The consensus is that most testicular cancer is thought to originate with lesions in utero, and that the peak age for testicular cancer to actually occur begins, really, right after adolescence," he noted. "That's when hormones released during puberty appear to promote [full-blown] cancer by essentially throwing fuel on the lesion fire, following a relatively long latency. The point being that you don't suddenly wake up one morning with a tumor. So it's a little hard to understand how exposure to marijuana beginning at that point could somehow play an immediate causal role."

"But certainly, the idea that cannabis may cause cancer cells to proliferate is interesting," Schwartz acknowledged. "It could, however, also be that recreational drug use is simply a marker for affluence, since we know that testicular cancer is traditionally a disease that is more common among the affluent. Or it could be a marker for some other event that comes along with it, that triggers lesions that lead to tumors. So, at this point, it's just not clear to me how exactly the association between marijuana and testicular cancer would work."

SOURCES: Janet Daling, Ph.D., epidemiologist, public health sciences division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle; Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., associate professor, departments of cancer biology and epidemiology and prevention, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Feb. 9, 2009, Cancer, online

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/ma...ticlekey=97529

[90_ACCORD]

nut cancer.
well im definitly not gonna be smoking. I would rather have my nuts.

[G.C]

Getting head is illegal??

[canadianrcis]

time to light up.

[winterkvlt]

Nobody cares, potheads are dumb, and it's still illegal. Boo hoo.

Moving on...

You're right. There isn't a single "pothead" that is smart.

http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/branson.htm

I guess the owner of Virgin airlines, records, mobile, Virgin Galactic (space travel), Virgin Money and credited Financial Times award winner is just some dumb ass stoner after all...

[thecrazyone]

200 people who have smoked pot....

1.) Barack Obama. El Presidente de Los Estados Unidos!

2.) Bill Clinton “…but I didn’t inhale.” Fomer U.S. President!

3.) Bill Murray. Yep, everyone’s favorite actor was arrested for possession.

4.) Paris Hilton. Socialite. Night Vision Porn-Star.

5.) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball star

6. George W Bush Politician and professional hypocrite.
7. John F Kennedy. Politician.
8. Steve Jobs, co-creator of the Apple computer.
9. Queen Victoria.
10. Bruce Lee.
11. Aaron Sorkin, creator of ”The West Wing”.
12. Art Garfunkel , singer, Simon and Garfunkel.
13. Abbie Hoffman, Activist.
14. Al and Tipper Gore Politicians
15. Aleister Crowley, Author and Famous Satanist.
16. Alexander Dumas, Author - “The Three Musketeers”
17. Ali Campbell, Singer with UB40
18. Alice B. Toklas. Famous Cook - Wrote recipe for Hash Fudge Filmed as. ‘I Love You Alice B. Toklas’
19. Allen Ginsberg, Poet. Andrea Corr, musician, “The Corrs”. Anjelica Huston, Actress. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actor. “I did smoke a joint and I did inhale.”
20. Art Garfunkel. Singer of, “Simon and Garfunkel” fame.
21. Arthur Rimbaud.
22. Balzac.
23. Beatles.
24. Bill Gates. Not confirmed, just very strongly hinted at in his Playboy interview.
25. Bing Crosby. Famous crooner of “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas”. Now the Film “High Society” makes sense!
26. Bix Beiderbecke Jazz musician.
27. Black Crowes, musicians
28. Bob Denver, Star of “Gilligan’s Island”.
29. Bob Dylan, musician.
30. Bob Marley, musician
31. Burt Reynolds, actor. He left his first wife because of her drug use. But he has been seen in Cannabis Cafes.
32. Cab Calloway, Jazz musician. Claimed he only used it once.
33. Carl Sagan, Scientist - SiFi writer - film “Contact” More info here.
34. Carlos Santana musician.
35. Carrie Fischer, Actress
36. Charlie Sheen, actor.
37. Charlize Theron, Actress.
38. Charles Beaudelaire, Author.
39. Cheech Marin, Actor
40. Chris Conrad, Author and expert on Cannabis Hemp
41. Chris Farley. Comedian.
42. Chrissie Hynde, musician.
43. Chris Rock, Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter.
44. Chubby Checker, Musician. Sang; “Lets Twist Again”.
45. Cilla Black, Musician and presenter.
46. Claire Rayner, Agony Aunt.
47. Cody Kasch Actor. TV series Desperate Housewives
48. Conan O’Brian TV Host
49. Count Basie, Jazz Ban Leader
50. Dame Margot Fonteyn, Prima ballerina.
51. David Bailey, Photographer .
52. Dan Quayle . Politician.
53. David Hockney, Artist.
54. Diego Rivera Mexican Artist
55. Dion Fortune Welsh occultist.
56. Dionne Warwick, Famous singer of “Walk on by”.
57. Dioscorides Pedanius, 1 st cent. AD. Greek physician. Wrote ‘De Materia Medica’, used for 1,500 years.
58. Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz musician
59. Dr Francis Crick. Nobel Prize winner.
60. Dr Lester Grinspoon.
61. Dr R.D.Laing
62. Dr W.B. O’Shaugnessy Re-introduced cannabis to European medicine.
63. Drew Barrymore, actress.
64. Duke Ellington, Jazz Band Leader.
65. Elliott Gould. Actor.
66. Eminem, musician.
67. Emperor Liu Chi-nu, made medical recomendation for its use.
68. Emperor Shen-Nung, made first known medical recommendation for its use.
69. Errol Flynn, Actor
70. Evelyn Waugh. Author.
71. Francis Ford Coppella, Film Director.
72. Frances McDormand , Actress
73. Fats Waller, musician.
74. Fitz Hugh Ludlow - wrote ‘The Hasheesh Eater’.
75. Francois Rabelais. 16 th French author
76. Friedrich Nietzsche, Used it as a medicine.
77. Gary Johnson. Governor of New Mexico - Reformer.
78. Gene Krupa, Jazz musician.
79. George Gurdjieff , Russian Mystic.
80. George Melly, Jazz musician.
81. George Soros, Financier and reformer.
82. George Washington , grew it and there is evidence that he prepared it for smoking.
83. Gerard de Nerval French writer
84. Graham Greene, Author.
85. Grateful Dead musicians.
86. Harrison Ford, Actor.
87. Howard Marks. Ex-smuggler and Raconteur.
88. H R H Prince Harry, Third in line to the British throne.
89. H R H Princess Margaret, sister to Her Majesty the Queen.
90. Howard Stern
91. Hua T’o Medical use as anaesthetic .
92. Hunter S. Thompson, Author
93. Isabel Allende, Chilean author. Mentioned in her book “Paula”.
94. Jack Kerouac, Author
95. Jack Nicholson, actor.
96. Jackie Gleason, actor. Another whom the DEA kept on their pot files.
97. James Brown, musician
98. Janis Joplin, musician.
99. Jane Fonda, Actress.
100. Jennifer Aniston, actress.
101. Jennifer Capriati, Tennis champ.
102. Jesse Ventura, Governor of Minnesota.
103. Jim Morrison, musician.
104. Jimmy Dorsey, Jazz musician,
105. Jimmy Hendrix, musician
106. Joan of Arc, was accused of using witch herbs (another name cannabis).
107. John Belushi, actor.
108. John Denver, musician. He recorded a song about it.
109. John Kerry . Politician. US Senator
110. John Lennon. musician.
111. John Le Mesurier. Actor.
112. John Wayne, Actor, “I tried it once but it didn’t do anything to me.”
113. Jonathan Miller, Theatre Director.
114. Johnny Cash, musician.
115. Jon Snow, Channel 4 News presenter. (UK)
116. Julia Roberts, Actress,
117. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laurate, Biology.
118. Ken Kesey, Author
119. Kenneth Tynan, Playwright.
120. Kurt Cobain, musician.
121. Larry Hagman, actor, of “JR” fame.
122. Led Zeppelin, musicians.
123. Lenny Bruce, Comedian.
124. Lewis Carroll, Author
125. Lewis Wolpert, biologist.
126. Little Richard, musician.
127. Louis Armstrong, Jazz musician.
128. Luke Perry, actor.
129. Louis Hebert, French Botanist
130. Macaulay Culkin. Actor, Home Alone.
131. Mark Stepnoski. two-time Super Bowl champ, Dallas Cowboy.
132. Mick Jagger, musician
133. Mike Bloomberg. New York City Mayor.
134. Mike Tyson, Boxer.
135. Miles Davis, Jazz musician.
136. Milton Berle, Actor
137. Mo Mowlam, Minister
138. Modigliani. Sculptor.
139. Montel Williams Chat show host.
140. Montgomery Clift, actor
141. Neil Diamond, musician.
142. Neil Young, Musician.
143. Newt Gingrich Speaker of the US Senate.
144. Norman Mailer, Author.
145. Oasis, Noel Gallagher
146. Oliver Stone, Film Director.
147. Oscar Wilde, Author.
148. Pablo Picasso, Artist.
149. Pancho Villa, Revolutionary Leader.
150. Peregrine Worthstone, former editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
151. Peter Fonda, actor.
152. Peter Sellers, actor.
153. Peter Tosh, Poet.
154. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Former Prime Minister of Canada.
155. Pink. Musician. Mentioned in Playboy interview (11/02).
156. Pink Floyd, Musicians.
157. P. J. O’Rouke. Author.
158. Ram Dass, Philosopher.
159. Ray Charles, musician.
160. Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Laureate physicist.
161. Richard Pryor, actor.
162. Robert Anton Wilson. Philosopher .
163. Robert Mitchum, Actor, was jailed in the 40s for possession of marijuana.
164. Rolling Stones, musicians.
165. Ross Rebagliati, first ever snowboarding Gold Medallist, 1998 Winter Olympics.
166. Rudolf Nureyev, Ballet dancer. Also see entry for Margot Fonteyn.
167. Rudyard Kipling . Author.
168. Ryan Farrell, Australian Sprint Car champion.
169. Salvador Dali, Artist.
170. Samuel Beckett, Author.
171. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Author.
172. Sinead O’Connor, musician.
173. Sir Paul McCartney, Musician.
174. Sir Mick Jagger, Musician.
175. Snoop Dogg, musician.
176. Steve Martin , Actor.
177. Stephen King. Author.
178. Steven Soderbergh, Film director.
179. Stephen Sondheim. Broadway composer and lyricist.
180. Sting / Gordon Sumners, musician.
181. Ted Turner, of CNN fame.
182. Terence McKenna.
183. Terry Pratchett. Author of the “Diskworld” books.
184. The Who, musicians.
185. Thelonious Monk, Jazz musician.
186. Timothy Leary
187. Tomas Enge, Formula 3000 World Champion.
188. Tommy Chong. Actor
189. Tommy Lee, Musician.
190. Tony Booth, the father-in-law of Britain’s Prime Minister.
191. UB40, Band.
192. Victor Hugo. Author ‘Les Misérables’
193. Walter ‘Stumpy’ Brennan actor.
194. Walter Benjamin, Philosopher.
195. Wesley Snipes, actor. Has been seen in Cannabis Cafes.
196. Whitney Houston, musician. William Butler Yeats. Famous Irish Poet and Occultist.
197. William S. Burroughs, Author.
198. William Shakespeare. Dramatist. More here.
199. Willie Nelson, musician.
200. Woody Harrelson, Actor and reformer.

[zumolives]

I know right ahahaha.

time to light up.

[Benefit]

ok where can i get some PM ME

[Nang]

hmm

[gtrmonkey]

THat list forgot some one very important

Dennis Hopper still smoke pot. He openly admits it. High times life time achievement award.

[stephen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLiIC4aaUE

[Master Shake]

ahh, shit i was about to say you forgot willy nelson, but you got em at the end.

[soul]

god smoked pot............. how the fuck could you come up with a crazy ass world like this











oh god no pun intended, i brought god into this...... no neeed to turn this into a religous debate

[gtrmonkey]

YEs he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Pretty much everything good has game from pot. United States of AMerica, The internet, I could go on and on.

[zumolives]

import atlanta hahaha

YEs he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Pretty much everything good has game from pot. United States of AMerica, The internet, I could go on and on.

[gtrmonkey]

bump

[Frög]

All you that are against legalizing marijuana, I hope you don't drink alcohol:

[Bruce Leroy]

All you that are against legalizing marijuana, I hope you don't drink alcohol:

lol.... My friend always tells me i smoke to much, as he sits and drinks his daily steel reserve

[BanginJimmy]

I posted this in another thread a long time ago.

I believe that weed should be banned, also under the same statutes I think Alcohol and tobacco should be banned.

[Frög]

I posted this in another thread a long time ago.

I believe that weed should be banned, also under the same statutes I think Alcohol and tobacco should be banned.

The prohibition of alcohol increased organized crime to the U.S.

Before alcohol was legal, the illegal money was all profited by mobs.. Mobs got richer, more powerful, and crime increased.. Now that it is taxed, the government profits from it and crime is decreased..

"Crime" not because of violence directly caused by alcohol (because whether it is legal or not, people are still going to drink it and maybe become violent), but the indirect result of it..

Making the alcohol illegal has more negative effect than good, because people are still going to drink no matter what..

Not only does the government not make potential money off alcohol/marijuana, it costs them a fortune to enforce!! All this at what cost? Moral good? No. Societal good? No. I see no advantage of making a euphoric herb illegal..

[Frög]