Thoughts on use of pot.

Closed Thread
Thread Tools
  #91  
Old 07-15-2021, 08:49 AM
BlackhawksFan BlackhawksFan is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Lady Lake
Posts: 277
Thanks: 335
Thanked 198 Times in 108 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
I read that 75% of Americans support the decriminalization of the use of Marijuana.

Do you?
Yes
  #92  
Old 07-15-2021, 09:20 AM
roob1 roob1 is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 326
Thanks: 45
Thanked 170 Times in 83 Posts
Default

You need to examine the details, rather than generalize.



Is marijuana a gateway drug? | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

"These findings are consistent with the idea of marijuana as a "gateway drug." However, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances. Also, cross-sensitization is not unique to marijuana. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs51 and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances."





Quote:
Originally Posted by BillY41 View Post
Gateway drug! Decriminalize personal possession, no smoking in public.
  #93  
Old 07-15-2021, 09:25 AM
BigSteph BigSteph is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2021
Posts: 246
Thanks: 64
Thanked 349 Times in 118 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Art cov View Post
A friend just came back from New Orleans. Where he stayed (French quarter) it’s legal there. He said the place stunk with pot smoking and every corner had people selling it. It’s a amazing cigarette smoking is so bad for people’s health, but pot smoking does so good. Nothing bad, it stinks and destroys in the long run. Most kids who smoke weed, start with it but then try other drugs. I remember how at bus stops some of the kids smelled the bus when they got on after smoking a joint. I guess if it was in the brownies and not smoked we would’ve only knew because of their yeah man speech. But they were 13 yr olds. If you sit out on the lanai and the smoke drifts to you, what do you think? Remember pot smokers enjoy company who indulge with them. Hey, the dancing will change at the squares, it could be entertaining!
I was sitting on my lanai the other day and smelled it. I looked over my shoulder and saw the 8-man team pouring concrete passing a cigarette. About half of the men took a puff and the other half declined.

I didn't get high and the smell dissipated in a minute.

Both the high and clear-minded workers kept working and the slab looked fine afterwards.


I am pro marijuana, but at the same time, I wouldn't want to smell it constantly.

I just moved from a legal state and while I fully support the personal responsible use of marijuana, I hated when I had to smell it. Just like I love a good $10 cigar on occasion, I hate when I have to endure it from someone else.

The big thing in marijuana use now is to take the plant material and heat it in a chamber to where the materials start to vaporize and are inhaled. You don't get the burnt smell. Sort of like bruising a mint leaf by rubbing between your fingers compared to lighting a fall-time leaf on fire -- two entirely different smells.


The marijuana argument is tiresome. I've had discussions with people who 100% believe it is immoral and a gateway drug. I've had discussions with people who shout "my body, my right." People tend to paint their feeling on "Vices" with the color of their politics and religion. I fall into the middle,... be reasonable, be responsible, do all things in moderation with the consideration of the risks and impact on others.

I also understand that strange things follow a path of Rejection, Tolerance, and Acceptance. I am at each of these phases on different things I see. On Marijuana, I just happen to have arrived at Acceptance.
  #94  
Old 07-15-2021, 09:43 AM
Boomer Boomer is offline
Soaring Parsley
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,419
Thanks: 172
Thanked 2,419 Times in 839 Posts
Default

Hey, is anybody looking into buying a few shares of stock?

Acreage Holdings (ACRHF) is at $3.60 this morning. That’s the company with John Boehner on the board — after his 180.

I have not looked too far so far.

So. . .would looking into a small investment be a groovy thing to do?

Or could it lead to REEFER MADNESS!!?

Boomer
  #95  
Old 07-15-2021, 09:47 AM
GrumpyOldMan GrumpyOldMan is offline
Soaring Eagle member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 2,016
Thanks: 333
Thanked 2,479 Times in 753 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomer View Post
Hey, is anybody looking into buying a few shares of stock?

Acreage Holdings (ACRHF) is at $3.60 this morning. That’s the company with John Boehner on the board — after his 180.

I have not looked too far so far.

So. . .would looking into a small investment be a groovy thing to do?

Or could it lead to REEFER MADNESS!!?

Boomer
I heard it was a gateway investment and could lead to day trading and other more serious investment activities. Be careful, be very careful!
  #96  
Old 07-15-2021, 10:34 AM
SusanStCatherine SusanStCatherine is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 439
Thanks: 140
Thanked 252 Times in 145 Posts
Default

I'm for not only decriminalization, I'm for legalizing marajuana federally. The war on drugs has failed and caused many victims.
  #97  
Old 07-15-2021, 10:43 AM
Windguy Windguy is offline
Veteran member
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 522
Thanks: 1,960
Thanked 743 Times in 285 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by manaboutown View Post
Since I have seen the effects is has on users over the years I do not support its legalization.

Follow the money.

Who and what entities lobbied through its legalization?

Who/what entities stand to benefit?

States will tax it so stand to gain although they (taxpayers) will bear some of the costs of pot use.
Following the money to see who benefitted from its criminalization in the first place might be illuminating. From Wikipedia:

Quote:
Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst's empire of newspapers used the "yellow journalism" pioneered by Hearst to demonize the cannabis plant and spread a public perception that there were connections between cannabis and violent crime. Several scholars argue that the goal was to destroy the hemp industry, largely as an effort of Hearst, Andrew Mellon and the Du Pont family They argue that with the invention of the decorticator hemp became a very cheap substitute for the wood pulp that was used in the newspaper industry. However, Hearst newspapers owed large debts to Canadian suppliers of paper, who used wood as raw material. If an alternative raw material for paper had emerged, it would have lowered the price of the paper needed to print Hearst's many newspapers—a positive thing for Hearst.
Another reason is that it was to demonize immigrating Mexicans for whom cannabis use was a long cultural tradition. The racists scared people into thinking that dark-skinned drug fiends would murder and rape white women. Hmm. Murders and rapists. Where have I heard that before?

And the main reason why it is not legal now is because drug gangs, industrial prisons, and pharmaceutical companies don't want that. And, they have lots of money to lobby against legalization.
  #98  
Old 07-15-2021, 10:45 AM
SusanStCatherine SusanStCatherine is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 439
Thanks: 140
Thanked 252 Times in 145 Posts
Default

My sister, a Florida resident at the time, was diagnosed in 2017 with pancreatic cancer and asked a doctor for medical marajuana. She was unable to get it from the Florida doctor, but was able to obtain it elsewhere. The doctor gave her a certain number of months to live. Well, she wound up living at least a few months past that (no thanks to that doctor). And I believe she was way more comfortable and able to eat more due to the marajuana. It shocks me Florida is not liberitarian on this issue like they are on a lot of other issues.
  #99  
Old 07-15-2021, 10:55 AM
Grunt 1946 Grunt 1946 is offline
Member
Join Date: Oct 2020
Posts: 35
Thanks: 32
Thanked 15 Times in 9 Posts
Default

It's only been used since the beginning of the human race. Almost anyone like me, a baby boomer tried it. Is it a big deal? not in my opinion?
  #100  
Old 07-15-2021, 10:58 AM
brfree1411@aol.com brfree1411@aol.com is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: 1040 Ivawood Way
Posts: 108
Thanks: 0
Thanked 73 Times in 29 Posts
Default

OR we can use the tax money off MJ for our huge deficit that this government has used to provide an income for a lot of people who would not work.
  #101  
Old 07-15-2021, 10:59 AM
brfree1411@aol.com brfree1411@aol.com is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: 1040 Ivawood Way
Posts: 108
Thanks: 0
Thanked 73 Times in 29 Posts
Default

Love it!!!!
  #102  
Old 07-15-2021, 11:01 AM
brfree1411@aol.com brfree1411@aol.com is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: 1040 Ivawood Way
Posts: 108
Thanks: 0
Thanked 73 Times in 29 Posts
Default

Really? Not speeding & driving while drunk, interesting.
  #103  
Old 07-15-2021, 11:55 AM
jimkerr jimkerr is offline
Veteran member
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 598
Thanks: 159
Thanked 488 Times in 252 Posts
Default

It should be decriminalized and if someone wants to grow their own medicine, they should be able to do so. I know many people that MJ has helped. If people stopped drinking excessively and had a little marijuana instead, we would live in a much friendlier environment. The pizza restaurants might be busier but that would be a good thing.
  #104  
Old 07-15-2021, 01:04 PM
golfing eagles's Avatar
golfing eagles golfing eagles is offline
Sage
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: The Villages
Posts: 13,465
Thanks: 1,220
Thanked 14,500 Times in 4,777 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Get real View Post
It is a friggin plant....who cares????? It grows naturally. Have at it.
So is heroin, what's your point???
  #105  
Old 07-15-2021, 01:12 PM
rpalumberi rpalumberi is offline
Member
Join Date: Jul 2021
Posts: 65
Thanks: 94
Thanked 96 Times in 33 Posts
Exclamation Thoughts on use of marijuana - reply

Quote:
Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
I read that 75% of Americans support the decriminalization of the use of Marijuana.

Do you?
I think, especially these days, you cannot believe everything you hear. I always, whenever possible, check sources as to who is saying whatever. We do not support legalization or decriminalization. Decriminalization is the 1st step toward legalization. We don't care much what others do in the privacy of their home but they're likely to go out and drive thereafter, at some point, and that concerns us because we don't want to meet them out on the road. I think this is nuts personally, being pushed by those who want to sell it.
Closed Thread

Tags
thoughts, pot, read, 75%, americans


You are viewing a new design of the TOTV site. Click here to revert to the old version.

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:03 AM.