This is a poll on pot...  a,.. Pot Poll... ...

We comprise, at least 3 generations,... and all have been exposed to the opportunity of smoking pot....
It may be,... a first,... in that the first generation is the more likely to have indulged in this illegal activity that the most current... (the young, are the conservative,...and the oldest are the liberals)...
...( a result of the "war on drugs")...
In most instances,... progress has moved faster than that....
So,... where are you?...

PS... polls are no fun,.. if you don't play... ...
Remember,... these polls are anonymous,... unless you care to comment...
You must vote,.. in order to comment...

(In my teens,.. I once talked to a cop, with a light joint in my hands)...
(Progress,.. seems to have been goin' bacards on this this issue)...
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Vote.. it don't work, if you don't vote... it's anonymous.. -Serow  ...

That's weird,.. I never heard of an allergic reaction...
(then again,.. I didn't know you could be allergic peanut butter, until 10 or 15 years ago... parents never thought of such a thing)...

First 2 or 3 times I tried it,.. I thought it was a joke... It did nothing... then,.. the next time...
I was alone on a baseball field for about 4 hours... ...school was over, and everybody had left...
Just sat there alone all day...
Don't know what I was thinking... but,.. I didn't mind...

Most people I've known... it goes in a cycle...
Nothing... first couple times...
Zonk...
Giggles... go on for a year or two...
Zen, yoda stage... years...
then,.. either it becomes unpleasant,.. or less fun...
... or a lifestyle...
After a time,.. it actually triggered panic attacks in me... so I quit for a period...
Then, I tried it again, after several years.. and it was okay again...
It's much more powerful nowadays than it used to be... refined by technology, I suppose...

Medical stuff is so refined that they different blends for different symptom relief...
Chemo nausea blends...
Pain relief blends...
Midnight,... I believe they have blends for Lupus...
I have friend in Cali, who's wife has suffered with Lupus for decades...
It's versatile drug...

I read the same thing about nicotine in an article once...  
Smokers intuitively puff aggressively and tobacco becomes a stimulant,... or do slow drags to calm their metabolism when under stress...
Bummer that the side effect is cancer and emphysema...
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I also read somewhere,.. that every culture seems to invent 3 things that don't seem to logically advance their culture in a direct way....
Religion, drugs, and cosmetics...
Kind of...
Insecurity, escapism, and vanity?... ...
3 necessities of self awareness?... ...

It makes me sleepy. I have done it middle of the day and regretted it.
I typically like it after 2 drinks and I can get to sleep. More drinks and I start feeling too drunk ... fewer drinks, it still makes me sleepy, but not as much.

Cool.
Srinath.

I can honestly say that I've never even had one joint.  During college in the mid 1960s, I wanted to go to medical school.  After doing poorly in the higher math and science courses early in pre-med, I saw that med school wasn't in the cards.  So I finished a poly sci degree, figuring that after I got off active duty in the Army, I'd go to law school.

Remember the time - the 1960s.  While the hippie movement was alive and well, most drug offenses were felonies, and if you're convicted of a felony there was no chance that you'd go to either medical or law school.  That was a big motivator not to smoke pot.  Plus, alocohol is legal, so if I wanted a buzz, why not just drink?  You don't have to deal with a felon to buy a drink.

When I went to law school in the early 1970s, the hippie movement had died out some, and we were far more interested in getting thru school and getting into practice than anything else.

Those of you who do indulge; that's your business, not mine.  But be aware that pot is at least 10 times more carcinogenic than tobacco - 2 joints has the cancer causing effects of a whole pack of cigarets.  One of my law school buddies, who smoked weed every night, died of lung cancer in his mid 40s.

No effect, no munchies even. Waste of money.

I'll chime in as one of the younger member of the forum (I think). Tried it during the "rebelious, and wanting to experiment" part of my youth, but never cared for it. I don't care if you do it, it's just not for me. I did, though, develope the unfortunate tobacco habbit.

I also think Serrow's right. It does seem, in this case, that the older generations are the proponents of it. Interesting.  

And yes, contrary to popular belief, if is possible to find drugs and alchohol in Utah!

Did it once, for about a year and a half.  Stopped while in basic training and resumed when I arrived in Vietnam.  First mortor attack on our compound, i sat on the top of the bunker going "wow" to all the explosions.  Nest day on a run back from "Majic Mountain" the MP's tried to stop us, so I drove accross a field the MP's stopped at the edge of the road.  So how was I to know it was a mine field..but the next day I came down and never "smoked" again..figured it out, it could be dangerous.

Serowbot wrote on 01/08/13 at 21:36:51:


On one of my many many Dr's I've seen over the years trying to figure out what is causing alot of my medical issues it was a Neurologist, and they finally boiled it all down to and I quote "You just have a very odd electrical system about you, and that is what causes everything to go out of whack when we try to treat you for anything."

So most of the time when I have to get a pharmaceutical treatment for anything they have to do lots of bloodwork and do special compounding to get something made that will actually work with my body, instead of my body making it do all sorts of weird stuff.  Heck I don't even get to enjoy the high that most people get from the good pain killers when they go to the hospital like morphine,  all it does to me is give me a migraine headache that lasts for days. Surgeries are literally a nightmare for me, as they have a hell of a time putting me down and when they finally are able to, it doesn't last.  When I had my gallbladder removed, which is only a 45 min operation, I started waking up before they were done and was fully aware by the time they were taking me out of the O.R. and taking me to recovery,  talk about a bad day.

With all the heart issues I've got, and my cardiologists talking about the need of a pacemaker at some point, you can imagine I'm not looking forward to that day, with the issues they have trying to keep me under for even a simple short length operation.

R.F.