Marijuana

[Papist]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1296172699' post='2205384']
I love alcohol, too. But I wouldn't say the buzz is the best part. I think the flavor is the best part. The buzz is the funnest part.
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Taste is the best part!!! Buzz is an adverse side effect.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1296172707' post='2205385']
I have a feeling that with legalized marijuana, we'd find very quickly a huge variety of 'strengths'. Just like we have high proof liquor and very low proof beer... you can drink anything from 1% to 99.6% alcohol. Only alcoholics will sit down and drink hard liquor the same way they'd drink beer. I think it's reasonable to assume that the same can be true for marijuana.
As it stands, there's no economic incentive for 'weaker' marijuana, because most people smoke it just to get high. This would no longer be the case if it was not illegal.
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You're going to have to expand on the "only alcoholics" line for me. I'm confused as to what exactly you meant by that.

I think just as many people would be smoking weed to get high even if it was legalized, just the same way plenty of people (of legal drinking age) drink solely to get drunk. Not all of them would be, but plenty enough. (Or did you mean that there would be incentive for weaker mj? I'm lost. lol)

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1296172707' post='2205385']
I have a feeling that with legalized marijuana, we'd find very quickly a huge variety of 'strengths'. Just like we have high proof liquor and very low proof beer... you can drink anything from 1% to 99.6% ABV alcohol. Only alcoholics will sit down and drink hard liquor the same way they'd drink beer. I think it's reasonable to assume that the same can be true for marijuana.
As it stands, there's no economic incentive for 'weaker' marijuana, because most people smoke it just to get high. This would no longer be the case if it was not illegal.
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[img]http://myothershirtisapolo.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/everclear1.jpg[/img]
(190 proof.)
[img]http://www.united-nations-of-beer.com/images/calories-in-bud-light-21353412.jpg[/img]
(Not even a real drink.)

[IcePrincessKRS]

Still confused...

[Adrestia]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1296172984' post='2205391']
You're going to have to expand on the "only alcoholics" line for me. I'm confused as to what exactly you meant by that.

I think just as many people would be smoking weed to get high even if it was legalized, just the same way plenty of people (of legal drinking age) drink solely to get drunk. Not all of them would be, but plenty enough. (Or did you mean that there would be incentive for weaker mj? I'm lost. lol)
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and plenty of hard core alcoholics stick to light beer. when you drink it all day and all night, you're just as much of an alcoholic as the guy chugging vodka.

[Guest]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1296172495' post='2205377']
But it takes different amounts for different people. Some people are 2 beer dates, others can down 8 and barely bat an eyelash. I don't discuss people's smoking habits with them all that often, but I know far more people who can drink just one beer and be satisfied than I do people who will only smoke one cigarette or one or two puffs of weed. I'm not saying I think it should be illegal, necessarily, just highlighting that I am leery of it.
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Yai see what you're sayen. Actually I think you should have to get a medical card to use it. Sorta like how they are doing in california. There's things about marijuana I don't like. There is deffitenly a weird spirtual sence to it when you have a buzz. I think you open yourself up to be attacked by satan in the mind. If you're not grounded in your faith I think smoking pot can be very very dangerous.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1296172984' post='2205391']
You're going to have to expand on the "only alcoholics" line for me. I'm confused as to what exactly you meant by that.

I think just as many people would be smoking weed to get high even if it was legalized, just the same way plenty of people (of legal drinking age) drink solely to get drunk. Not all of them would be, but plenty enough. (Or did you mean that there would be incentive for weaker mj? I'm lost. lol)
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What I mean is that the nature of something like Scotch whisky doesn't really lend itself to binge drinking. People don't drink a litre of Scotch in one sitting, because that's just not what's done. A litre of beer on the other hand, is not that odd.
I think we could see parallels with marijuana. Stronger marijuana meant to be taken in small amounts, (maybe in a bong?), and 'light' marijuana meant to be taken in larger quantities.
So yea, I do think that there's an economic incentive for weaker marijuana, but not under our current situation. Only if if were legalized.

[Pontifite 7 of 10]

Some people keep offering the stuff to me.
They think i'll be funner high.
I don't really feel like it.

Edited January 28, 2011 by Pontifite 7 of 10

[Guest]

[quote name='Pontifite 7 of 10' timestamp='1296173558' post='2205398']
Some people keep offering the stuff to me.
They think i'll be funner high.
I don't really feel like it.
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Say no. Stay sober. Sober is the best.

[dUSt]

Another argument is if marijuana was legalized, it would become less "popular" among thrill seeking teens, which would therefore make them use more dangerous drugs to fill the need for their rebellious tendencies.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1296173276' post='2205396']
What I mean is that the nature of something like Scotch whisky doesn't really lend itself to binge drinking. People don't drink a litre of Scotch in one sitting, because that's just not what's done. A litre of beer on the other hand, is not that odd.
I think we could see parallels with marijuana. Stronger marijuana meant to be taken in small amounts, (maybe in a bong?), and 'light' marijuana meant to be taken in larger quantities.
So yea, I do think that there's an economic incentive for weaker marijuana, but not under our current situation. Only if if were legalized.
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Ok, I think I get what you're saying regarding weed(finally). Although I do think that plenty of people binge on hard liquors... you have a refined palette and prefer to savor, but an alcoholic doesn't think that way. Just seeing the liquor store on the weekends is enough to convince me of that.

[dUSt]

[quote name='Pontifite 7 of 10' timestamp='1296173558' post='2205398']
Some people keep offering the stuff to me.
They think i'll be funner high.
I don't really feel like it.
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How could YOU possibly get any funner!?

And where is Pontifite 1-6 and 8-10?

[Papist]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1296172822' post='2205388']
I simply don't see an essential difference between use of alcohol and use of marijuana.
Except that I wouldn't take marijuana because it's taken in a smoke form, and I think it smells pretty gross too.
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I don't know enough about marijuana to disagree b/c I have never used nor wanted to use. All I can say is, I have never met or heard anyone express any thing other than thier enjoyment is the high, not they smoke b/c of the flavor. Is not the sole purpose of marijuana to get high? I guess one could make the same case for alochol, but that case would not be true for me.

Edited January 28, 2011 by Papist

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1296173976' post='2205402']
Ok, I think I get what you're saying regarding weed(finally). Although I do think that plenty of people binge on hard liquors... you have a refined palette and prefer to savor, but an alcoholic doesn't think that way. Just seeing the liquor store on the weekends is enough to convince me of that.
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That's true, people do binge on hard liquor, but I think it's probably more difficult to binge on, saw, whisky, than it is to binge on beer.

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1296173997' post='2205405']
I don't know enough about marijuana to disagree b/c I have never used nor wanted to use. All I can say is, I have never met or heard anyone express any thing other than thier enjoyment is the high, not they smoke b/c of the flavor. Is not the sole purpose of marijuana to get? I guess one could make the same case for alochol, but that case would not be true for.
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Why do people smoke cigarettes? I don't know either. It looks gross to me.

Edited January 28, 2011 by Nihil Obstat

[dUSt]

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1296173997' post='2205405']
Is not the sole purpose of marijuana to get? I guess one could make the same case for alochol, but that case would not be true for.
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I know a little something about weed. When I use to smoke it, I smoked it to get high. But, during that period in my life, I only drank to get drunk.

Now that I am wise, I drink craft beer because I love the taste, and the experience of trying new things. I never get drunk.

I do know when I was a kid, my dad use to smoke marijuana, and I don't remember him ever being high. All I know is he'd smoke a joint before watching Kung Fu.