'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
If you loose your dog you may lose him. Lose is a verb, "loose" can be either an adjective (as you used it) or a verb. When Linux says "you may loose data" it is warning you that you will lose your data on purpose (although I'm sure it's really just a typo and whoever wrote that warning never thought of it like that).
Perhaps you should change it to "'Looser' is when you let your belt out a notch. 'Loser' is what you are when you misuse 'loose'
"If you lose you money, great god don't lose your mind. And if you lose your woman, please don't fool with mine". -lyrics to an old blues song
I'm talking about use by adults, not minors. I would not take the position that it should be legal to supply ANY intoxicant whatsoever to a minor. Monors should never get either drunk or stoned.
The drug laws have not only utterly failed you and your son, they are part of the cause of his problems.
Alcohol is legal - for adults. Most adults can drink alcohol with no bad effects whatever. They don't often if ever get shitfaced, and don't get in their cars if they do have a few too many. Most are productive members of society. But there are a few who should not drink any alcohol at all, ever, because they are addicts. Alcohol ruins lives. There are good reasons for keeping it illegal for minors. Minors should not get intoxicated, ever, from anything.
Now, it is illegal for ANYONE to smoke pot. It is illegal to sell pot to anyone. It's illegal to sell alcohol to your son, but legal to sell it to you. It's legal for you to drink, but illegal for your son to. It's just as illegal to sell pot to you as it is to sell it to your son.
Ther's the rub. Curious, I once asked my daughters (both are now grown, neither smokes or drinks) if you could buy pot at school. Both said they would have no trouble getting pot if they wanted it. I asked them if you could buy beer at school. They laughed - of course not! It's not that hard for a kid to get alcohol, but it is far, far easier for a kid to get pot, or even cocaine or heroin. Did you ever see the movie The Untouchables? One of the earliest scenes has a child of perhaps 10 or 12 going into a store to buy a pot of beer, and she winds up getting killed by a bomb one of the liquor distributors has planted there. Chalk up another death to the evil alcohol!
Some things aren't for kids. Pot is one of them. Were marijuana treated like alcohol; taxed, controlled, sold under scrict license, forbidden to minors with strict penalties for vendors for distributing to a minor, your son might have had a chance to grow up before he tried it.
The law has failed him, and it's failed you as well.
It's hard enough for non-impaired folks to keep up, much less someone suffering the long-term memory and cognitive deficiencies brought on by marijuana abuse.
Marijuana impairs short term memory, not long term memory. It only causes cognitive deficiencies in still-growing brains.
You admit that it makes you lazy and forgetful. Is that a positive trait in our ever-more competitive world?
The impairment is a short term effect. The drunk doesn't stumble once he's sober, and the pothead isn't lazy or forgetful unless he's stoned. Only a fool goes to work intoxicated, on any substance. This is something adults (who didn't get intoxicated as teenagers) know. It's most likely that your son was stoned all the time.
There's a reason most companies test for pot users and fire them - because they're forgetful, usually less productive than their non-indulging peers, and are less motivated to improve, develop, and grow both professionally and personally.
That's the myth perpetrated by government, and a self-perpetuating one at that. The penalties for intoxication at work are at most being fired, which pales at the prospect of being jailed AND fired. Drinking at home is safe and legal, drinking at work can get you fired. Smoking pot whether at work or home can get you both jailed and fired. The employers who catch the employees smoking pot are finding them smoking pot AT WORK. I've known these morons personally, as well as other morons who get caught with a bottle in their desk drawer. But again, this is the exception, not the rule.
And there's a bigger downside to this. I have friends who stopped smoking pot and started smoking crack cocaine, because their employers tested for drugs. Pot stays in your system for a month, while cocaine stays at most a week. They know for a fact that what the government told them about pot is either a lie, or they are immune, and assume that what they're told about crack is eq
True. Perhaps resistance to cancer causes (or correlates to) one's willingness to smoke pot. I say "prove" in the sense that this is the same type of correlation that the media say "proves" that cigaettes cause cancer, or that global warming is man-made (both of which, although unproven, I believe. Even my skepticism has limits).
What this study does prove is that pot does NOT cause cancer.
Also, none of the potsmokers I know are upper middle class and educated. Most of them are construction workers.
I have no idea, but the asshats who would take away a person's rights for their homosexuality need to actually READ that tome, especially the Republicans. Does it say "thou shalt not suck dick?" No it does not, but one of Moses' "big ten" is against comitting adultery (thou shalt not suck thy neighbor's husban's cock).
The Bible says your banker is going to hell. There are one or two references against homosexual ACTS, but they are minor, and nothing whatever about homosexualty itself. It does say, over and over again, in several books in both testaments, that collecting interest on a debt is a bad no-no.
It says lawyers will go to hell.
It says shaving is a sin.
It DOES say that I have no right whatever to judge you. Especially since I found out that Linda's still married, even though she's been seperated for two years (poor girl's going to prison next month).
One of the things I've always admired about his writing is his willingness to talk about his kids
Damn, and I thought I was in trouble a few years ago when K5's Rusty put me on his watch list. My reaction was "Holy cow! I'm on Rusty's watchlist! Now I'll never be able to get laid
But here I am with Zonk saying this and... look, Zonk, if you like my stuff,please don't tell anybody! At least... oh hell, CmdrTaco is next, I just know it =(
Ah, it occurs to me that different nations and states have different laws
As I am in a particularly nerdily humorous mood today, I must point out that all nations have the same speed limit.
The bigger picture here is we're watching the collapse of a business model, and there's no replacement in sight.
I'm reminded of the scene in Hot Shots Part Deux with Saddam Hussein in bed. Or perhaps Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles.
If musicians can't make money, they won't record.
If pigs had wings... Look, musicians made money long before Tommie Edison was ever born. And they'll keep making money long after the record labels (may they rot in hell) die.
Do you think "a rich musician" really cares if the servers are shut down? The rich worship money like a junkie worships heroin. Prince doesn't care if TPB is shut down, he wants the loot.
Yes, but to be FOR the DEATH penalty while calling yourself "pro-life" isn't just hypoctitiacl, it's a lie. I'm personally anti-abortion, but pro-choice. I would urge anyone considering an abortion not to have one, but in the end it's between the blastcyst's mother, father, doctor, and God. It isn't my business nor, IMO, the government's.
I'm also against the death penalty. When I die, it will likely be a horrible agonizing death like almost everybody else; cancer, heart disease, auto accident, jealouo lover, even worse wasting away in a nursing home only to die at age 99 from a broken hip or something as my grandmother did. Almost no natural deaths are without suffering, very few just go to sleep in comfort, never to awaken.
But a murderer is painlessly "put to sleep" like a beloved pet with distemper. I'd rather he rot in prison for decades and let him die in horrible agony as you and I surely will.
"Addictive" is not a synonym for "habit forming". Alcohol and caffiene are addictive; there are physical withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal from caffiene causes headaches; caffiene is only mildly addictive. You can die from alcohol withdrawal.
If you have a glass of orange juice (or decaf coffee) every single morning for a year, you're going to miss it greatly if you don't get it. That's "habit". Almost everything is habit forming, only some substances are addictive.
Cigarettes are highly addictive. I haven't had one in almost 8 years now (yay me!) but if I smoked just one, I would be hooked again. I haven't smoked any pot for weeks, but if you handed me a joint now I'd smoke it without any ill effects at all.
And no, pot isn't going to make someone with a two digit IQ into a thinker, but it does indeed enhanse creativity. this (and the article it links to as well) is the product of pot.
I would posit that tubgirl isn't porno, unless runny shit splashing on a fat girl's face makes your dick hard. If so you're even more pathetic than tubgirl herself.
Most of the potheads I know (and I know quite a few) aren't nearly so lucky. They are fogged, behind on their skills, miss opportunities, and are (at a minimum) generally several steps behind their non-indulging peers.
Most of the potheads I know (and most of my old friends are in this category) have high school diplomas but no college and work in the construction industry. They go to work every day and make a decent living. They're all married with kids, houses, and cars.
The few I know that have their lives all fucked up are not potheads, but rather alcoholics. I don't know a single pothead with a fucked up, non-"normal" life.
I cringe every time some old tokin' geezer like you shows up to tout the benefits and play down the dangers of pot.
I've never see any dangers of pot. I never heard of any dangers of pot that weren't lies from some government propaganda. You didn't list one single "danger of pot". Are you with the government, or have you just been brainwashed by them?
Anyone who has had to watch pot abuse cause the decline of a friend or loved who ISN'T blessed with your metabolism would find both your position and your post patently insulting.
Any pothead with a normal life whose friends are all potheads with normal lives who has never known a single person without addiction to alcohol or other such hard drugs such as you mention (without specifics) finds your post incredibly offensive. Why are you posting anonymously, officer? DEA won't let you reveal your identity?
You, as an individual, are statistically insignificant.
As are your "own loved ones, and the people they associate with".
I daresay that there aren't many people who can repeatedly abuse pot (or any other substance, for that matter) without long-term negative effects.
I daresay that the only way to abuse pot is to smoke it as a child or teenager, or at work. Your "any other substance" is telling - I know people like you, who know druggies who abuse multiple drugs and alcohol and blame the drunkard's woes on marijuana. My friend Danny is in that category; he smokes pot and has a ruined life. But he is also an alcoholic and addicted to cocaine, whose father beat him and his mother when he was a child. His potsmoking is the LEAST of hs troubles, while you would say it was the cause.
Your pennicillin argument is patently ignorant. I can eat peanuts all day, but they would kill my daughter, who is allergic to them (as I am to pennicillin). You would outlaw peanuts?
Nah, didn't think so. Sorry, your argument doesn't wash with me or any other normal potsmokers whose potsoking friends are also normal productive people.
Cannabis doesn't make you think. It makes you think you think
Perhaps they were all potheads, but I have come up with very original thoughts while high (and even while high and drunk), written them down, posted them to the internet, and had people comment about their profundity. One guy called me "K5's own Hunter S. Thompson" (although rather than Thompson's drugs, I wrote about life while on a beer and Paxil combination rather than the psychedelic drugs Thompson wrote on and about.
You might be interested in an old K5 diary entry (actually the first of the Paxil Diaries) from May 2003, What a long, strange trip... about a few tokes after a long abstinance (can't afford the stuff these days).
The poll question in that diary was " How many joints are in a lid?", an old reference to a Cheech and Chong skit on one of their albums. The game show announcer asks it of a contestant, who answers "Two. I roll big joints." And is awarded a "correct" (and later almost blows it when asks "what is your name, Bob?" The Kurobots answered the poll with:
Two. I roll big joints, man. 0%
Lid? Dude, you're old! 57%
Man, that bag is tiny, fucking ripoff... 0%
Man I'm outta pot, want some coke? 0%
How many what is in a what? 14%
You're under arrest 28%
Tha actual article is of interest, not the poll.
-mcgrew
PS: My friend Linda just called as I was typing this comment. She just got out of court and will be going to PRISON for POSESSION on December 1st. Your tax dollars at work...
Up in smoke, Thats where my money goes In my lungs and sometimes up my nose When troubled times Begin to bother me I take a toke and all my cares Go up in smoke
Up in smoke, Donde todos es mi rey There are no signs Que dice no fumer So I roll un "bomber" Y me doy, un buen toke-ay Y despues I choke Y todos mis cares Go up in smoke Come on let's go get high.
Up in smoke That's where I wanna be 'Cause when I'm high The world below Don't bother me When life begins To be one long and dangerous road I take a toke and all my cares Go up in smoke
-Cheech and Chong
"uncooked ramen noodles?" Damn, I don't even get the munchies bad enough to eat that garbage COOKED! I want to meet your dealer!
It's an original thougt. Although I'm sure I'm not the only one to say it, you can quote me (not that I'm anyone anybody outside of slashdot or K5 has ever heard of)
Reagan should have been impeached and imprisoned for Iran-Contra. Even though there was no internet as there is today, and the mainstream media refused to print anything about "Air America" and how the CIA smuggled cocaine into the US to finance the war Reagan wanted but Congress outlawed (overriding his veto), everyone knew about it anyway.
When Reagan dug up the corpse of Nixon's "War On Drugs" to finance the war ("war on drugs" would be a funny pun if it hadn't caused such misery for so many) in South America, all of a sudden you couldn't buy pot any more. "Got any weed?" I'd ask my supplier. "No, it's really dry. Want some coke?"
And indeed, today Corporate America's drug tests have caused some friends of mine to become addicts. Formerly weekend potheads, their employers started testing for drugs. Reefer stays in your system for a month, cocaine can only be detected by the cheap tests employers use for three or four days. So potheads became crackheads to beat the drug tests, now hopelessly addicted to crack cocaine and ironically unemployed.
America's drug policies cause drug addiction. You are entirely correct; the system is corrupt. Our criminal justice system is criminal.
Harry Anslinger was, to my mind, one of the greatest villians of the 20th century.
Where's that amazing Randi? Why is pseudoscience even submitted to slashdot, let alone published on the front page?
If you don't think "futurism" is pseudoscience, then tell me where I can get my docrorate in "Futurism?" Or even take a single course in it (but if there are no PhDs in this pseudofield, who's teaching the courses)?
Once you reach geezerhood it's pretty evident that these futurists are so full of shit it's spilling out of their ears. You've all, of course, heard about the "global cooling" they were talking about in the 1970s. It was the "futurists", not the climatologists, that were predicting this.
There was a futurist book about that time (back when I believed these doofuses) called "The Population Bomb" that predicted mass starvation by the year 2000 because the planet couldn't sustain enough agriculture to feed six billion people. The truth turned out that there is plenty of food, and the only reason anyone is hungry today is politics and the greed of the wealthy.
Another told of how rapid technological change would have all of us in straitjackets, that civilization would collapse because we couln't keep up with change. Turns out the only ones needing straitjackets are the futurists.
Before I was born they were predicting both self-driving and flying cars by the 21st century.
Nobody predicted the internet. Nobody predicted cell phones. Nobody predicted AIDS, microwave ovens, giant flat screen TVs in the home, CDs, DVDs, VCRs, CrystaLens eye implants, or SUVs. In fact, when I bought my new 4 cylinder Vega in 1976 (with its terriffic gas mileage, 19 mpg) I and everyone else bemoaned the fact that the day of big, comfortable cars was over. The futurists were predicting that 21st century cars would be more like Coopers than Escalades.
Even science fiction didn't come close. Star Trek's creators thought that flat screen talking computers, and self-opening doors like the ones at the grocery store wouldn't be here until 2300. The closest anybody came to predicting the internet was Asimov's Multivac. In 1969 Arthur C. Clark had us on a permanent moon base by 2001 (a space oddessy).
So please, stop listening to these ignorant asshats! As they often say here, "nothing to see, please move along." Now excuse me, my robot butler just told me he's got my self-driving flying car gassed up and ready for my jaunt to Mars.
You mind telling me what rights I have that your gay American friends don't? Don't give me that "marriage" shit, I'm hetero but I can't find a suitable woman either. You have the same fucking rights I do (or would if you lived here). And that's exactly how it should be.
Well, what they claim (I don't buy it but...) is that they're helping parents make an informed decision. You don't have to play "Chain Saw Hookers" to find out if it's sutable for children; just look at the ratings.
Trouble is, what's suitable for Carol's might not be suitable for Jane's. Jane may be a stripper who belongs to PETA and thinks "Deer Hunter" unsuitable for kids, while Carol might be a hunter who hates nudity and is shocked at the "hot coffee" mod.
The road to hell, as they say.
I agree - "think of the children, stop sending them to Iraq to die!"
Damn it, I want to see some hardcore AO games. I mean, I haven't been into gaming for literally years but give me a hardcore AO with full frontal nudity, sex, oral sex, sodomy, bloody violence, drugs... how about making Fritz the Cat, the only feature length animated film ever to recieve an "X" rating from the MPAA, into a game?
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I completely agree and hope the mods are god to you :)
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
If you loose your dog you may lose him. Lose is a verb, "loose" can be either an adjective (as you used it) or a verb. When Linux says "you may loose data" it is warning you that you will lose your data on purpose (although I'm sure it's really just a typo and whoever wrote that warning never thought of it like that).
Perhaps you should change it to "'Looser' is when you let your belt out a notch. 'Loser' is what you are when you misuse 'loose'
"If you lose you money, great god don't lose your mind. And if you lose your woman, please don't fool with mine". -lyrics to an old blues song
-mcgrew
I'm talking about use by adults, not minors. I would not take the position that it should be legal to supply ANY intoxicant whatsoever to a minor. Monors should never get either drunk or stoned.
The drug laws have not only utterly failed you and your son, they are part of the cause of his problems.
Alcohol is legal - for adults. Most adults can drink alcohol with no bad effects whatever. They don't often if ever get shitfaced, and don't get in their cars if they do have a few too many. Most are productive members of society. But there are a few who should not drink any alcohol at all, ever, because they are addicts. Alcohol ruins lives. There are good reasons for keeping it illegal for minors. Minors should not get intoxicated, ever, from anything.
Now, it is illegal for ANYONE to smoke pot. It is illegal to sell pot to anyone. It's illegal to sell alcohol to your son, but legal to sell it to you. It's legal for you to drink, but illegal for your son to. It's just as illegal to sell pot to you as it is to sell it to your son.
Ther's the rub. Curious, I once asked my daughters (both are now grown, neither smokes or drinks) if you could buy pot at school. Both said they would have no trouble getting pot if they wanted it. I asked them if you could buy beer at school. They laughed - of course not! It's not that hard for a kid to get alcohol, but it is far, far easier for a kid to get pot, or even cocaine or heroin. Did you ever see the movie The Untouchables? One of the earliest scenes has a child of perhaps 10 or 12 going into a store to buy a pot of beer, and she winds up getting killed by a bomb one of the liquor distributors has planted there. Chalk up another death to the evil alcohol!
Some things aren't for kids. Pot is one of them. Were marijuana treated like alcohol; taxed, controlled, sold under scrict license, forbidden to minors with strict penalties for vendors for distributing to a minor, your son might have had a chance to grow up before he tried it.
The law has failed him, and it's failed you as well.
It's hard enough for non-impaired folks to keep up, much less someone suffering the long-term memory and cognitive deficiencies brought on by marijuana abuse.
Marijuana impairs short term memory, not long term memory. It only causes cognitive deficiencies in still-growing brains.
You admit that it makes you lazy and forgetful. Is that a positive trait in our ever-more competitive world?
The impairment is a short term effect. The drunk doesn't stumble once he's sober, and the pothead isn't lazy or forgetful unless he's stoned. Only a fool goes to work intoxicated, on any substance. This is something adults (who didn't get intoxicated as teenagers) know. It's most likely that your son was stoned all the time.
There's a reason most companies test for pot users and fire them - because they're forgetful, usually less productive than their non-indulging peers, and are less motivated to improve, develop, and grow both professionally and personally.
That's the myth perpetrated by government, and a self-perpetuating one at that. The penalties for intoxication at work are at most being fired, which pales at the prospect of being jailed AND fired. Drinking at home is safe and legal, drinking at work can get you fired. Smoking pot whether at work or home can get you both jailed and fired. The employers who catch the employees smoking pot are finding them smoking pot AT WORK. I've known these morons personally, as well as other morons who get caught with a bottle in their desk drawer. But again, this is the exception, not the rule.
And there's a bigger downside to this. I have friends who stopped smoking pot and started smoking crack cocaine, because their employers tested for drugs. Pot stays in your system for a month, while cocaine stays at most a week. They know for a fact that what the government told them about pot is either a lie, or they are immune, and assume that what they're told about crack is eq
True. Perhaps resistance to cancer causes (or correlates to) one's willingness to smoke pot. I say "prove" in the sense that this is the same type of correlation that the media say "proves" that cigaettes cause cancer, or that global warming is man-made (both of which, although unproven, I believe. Even my skepticism has limits).
What this study does prove is that pot does NOT cause cancer.
Also, none of the potsmokers I know are upper middle class and educated. Most of them are construction workers.
-mcgrew
I have no idea, but the asshats who would take away a person's rights for their homosexuality need to actually READ that tome, especially the Republicans. Does it say "thou shalt not suck dick?" No it does not, but one of Moses' "big ten" is against comitting adultery (thou shalt not suck thy neighbor's husban's cock).
The Bible says your banker is going to hell. There are one or two references against homosexual ACTS, but they are minor, and nothing whatever about homosexualty itself. It does say, over and over again, in several books in both testaments, that collecting interest on a debt is a bad no-no.
It says lawyers will go to hell.
It says shaving is a sin.
It DOES say that I have no right whatever to judge you. Especially since I found out that Linda's still married, even though she's been seperated for two years (poor girl's going to prison next month).
One of the things I've always admired about his writing is his willingness to talk about his kids
... look, Zonk, if you like my stuff, please don't tell anybody! At least... oh hell, CmdrTaco is next, I just know it =(
Damn, and I thought I was in trouble a few years ago when K5's Rusty put me on his watch list. My reaction was "Holy cow! I'm on Rusty's watchlist! Now I'll never be able to get laid
But here I am with Zonk saying this and
Ah, it occurs to me that different nations and states have different laws
As I am in a particularly nerdily humorous mood today, I must point out that all nations have the same speed limit.
The bigger picture here is we're watching the collapse of a business model, and there's no replacement in sight.
I'm reminded of the scene in Hot Shots Part Deux with Saddam Hussein in bed. Or perhaps Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles.
If musicians can't make money, they won't record.
If pigs had wings... Look, musicians made money long before Tommie Edison was ever born. And they'll keep making money long after the record labels (may they rot in hell) die.
-mcgrew
I may not be a lawyer
May not? You don't know if you're a lawyer or not? What, are you Schrodinger's lawyer?
-mcgrew
Do you think "a rich musician" really cares if the servers are shut down? The rich worship money like a junkie worships heroin. Prince doesn't care if TPB is shut down, he wants the loot.
And they call downloaders "pirates"!
-mcgrew
Prince, Kiss, what rich has-been is next?
And why doesn't slashdot's search lead me to the KISS story from just lasy week so I could link it?
Then you are saying that cigarettes don't cause cancer?
Yes, but to be FOR the DEATH penalty while calling yourself "pro-life" isn't just hypoctitiacl, it's a lie. I'm personally anti-abortion, but pro-choice. I would urge anyone considering an abortion not to have one, but in the end it's between the blastcyst's mother, father, doctor, and God. It isn't my business nor, IMO, the government's.
I'm also against the death penalty. When I die, it will likely be a horrible agonizing death like almost everybody else; cancer, heart disease, auto accident, jealouo lover, even worse wasting away in a nursing home only to die at age 99 from a broken hip or something as my grandmother did. Almost no natural deaths are without suffering, very few just go to sleep in comfort, never to awaken.
But a murderer is painlessly "put to sleep" like a beloved pet with distemper. I'd rather he rot in prison for decades and let him die in horrible agony as you and I surely will.
"Addictive" is not a synonym for "habit forming". Alcohol and caffiene are addictive; there are physical withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal from caffiene causes headaches; caffiene is only mildly addictive. You can die from alcohol withdrawal.
If you have a glass of orange juice (or decaf coffee) every single morning for a year, you're going to miss it greatly if you don't get it. That's "habit". Almost everything is habit forming, only some substances are addictive.
Cigarettes are highly addictive. I haven't had one in almost 8 years now (yay me!) but if I smoked just one, I would be hooked again. I haven't smoked any pot for weeks, but if you handed me a joint now I'd smoke it without any ill effects at all.
And no, pot isn't going to make someone with a two digit IQ into a thinker, but it does indeed enhanse creativity. this (and the article it links to as well) is the product of pot.
-mcgrew
I would posit that tubgirl isn't porno, unless runny shit splashing on a fat girl's face makes your dick hard. If so you're even more pathetic than tubgirl herself.
Most of the potheads I know (and I know quite a few) aren't nearly so lucky. They are fogged, behind on their skills, miss opportunities, and are (at a minimum) generally several steps behind their non-indulging peers.
Most of the potheads I know (and most of my old friends are in this category) have high school diplomas but no college and work in the construction industry. They go to work every day and make a decent living. They're all married with kids, houses, and cars.
The few I know that have their lives all fucked up are not potheads, but rather alcoholics. I don't know a single pothead with a fucked up, non-"normal" life.
I cringe every time some old tokin' geezer like you shows up to tout the benefits and play down the dangers of pot.
I've never see any dangers of pot. I never heard of any dangers of pot that weren't lies from some government propaganda. You didn't list one single "danger of pot". Are you with the government, or have you just been brainwashed by them?
Anyone who has had to watch pot abuse cause the decline of a friend or loved who ISN'T blessed with your metabolism would find both your position and your post patently insulting.
Any pothead with a normal life whose friends are all potheads with normal lives who has never known a single person without addiction to alcohol or other such hard drugs such as you mention (without specifics) finds your post incredibly offensive. Why are you posting anonymously, officer? DEA won't let you reveal your identity?
You, as an individual, are statistically insignificant.
As are your "own loved ones, and the people they associate with".
I daresay that there aren't many people who can repeatedly abuse pot (or any other substance, for that matter) without long-term negative effects.
I daresay that the only way to abuse pot is to smoke it as a child or teenager, or at work. Your "any other substance" is telling - I know people like you, who know druggies who abuse multiple drugs and alcohol and blame the drunkard's woes on marijuana. My friend Danny is in that category; he smokes pot and has a ruined life. But he is also an alcoholic and addicted to cocaine, whose father beat him and his mother when he was a child. His potsmoking is the LEAST of hs troubles, while you would say it was the cause.
Your pennicillin argument is patently ignorant. I can eat peanuts all day, but they would kill my daughter, who is allergic to them (as I am to pennicillin). You would outlaw peanuts?
Nah, didn't think so. Sorry, your argument doesn't wash with me or any other normal potsmokers whose potsoking friends are also normal productive people.
My name's mcgrew, coward.
Perhaps they were all potheads, but I have come up with very original thoughts while high (and even while high and drunk), written them down, posted them to the internet, and had people comment about their profundity. One guy called me "K5's own Hunter S. Thompson" (although rather than Thompson's drugs, I wrote about life while on a beer and Paxil combination rather than the psychedelic drugs Thompson wrote on and about.
You might be interested in an old K5 diary entry (actually the first of the Paxil Diaries) from May 2003, What a long, strange trip... about a few tokes after a long abstinance (can't afford the stuff these days).
The poll question in that diary was " How many joints are in a lid?", an old reference to a Cheech and Chong skit on one of their albums. The game show announcer asks it of a contestant, who answers "Two. I roll big joints." And is awarded a "correct" (and later almost blows it when asks "what is your name, Bob?" The Kurobots answered the poll with:
- Two. I roll big joints, man. 0%
- Lid? Dude, you're old! 57%
- Man, that bag is tiny, fucking ripoff... 0%
- Man I'm outta pot, want some coke? 0%
- How many what is in a what? 14%
- You're under arrest 28%
Tha actual article is of interest, not the poll.-mcgrew
PS: My friend Linda just called as I was typing this comment. She just got out of court and will be going to PRISON for POSESSION on December 1st. Your tax dollars at work...
Up in smoke, Thats where my money goes
In my lungs and sometimes up my nose
When troubled times Begin to bother me
I take a toke and all my cares Go up in smoke
Up in smoke, Donde todos es mi rey
There are no signs Que dice no fumer
So I roll un "bomber" Y me doy, un buen toke-ay
Y despues I choke Y todos mis cares Go up in smoke
Come on let's go get high.
Up in smoke That's where I wanna be
'Cause when I'm high The world below Don't bother me
When life begins To be one long and dangerous road
I take a toke and all my cares Go up in smoke
-Cheech and Chong
"uncooked ramen noodles?" Damn, I don't even get the munchies bad enough to eat that garbage COOKED! I want to meet your dealer!
-mcgrew
It's an original thougt. Although I'm sure I'm not the only one to say it, you can quote me (not that I'm anyone anybody outside of slashdot or K5 has ever heard of)
-mcgrew
Reagan should have been impeached and imprisoned for Iran-Contra. Even though there was no internet as there is today, and the mainstream media refused to print anything about "Air America" and how the CIA smuggled cocaine into the US to finance the war Reagan wanted but Congress outlawed (overriding his veto), everyone knew about it anyway.
When Reagan dug up the corpse of Nixon's "War On Drugs" to finance the war ("war on drugs" would be a funny pun if it hadn't caused such misery for so many) in South America, all of a sudden you couldn't buy pot any more. "Got any weed?" I'd ask my supplier. "No, it's really dry. Want some coke?"
And indeed, today Corporate America's drug tests have caused some friends of mine to become addicts. Formerly weekend potheads, their employers started testing for drugs. Reefer stays in your system for a month, cocaine can only be detected by the cheap tests employers use for three or four days. So potheads became crackheads to beat the drug tests, now hopelessly addicted to crack cocaine and ironically unemployed.
America's drug policies cause drug addiction. You are entirely correct; the system is corrupt. Our criminal justice system is criminal.
Harry Anslinger was, to my mind, one of the greatest villians of the 20th century.
-mcgrew
Where's that amazing Randi? Why is pseudoscience even submitted to slashdot, let alone published on the front page?
If you don't think "futurism" is pseudoscience, then tell me where I can get my docrorate in "Futurism?" Or even take a single course in it (but if there are no PhDs in this pseudofield, who's teaching the courses)?
Once you reach geezerhood it's pretty evident that these futurists are so full of shit it's spilling out of their ears. You've all, of course, heard about the "global cooling" they were talking about in the 1970s. It was the "futurists", not the climatologists, that were predicting this.
There was a futurist book about that time (back when I believed these doofuses) called "The Population Bomb" that predicted mass starvation by the year 2000 because the planet couldn't sustain enough agriculture to feed six billion people. The truth turned out that there is plenty of food, and the only reason anyone is hungry today is politics and the greed of the wealthy.
Another told of how rapid technological change would have all of us in straitjackets, that civilization would collapse because we couln't keep up with change. Turns out the only ones needing straitjackets are the futurists.
Before I was born they were predicting both self-driving and flying cars by the 21st century.
Nobody predicted the internet. Nobody predicted cell phones. Nobody predicted AIDS, microwave ovens, giant flat screen TVs in the home, CDs, DVDs, VCRs, CrystaLens eye implants, or SUVs. In fact, when I bought my new 4 cylinder Vega in 1976 (with its terriffic gas mileage, 19 mpg) I and everyone else bemoaned the fact that the day of big, comfortable cars was over. The futurists were predicting that 21st century cars would be more like Coopers than Escalades.
Even science fiction didn't come close. Star Trek's creators thought that flat screen talking computers, and self-opening doors like the ones at the grocery store wouldn't be here until 2300. The closest anybody came to predicting the internet was Asimov's Multivac. In 1969 Arthur C. Clark had us on a permanent moon base by 2001 (a space oddessy).
So please, stop listening to these ignorant asshats! As they often say here, "nothing to see, please move along." Now excuse me, my robot butler just told me he's got my self-driving flying car gassed up and ready for my jaunt to Mars.
-mcgrew
i'm saying, stop being grumpy
I'm a geezer, it's required.
-mcgrew
Gays have next to no rights
You mind telling me what rights I have that your gay American friends don't? Don't give me that "marriage" shit, I'm hetero but I can't find a suitable woman either. You have the same fucking rights I do (or would if you lived here). And that's exactly how it should be.
-mcgrew
Well, what they claim (I don't buy it but...) is that they're helping parents make an informed decision. You don't have to play "Chain Saw Hookers" to find out if it's sutable for children; just look at the ratings.
Trouble is, what's suitable for Carol's might not be suitable for Jane's. Jane may be a stripper who belongs to PETA and thinks "Deer Hunter" unsuitable for kids, while Carol might be a hunter who hates nudity and is shocked at the "hot coffee" mod.
The road to hell, as they say.
I agree - "think of the children, stop sending them to Iraq to die!"
For whatever reason, AO is assumed to mean a horrible porno and thus nobody will touch it.
I would posit that "horrible porno" is an oxymoron.
-mcgrew
Damn it, I want to see some hardcore AO games. I mean, I haven't been into gaming for literally years but give me a hardcore AO with full frontal nudity, sex, oral sex, sodomy, bloody violence, drugs... how about making Fritz the Cat, the only feature length animated film ever to recieve an "X" rating from the MPAA, into a game?
Speaking of Fritz, a few years ago when I was on Paxil, Springfield was full of of cartoons and I met the skinny crow woman from Fritz the Cat (her name's Ginger). Twice!
I lost both levels, never did get laid back then (note the title of the second link).
-mcgrew