I have had three friends drown while drunk (swimming/boating not surfing), bad idea to be on/in the water drunk. Pot usually makes you a little paranoid and stupid but not in a cocky way.
Hey law enforcement, the USA has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world!!! What’s wrong with this picture? Freedom? I’ve seen local cops try to ruin someone’s life over a bag of pot. All rapists masturbated before they attacked someone, let’s ban masturbation too!
yes. This dude gets it.Originally Posted by cepriano
It starts with parents. How many of you passed the D.A.R.E. program?..or failed.
All I know is that the pot in S Florida is not like the Mexican brick we used to get back in the day in Va beach.
I'm already sketched out about sharks down here. I don't need to be any more paranoid.
Plant it!!
Wait Andrew whateverthe****. How come your anti big brother when it comes to pot but pro big big brother when it comes to restricting driving on the beach in the Outer Banks. You suck! I knew you were a hippie.We do not need a "Nanny State" or "Big Brother" telling adults what they can or can't do to their own bodies.
I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say that Phelps didnt' take a blunt to the head before winning the gold.
Yeah and Singapore has the lowest crime rate in the world- you know what the difference is? Our criminals get endless appeals, weights to lift, cable TV, 3 meals a day, conjugal visits, gang affiliations and a PHD in how to be a career criminal; the criminals in Singapore get a live snake shoved up their ass.
Weed and Psychadelics, enough said. Moderation is key. and tell me how many heroin users FIRST probablly tried a glass of water? So if 99% tried water first maybe thats the gateway drug!!!! Idiots. But yea kids stay away from hard drugs.
Studied a bunch of drug effects from a psychological point of view in grad school. I'm definitely not an expert but here's some of what stuck... most of this relates to adolescents and human development and the term "gateway".
The drug we paid the most attention to was obviously alcohol. Not only most common but most damaging and is (in my opinion) the only true "gateway drug" in the strictest sense. Without citing stats, suffice it to say people do dumb things when they are drunk and are more liable to try other drugs while drinking than while on other drugs.
Segue into... "gateway" drug can mean different things. "Oh, I liked weed. Let me try acid" Or, "Wow I am coming down hard, let me take something to offset this" which happens a lot with pills/painkillers/speed(s). These attitudes exist among drug users by by and large are not prevalent.
A far more prevalent attitude toward the term gateway drug is where DARE failed. That's "Well, (insert authority figure here) says all drugs are bad so I might as well try heroin since I smoked pot since they are similar and I am still ok how bad can it be..." You get the drift (surfing pun intended). By lumping all drugs together in that glass case (I still remember Officer O'Donnell holding it and being wildly curious) and telling kids to just say no, DARE completely backfired. Is it the cause of all drug abuse? Of course not, but it did create confusion and encouraged the taboo of all drugs good and bad while hiding the fact that most if not all drugs are different and should be addressed on an individual basis.
My personal opinion is that the attitude toward drugs taken by our government is a joke. You can't drink until you're 21 but you can go get your balls blown off in Iraq when you are 18? Joke. Weed not legal but booze and cigarettes are? Joke. The ease in which painkillers circulate illegally? Joke. DARE? Come on.
Get stoned go surfing? Fine with me, probably want to limit it to the small inconsequential days, but as long as you know what you can handle while high... whatever. Booze and the ocean flat out don't mix at all.
Sorry for the rant just my random two cents...
ps - this isn't even a question on SoCal boards.
and when I think of a model society, free of social problems with a thriving economy Southern California always comes at the top off the list.
Thank you Biff! Very good post. DARE failed because they fed lies, not the truth. Just like our government. That has failed and all they do is feed us lies.
I love how I watched the DEA show on TV and they let go this lady who sold 50g of heroin to give up a supplier, but yet someone caught with a minimal amount of weed will go to jail. HA! OUR GOV'T IS A BIG FAT JOKE!
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