Legal Weed

Im experimentin right now

 

Milk is the gateway drug. I never met any user who didn't start on milk.

 

Hahahaha. I know

 

"if u smoke like I smoke,then your high like every day"
-nate dogg

 

And if your ass is a buster 213 will regulate.

 

Experience any grand epiphanies? Maybe on the order of a Miss Universe pageant contestant's drivel on world peace?

 

Anything can be a gateway drug. Weed doesn't make people go to heroin. It could, but so could alcohol, or anything else. It's a mindset and personal choice to get into harder drugs. Or a life style of you will. The whole gateway drug isits completely bogus. You could never drink or smoke a damn thing, hang out with some friends who offer you coke, and now your blowing lines everyday. Is having friends now also considered a gateway drug?

This is somthing i feel strongly about because iv seen it first hand on many occasions. Seen a good amount of lives destroyed by heroin. Some were just bad choices. But i know 2 diffrent people who both ODed on heroin. Guys i graduated with. Both these two drank but never did any serious drugs or anything. Both had injuries and were prescribed pain medication. Both got addicted and eventually went to heroin and OD. Although i only know two people with this scenario, i have heard it countless times. It seems fairly common.

My point is if we are going to be using the term gateway drug, which like i mentioned is a term i hate and think is bogus. But doctors are handing out gateway drugs. Way more people turn to heroin after using prescribed drugs (whether it's there personal prescription or not) then after smoking pot.

 

I saw Basketball Diaries... they started out smoking weed... 30 Min later Leo was sucking cock for heroin... gateway

 

Sucking cock is gateway for heroin??

 

O Barry

 

I could not agree with you more.

I want to add something too: When I was in high school I had a friend who was a big time stoner. He got all of us smoking and sold us weed. One day he got busted carrying, didn't even get the WITD charge, and got put on supervised probation with random piss tests.

He could no longer smoke so he turned to stuff that got out of your system faster, which is pretty much every hard drug out there. He started taking pain pills, doing coke, taking acid... and eventually it caught up with him and he died one night drinking and taking pills.

Weed was not this dudes gateway, he would have been perfectly fine growing old smoking ganja like the rest of us did. What got him on the harder stuff, and eventually killed him was prohibition and f***ed up drug laws

 

I tried a bunch of stuff. Stuck with what I liked, and tossed what I didn't.

Most of that crap is very addictive so while I may have enjoyed some of it, I always used other drugs in moderation.

The problem lies in brain chemistry. Most people can't break their addiction because their brain subconsciously tells them that they need it.

Don't listen to your brain lol

 

I'm pretty much like this. Tried all kinds of stuff in my youth but discarded most of it over time. My gateway drug was cigarettes. Horribly addicting and very destructive. Finally gave them up over two years ago largely thanks to Betty nagging me every time she saw me smoking at the secret inlet. I'm now down to my last consciousness altering substance, the good green, and I don't even do that very much these days.

Addiction is a tough thing. I think it has more to do with the individual, their chemistry and how they are wired. Some people are more predisposed to it than others. My brother is an alcoholic who has been sober over thirty years. He'd probably be dead now if he hadn't gotten sober. He still regularly attends AA meetings because he knows just one drink would quickly lead to a very dark place.

IMO, our drug laws are mostly more destructive to people and society than the drugs themselves. Fortunately, things seem to be slowly changing for the better.

 

I listen to the "other" head.
That way, I get to greet a cervix......

 

But on a serious note, personally, I am done with opiates et al even for legit reasons. Maybe someday, I will toke on a joint again; haven't in 40 years about, maybe more. Recently hurt my back, was immobilized for few days, was prescribed tramadol for 10 days, 3 x daily. Hated the stuff; 3rd dose each day spaced me entirely out, so I took 2 per day and am glad I am done with them. Back is still very stiff and hurting, but no more tramadol for me- done with that crap. Hoping back will get better with exercises, heat, advil.

 

I hear ya man. I quit tobacco years ago but I'm still very much addicted. Sometimes I'll be driving and hear this little voice in my head "just go buy a pack... just smoke one.... just buy a pack...".

I truly feel for the folks hooked on pills or H, just living to get high. There are so many people wandering around my town like damn zombies, their brain permanently corrupted by addiction. At this point I have been stolen from and lied to so many times by addicts that I see them as a threat, but I know that somewhere inside they are someone's son or daughter and they are literally dying from a disease. That shit really hits me in the feels.

 

I don't take any "medicine". Iv gone to doctors for random things and gotten prescribed whatever. I won't take them. I'll deal with the pain. Seen it happen to many times. Antibiotic or whateverI'll take. But no pain meds. Hell i even refuse to take aspirin at this point

 

Yeah man, that's the other thing. The law. Jails are filled with people who got busted with pot. Then once in jail, they get involved with other destructive people/behavior. If your going to keep pot illegal, so be it. But make it a damn fine. No reason to be crowding jails or ruining lives over pot.

 

Quitting cigarettes was one of the hardest things I was ever able to do. It was the worst, but it gets better and rather quickly if you make the mental switch to refusing to have even just one. Once that happens it’s all over after 21 days, the time it takes to make or break a habit.