Thread: Random Question. What are your thoughts on Cannabis?

Originally Posted by roverfan

I guess thats why I was promoted over them, and was usually the first to leave with all my work done

I mentioned casually at dinner last night to an ex workmate that I was stoned the whole time I worked for that organisation and she nearly fell off her chair, no one ever suspected I smoked pot on a regular basis.

While they went to lunch and had a few wines with their meal, I ducked off from the table and smoked a blunt and I never could see the difference.

Not all pot heads are lazy, unproductive members of society some of us (more than you realise) are very active in the community, and hold very high profile jobs.

I know i mentioned it in the other Drug thread but if pot messed everyone up so bad why am i comfortably retired before ive hit my mid 30s and now spending every day with my kid instead of slaving away at a desk or in a mine to make a living. To be in my position and coming from a very poor family I must have been able to make some pretty bloody good decisions and been bloody good at my job.

Why did I start smoking Pot? For fun and it stopped being fun when i stopped working and had my first child so I quit overnight, no withdrawals, no mental health issues, never went into a rage as has been mentioned in this thread in fact im about the softest guy you would ever meet when it comes to physically harming someone (my size is a good bluff though)

Tell me more about self funding retirement before early 30's, this I'd like to know

Originally Posted by Col.Coleman

Bad things happen to good people all the time. You are not defined by what happens to you, but how you deal with it. I don't believe it should be an acceptable excuse for turning to drugs, or for that matter alcohol.

One day you might learn of mine, if you ever get to know me well enough, and I aint on any drugs. Nor did I use them as a crutch.

CC

Absolutely, terrible and awful things blight people all the time, and I have some good life stories too.

Thank my deity (and physiology) I don't appear to desire or have a tendency towards chemical addictions and for many years was teetotal (choice) but do enjoy the occasional beer or glass of red these days.
I must be in the minority for my generation too as I've never even smoked a joint. (there, I've said it, I'm eternally uncool ) but I have no problem with friends using it, I just don't feel the need, I'm enough of a nutter straight

I don't believe a life experience gives anyone an excuse to behave or act destructively and particularly abusively towards others but I also can't judge how anyone does or doesn't handle a situation either.

Our minds are all wired slightly differently, some people are far more visual than others, some feel and recall feelings and emotions very vividly and deeply and part of our makeup of who we perceive we are is formed from our life experiences, good and bad.

Not everyone can cope, they either can't block the unpleasant pictures and emotions that are conjured up by their minds (and the mind can be incredibly powerful) or sometimes they have so little self esteem they don't want to.

In genuine cases this is neither good or bad, nor a case of balls or the lack thereof, it's just the way they are wired.
Of course some play on this and use it as an excuse, but from what I've seen of life there is no black or white, just lots of shades of grey.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Tell me more about self funding retirement before early 30's, this I'd like to know

Get a good Job, and a better financial planner as well as a bit of luck
I had a plan before i had finished school that i wanted kids in my 30s and to be home and worked towards it.

Originally Posted by roverfan

Get a good Job, and a better financial planner as well as a bit of luck
I had a plan before i had finished school that i wanted kids in my 30s and to be home and worked towards it.

I had a plan at school that I wanted to be a professional racing driver.

I retired from racing when I was 30 as I'd run out of money and wasn't going to make being a pro

That was my drug for many years and I swear it was more exxy than smack

Wow, can't say if I am a user or not. Too many people watching. I've heard the government are watching us man. Anyway the pizza should be here soon and after I clean up that stain on the carpet I'll tell you about this great plan I have......

Yeah it takes a while to realise you are addicted. I have watched people argue for hours they aren't but spend all weekend chasin'.

Like most drugs in moderation it can be "fun" but years of regular use turns you into a paranoid loner. ( who eats too much chocolate and pizza) and it destroys your short term memory.

Anyway this is what I have been told .......dude!

Originally Posted by camel_landy

...Those last months were bitter/sweet as we had some laughs and I've got memories that I'll treasure forever... Some of the funniest are around him being a complete non-smoker, as such he wasn't sure how to take the canabis. So, not only did I have to teach him how to skin up a joint but I also had to teach him how to smoke it!!!

...then his wife got the hang of baking it into cookies!!!

M

bucket bongs - now there's something to contemplate!

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

bucket bongs - now there's something to contemplate!

You should have seen the communal one built out of a load of left over plumbing bits, by a mate at uni...

M

1 I dont think it should be illlegal.
as it waists more time and money policing it.

2 I dont think it should be used.Its not safe or harmless---the question is is it on par or worse than alcohol.

3 is it the cause or do distrupted mental people naturally attact mind altering drugs.

from what i see its all much the same--but drugs are normally behind closed doors due to the legalities-RE step 1.

drugs of any types are normally used by those that shouldnt.its not a thing of the youth as when i grew up it was probably more common with those older than I.

NOTE:for my 30th school reunion at a reasonable mixed class regional school there was a few drugies still going-hanging out till the night ended.most had been buried.

I live amongst a number of self medicating damaged people.unlike my time in newcastle and parramatta they dont walk around preaching the second coming and bash those that dont join in.

I am a binge alcohol drinker and have lived amongst drug use...I dont get cravings and drink to be social.Often my drinking companions are in the same social boat so they drink till the supply is gone clean up go home then they sleep it off.we dont go and destroy the parks and bash the locals for entertainment.