| The drug thing.
Posted: 1/9/2008 4:53:15 PM | I'll tell you what...I used to take anti anxiety and anti depressants which were much more expensive than the pot I smoke...oh and they made me basically asexual. Now I'm happy, relaxed, open minded and back in touch with my sexual self.
Trust me...I'd much rather date a pot head vs. some pseudo -"straight edge" chick with all sorts of body image issues planning her vaginaplasty and wedding at the same time. | |
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Posted: 1/9/2008 7:02:48 PM | you are probably right. a pot head probably is easier to deal with then some script imbibing pharmy head. but given that i grew, sold, smoked pot from 1975 to 1990 gives me the right to say ive just plain had a f---king nuff. Im no longer 18 or 22. I have forgotten more about hydroponics than you will ever know. Im 43. Ive grown up. Ive done my time in that rodeo.
dont want it anymore. thats my right. isnt it? dont necessarily assume disregard is ignorance. sometimes its self preservation. freedom of choice. right? | |
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Posted: 1/9/2008 7:22:19 PM | NO means No on my profile,,,,,and I prefer to meet someone that is drug free as well. People with drugs in their life tend to be too different than me,,,and the make me uncomfortable on an intimate level.
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Posted: 1/15/2008 5:33:45 AM | | Pot is a drug and you may not see it as a drug the law does. Everytime you take a puff you are damaging your lungs as well as brain cells. If you have kids I hope you aren't trying to convince them that pot is better than cocaine, I have seen children born with their kneecaps on backwards because mom thought pot wasn't a drug. I personally will never date someone that does drugs. My daughter learns her morals and values from me and smoking dope is unacceptable UNLESS an MD prescribes it. | |
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Posted: 1/16/2008 4:57:47 PM | I SERIOUSLY doubt pot will make a child be born with their kneecaps all jacked up. Sounds like people suffer a bit of the reefer madness in here. Pot is a plant...that's it. Made by the creator himself and enjoyed since the dawn of time. There is NO processing involved with it making it better for you than the sugar or god knows what else some of you put in your bodies. Aspartame is far more deadly than pot.
And for those of you blindly following whatever your goverments tells you about pot shame on you. Sheep have no place in a truely progressive society. | |
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Posted: 1/17/2008 3:16:29 PM | I'm a nurse! Why don't you visit the NICU where babies have poor apgar scores due to drug usage, or hemmorhages in their brains, or are premature and die because someone was to selfish to think of someone else...my heart has broken when I watch a child die, abused or neglected because of pot and other substances I am thrilled to say that the progressively society I live in does not have clouded and burned up precious brain damage. | |
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Posted: 1/17/2008 8:52:24 PM | FWIW, if you're a nurse and believe that pot damages brain cells then you haven't had much training lately. It is an approved drug treatment for brain injury patients, and has been shown to have many curative effects.
To put those two statements together, "I'm a nurse" and "it damages brain cells" is almost a professional misdemeanor. You simply don't know the facts that brain injury patients have known for years.
Cheers,
Russ | |
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Posted: 1/17/2008 8:58:12 PM | FWIW, chemistryNkisses, pot is actually very carefully grown for medicinal purposes. If you take the average stuff off the street, its not the same at all to what is being grown with legal licenses in Canada. Its not so much that there is any refinement being done, but there's a need to understand the potency in a consistent way when its being used medicinally.
Joe Random's bag may, or may not, contain unaltered pot. If you grew it, harvested it, and cured it yourself then you know...otherwise, it may well be a guess which might not yield what you expect.
No matter how its grown, I cannot understand how anyone could suggest it might led to malformed knees...but then I'm not a nurse.
Cheers,
Russ | |
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Posted: 1/23/2008 7:03:17 PM | | I have worked with brain injury patients, my point which maybe you overlooked is marijuiana as in "street use" can cause severe damage. However, just to let you know I do know what I'm talking about is marinol AKA pot can be prescribed legally , legitimately and monitored and bought legally through your local pharmacist!! | |
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| The drug thing.
Posted: 10/2/2008 6:37:25 PM | most people will put down they don't use drugs and come to find out later they really do.
I'm glad you put down that you do that way the person can have the honest truth. | |
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Posted: 10/3/2008 3:21:49 AM | | After reading all the reply's to this thread i m reading a lot about pot use and versus booze. some are against , some are for and some just don't care. But my question is this...how many of you are using anti-depressant drugs for whatever reason? Those are also drugs and result in much more difficulties than pot. If your on anti-depressants shouldn't you check the yes box to the drug question???? Just wondering. | |
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Posted: 10/3/2008 6:28:50 AM |
Those are also drugs and result in much more difficulties than pot.
Rubbish.
If your on anti-depressants shouldn't you check the yes box to the drug question???? Just wondering. No you shouldn't. The drug question refers to illegal recreational drugs.
Anit-depressants treat a very real mental illness and are in no way comparable to the illegal taking of recreational drugs. What you seem to be missing is that the issues that those who would not date someone who says "Yes" to the drug question are not only around the damage they are doing to their brains and bodies. They are around the fact they are comfortable engaging in illegal activity.
Personally I would never date someone who is a taker of illegal drugs or engages in any other illegal activity. That is about my children as well as me and the values I wish to teach them. I would also not date someone who takes recreational drugs or abuses any other form of drug, illegal or otherwise.
Taking a legal drug to treat a very real illness, such as depression and smoking pot, to get off are worlds apart. | |
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Posted: 10/22/2008 7:42:03 PM | I checked NO And I do not do drugs. Some can handle them I suppose....but aot can't. I see alot of folks in health care with longterm problems involving drugs and alcohol. Also was with a spouse who used and used and used. So I would not even consider dating someone who uses. There are plenty of folks out there who don't use so I don't feel like I need to mke any exceptions. Who want to go out with someone who always has puffy red eyes, needs nasal spray, has the munchies and then needs a nap!
I do't care if someone uses...thats their business. I just don't want it in my life or home. | |
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| Dragon Rider, I jest!
Posted: 10/22/2008 10:00:25 PM | | With a name like DragonRider, you have probably rode some dragons, so I get your point! | |
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Posted: 10/23/2008 12:29:24 PM | People who do drugs have ****ed up body language. The last time I smoked weed had to be 1985. And I stopped for two reasons..
1. because It made me paranoid and was no longer fun.
2. because my best friend at the time was smoking & drinking excessively and tried to kill me.
So to answer your questions, I'd never take a puff because it's not enjoyable to me. If I want to relax, I'll meditate or use dozens of other methods for that.
I've dumped girls who have admitted that they smoke weed. In my past experience, they are dead fish in the sack too, and sometimes their natural attraction/pleasure neurology in there brain is so whacked, they can be paralyzed in lust one second, and go instantly in accounting mode the next. That's the best I can describe it. It's just freaking weird. But every girl I've met that smoked weed was like that.
I know that's much more than what you asked for, but hey, it's my day off and I don't get on this site that often. Hope it helped.
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Posted: 10/23/2008 2:56:51 PM | I love the burn outs that say its fine because god put it here ,it is just a plant maaaaaaaaaaan.
So is cocoa plants
so are opiats "sp?"
poisin ivy?
Heck man god put it here its harmless, lead is a natural god given element so it shouldnt hurt me if i inject it into my brain from the end of a rifle. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2008 4:08:40 PM | | If you do drugs, I want NOTHING to do with you. A drug is a drug. I am not just saying this because I used to be a cop, I just simply do not want someone who is into chemical crap. I do not even take advil unless I have to. And I really have to be feeling like total crap. The "do you do drug option" should also apply to those who are addicted to anti depressants, and anger management pills as well. Sorry, I just feel taking all that crap is worse than the condition half the time. If I get depressed or in a bad mood, a good hour and a half lifting weights or a good ride on my horse takes all that away. People are not themselves on any of that shit. Too many doctors and people are so quick to take pills. Street drugs, prescription drugs, not my cup of tea. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2008 6:19:22 PM |
Taking a legal drug to treat a very real illness, such as depression and smoking pot, to get off are worlds apart.
I'm not so quick to agree with that. Many people self medicate with pot, and they stick with it because it works for them. Just because post hasn't been prescribed by a doctor doesn't mean that it can't be treating a "very real illness" (and be quite effective at it).
Anyway, I'm not a pot smoker. But it doesn't bother me if others smoke pot. Maybe it's because I'm in Canada and we are far more liberal about pot up here, but I know plenty of people who smoke it and they certainly aren't you stereotypical potheads. Most of them are very successful white collar workers. In fact, one of the most surreal experiences regarding pot occurred in my early career at a very fancy Christmas party, that is full formal gowns, champagne poured by waiters wandering around, etc. What should I see other than 4 semi-well known in the community business guys, who were worth several million dollars each, passing a joint around. Geez, you'd think that they could each afford their own!  | |
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Posted: 10/23/2008 6:36:08 PM |
If I get depressed or in a bad mood, a good hour and a half lifting weights or a good ride on my horse takes all that away.
Right. And a good run in the park will completely cure Parkinson's disease too. 
Yes, that was snarky. But I hate it when people continually perpetuate the idea that major depressive disorder is simply the same thing as "feeling sad today". It is a real illness. It has real physical symptoms.
Why did I choose Parkinson's? Parkinson's is caused by a lack of dopamine in certain parts of the brain. Dopamine is also one of the the neurotransmitters (or "chemicals") that are "out of balance" in someone with major depressive disorder. | |
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| The drug thing.
Posted: 10/23/2008 10:13:33 PM | What Pot a drug...I musta missed that memo!  | |
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| The drug thing.
Posted: 10/23/2008 11:20:43 PM | Thanks JustAnotherGirl I'm glad someone said it.
Their is a lot of ignorance going on in this thread. People saying a drug is a drug is a drug. Next people are going to want us to list if we drink coffee because caffeine is a drug. That's ridiculous. Just because some of you haven't been in the position where you need antidepressants or had some sort of illness, doesn't give you the right to judge. That's really messed up if you think you can equate sadness of a day or two, to depression do to someone being molested when they were a child, or beaten everyday, or has a serious illness.
Walk a mile in someone's shoes before you judge. That's horrible to equate someone who needs prescribed meds to a street drug user. Or equating someone who desperately needs those meds to someone who abuses them. That's just very sad, especially if you were a cop and had those thoughts. I can just imagine. I see it all the time. I'd love to tell some true life stories and examples but I'm not going to get all emotional here.
And also, just because someone doesn't do drugs, doesn't mean they don't have other addictions such as I have a buddy who is obsessed with his looks and goes to the gym all the time like he's addicted. A girl on TV the other day was addicted to shopping. It's all about balance. Anything you balance to an extreme is bad for you. Also their is brain chemistry to add to the equation. Believe me I know a lot about health and drugs because I've researched and read a lot. I have plenty of books on the subject. I've been studying psychology for 8 years.
If you are luck y to be in great health then be happy for it but don't go around judging others harshly because of situations they can't help. That is just not nice it is mean.
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A drug is a drug.
Do you really think that people with depression wan to take a pill for the rest of their lives? Antidepressants don't even do anything to people until they kick in weeks later. Therefore they take them and don't feel any instant high. It sucks to have to be on meds. It's like seeing a homeless person and saying that they want to be homeless. | |
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| The drug thing.
Posted: 10/24/2008 3:55:56 AM | | JASON, I am sure you have some stories and so do I. I have lost friends, and I mean people that I have had in my life for years who were PRESCRIBED "pain killers" Anti depressants" and they ended up with more issues than the depression itself . If someone has a lot going wrong with them and they need help then fine, get the help. As far as meeting someone for a future relationship and they are on shit loads of this stuff, it needs to be disclosed. Why? Because, people are not the same on medications. Lets be real. I MET ONE OF THEM RIGHT OFF THIS SITE. And yes, being a cop then in the funeral business, I did see a lot of things I choose and WILL NOT discuss in here that has happend to people on drugs. I am not a bad, uneducated person. Sure, some people can handle meds but some can not. And this whole thing boils down to if people should disclose if they are on drugs on not. And for me, I want to know. I knew it would be taken wrong, but if I am meeting somoene, I personally have a right to know if they are taking a slew of meds. Just like I disclose I go to the gym and own a horse (that may be considered an addiction to some.) No, I am not saying at the dinner table you need to tell me you are on 5 different pills, but if a relationship is going to go somewhere, I need to be made aware of it!!!. And because I do not care for it does not make me bad. The next time I meet someone I want honesty and no bullshit and not blame everything on the "anger management pills." Seriously, if I had so much shit going on in my own life that was too much to hanlde without medication, I would not be on a dating site saying I am fine. Just me. Maybe some people are fine and can function on the stuff, but so far I have not seen that. My one friend whom I do things with regularly who is on anti depressants tells me all the time how she is "not herself" on them and depends on them just to get through the day or she will "snap." Perhaps it is hiding the issue that makes me more angry. Not so much being on meds. As far as street drugs, I still stand the same. I don't want to be around them. I do have a heart and I do feel horrible for people who HAVE to be on anything, I also want to feel in life that we can try to find things to not be on stuff. | |
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| The drug thing.
Posted: 10/27/2008 3:49:35 PM | yeah, nothing i like better than to see a
spaced out
brain addled
twi-light zoned
zombi walking around or driving in the car next to me.
like we need more idiots and problems in the world .
pot smokers should be in jail!!! | |
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