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 Author Thread: Hitchhiking is the only way to travel, can I get an amen?
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Hitchhiking is the only way to travel, can I get an amen?
Posted: 3/6/2008 12:51:37 PM
My dad and a good friend of mine were my biggest influences in deciding to try hitchhiking for the first time. And I had a golden opportunity, my first trip was an epic one, Halifax to Vancouver, I did it in 7 days of hitching, over the course of a month. Next trip was Nfld and back, everyone should try it, and those of you who have, I know you have stories.
I think everyone should try it once, and I thought maybe if a bunch of people had something good to say about it, people would change their view on hitching.

Let the stories begin!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 13 (view)
 
Caling all musicians/bands in Toronto!!!
Posted: 3/10/2006 9:51:28 AM
OK Jack, I'm sorry, I had this idea that there were people out there who liked to make music for its own sake, I didn't mean to threaten your career or anything. Whats more there are a lot of people in bands who are trying to become professionals too, who play any stage that will take them, and who are you to tell me I shouldn't? And frankly, that whole slick club promoter bit couldn't be farther from the truth, I work at a small downtown bar, make 6.50 and hour, and whatever tips the bands friends see fit to give me, and whats more most of that goes to pay back my 20K in student loans. Sorry I tried to have fun while I was at it.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 6 (view)
 
Caling all musicians/bands in Toronto!!!
Posted: 2/2/2006 11:00:20 PM
You know, I don't really see whats so objectionable about an open mic night, nor do I see the need for a personal attack... But who knows maybe I have a brain tumour...
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 3 (view)
 
Caling all musicians/bands in Toronto!!!
Posted: 1/30/2006 2:49:19 PM
i cant reply because of your filters on who can msg you. however if you are still interested, drop me a line or change the filters....
peace, julz
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Caling all musicians/bands in Toronto!!!
Posted: 12/1/2005 10:31:05 AM
Hey everybody, I work at a bar in downtown Toronto, and I have been put in charge of a live music night for Mondays starting in the new year. This event will serve a dual purpose of getting new talent seen (perhaps not by many, but people talk) and kicking up an otherwise barren Monday.
So anyway heres my plan: The evening would start with an hour or two of Open Mike, including poetry, comedy, music, etc. and would be followed by a "Feature Band". The feature band are the main event of the evening, and will be able to pass around a pitcher through the audience to see if they can't make some money, plus selling t-shirts and CDs is cool too. If you are interested in playing either the open mike, or auditioning your band to be the feature band for one or more mondays, then drop me a line.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
OK ladies, open up a little
Posted: 11/18/2005 8:15:51 PM
As I cruise through profiles looking for interesting people I find a lot of girls (I'm sure that guys do this too) have profiles not only with no pictures, but with little to nothing to say about themselves. All too often I see a profile with no picture, a whole whack of "Prefer Not To Say" bits for basic trivia, and creative 'about me's like "I like shoping and stuff msg me for more".
All I ask is why do you even bother with profiles if you don't want to say anything about yourself? Sure if your ideas are diferent from someone they won't message you anyway, but why should that be so scary? Its the internet, so theres bound to be different people. Plus, instead of having everyone out there try a random stab at getting with you, you could have just people with common interests messaging you.
Just say what your interests and beliefs are, then you might have a better chance of finding someone that shares them with you... Doesn't that sound good?
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 2 (view)
 
Do you not think?...
Posted: 8/15/2005 8:55:44 AM
Its true damnit, its all true, politics of any kind are so riddled with rhetoric (<- prob bad spelling) that you need a shovel to get through it all. We live in a generation of slogans, people in Super Size Me could remember the Big Mac slogan better than the Pledge of Allegiance. Its sick and its a downward spiral.
Some people spit these styleized 'facts' out and believe its true because it rhymes.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 121 (view)
 
2 jurors believed Michael Jackson actually was guilty
Posted: 8/15/2005 8:43:40 AM
You know there was a bit in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where Afflecks characher is talking about movie review sites, and the losers that keep talking about stars they claim to hate but yet can't stop talking about. I think there is some of that at play in the Jacko situation. But there is also a large bit of really sick publicity whoring... The jury is famous while they actually have a say in anything, and once they say 'not guilty' it's off them, and onto regular life. That is, it would be, if the jurors weren't so camera happy, as soon as they're out of the limelight they say or do something to make people listen to them again. And whats this? They change their opinion out of court... And then write books about it?!? Funny that.

And as for:

um, first it was 12? Now 10? Will more jurors come out?


Thats ridiculous, thats the reason juries are twelve people, and not one or two, if the jury cannot decide as a whole then it goes to the majority vote, thats how the system works.

And just so you dont think that I'm some crazed Jacko supporter, I will say that I am not, and I don't think its right to share a bed with other peoples kids. But I'm reasonably sure that he didn't do any more than that.

Truly, people need to get out of their sick facination with celebrities lives, and concentrate more on their own...
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 5 (view)
 
Why is smoking pot a crime?
Posted: 8/13/2005 1:50:05 PM
So why are goverments everywhere (yeah theres the Yankee bullying factor, but they aren't the only thing holding it back) still clinging to this law? We all know its bogus, and there are SO MANY (successful/functional/professional/sane) potheads out there... So whats with the law?
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Why is smoking pot a crime? [Thread closed, man]
Posted: 8/13/2005 1:25:30 PM
This one has been explored somewhat in other threads, but the perspective is more bent on why it shouldn't be a crime. I want to hear what the nay-sayers have to say. I want to know why having and smoking (hell even growing) pot is a crime.

I have put a lot of thought into it, and I really can't think of even one good reason...
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 47 (view)
 
DEA attempts to extradite Canadian Prince Of Pot for selling seeds.
Posted: 8/13/2005 12:59:09 PM

For researchers to get gov't money for studies on marijuana, to be approved, they have to be showing studies on the ill effects of pot. Studies do not get gov't funding if they are trying to find positive things about pot.


Whoa! Hold the phone, this is true? Thats bull$hit? The government knows pot has beneficial effects, the senate has run several exausative studies, and have recomended that it should be legal! And they brush off the voice of reason by denying funding to both sides of the arguement?

But more on topic, I was reading eye today and came across a statement that more accurately reflects the DEA and American governments motivation for the bust:


"Today's arrest of Mark (sic) Scott Emery, publisher of 'Cannabis Culture' magazine and founder of a marajuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marajuana trafficking trade in the US and Canada, but also to the legalization movement... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marajuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on."
- Karen Tandy, US Drug Czar


Now this to me is a huge slap in the face, and a realization has crystalized for me in reading it. Pot users, medical and recreational, are second class citizens. Its that simple, we are North America's lepers. And while we are here and we have a voice, we are agressively silenced. It doesn't matter that we have made a free choice to use a substance that is relatively harmless in our day to day lives, because we are "criminals" for doing it... No one really remembers how, or why, but we are bad, thats for sure.... I just wish there was more reason than that...
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 97 (view)
 
Is it Unpatriotic to Question your Government
Posted: 8/2/2005 12:44:48 PM


a member nation was simply obligated to "consult" with the Security Council. Our UN Ambassador duly "consulted" (which differs from asking for permission to act) and then we commenced hostile actions against Saddam's Iraq.


But dont you think that if the WORLD tells you "no, this is not a good idea" they might not just be trying to spoil your fun? And especialy since there was a lot of opposition at home too.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 95 (view)
 
Is it Unpatriotic to Question your Government
Posted: 8/2/2005 12:29:08 PM
LW, read Orwell's 1984 again. Then meditate on cameras on building everywhere, even when we can't see them. Every aspect of your life is moderated and monitored "for quality control".

In 1984, "the Party" was always in power and constantly at war to some degree. The people were watched constantly through cameras mounted everywhere, and made to live in constant fear of attacks by a mysterious band of Party opposers, who could be lurking everywhere. It tells the story of a man who learns to hate the Party for all its lies and hypocracy, but is powerless to do anything to speak out, because even as soon as he thinks a bad thought about them, they take him away to a remote prison and torture him into loving them, only to be executed like a dog...

Its closer than we think.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 30 (view)
 
Is Canada giving up its sovereignty to the United States?
Posted: 8/1/2005 9:56:46 AM
OK once again, I'm going to step in and say that you both suck. You're both far too self assured, and way too srcastic with one another. You Immediately assume that a disagreement on a point is justification for banter. Both of you shut up already, you're both baiting eachother so much that I don't even care whos right! Stay on topic, or end the thread or effing marry eachother, you deserve eachother.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 70 (view)
 
Is It Unpatriotic To Question Your Government?
Posted: 7/31/2005 6:23:31 PM
BDM, thats not what I was refering to though, I was refering to your post (#70). Those actions would be unpatriotic because you would be taking advantage of your countrymen.
I, personally, think that the government should be questionned all the time; I am not saying that you should egg politicians and protest everything that they do. I am saying that you should always be aware of what they are doing while they're representing you, and if you feel that those actions or desicions do not represent you, then you should protest. All a politician is is a representative. Each MP or congressman or whatever, REPRESENTS a set number of people, they make desicions on OUR BEHALF of those people. So If my representative is misrepresenting me, I have something to say about it.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 68 (view)
 
Is it Unpatriotic to Question your Government
Posted: 7/31/2005 6:10:02 PM
Again, all you're talking about is ruling like a tyrant. I think you might be surprized at how few people your country would have left if you got rid of everyone that didn't support it 100%.
Whats more, what you are suggesting would eliminate democracy entirely and become one of those radical dictatorships. And since that is what America claims to be the most strongly opposed to: Yes, it would be very unpatriotic.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 65 (view)
 
Is it Unpatriotic to Question your Government
Posted: 7/31/2005 4:36:19 PM
It's not unpatriotic, its just sick...
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 11 (view)
 
What is your political philosophy?
Posted: 7/31/2005 11:55:24 AM
If I had to model myself after politicians I would go for Trudeau I think. He was a joker, but a smart guy, and a leftish liberal. Plus, he not only flipped off an oppositional leader, but also publicly made fun of the queen..... We need more like him.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 22 (view)
 
Is Canada giving up its sovereignty to the United States?
Posted: 7/31/2005 11:48:09 AM
Ay, another difference for the drinking scenario is that pot is still illegal on both sides of the border. Plus he knowingly sold seeds to Americans knowing it was illegal in the States to do so. He has also been doing this for a very long time, so the authorities have been working on this for just as long presumably. Its the same $hit with Cheech and Chong, they were icons, they were listened to, so they were silenced...
Fortunately, as nittany said before, the legal situation with the internet is very very complicated and full of loopholes, so heres hoping that Emery can just pull the pants of the DEA down for the world to see and make a glorious return to the real home of the free.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 18 (view)
 
The Founding Fathers would be scared too
Posted: 7/31/2005 11:40:48 AM
Too true Mike, and thanks for hunting out those quotes too, they definitely follow the same vein. I thought that the words of Ayn Rand there at the end to be especialy salient.

But how can we make the government scared of us again without being called a terrorist be the "Patriot Act"? Whats with the constant edging towards 1984? Can we even believe what we're told anymore? Can the pigheaded masses figure out the danger? I sure hope so, or I may not mind having smoked all my life when I hit 40...
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 63 (view)
 
Is it Unpatriotic to Question your Government
Posted: 7/31/2005 11:32:47 AM
Legal you stilll keep putting up these three page responses and you keep coming back to the same: the constitution this, the Geneva convention that, and you are still ignoring the main point of this discussion. If you feel that what is morally right and what is written in those documents are interchangable then you have been brainwashed by that system that you serve, and I am deeply sorry to hear it.

Furthermore, if a draft is mandated such as in Vietnam, and the people do NOT come to fight VOLUNTARILY, then they do not believe that there is reason to do so, and should not be forced. As soon as a draft is implemented and young men are taken away to fight against their will, they are not defending their country, they are defending its leaders' agenda.

I know that I am a lover, and not a fighter, I have never thrown a serious punch. But if I knew that my country or its beliefs and freedoms were at stake, I WOULD put on a uniform and pick up a gun and fight, but only then.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 49 (view)
 
Is it Unpatriotic to Question Bulldogmedic???
Posted: 7/30/2005 11:55:17 PM
I think its closer to someone who has no opinions about current issues (as a result of watching nothing beyond hockey and football on TV no doubt), but likes to stir the pot anyway in a bleak attempt to be noticed. If you disagree with us, like I've said, enjoy, but please don't pollute this serious conversation with your smug side remarks and pedantics about grammar.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 46 (view)
 
Is It Unpatriotic To Question Your Government?
Posted: 7/30/2005 11:18:35 PM
Hate to be a prude, but this pissing match has gone far enough. Bulldog, you are just looking for fights in three seperate threads right now, so please, say something relevant or just read and laugh to yourself.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 4 (view)
 
What is your political philosophy?
Posted: 7/30/2005 11:15:32 PM
Funny that I'm right near Ghandi too, sounds rigged... Oh well, I'll get you next time Gadget!
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 10 (view)
 
The Founding Fathers would be scared too
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:57:54 PM
It's conversational writing, people do it on the net, just get used to it, and please stop dodging the point... I don't care if you proof-read it for grammar and read that version. But grammar is not what we're debating here.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 9 (view)
 
The Founding Fathers would be scared too
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:48:04 PM
Dude, ignore the d in and, and stop ignoring the point, you can see it manifest in the news, you can see it when some kids life is flushed down the drain because he had a dime, and you can see it all around you! Wake up, everything is not alright!
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 19 (view)
 
Is Canada giving up its sovereignty to the United States?
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:37:15 PM
I have to agree with nittany again here, Canada would never bend that far for the States (or any country for that matter). There would be war before that was allowed to happen, even if it were just a band of us have to go burn down the White House (again, ba-zing!) But seriously, Canada would never start honouring American law as its own, unless it was all-out invaded, we can be sure of that.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 4 (view)
 
The Founding Fathers would be scared too
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:27:32 PM
But Benn, these zones are temporary, they aren't always there, and when you go out and question the governments policies enough that people start to listen to you, you are often silenced one way or another....
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Hollywood: The Canary in Society's Mine?
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:24:59 PM
Hey heres a thought, think back to most Hollywood predictions of the future, its dismal isn't it. Sure theres Star Trek but then theres also John Carpenter movies, or the Terminator, or pretty much anything sci-fi.... What do you think?
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
The Founding Fathers would be scared too
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:12:34 PM

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson


I'm not even American and I fear their government. There is a very salient connection between these words and present times. I just wanted to invite Americans here to meditate on this and share their thoughts on this.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 39 (view)
 
Is It Unpatriotic To Question Your Government?
Posted: 7/30/2005 10:03:45 PM
Oh legal, its funny that you should brush my point off so quickly, I re-itterate my previous statement: we are concerned not with strict legality but with a sence of WHAT IS RIGHT.
American law may be absolute truth to you, and it may be absolute truth in your borders, but I'm not American, and I (and benn I think) am talking about going beyond written law and delving into personal beliefs.
Just because I am "some kid" who quoted a punk song doesn't mean I don't have eyes and a voice, so I invite you again, personally, to look at the question outside of law books and give an answer that is'nt full of big impressive words and latin, come on, for us little people.
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 34 (view)
 
Is It Unpatriotic To Question Your Government?
Posted: 7/30/2005 9:05:48 PM
Legal, I don't think any of us really want to discuss the actual constitutional definition of treason. The question is, is it right (not legal, theres a difference) to question your leaders. And as far as I'm concerned, if you believe that your country is not doing the right thing, then you should make your voice heard, no matter what the political situation, otherwise our basic freedoms are conditional. Plus, during war-time we need to be especially vigilant about the decisions being made to make sure that it is in the citizens interest to make them at all. And if you don't believe that look at the holocaust, or the recent torturing of war prisoners, or any number of international situations.


The Idiots Are Taking Over - NoFX
It’s not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership exceeding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it’s really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the **** on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being cornered, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin’s rollin over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it’s worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality’s no longer the exception, it’s the rule
And I’m startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists think the same one vote that some monkeys are inbred
Majority rule, don’t work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it’s their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity be a symbol to culture

The idiots are takin over
 julzdude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 15 (view)
 
Is Canada giving up its sovereignty to the United States?
Posted: 7/30/2005 8:45:04 PM
Tom it really is time to give it up: yes, our elected officials make decisions that we dont agree with, like this one, I think its bull$hit, but they are (usually) not off on their own tangents, like here, Emery is the "Price of Pot", hes very high profile, hes a big catch, and the Yanks have probably wanted him for a while... But anyway, to be honest nittanylion hasn't really attacked you at all, the original remark may have been a little snide, but not enough to justify a whole page of sniping at one another.
Thats part of the whole problem with the pro pot movement, everyone gets too self-riteous, clings desperately to their own facts, and shoots down anyone who even kind of disagrees. What we need to do AS A WHOLE is look at the bigger perspective, find our common ground and move as a whole. One mans crusade is nothing without support of others....
Like you said this could be a great opportunity for Emery to make a fool of the US gov't and win the day for stoners everywhere, but not if we dont notice because we're fighting about the definition of semantics (which is really ironic when you think about it)!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 37 (view)
 
Dating my ex again....am i crazy?
Posted: 7/21/2005 3:13:02 PM
While I'm just a yung-un in the macro-sceme of relationships, I must say that after having gone out with and broken up with the same girl a couple of times earlier in my dating life I could never subject myself to it again. Unless the relationship was broken up by forces beyond both of your control like say an ocean between you (I still think of her sometimes), then a breakup should be left final. Like its been said before, if you broke up once then it wasn't working, and odds are that starting fresh will lead to the same problems, but likely in less time.
Its like why they teach history in school, if you let yourself forget it then its doomed to repeat itself.... Sorry to preach dire tidings, but thats the only way I can see it.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 67 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/21/2005 12:51:13 PM
LoL *puts on some Cypris Hill and takes a long hit from the bong* Yeah you're right, I just get fired up about this shit because its ever so much fun.... Plus like I said, I'm a crusader, I can't help it.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 63 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/21/2005 12:27:36 PM
Well shee-ot bro, pass it over here too, but seriously, Vertigo you stilll don't get it, it would have to be taxed or the gov't would have no incentive to legalize in the first place, its give and take. But seriously though, yeah there is corruption in the gov't, but if they had the revenue from mary-jane, it would have to come back to us somehow, we have the power not them, never forget it, they represent us.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 53 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/21/2005 11:14:51 AM
You joke, but do it, pass it around your neighbourhood/friends/family, talk about the facts, shoot down the bull, and send it to your local MP
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 50 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/21/2005 10:59:55 AM
Yeah, Vancanuck, you are way off base, you have to look at the effects of the substance, as I mentionned in another thread, it is very easy to OD on most of the drugs you listed, even alcohol is deadly if you're stupid, but you would have to smoke 3000+ joints (I think its way more but I dun rmr the exact number) to kill yourself, and it would be from carbon monoxide poisoning, not canibinoids. The government is being pressured to legalize pot not because it is a fix that we want, but because it is a harmless substance that has ben demonized all through modern history, that other crap can really hurt you and I fully think that those substances should be illlegal, but naturals like pot are a viable safe alternative to alcohol, and can be used for many medicinal purposes, and Van, PCP NEVER had it that good!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 38 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/20/2005 5:00:26 PM
lol fair enough, but we have to care, truly this can only be won by changing the world view on the sweetest of herbs, thats what I'm getting at (apologies I'm a crusader at heart)
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 35 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/20/2005 4:35:12 PM
Hotrod, its naive to say that the US would not do anything if we legalized pot up here, but like I said we need to make our voices heard, and not just here on the net, no one gives a crap whats said on the net because there are enough crackpots out there saying enough crap that its ignored, we need to get out there, participate in things like the million marajuana march, and spread awareness that we are not bad or irresponsible people, and make our voices heard, we are the unsung minority, brutalized by outdated laws and a corrupt system. There are officials out there that smoke pot but then publicly condemn it because thats what they think people want to hear.

And as for what BC boy said, yeah if they spend it there, but we are the ones with the power, we have the vote (though so few of us use it - grrrr - but thats another rant) and we have the right to run for positions of opower if we're not satisfied with whats going on.

So many people (and politicians) forget that politicians are our elected REPRESENTATIVES, they shouldn't make our decisions for us, they should do what WE want them to with OUR country! Put in your two bits, send letters and petitions to your MPS! BE HEARD!!!!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 19 (view)
 
Legalization of pot
Posted: 7/20/2005 3:19:42 PM
Forking eh it should be legalized, and I do believe it should be taxed, it would be brilliant. It should be offered much the same as alcohol, specific gov't stores selling it to people 18+ at responsible amounts. Even taxed the street prices would be run right out, you could get a pack of joints for the price of a pack of smokes and it would last you a couple of weeks (heres hoping anyway, lol). And the financial benefit would be threefold for any country:

1) The gov't would be making those billion that the black market usually does, but instead of investing it in bling and ****es and the like it would be invested in our sagging health and education systems, it could also be diverted to social programs to get cokeheads and smackys off the bad shit and back into normal life (I've heard of people quitting coke by smoking joints, and thats a very healthy change).

2) In addition to the revenue it would produce, the gov't could also stop wasting money trying to fight pot, the savings would be huge: be it from court costs for some shmuck with a dime, to the enormous sums they spend on finding and busting small time growers (America has spent $5 trillion thats $5,000,000,000 in the war on drugs since it began (yeah I'm Canadian, but I don't know our #s off-hand)).

3) Also, the only real gateway drug is dealers - so many kids get caught up in hard drugs because dealers are sick of making small money on them with pot so they say "here try this" and get a kid hooked on blow instead, if pot were legalized that influence would never get to kids, and hard drug usage would decrease.

It really makes nothing but sence to make it legal, but bulllshit politicians are so afraid of changing the status quo, and have demonized it so much that even though there are so many of us stoners out there, we don't know each other exist and can't band together to fight this tyranical opression. A good way to do it is to talk to your friends and peers (even police officers about the issue (not when your high though numb-nuts)), and get out there and suppport pot rallies and make yourself heard. Its not going to legalize itself, so stand up for your right!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 33 (view)
 
Pot: A gateway drug?
Posted: 7/20/2005 2:58:51 PM
I say that there is no such thing as a gateway drug, there is only resolve and sugggestability, I will offer myself as a case study.

First of all saying that cigarettes are a gateway drug is totally bogus, its like saying that since a lot of people have eaten Mexican food at some point in their lives before taking drugs, that its mexican thats the gateway. I have been smoking cigarettes and pot since about halfway through high school, and for those two friends were my gateway, but I made myself a promise that I wouldn't dabble in anything beyond the basic organics.

I knew that I had an addictive personality, and I also knew I'd probably have a blast on any drug I tried, but I resolved to leave hard/chem drugs as forbidden fruit, and I stilll carry that philosophy today. I have been offered E, coke, and stranger than that, but its all about setting your comfort zone and not going beyond that.

My comfort zone is organics, I am a big fan of pot, alcohol and shrooms, and between those (or combos of the three) I have a pretty diverse trip range, I'm totally content with it, and I have no real eed for anything else.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 2 (view)
 
Bartending??
Posted: 7/20/2005 11:03:11 AM
Well Giant,
I'm a licenced bartender but I'm in Ontario, and I believe the licencing programs, in addition to the minimum wages vary from province to province, I'm sure if you were to search for your province's liquor licencing board you could get all the pertinent info. As for the job itself, I love it. I worked at a student bar at York university last year and I got SmartServe training (Ontarios licence) from my boss, for just the cost of the kit ($20 from my next check) as opposed to taking an outside course and paying $100+. I worked night shift at that bar, and that was from 8pm- ~2am, but it all depends on the bar, in Ontario a bar HAS to stop serving at 2, and then you would get off after you had closed the place after you kicked all the drunks out. Though that said, you could work day shifts, and that would be like any other job.
Some valuable skills you get are that you can spot when your friends are really drunk, and are taught the ways to deal with/minimise that, you learn how to make a whole pile of****ails, and start inventing your own drinks, and it can be really good for honing your social/flirting skillls to pick up more tips, overall good times, but sometimes a **** to find work :P
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
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special brownies
Posted: 7/20/2005 10:24:56 AM
dilate, freezing the herb causes the crystals to loosen from te plant material, and therefore makes extraction a little more effective, its also a key step when it comes to homemade hash, but thats another story, and I can't draw on personal experience there anyway.
And as for your cupcake adventure, if you were to recreate exactly what you did before but have one more than you had before that 4-5 hour good trip will be a 5-6 hour great trip (I like to do them in the eve so I can crash at the end of it).
But honestly, I spent last year getting high like 10 times a day, but brownies have never not impressed. The key is making the butter right, and the key to that is a long time in a double boiler (it holds a steady temp and never burns the butter (like a frying pan)). Hope that will help.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
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special brownies
Posted: 7/19/2005 1:52:15 PM
I forgot to mention, grind the organics up fine (throw in hash for an extra kick), and if you really want to go all out, freeze it first. Prepare for couch-lock!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
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special brownies
Posted: 7/19/2005 11:42:48 AM
OK OK lemme clear the water once and for all, you can make the best brownies in the world with two simple steps. First of all can using just pot in brownies, yeah its good, but with some patience, you can make brownies that'll hit you like a moderate shroom trip.

What you need to do is make cani-butter. The ideal way to do this is by using a double boiler (frying pans burn it) and place a pound of butter in with an ounce of *cough* organic material. Just let the two sit there, stirring occasionally, for about two hours at med-high temp (keep covered when not stirring). You'll need to make sure the water in the bottom of the boiler stays high enough, meaning refill it a bit from time to time. Don't be afraid when it smells funny, it'll smell a little like old popcorn.

After its been in the boiler for two hours (one will do but the longer you do it the better), pour it into a strainer and seperate the butter (should be a greenish sludge at this point) from the organic (which you should prob throw out or I guess cook into whatever...). Now this butter should be allowed to cool and harden again.

Heres the fun part, you can use it whenever you would normallly use butter, even toast, just remember that this toast willl toast you! Also, for you noobs to ingestion of reefer, it takes 40-60 minutes to take effect so don't go eating it all and wondering why nothing happened!

Have fun space cadets, and send some feedback my way if you do try it.
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 130 (view)
 
Favorite Quotes
Posted: 7/19/2005 11:24:54 AM
Teehee, I just remembered another great one:

"Wait, love is just an abstract concept, it can't break down stuff" - Cleopatra in Clone High (freaking excellent show cancelled after its first season)
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
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MUST-HAVE books
Posted: 7/18/2005 1:02:30 PM
Good call on the St Exupery, Le Petit Prince was a truly inspirational story to me, I actually try my best to live my life by it. Though it should be said that some of its truth is lost in translation, so if you understand french then read the french on, even if you need a dictionary with you :P

A couple of other truly great stories (though they may have been metionned already) are:

Animal Farm - George Orwell -> great commentary on why communism doesn't work
1984 - (same) -> you really should have read this already
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey -> Kesey took a lot of the drugs he was writing about to get the description accurate, its about a nuthouse in the 60s
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe -> chronicles Kesey's adventures with acid in the mid to late 60s
Island - Aldous Huxley -> this is a little known one, ut it was the utopia that contrasted Brave New World
Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (spelling is wrong my bad) -> This was an odd one, a lot of people have heard of it but the plot is very train of thought, the religeon in it is pretty cool though and the writing style is great
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (A Trilogy in Four Parts) - Douglas Adams -> yeah yeah the movie was cool but the full story is hilarious
Anything by Robert Rankin is good too hes hilarious, I've read so far the Witches of Cheswick, and the Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (crazy read and brillliantly written)

Thats all for now but theres lots of good stuff out there, keep reading, killl your TV!
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 127 (view)
 
Favorite Quotes
Posted: 7/18/2005 12:42:17 PM
It really is tough picking just oe favorite... There are so many good ones from so many diffferent places...
Well here are a few for the sake of conversation:
"If it doesn't matter now, then it never really did" - Against Me!

"To lose a parent can be seeen as a great tragedy, to lose both, now thats just carelessness" - Oscar Wilde

"A complication of time travel- something to do with the transperbulation of pseudo-cosmic anti-matter" - Robert Rankin (I'm always sketchy on the name, he wrote The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse though, its a great read)

And finally the best last words ever spoken, it was Oscar Wilde on his death bed:
"Thats it- the wallpaper goes or I do!"
 JulzDude
Joined: 5/26/2005
Msg: 226 (view)
 
Choice - a person who smokes 2 pks of cigarettes/day or a non smoker who smokes 1 joint a week
Posted: 7/15/2005 12:40:52 PM
YamIhere, you are so full of crap:

"No, it's not any better. But you can enjoy alcohol without abusing it. Smoking weed is done for one purpose alone - getting high. There's no such thing as not abusing weed."

I have been smoking pot for a couple of years now, about as long as I have beeen drinking. And to say that pot ismore dangerous is a crock of shit, one effects your liver, one your lungs, they produce the same basic psychological effects. One exception is that weed has a much smaller effect on your judgement, being drunk for a lot of people makes them rowdy and sometimes even destructive (not unlike the early myths about pot that made it illegal in the first place), while even if you are high as a kite on weed, you're more likely to sit around laughing with your friends then go out and break shit. And whats more I know and spend time with a lot of stoners and they are the friendliest, most entertaining people in the world. Sure there are the occasional burnouts - but you know what? There are a lot more alcoholics out there then burned out stoners. And on yet another note, alcohol is a really dangerous drug, its all too easy to drink yourself to death, but you would have to smoke something like 3000 joints in a sittting to kill yourself, and that would be from carbon monoxide, not canibinoids (if you dont believe me look it up).
Next time you want to make some stupid statement about things you know nothing about, dont just throw some stupid bullshit propaganda out there and treat it like fact, look into the issue and see how full of shit you really are. Because I am so sick of people slagging pot when they have no knowledge about it beyond the crap that the DEA feeds them.
 
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