Tips on life
Wow, I had one hell of a week. Anyway, I have a few messages to tell you all about. I just got a lot of stuff I was thinking about this week, and just had to get stuff out.
I am usally a pretty good kid. Do well in school, obey the parents, etc. Well, I tried smoking up a couple weeks ago, and kinda liked it. I didn't want to get in this stuff, though, because I know a lot of people who are really messed up from drugs. Hell, my best friend was a big-time dealer and I can't even get started on the shiz that he's been through.
Anyway, I hung around with a lot of my pothead friends this week and had one hell of a good time. However, that stuff messes you up. I know people have different feelings though. I'm not big on the illegal thing. It really doesnt affect me. But you just can't act right all high. I drove over 100 miles downtown yesterday, which was fun at the time, but I feel very happy that I didn't have an accident now. I can't even remember the majority of yesterday.
However, it was tight cus I hooked up with some strippers from a local strip joint. They were hella messed up people, and not even that good looking, but it felt pretty cool.
That brings me to a different point, though. How come I suck around the women. Nothing about me attracts them. One of my friends with this crazy-looking afro came by later and they're all like "wow, nice hair!" Then another friend stops by and they love his pretty blue eyes! Argh, I hate that stuff.
Also, I notice a lot of people start drinking as soon as they get high. I luckily have enough will power to not drink, because that is also very bad stuff. With all the driving that I did yesterday, it is real good that I didn't drink.
Soooo... This is basically a word of warning. Drugs and alcohol are pretty fun, but I strongly recommend that you find alternative means of fun. I had a great week, but I can tell you now that I will never, ever, do that again.
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I am usally a pretty good kid. Do well in school, obey the parents, etc. Well, I tried smoking up a couple weeks ago, and kinda liked it. I didn't want to get in this stuff, though, because I know a lot of people who are really messed up from drugs. Hell, my best friend was a big-time dealer and I can't even get started on the shiz that he's been through.
Anyway, I hung around with a lot of my pothead friends this week and had one hell of a good time. However, that stuff messes you up. I know people have different feelings though. I'm not big on the illegal thing. It really doesnt affect me. But you just can't act right all high. I drove over 100 miles downtown yesterday, which was fun at the time, but I feel very happy that I didn't have an accident now. I can't even remember the majority of yesterday.
However, it was tight cus I hooked up with some strippers from a local strip joint. They were hella messed up people, and not even that good looking, but it felt pretty cool.
That brings me to a different point, though. How come I suck around the women. Nothing about me attracts them. One of my friends with this crazy-looking afro came by later and they're all like "wow, nice hair!" Then another friend stops by and they love his pretty blue eyes! Argh, I hate that stuff.
Also, I notice a lot of people start drinking as soon as they get high. I luckily have enough will power to not drink, because that is also very bad stuff. With all the driving that I did yesterday, it is real good that I didn't drink.
Soooo... This is basically a word of warning. Drugs and alcohol are pretty fun, but I strongly recommend that you find alternative means of fun. I had a great week, but I can tell you now that I will never, ever, do that again.
Peace <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
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/me taps my foot waiting for a mod.
Gah, I'll just step to the side now and watch.
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Lol, Fam. Sometimes you just <i>need</i> coffee, like in the morning. Though I heard that it makes you more tired than you would have been orignally, as soon as the stimulant wears off. I'm not sure if I believe this though. ;)
My Opinion:
I'm sure everyone will try smoking once. But it should be stay at this trying because drugs are bad. They're not just expensive and mostly illegal but they can and WILL damage you. It's not the right place to talk about drugs, but i think everyone should know enough about them to know that.
Well, also it's quite normal that you can't be a good kid all the time. Be happy that you didn't have an accident and try to learn of your "mistakes".
About the "attracting women": I'm sure everybody can get a friend, look at Stephen Hawking, he's a little, disabled guy with huge glasses but well, he's a genius. So everybody has something good and special (yep, I really believe that).
Perhaps you're not attracting all women but surley not no women.
And yes, drugs and alcohol (isn't alcohol also a kind of drug?) may be fun, but the fact that you post in this forum confirms that you've found at least one alternate mean of fun.
Stay clean and have fun!
I know people that drive better high. Just gotta get used to it.
I don't know anyone from the positive pothead crowd around here that's been busted for it. It's usually the irresponsible group that gets themselves in trouble. Smart people that smoke are A-OK, imo. Maybe it has something to do with living in Tennessee :o
Drugs will only kill you if you can't control yourself, remember that. If it scares you, there's nothing wrong with backing out either. But I don't know anyone who's died from having too much fun.
weed is a very harmless plant that does less damage to your body than a normal cigarete. it's very harmless.
Smoking is extrem harmful.
i hang out with a good crowd, and doubt that i would get in trouble with the law...
also, i must agree that im fine with weed if used correctly. others tell me that driving is just fine when you are stoned, but i can't remember... that scares me...
also, i was down in park point last night and saw some cool things. i suppose first i should explain that here in duluth, mn, we are right next to lake superiour. the city makes most of its money off tourism, and most of the fun stuff to do in town is down by the lake, known as park point. anyway, i was down there last night driving around and it was HELLA busy, which is really strange for duluth. a lot of people go down there to show off their pimpin cars, and the rest like to get drunk. it seems to be mostly college kids down there at night. anyway, some of the cars were sooooo damn cool. i see very few cool cars around here, especially cus i live out in the country with a bunch of hicks and rednecks. lot of different people there two. i even saw people of different races, which is really strange.
Smoking it myself is an entirely other topic, however. I'm pretty much with Fam here, kept for my constant addiction to softdrinks <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
weed is a very harmless plant that does less damage to your body than a normal cigarete. it's very harmless.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Who the hell told you that?
While weed does do less damage than a cigarette, you'd be kidding yourself if you thought it was harmless. That stuff is hallucinogenic, causes cancer, breathing problems, horrible coughs, birth defects... the list goes on. The main reason I don't do that stuff is because it messes with your reproductive organs, and it can even make you impotent. Never done drugs of any kind (save alcohol) in my life, and I don't intend to either.
Like he said.
I've got a worse cough from allergies than my friends have ever gotten from smoking anything.
This is a tough call. Really tough call.
Personally, I've got a journal I write in that others read (don't ask to see it, most of you are too young <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->) so not only do I understand wanting to write things like this.
The message is anti-drug/alchohol, so... I'm going to let it stand as is, for now. However, I'm going to make sure that the other moderators keep a close eye on it.
Please, everyone be as mature as you can about this. I was thinking of making a small edit, but I personally would hate it if someone edited my thoughts in my journal.
So, I'm going to trust you guys (*braces self*) to be mature, and leave this thread as is. (*cringe*) Don't let me down guys.
Cremator, if you feel the urge to write more of these, I would recommend you check out <a href="http://www.blogger.com" target="_blank">Blogger</a>. You could even put a link to it in your sig, if you created a Blog.
I myself do weed a lot. Here in holland it is legal, and there is nothing wrong with it imo. I think alcohol is poison, but weed just makes you so comfy and relaxed, while you know what you are doing all the time. (i myself had some bad experiences with getting really drunk and then kissing an ex-GF who didnt want it. Or so i was told later on. I didnt know a thing about it. But i didnt force her, i just didnt see she didnt want to. (later on she told my GF i have now she didnt threw me away because i was such a good kisser <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->), but i just dont get drunk anymore.)
The one thing i learned about weed is that you must use it the right way. And that does not mean smoke/sniff/eat/anything, but don't go to stripclubs etc. if you are stoned/high. It's not a good atmosphere there.
I myself think the best way to get stoned/high is going into a forest around here, just lying in the sun with a group of friends and then smoke a joint. We have a lot of fun, everything is cool, we just lie there and i almost everytime i get the feeling i'm 'going back to nature' which doesnt make any sense, but i just like it.
I think you should smoke weed ONLY if the atmosphere around you is good. Don't go 'ooh, we can smoke tomorrow' but just let tommorrow come, and if you have some and you are chill with your friends and its a nice feeling, then go for it.
I'm not saying you should do drugs, because that is not what i want to say. I just say, if you do it, do it good, relaxed, it just gets pretty better.
Also, i think you should stay away from drugs (certainly if its illegal in your country) until you are mature enough. \
If you are young, you must not risk getting in contact with the police, and young people mostly don't know when to stop. I first smoked when i was 14, and then there was a period i just smoked every day twice or something. But i didnt like it anymore, and i stopped for a while, then just did it easy like now, i just smoke once/twice in the week.
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As for weed, well, never tried any, and I don't intend to. If people need drugs to feel good, well, (no offense) but get out and do something. I have enough fun just going out with friends, not sitting around a table getting high. I am sure the rush of roller coaster is much more exciting then the rush of weed. But who I am to run other peoples lives? I have no problem with people screwing up their bodies, as long as they don't screw with mine (2nd hand smoke and such). Thank god smoking is almost banned from anyplace someone under 18 can enter now in Alberta.
That's my last comment on the subject. Note Molec's post above... the moment this becomes an immature discussion, it's gone.
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/hempfacts.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thehia.org/hempfacts.htm</a>
<a href="http://hempology.org/ALL%20HISTORY%20ARTICLES.HTML/1942-44%20HEMP%20FOR%20VICTORY.HTML/1942-44MINNESOTA.html" target="_blank">http://hempology.org/ALL%20H....TA.html</a>
Do you think it makes sense to prohibit growth of such a valuable crop?
Planting such non-halucinogetic seeds isn't forbidden in many countries (although some societies have strong taboos against 'planting drugs' ).
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They used to live around Iowa City, and near the place they lived in, there was a roadkill dump. This is where all the roadkill was tossed to rot. Anyway, thanks to all the animals, the soil was very well fertilized. There was some industrial hemp, grown for making rope and stuff, not smoking, that grew right next to the dump. All the fertilization made the hemp grow over 20 feet tall. They have a pic of them standing against a giant forest of hemp, but they cannot find it anymore. Very sad... weee...
I've smoked since the age of 14 (im nearly 18 now) and it was getting to the point where i was smoking between 10 and 20 cigarettes a day. Over the last year at college I also became hooked on coffee, which also got to the point where I was drinking about 8 cups of triple strength a day.
As you can imagine this wasnt doing my body alot of good, it was causing my blood vessels to get narrower, my lungs and heart were obviously weaker and my entire digestive system went all out of order, so not so long ago I woke up in the middle of the night, basically threw a fit and to cut a long story short I ended up in hospital, which is where I learnt how screwed my body was.
I therefore quit both smoking and drinking coffee, cold turkey, it was, i'll admit hard but worth it.
That, however, was not the end of the story. I'd always been a social drinker, but in combinatin with quitting cigarettes and coffee and also splitting up with my girlfriend I had recently started drnking very heavily, and it took me quite a few horrid experiences with too much alchohol in my system for em too realise how bloody daft that was aswell. I have therefore, now also given up alchohol.
I have <b>never</b> felt better.
The moral of this story?
Your body is a temple..wait, someone else used that
Bt yeah, look after your bodys, adding weird substances to them can only have negative effects in the long run.
And on that happy note, go laugh at my picture in the artwork forum
I used to have buddies who were weed heads, but I refused to smoke. They'd try hotboxing rooms and trying to get me to breathe it in by blowing it in my face, I'd hold my breath and leave the room before any got into my lungs. Then I moved here. Now, I used to play a game called "Realms Of Kaos", and I had three close friends in that game who had helped to make it. I went backto ROK a few weeks ago, and during my stay there, I learned that all three of them smoked pot. These were people I had godly respect for. Now, I have none for them.
Simple Point? Drugs will never give you ANYTHING you can't achieve on your own. Want to loosen up? You don't need a drug for that. Just change yourself, swallow back the fear or shyness, and go for it. It will be much more rewarding. Bored? Don't do a worthless drug..go out, Do something fun with buddies, you don't need some worthless drug for that. Depressed? No problem, go see a funny movie, read some comics, write something, draw something, or even just read some jokes.
The fact of that matter is, doing drugs is the sign of a weak, weak will. Drugs are the quickest way of losing respect from people quickly. I drink, but I try to drink alone, away from others, and even then I only drink maybe twice a year, if that.
Drugs are mere replacements for things you can obtain yourself, if you just tried. Drugs really have no true perks at all, despite how much they seem to have. In truth, they're just dangerous to your well being, as they also are to you socially, a good way to get arrested, and a waste of money and time. There's one word you should associate with drugs.
"No".
Oh, and listening to music helps too.
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jed- if your friends are trying to get you to smoke, then they aren't real friends. being offered something and being forced to try it (like blow smoke in your face) are completely different.
i smile at this post. sure is a lot of feeling here.
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I'm suffering from a cronical lung-disease (Cystic Fibrosis, very similar to Asthma) and I can't imagine why somebody want to risk his health and often even his life only for being high. I take medics every day, get an infusion every fourth month for two weeks.
I live in a quite safe and friendly environment and haven't much contact with illegal drugs. But I wouldn't have problems to get on drugs if I wanted to. But i simply don't want. You can tell me that weed is less harmless than cigarets and I agree that it should be legalized(if it isn't already) but I don't think that you can tell me a good reason why to consume it. Sure, it may create a great feeling but i know thousands of things that do that too. And when you say that it's less harmless than maybe cigarets, I ask you why that should be any better because cigarets aren't harmless, so it isn't hard to be more harmless than a drug that can kill you. I respect you if you think you need it, but don't exspect me to approve or understand that.