 Originally Posted by Falsename
As I've said before, I'm not telling people to binge drink or do drugs (how'd that even come up?). I'm not opening a discussion to the ethical dilemmas of drinking or drugs.
What I am saying, and I'll quote this so you don't misinterpret.
"If you drink (not get drunk)(maybe just with some friends) it's a time to practice becoming conscious/lucid. It is simply practice! Don't get drunk! Don't take drugs! Don't binge drink! I like to think of Lucid dreamers as smart people with a life and jobs....not pot smokers, drug users and anything else. I don't mean to offend any drug users who are in fact Lucid Dreamers or want to be Lucid Dreamers".
Again
"This is practice for if you have a few drinks, don't go out of your way to drink! (or anything else!)."
(Just as a side note for the drug-user above (no offense). Drinking is more dangerous to the overall populace, however. I want you to cross reference the amount of people who drink and the amount of people who smoke pot. A much much much larger *percent* of people who smoke are killed or injured. This includes things like cancer and (unfortunately) choking. Not to mention the effects that drug using has on imediate family and friends. Now to everyone else who's on the outside of the circle; no bias opinions, which would you prefer to smoke pot or have a drink?)
If I come along as one of those screaming internet types I profusely apologise, I'm actually pretty new to the internet having lived in the country all my life. Some things (like actual internet screamers with misconscrewed ideas just because they're involved in them, *pot*. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but sometimes being incredibly biased when voicing your opinion isn't called for.
Choking? How do you die from choking? You don't choke, you cough. There isn't supposed to be anything in your throat when you smoke aside from....smoke. You seem to think people who smoke haven't done any research before hand and that's a mistake. Most people that smoke know it's effects before they start. Nobody has choked to death from smoking weed and don't make me laugh with the "it effects you're friends and family". Never in my life have I seen anybody ruin their family with weed and I've smoked with literally hundreds of people. I've seen people who are hooked on coke, heroine, meth, who ruin their lives, but not weed. You don't seem to understand that with weed there isn't any physical addiction. That's a fact, not just something I'm saying to sway you. It is mentally addicting though if you get into a habit of it, but you're body doesn't need weed like it would if you were stopping crack or other "shit".
As far as cancer, you can't prove it and I can't prove anything against it. There are cancer causing chemicals in weed but there are also anti-cancer chemicals as well. Same with the phycosis thing, there are chemicals that promote phsycosis, but there are also anti physcotic chemicals as well. I actually wish they would research this a little more. I remember reading somewhere that it raises your risk of some cancers and lowers the risk of others. Increased risk of testicular cancer I beleive but I can't remember for sure.
I will state this though, there has never been a death directly related to weed (which is what choking to death like you said is) and you can't overdose on it either. You would need to smoke 40 pounds in under 15 minutes to die from it and if you happened to do that.....well, wow.
Drug user am I? So are all the alcohol drinkers, cig smokers. You take something for your headache? You're a drug user to then. What makes those drugs so much more different then weed? Oh yeah the government taxes those so they tell you it's ok. More people have died from taking advil and other over the counter meds.
If they make weed illegal because it's dangerous then surely you agree that alcohol should be as well... Alcohol impaires people in a way that makes them feel like their not that drunk even when they are. People who smoke weed know their impaired. That is the major difference. I have been drunk and said to my buddies I could drive home. Thank god they didn't let me because I was trying to get into the wrong car. I've smoked weed and I knew I was impaired.
Smoking weed doesn't fuck up you're vision or make you see two of anything. It doesn't make you stumble, it doesn't make you slur you're speech, it doesn't make you beat the fuck out of you're wife for looking at you sideways and it doesn't cause you and your best buddy to get into a fight over something stupid. It doesn't make you violent or angry like drinking does and your body isn't dependant on it if you stop. People who are addicted to alcohol are much much more addicted then people who smoke weed.
Just spend a few minutes looking it up so I could post the numbers. There is a ratio that people to see how much of something it takes to OD. Weed has a ratio on 1:40000, meaning however much it takes you to get high, it takes 40000 times more to kill you. You would be asleep a long time before that. In contrast, alcohol only has a ratio on 1:4 to 1:10. It's also pretty common for people to get alcohol poisoning without meaning to while with weed you can try all you want, you won't OD. It doesn't have anything to do with the amount of people smoking vs drinking, it's just a hell of a lot easier to die drinking ( unintentionally to boot) then it is to die smoking.
Before someone jumps down my throat about it, I consider myself an experienced smoker that knows what to expect from weed and how to handle the buzz. I've seen new smokers that can't control themselves like the ones that have been smoking for a while. Obviously if you're not an experienced smoker then you shouldn't do dumb things like drive. When I first got my license I made the mistake of driving high when I wasn't used to driving yet. Disaster, not because I was bad, but because I felt very "not in control" and that's not fun when your driving. I wasn't trusting my senses because I just wasn't used to driving. Even without weed I had trouble for a month or so after driving on my own. Now that I'm used to driving I'm alright but I still won't go to an area I'm not familer with. I can never find my way out again.... 
It does make you drive slower, it does make you more cautious because you are actually AWARE that you're high.
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