Thread: What are your opinions on Cannabis?

Originally Posted by Original Poster

DMT, on the other hand, should be encouraged at 12 and required at 18.

Is this a joke?

Originally Posted by Original Poster

DMT, on the other hand, should be encouraged at 12 and required at 18.

I still have yet to try DMT.
I can't wait till i try it, life doesnt even begin till you try DMT imo.

I think you need to develop the skill of independent thinking a little. :/

Originally Posted by Xei

Habitual Cannabis use in adolescence causes significant IQ reduction.

It's hardly a surprise that stewing a developing brain in psychotropics has negative effects. The other side of that study is that adult-onset use, even if habitual, has no lasting impact on IQ, though as UM pointed out if you go chronic for even a week or two, it can take nearly as long to get fully un-stoned.

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

Is this a joke?

I guess not. I think I'm kidding. Though I do seriously believe that DMT is better for the brain than public school.

Do whatever the hell you want as long as it doesn't annoy me.

Our brain produces DMT and we use it for dreams, funnily enough

Originally Posted by benzilla04

Our brain produces DMT and we use it for dreams, funnily enough

I am pretty sure that near death experiences are DMT trips.

Originally Posted by Xei

Habitual Cannabis use in adolescence causes significant IQ reduction.

I saw that story the other day as well. Note the way it says 'Habitual', i.e. "not occasional or recreation use". In other words, you have to smoke A LOT of dope to actually start seeing some negative side effects.


Personally, I think the world would be a far better place if everyone from housewives to politicians lit up a fatty once in a while.

Originally Posted by moSh

Personally, I think the world would be a far better place if everyone from housewives to politicians lit up a fatty once in a while.

I like your thinking

Originally Posted by Marvo

Drunk driving is illegal. Why does public intoxication need to be illegal?

Drinking something in public won't make me more likely to injure somebody else, or my self.

Ever been in the drinking district and seen someone intoxicated acting like an ass? Public intoxication isn't for those who behave...it's for those that can't behave while intoxicated. A way to get people off the street when you have no other charge.

Sort of like charging prostitutes with jay-walking.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Ever been in the drinking district and seen someone intoxicated acting like an ass? Public intoxication isn't for those who behave...it's for those that can't behave while intoxicated. A way to get people off the street when you have no other charge.

Sort of like charging prostitutes with jay-walking.

I honestly don't understand what you are saying. Why do you need a law to stop people from doing something that is already illegal? If you are in the street, making a racket, generally being a nuisance, you are breaking the law. We don't need to forbid drinking to stop that.

All of this is coming from a person who lives in the best country in the world, where we don't have laws that forbid public intoxication.

Originally Posted by Marvo

All of this is coming from a person who lives in the best country in the world, where we don't have laws that forbid public intoxication.

What country is the best country in the world?

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

What country is the best country in the world?

North Korea, of course.

Are you trying to sell us on the idea you live there now?

I'm all about it. As far as DMT goes, only those who are prepared. It isn't for everyone.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Ever been in the drinking district and seen someone intoxicated acting like an ass? Public intoxication isn't for those who behave...it's for those that can't behave while intoxicated. A way to get people off the street when you have no other charge.

Sort of like charging prostitutes with jay-walking.

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Public Intox is not for people acting like an ass, it's for people endangering themselves or others. If someone is passed out on a highway, that's when you give them public intox. If they're just being drunk, the police have no place to interfere. People get drunk sometimes, deal with it.

I hate my fucking state, this girl I know cut herself while she was drunk so her friends called the paramedic to stop her from bleeding to death and the cops gave her a public intox once she was in the ambulance. They are the biggest fucking assholes ever.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

I hate my fucking state, this girl I know cut herself while she was drunk so her friends called the paramedic to stop her from bleeding to death and the cops gave her a public intox once she was in the ambulance. They are the biggest fucking assholes ever.

wow, that's pretty damn evil.

Public intox means a whole different thing in the US. you can't even drink outdoors in most places. This Czech girl I know said that the US was a police state. Her reason: "you can't drink anywhere". Not even in the park.

Pretty odd by European standards.

Originally Posted by IndieAnthias

wow, that's pretty damn evil.

Public intox means a whole different thing in the US. you can't even drink outdoors in most places. This Czech girl I know said that the US was a police state. Her reason: "you can't drink anywhere". Not even in the park.

Pretty odd by European standards.

The law in Norway states that you can't drink in places where you can be easily seen from public places. So it's technically illegal to drink in your own garden, if it can be viewed from the road.

Originally Posted by khh

The law in Norway states that you can't drink in places where you can be easily seen from public places. So it's technically illegal to drink in your own garden, if it can be viewed from the road.

Is that enforced? If so I'll stop presuming to speak for the whole continent. There are signs up in England that say something to the effect of, 'This is a designated public place, so don't get pissed off if the cops tell you you are too beligerant to keep drinking here'. I'll try to remember to take a picture of one tomorrow.

Originally Posted by IndieAnthias

Is that enforced? If so I'll stop presuming to speak for the whole continent. There are signs up in England that say something to the effect of, 'This is a designated public place, so don't get pissed off if the cops tell you you are too beligerant to keep drinking here'. I'll try to remember to take a picture of one tomorrow.

No. You couldn't enforce it. It's considered a perfectly normal thing to do.

The practical reality is that it's considered (mostly) acceptable to drink in parks or other outdoor areas, but frowned upon to drink actually on the street or the subway station or such. As long as you're sober enough to take care of yourself and not causing trouble, the police will leave you alone though. At the most they might ask you to put away the alcohol or ask you to leave. And if you do get completely shit faced beyond the point where you can take care of yourself, you'll just get to spend the rest of the night in a cell at the police house (provided it isn't full yet). No charges or troubles or fines or anything.

In most of the U.S., open container laws are enforced fairly strictly but public intox is only used if someone's drunkenness is causing a problem. You see people wobbling in droves every night in any college town or bar district.

Not all the U.S. In Utah, they take public intox very seriously. See the story I mentioned above. They actually sit outside bars and wait for people to walk home in order to bust them for public intox. Because... obviously if people have been drinking they should just drive home.

Anyone seen a group of Brits on holiday in a sunny country? Fucking shameful to watch. We're surely the worst drinkers.