Thread: Tell me not to smoke pot

I think you should probably just go and try it. If you felt you had to make this thread, that makes me think you probably will regardless at some point. I was pretty much the same way, but I never really had the access and never tried to get it. I didn't even drink until I was 21.

When I had the opportunity I tried pot and and didn't get much out of it. I tried it once more and still didn't enjoy it. I'd say if you feel like you should try it, try it in a safe, friendly environment and make up your own mind. I think you are rational enough to know what is good for your life and what is not.

I DO NOT WANT YOU TO CONVINCE ME TO SMOKE.

I WANT YOU TO CONVINCE ME NOT TO SMOKE!

Please, stop telling me 'it's fine' and 'there's no harm'. That's not what I want to hear. Please, you make think you are helping, but you are not. Thank you.

We know that we're not helping you. We just think this topic is ridiculous. It's completely inconsequential.

Convince me not to eat a cheeseburger for lunch!!

Who the fuck cares?

You've come to the wrong place for that.

Don't fucking tell us to give you the advice you want. We will give you whatever advice we deem is the best advice.

Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed

You've come to the wrong place for that.

Don't fucking tell us to give you the advice you want. We will give you whatever advice we deem is the best advice.

It truly is the Dreamviews way.

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

I DO NOT WANT YOU TO CONVINCE ME TO SMOKE.

I WANT YOU TO CONVINCE ME NOT TO SMOKE!

Please, stop telling me 'it's fine' and 'there's no harm'. That's not what I want to hear. Please, you make think you are helping, but you are not. Thank you.

Doesn't that seem kind of pointless then? You're telling us what to tell you. You can go ahead and tell yourself that, but we won't tell you what you want us to tell you, we'll tell you what you need to be told.

'Convince' is the key word, but I do see that I am not making much sense. I am sorry for that, but I figured a few people may be able to tell me storied of how pot fucked up their lives.

Please close this thread, I realize how stupid it is.

Pot doesn't fucked up a person's life. They do.

RiaD, I understand what you're asking, but it really is impossible.

Unless we throw a whole bunch of lies and propaganda at you to scare you out of the desire to smoke pot. Which, no one in their right mind would ever try and do, as spreading harmful propaganda about cannabis is more dangerous than letting people smoke it legally.

We've told you the dangers(re: there really are none) and the positives. All that can be done is you make that decision yourself.

What I'm going to suggest is to go ahead and try it. Get the desire out of your system. You may like it or you might not. Either way the desire is out of your system. That and you'll be able to make a personal decision about pot, instead of basing your socio-political opinions on propaganda or hearsay.


Edit: And I don't have a personal anti-pot horror story... but I can tell you about how my cousin's life got fucked up because of pot.

A. is my cousin, he's older than me by 4 years but we've always been close.
He introduced me to pot when I was 15 and he was a Senior in high school. He was a decent student and was merit roll in high school all 4 years. He went to college at Georgia Tech.
He needed some extra cash for living expenses in his freshman year so he took it upon himself to grow 10 plants in the attic of the apartment he shared with 3 other GA Tech students to harvest and sell to a dealer friend of his. He was looking at making anywhere from $1,000 to $9,000 depending on how large his harvest would be.
There was a house party when his plants were about 8 weeks old. He got into a fight, whilst drunk, with one of his room mate's guests. He couldn't kick him out as he was invited by J. so they separated. A. went into the basement where the pong games were and the other guy made his way into the attic. He found the plants and the next day, being a spiteful fuck, he called the police and reported them... he took a few pictures as proof.
A. and his 3 room mates were arrested, although only A. and J. knew about it. They were each being charged with felony possession, felony growing and felony paraphernalia(there were some bongs/pipes around the house).
A. took full blame to get his friends off the charges and ended up going to prison for a year and a half. He wasn't able to return to school, as the government passed a law stating that anyone with drugs in their criminal record couldn't get any financial aid, either state or federal(although murderers and rapists can and do go to school on the government's dime)
He couldn't afford the tuition, and couldn't find a good job as most places won't hire a convicted felon.
He was going for an Engineering degree, he would potentially be making 45k+ if he graduated, but he didn't so he's working part time at McDonalds and part time at a car wash making minimum wage at both jobs.
And he's got 2 more years left on his probation, where he has to go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings weekly and has to meet with his P.O. twice monthly and take a urinalysis.

So I guess you could attribute that to pot.

But I'd say it was more the government's archaic, racist, retarded anti-pot laws that fucked up my cousin's life. And alcohol.

Your unconscious is far more aware of the benefits of pot than your conscious self me thinks.

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

My dreams are presuring me into smoking, and I need someone to convince me not to smoke. I am my own peer pressure, so I can't help myself.

I'm a police officer. Do not smoke pot.

Originally Posted by DeathCell

Your unconscious is far more aware of the benefits of pot than your conscious self me thinks.

Subconcious, not unconcious.

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

Subconcious, not unconcious.

No - unconscious.

The term "subconscious," while common in lay speech and pop psychology, is not recognized among serious psychologists and is never used in academic writing. Which makes sense, because Freud himself (the originator of all that unconscious mind nonsense) used the term unconscious, not subconscious. He recognized very early on that the term subconscious was ambiguous and misleading, and divided it into the terms 'unconscious' and 'preconscious' over 100 years ago. As if this weren't enough, the term has become so hackneyed today that it can be taken to mean any number of things depending on what one thinks it is. Best to avoid using it altogether.

Oh. Well then.