Children have only been around since the beginning, and therefore children are more apt to adapt than we give them credit for. When they become teens, they want to be known as adults. When they become adults, they are apt to remember rebellious attitudes with laughter. Since children are so adapting, they can handle plenty. There are some odd positive effects on the child from an abusing parent. This isn’t a defense of the substance abuser, but just to shed light on a rarely discussed issue.
Children of substance abusers—whether it’s alcohol or illegal drugs—are able to handle extreme stress, disruption, and change. However, there is also the danger of the child taking on too much. For a substance abusing mother to put a load on a daughter to help with another child rarely turns out well. It’s important for each adult to take their place within the family, serving as the first role models and the first line of defense against substance abuse.
I have a 4 year old son and it is really difficult raising him. It has been a complete shock switching from taking care of only myself to taking care of him. I’ve often thought “How can parents make correct decisions intoxicated?” How can you tell when to punish your children? I spank my son because I was raised that way and do not have the patience for timeout. But, there is no way that I could judge when to spank him if I was still smoking pot or drinking. It would be impossible. I’m just grateful that neither one of my parents drank or did drugs. I guess that I was lucky.
Generally speaking, you probably shouldn’t spank your kid. I seriously doubt a 4-year-old has doing anything even remotely worthy of being hit for. As for your comparison of alcohol and cannabis–that’s kind of ignorant on your part; the two drugs are very dissimilar. Between being sober, drunk, or high–if you hit your kid sober, you probably will do the same intoxicated. However, between alcohol and cannabis, alcohol is far more likely to increase violent behavior than cannabis is.
“No violence link
Psychoactive Substances and Violence, a 1994 report conducted by the US Justice Information Center, concluded: “Of all psychoactive substances alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6484653.stm
–Do some research before you open your mouth.–
Alcohol violence – http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa38.htm
Alcohol effects – http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/alcohol/alcohol_effects.shtml
Cannabis effects- http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_effects.shtml
I’m in all academic and advanced placement classes and i get 70s-90s in all my classes while smoking pot every single day. it relieves stress buildup and lightens the mood. yes i understand there are stupid people that smoke pot. but they were stupid long before they starting smoking pot so please stop using false information to try and brainwash people into thinking pot is the devils working when its not. thank you!
hello Mr. I know every thing about pot Admin
If you really think spanking and abuse on a kid is all right but smoking weed is wrong you have issues. Not only is weed way better for than alcohol you cant over dose on it and there for cant directly be affected by it immediately in a harmful manner.
But now look at your little kid he is directly being abused at the moment and could quite possibly be effected for life for the decision you have made to abuse him at such a young age. At least when you smoke pot its a victim less crime wich you cant stand for so instead you victimize your kid.
Way to go I bet your proud of yourself
Admin is retarded, Themanwiththehat hit the nail on the head
I strongly believe that alcohol should be illegal. It is the cause of adultery, abuse, assault, feelings of self pitty, and intoxicates the soul.
I attend a top 25 university and I smoke a ton of weed.
the admin’s a idiot
this whole sites about how he was “addicted” to marijuana and how it “almost ruined his life”
hahahahaha
what a joke!!
are you doing this for attention or what?
this whole site seems like one big troll
lol
Children are bright enough to know that our paranoid legal treatment of cannabis is totally wrong, and the longer we keep these lies up the longer our kids will look back and shake their heads. Oh yeah, and this site is filled with unfunny lies. Show me the victims of cannabis – bring em out!
My god this website is epic fail. Just like the entire Drug War against Pot, epic fails. Legalize it!
I am a father of 3 and i smoke weed. Alot of weed. Every single person that knows me tells me that I’m one of the best parents they have ever seen. Weed doesn’t make you into anything, it doesn’t change you. You can’t blame a substance for just plain ole being a bad person. People need to stop blaming others and things for their shortcomings. If your an abusive person, chances are there is a reason, and it isn’t because you have been drinking or smoking. You may be ignoring your problems and just getting messed up, but really that’s you being an idiot.
This site is nothing but disinformation. It makes me sick to see this website in operation. I don’t understand how people can sit here and not only lie to everyone, but to lie to themselves. Don’t blame a drug, blame yourself for being lazy and stupid.
I smoke for recreation, to ease my arthritis and because i just plain love it. Alot of stuff i have read on this website makes me think about how much a good shrink can help people that obviously have major issues in their lives. Smoking weed isn’t the best thing for people with deep problems that they just don’t want to deal with. It’s as bad as getting drunk because you are upset. It’s just a plain bad idea.
This place turns my stomach. I’m never coming back again, because i don’t like to be near stuff at the level that it is being dolled out here. You people really really have some funny ideas about your shortcomings. If you can’t handle weed or alcohol then stay away from it, just don’t sit here blaming a substance for being a douchebag. Chances are you have been one for a long time before you met the sweet god giving plant Cannabis.
Pathetic.
“I strongly believe that alcohol should be illegal. It is the cause of adultery, abuse, assault, feelings of self pity, and intoxicates the soul.”
Really? Ive been drinking for years and it’s never made me do things. A BAD person cheats on their wife. I can’t believe I’m reading crap like this. Pass the buck onto anything but yourselves i guess. If that’s what makes you feel better right? STOP giving disinformation. A substance doesn’t change who you are. You do the bad things, you are the problem. Fix YOURSELF.
If you can’t handle drugs and alcohol, then don’t do them. Go talk to a shrink if you can’t stop cheating on your wife or beating your kids. I can’t believe people actually try to use that excuse. The weed made me do it? LOL right douchebag.
Stupid people do stupid things. So yes, please stay away from intoxicating yourself and seek help. Just don’t tell everyone else they are as messed up as you are and it’s the weed doing it.
Complete disinformation on this whole website. Whoever made this website is obviously just one of those book smart idiots. Dude, your still retarded, i think we can safely say it isn’t the weed.
Yeah, I smoke weed about once a week and I get descent grades. But I have a friend who smokes weed every day and gets straight As.
I’ve never heard of anyway having their schoolwork or life in general made any worse from smoking weed. And I hang out with a lot of pot smokers.
If you smoked pot you would probably be too lazy to spank your kid. You might actually develop the patience to do a non-violent time-out punishment.
you said it your self, “you don’t the patience for time out” if you cant find the discipline and patience to not hit your kids and put them in a 30 min time out (which is an eternity for children) then you prob shouldn’t be doing drugs or even having kids. your a noob, please for the sake of humanity learn how to educate your self and have some self control, you’ll find that life will control you less and you will control life more. Your lack of discipline and patience is exactly why you became an addict of one of the least addicting drugs. Shelter your self from life, you cant handle drugs, emotions, or children. on top of this you feel compelled to make a website claiming to be a victim of marijuana when in fact your a victim of a weak mind. Frankly, anyone who believes a word of this site is likely lacking in intelligence and natural selection and Darwinism will weed (pun intended) them out.
Themanwiththehat is correct. Please do your research Mr, Admin. We’re trying to clean up the smear you are leaving on fellow pot-smokers and their reputations. We’re peaceful people, simply trying to live life happily as nature intended – free to ingest and inhale what we want without hurting those around us. Just because you were too immature to control your drug use and maintain a healthy habit, doesn’t make it so for everyone.
Admin, admin, admin, you’re so wrong that I’m glad these guys (most of them) tried talking sense into you before I got nast(y/ier).
Kindly shut the hell up and read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
when you are high off this ” Marijuana ” you are twice as likely to be in a car accident than if you were sober
and beating your kid is not so good either.
if you are drunk you are 6 times more likely to be in an accident than if u were not
marijuana has caused 0.000000000000 deaths in the last 5,000 years of use
Tobacco kills 5,000,000 people world wide each year.
50 million in 10 years , 100 million in 20 years , you get the idea same with alcohol
in order to over dose on marijuana you will need to smoke 1,500 lbs in 15 mins
( around 650 joints per second )
with alcohol 18 beers in 1 sitting is all it takes.
marijuana can ruin lifes just like any other drug it just depends on the person.
oh and btw i don’t do drugs , i dont even smoke or drink alcohol
IS this site a joke? I mean really is it meant to make me laugh? After reading what people have said it obvious that 90percent of the people here smoke weed. This site is nothing more then something for us to laugh at.
Thanks to the perceptual awareness marijuana has helped me to gain, I now can see into the mind of a child, and I understand the errors in the typical parent’s disciplinary action. You must be firm, and teach good values, yes, but setting rules & limitations, and physically disciplining a child without providing an adequate and just reason, that the child can make sense of, will only lead
him to rebel and lose respect for you. Unless your definition of respect equals fear.
That is when you run the risk of your child becoming a drug abuser. If you provide misinformation, he will be confused, and will be subject to listening to what his friends have to say about it, who will probably be as misinformed as this website.
If you give him the truth, you can teach him that there is a time and a place for everything, that there is a difference between marijuana and drugs that are simply harmful for you, such as cigarettes, crack, cocaine, heroin, OTCs and prescriptions that are abused, etc. You can teach him that while marijuana is not bad, it is not to be abused either, provided you have an accurate view of what abuse really is.
You can teach him that his friends and others are going to be misinformed and immature, and to be careful to avoid their bad habits that will negatively influence him.
Children are more perceptive than parents realize. They often know when their parents are being stupid in one way or another.
If you have respect for yourself, you will treat your child with respect. He will perceive that when you actually do get really upset about something, there is a very good reason. He will grow to not want to disappoint you, not out of fear, but because he does not want to disappoint the person he looks up to the most.
And that is why he will believe you when you tell him there are times when marijuana is NOT a good idea, such as when he has homework to do, and hopefully you will have provided him with a very good reason as to WHY he should do his homework, not that he should simply do it because he is told so.
Also, if you have the correct attitude about marijuana, he won’t have to hang out with the wrong crowd, because IF HE SO CHOOSES to use marijuana, he can do so in a SAFE environment.
I know several parents who smoke marijuana and have educated their children on it. And what do you know? they aren’t even interested in using marijuana. They understand that it is not bad, but also decide for themselves that SMOKING in itself is bad, and say things like “If I were ever going to use marijuana, I would eat it instead of smoke it, because smoking is bad.” These are kids that are 10-12 years old. Very good and respectful kids that don’t act out. I swear upon my life and all that is sacred in this world that this is true.
If you want your child to not become a substance abuser, give him the truth, the WHOLE truth, the real pros and cons of the things in the world around him. If you are a good parent he will make the right decision on his own based on the facts, without the need for tyranny. If he one day discovers you have been feeding him lies the whole time, he will lose vast amounts of respect for
you. Respect yourself enough to be a good role model; respect the child to gain his respect, and keep it. On the other hand, discipline him with fear, lies, or disrespect, and you have lost.
Personally marijuana has increased my appreciation for my family. When I am under the influence I find it much harder to be selfish, I am more giving, selfless, and understand all too well the importance of having a good relationship with your family, no matter how rude or lost some of them might be. Exuding positivity at all times is the only way to win over evil, and it really does work. People will decide for themselves that it is much richer to be respectful of life, themselves, and family.
For me personally, marijuana was a spiritual awakening, and I have ALWAYS been against substance abuse, because I have seen its negativity for myself. Marijuana has brought me much closer to “Christ Consciousness” than I would ever have been without it, but being that that is something personal, and that marijuana is definitely not for everybody, I don’t force anything upon anybody. I may provide information, and my own experiences, but I do not force anything upon anybody.
And that is what you want to say no to?
I agree with pretty much everyone except Admin. Sorry man but you are wrong about everything that you say. Pot doesnt ruin your life I think if anything ruins your life its being an uptight parent who doesnt know how to properly raise their children. Do some research before talking badly about Cannabis. People like you piss me off.
please excuse the lack of proper formatting in the above comment, I’d did not appear that way at all in the text box
Also I would like to add that you should be able to choose wether or not you want to partake in smoking.
to rolling… 18 beers can kill the average man(160pounds) at 6 beers you be making a complete ass of yourself and falling all over the place (160 pounds)
of course tolerance comes into question here but that’s the average(I’m talking by pints of course
“Children have only been around since the beginning, and therefore children are more apt to adapt than we give them credit for. When they become teens, they want to be known as adults. When they become adults, they are apt to remember rebellious attitudes with laughter.”
This paragraph is a jumbled mess of nonsense. Whatever you were trying to communicate was lost in a fiery blaze of pseudo-intellectual douchery. Please try again. On second though, don’t.
Just to let you know, if it weren’t for pot, i would still be shooting up heroin and smoking crack.
Pot helps me stay away from hard drugs, the reason it is a gateway drug is because of prohibition.
Please think twice, and don’t let the media fool you.
Question authority.
admin – please please please stop being a dumbass. sincerely, a functional pot smoker with a great life
With regards to what has been said by the administrator, I am utterly flabbergasted that in this day and age with everything we currently know about the effects of marijuana that someone like yourself can continue to spit crass and uneducated lies about the drug.
I have been smoking marijuana for 54 years. I am 67 years old and started my own company from the ground up. I have two daughters who are both college educated and married with kids of their own now. Never in all of my experience of raising a family and starting a company did me or my wife ever feel marijuana changed who we were or was in slightest bit responsible for any negative action or bad decision we ever made.
Quite frankly, it is my belief that you would be doing the community a true service by shutting this site down immediately. In your heart, if you truly believe lying to be immoral you will take such actions.
Regards,
Arnold Wescott
Hitting your child because you’re too lazy and stupid to think of another way of disciplining them? Admin, you’re obviously a horrible parent. I feel sorry for your poor son.
@Admin
I will not spare you any insult, because you are a complete dumb***. You spank your child? I hope you know that is child abuse. It is considered child abuse by nearly every counselor and psychologist in existence today. They have connected spanking with self-destructive behavior in adolescence, such as drug use and abuse, self-inflicted physical punishment such as cutting, hitting oneself with blunt objects, or slamming their head, and mental and emotional problems such as anxiety, mania, rage, and depression.
I should know, because I was raised by a nutcase Dad like yourself, who spanked me whenever I did something “wrong”. Well, turns out that I stopped going to church with my dad because I lost all respect for him, and I did not know how to properly control my anger or emotions without inflicting physical pain or harm upon myself, or if I made a mistake or did something wrong, I would punch the wall as hard as I could with an unprotected fist, or I would slam my head against the wall or desk and end up getting a concussion because that’s the only way I know how to punish or scold myself…is by inflicting pain upon myself, because I had pain inflicted upon me when I was little.
The admin obviously has no idea what dramatic effects this is going to have on their child, and should not be a parent, at all.
The abuse I suffered as a little boy is probably the direct cause of my choice to use just about every illegal drug out there, except for PCP and crack cocaine. It was probably an influential factor when I attempted to steal from a grocery store in my adolescence. It was most likely the cause of the anxiety and depression I have suffered since the age of 13, before I ever started using illegal drugs.
Get a clue, admin. Thanks to people like you, the current generation is plagued by a ton of problems due to terrible parenting.
And pot is not a harmful substance. In fact, if you were under the influence of marijuana, you would never hit your child because you would be docile and calm under it’s effects. Which would be a good thing, since your child would not grow up to have the same emotional and mental problems as someone like me, or the thousands of other children that go through child abuse daily.
Alcohol on the other hand, is a harmful substance. It is responsible for nearly all domestic violence calls in the United States. A man was shot in my small town by a police deputy just this last 4th of July because he was under the influence of alcohol and became violent.
People do not become violent under the influence of marijuana. Period. Reefer Madness is a joke of a film and nearly everyone who still has a brain knows how much bullshit it is and how it is completely twisted propaganda.
The reasons why marijuana was given a bad reputation and was stigmatized in the early 20th century were racist and capitalist in nature: A man named Harry J. Anslinger had some nutjob ideas about cannabis in the 1930’s. Here are some of them:
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”
“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”
“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”
“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”
I smoke marijuana regularly, and I can attest that all of those “reasons” provided by Anslinger are complete bull****. But go ahead, keep spewing your brainwashed opinions. You and those who hold the same opinions as you are in the minority, as the majority of America has woken up and realized that marijuana is not addictive, it’s much safer than tobacco and alcohol and most pharmaceutical drugs. It does not cause lung cancer. It has many medical benefits, including being the most effective and least expensive anti-emetic for cancer and AIDS patients, and an effective painkiller that is not addictive like narcotics such as oxycodone and heroin are, which can cause overdose deaths. Cannabis has never caused a single death from overdose, ever. But Oxycodone? Thousands per year. Heroin? Thousands more. Even tylenol kills 9,000 Americans every year to overdose.
Also, the capitalist reasons why marijuana is illegal: Big tobacco didn’t want to lose profits to sales of marijuana, DuPont lumber didn’t want to lose profits due to the enormous amounts of fiber the Cannabis plant can produce (4x as much wood pulp as trees per acre), the pharmaceutical industry didn’t want to be edged out by natural remedies such as cannabis (much like how you cannot make poppy tea without going to prison, yet if you have chronic pain you are given a powerful synthetic narcotic which has much more harmful effects).
I don’t mind if you ban me, because I’m not going to visit this website again, since it is full of blatant lies and brainwashed ranting. I just want you to get a ******* clue.
I personally know five adults in my very small hometown of about 10,000 people that smoke marijuana regularly and they are millionaires, and they made their money legitimately. The president of the United States smoked marijuana. He even did cocaine occasionally. I’ll bet even some of the people you work for smoke pot. Some of the businessmen and women next to you on the bus ride to work smoke pot, and they still hold jobs and take care of their families and love them. So, obviously, you have the wrong views of marijuana. Have a good day, and I hope you change your ways about abusing your child.
Brain,
How long do you think “time out” has existed? Because, if spanking your children was such a terrible thing then most of the adults in the world should be banging their heads on the wall and smoking crack.
There is a big difference between spanking your children and beating them. My son has actually laughed at me before because I didn’t spank him hard enough with my hand.
You sound like someone who was abused and also have some other mental problems. Let me tell you a little story about my cousin. His parents just yelled at their kids when they did something wrong. Instead of getting up and doing something about the situation, they just yelled. Well after a while these kids (my cousins) realized that daddy and mommy weren’t going to discipline them. Mommy and daddy just made threats and never followed through with any discipline.
Well my cousin David (one of the boys) is now dead after being shot by a drug dealer in South Carolina. My aunt and uncle said he went to rehab a few times and never had the ability to get sober. Was it because his parents never disciplined him for anything?? Are the practicing pot smokers sitting on the couch yelling at their kids and instead of getting up to do anything at all?? I think the chances are much higher than you think.
I believe that if you don’t discipline your children in some way they are screwed. Children see the lack of discipline as lack of love. If you’re stoned more than likely you are going to just “yell”.
Smoking pot makes you lazy. I doubt you pot smoking parents are getting off the couch to discipline your children at all.
Admin, your ignorance and slander is absolutely outrageous. Do you really consider yourself a self-respecting human being?
To say that the poster Brian sounds like he was abused and has mental problems is disgustingly immature, and slanderous. I could VERY…and I stress VERY easily say the same thing about you, but unlike you, I respect myself enough that I prefer my comments to have some true substance.
Honestly, you sound like a person who cannot face the fact that they are losing an argument and have to resort to such immature tactics as unsubstantiated defamation of character.
Allow me to debunk some of your erroneous statements:
Smoking pot does not make you lazy. Smoking too much or low grade pot possibly could, for sure (I am being fair here, unlike you), but smoking pot makes me and many others quite the opposite of lazy. For me personally, it gives me energy and inspires me to play music, as well as to make the very most of my time here on Earth. It makes me want to LIVE life to the fullest, to do something IMPORTANT with my sacred time. It makes me want to make the world a better place for future generations. I have met countless other people who also feel that it gives them energy, such as energy and inspiration to get outside and work in the garden., energy and inspiration to go for a bike ride. energy and inspiration to be healthy in all aspects of life, energy and inspiration to read something interesting–I could go on and on in this manner.
Secondly, most pot smokers are far less likely to YELL than non pot-smokers, because they realize the idiocy of yelling in general. Your logic here fails.
And of course, if pot was legal, nobody would have to deal with drug dealers
Your “time-out” logic also fails. Firstly because it is unclear whether you are arguing for or against time-out, and I assure you that is your fault and not mine. How long do you think “time-out” has existed? Probably as long as prostitution, terrorism, propaganda (such as the propaganda and faulty perception you perpetuate). But that is not to say I would not use the “time-out” method in an appropriate situation.
You yourself said “I spank my son because I was raised that way and do not have the patience for timeout.” I could make assumptions about your upbringing, but I have dignity.
And it’s funny you say that, because pot smokers are often some of the most patient people you will ever find. Your son has laughed at you for not spanking him hard enough? It sounds to me like he doesn’t respect you. If he did, the fact that you were spanking him alone would be enough for him to feel bad that he has disappointed his greatest role model. Apparently you aren’t quite the role model you fancy yourself to be. Fear and respect are not the same thing. While I agree that a parent should be a parent and not a “friend,” patience goes a long way towards gaining a child’s respect. I do not have all the answers to parenting, but certainly neither do you. I can tell you though, that babysitting many different children I have encountered very few problems.
Allow me to explain. As I’ve said, patience goes a long way towards gaining a child’s respect. A child will act out in order to test your limits. When you let him do things that are perfectly natural for a child to do, without being unjust and overly controlling, the child will notice that you only get upset when he does things that he ACTUALLY shouldn’t do. And when you patiently provide a good reason for why he shouldn’t do that, he will integrate it into his way of thinking and choose for himself to not do bad things.
Spanking is a last resort. In my experience I have never had to resort to that, because I make it known that I am the one with the power, and I very well COULD give a spanking, but I have gained the child’s respect, and it never has to come to that. I promise you, I know a lot pot-smoking parents with some of the most well-behaved children I have ever encountered in my life.
My dad spanked me when I was a child. He is a very short-tempered and childish man. But you know what? I have the spiritual insights that I have learned laregely to marijuana to thank, for keeping him very close in my heart, no matter how wrong his attitude and actions are. Before I smoked pot I wanted nothing to do with him. Now I want to spend as much time with him as I can. That is a very personal story and I swear to God if you find a way to attack it or be disrespectful about it then you sincerely have no respect for yourself.
You are the biggest idiot ever admin.
I don’t even have to yell at my kids, they feel ashamed when i correct them. I don’t beat them, and i rarely have to even put them in time out. I think my 7 year old has been in time out 5 times in his life. He is the smartest little guy in his class, and he is always the one to help the teacher out if she needs help. I don’t think i could ask for better kids than i have. I am very proud of them. My wife and i spend extra time teaching them and helping them with their schoolwork every night, we are involved in our kids lives at ever aspect. Nothing is more important than raising and loving them.
If you were and are a good parent you wouldn’t be so focused on disciplining them. You definitely wouldn’t have to result to physical punishment. No one deserves to be hit, especially a child who looks up to you. Your not only a idiot, but you sure do have some jacked up ideas about how to raise kids. You need to take a parenting class and possibly be medicated.
I think someone should report you for beating your kids. I mean you admitted it publicly here. All a law enforcement officer would have to do is just log on to your retarded website and skim through a few pages to find the evidence. Even they would laugh at you. You are the ultimate fail story man.
I teach my kids peace, love and respect. I also teach them not to put up with people like you. I teach them to defend themselves if needed. I’m a Marine at heart, and i believe everyone should be able to defend themselves regardless if they want to harm someone or not. I’m a damn good parent and so is my wife. My wife works with children in the school system. She is 3rd in command at the elementary school she works at. Is she a horrible person because she smokes now and then?
You need to realize that you ****** up your own life. You need to understand that you don’t beat kids. you need to figure out that not everyone is irresponsible as you have been in the past. I pity your ignorance. You blame everything on Cannabis so you don’t have to own any of the blame yourself, then you focus your hate on it because you want to believe that a simple herb was your downfall and that you were the victim.
You can’t pas the buck like that. Be a man for once in your life and own up to everything. It’s all your fault, and blaming anyone or anything for your failures will only cause you to do the same thing again.
But what do i know? I’m just a pot smoking idiot right? My life is going perfect, i don’t beat my kids, and I’m not addicted to anything but my wife. I served in the military, i furthered my education, i am raising a family. What exactly am i failing at here? Oh yeah, i smoke pot. you couldn’t handle your life and blamed weed, so weed must be why I’m a bad person. Tell me what am i doing that is bad in your mind then? I’m an adult who takes responsibility for his own actions, i raise my family right, and everyone is happy and loved unconditionally in my household.
You need to put your foot in your mouth, because what you keep saying makes no sense at all. I’m going to go smoke a bowl now, because i had a hard day at work and the kids are in bed. I have horrible arthritis, and the herb is sooo good to me. The pills were literally killing me, and i was sick all the time. Thank the gods my doctor turned me onto Cannabis again or i would probably still be addicted to the shit that was killing my organs. I really do love smoking weed, and i would it do even if i didn’t have cronic pain.
“I believe that if you don’t discipline your children in some way they are screwed. Children see the lack of discipline as lack of love. If you’re stoned more than likely you are going to just “yell”.
Smoking pot makes you lazy. I doubt you pot smoking parents are getting off the couch to discipline your children at all.”
Fortunately, your doubts don’t constitute fact. Your opinions don’t either. It’s too bad your site is nothing but both.
I’m the father of two. I smoke daily. The majority of my free time in spent in direct interaction with my children. Unlike most American families (most likely including yours,) I don’t allow the television to raise my kids for me.
Discipline and respect are symbiotic. The discipline you provide is only heeded if your child respects you, and a child’s respect will stem from coherent and tempered discipline.
I provide my children with both, with very little need of physical reprimands. A measured and controlled approach to your child’s discipline can include time outs and spanking.
Spanking can easily become the refuge of the lazy parent. I contend that I can smoke marijuana and still provide proper discipline. It’s sad too see you resort to attacking pot smokers on such baseless nonsense.
Kada,
So the police need to come and arrest me for spanking my son. Maybe the opposite is true and they need to go to your home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Because, I doubt you have a legal prescription for that marijuana that you are smoking right now. Do you know that your computer can be tracked all the way back to your home address. Isn’t that amazing.
Wait is that a knock on your front door that I hear now?
Or maybe it’s in Elton, Louisiana where Bizzle lives.
Admin, you are persistently sinking to new lows. You cannot provide an intelligent response for the arguments posed against you, so you focus on the most trivial of the comments you receive to draw attention away from that fact.
Also you resort to what almost comes across as police threats. Let me tell you that I have been arrested for marijuana once. But let me also tell you that I have more respect for my fellow human being, for “God”, for the earth that gives me life, for my family, an so on, than a staggering majority of people I meet.
Long story short, I have *unconditional* love towards my family , I am humble, I go out of my way to help people where others wouldn’t, I am kind, respectful towards all walks of life, well-mannered, and show people positivity even in the face of negativity. I don’t know how to explain myself. Basically I have a big heart and care a lot. If we were able to meet in person, you would be left with a positive feeling about me, without doubt. I am also known to be one of the most responsible and clear-headed of persons by the people who know me. I honor truth and goodness above all things.
The only “crime” that I commit is marijuana. Do you honestly feel that a good person, a perfectly decent human being, should be put in jail for an absurd law? In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation. While there may be spiritual reasons to discourage such a thing, I highly doubt that your son, when he is coming to terms with puberty, deserves decapitation, or even imprisonment. Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned for four months, arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant.
By the way, in all the years I have lived in Louisiana, I have never heard of Elton. I looked it up, its over 70 miles from where I live.
I sincerely wish you the very best in your quest to find and do what is right here on Earth.
One love – One love refers to the universal love and respect expressed by all people for all people, regardless of race, creed, or color. For me personally, marijuana is a spiritual sacrament. Please do not persecute me, as I am an honest, good person. I urge that you do the right thing and cease spreading lies and misinformation, which only leads to further separation between human beings. Especially when you are attacking something that creates far more positivity than negativity. One love.
If you intend on threatening the lives of your site’s contributors, you might want to include a note suggesting such before we’re allowed to post.
Poor form. You can’t provide data for your accusations, so you launch ad hominem attacks. When those fail, you threaten to reveal the location of the users.
Absolutely disgusting.
I take offence to this site,it is based on one persons bad exsperiance with a natural unharmful substance.
Using the logic of this web site ……..it means all police are bad because one cop in L.A. made a women perform felatio at gun point during a traffic stop.
I am sorry you had a bad exsperiance with this substance….not all people have those results,infact just the opposite happens in most cases.I live in california where it is basically legal and most consider it medicine,not a harmful drug.I could cite thousands of true life stories from young people to elderly people that it has made thier lives a much better existence.
My grandma who is 80 plus years old consumes marijuana for its health benifits in many foods that she makes,she gets no buzz effect from these low doses and maintains a healthy lifestyle….the doctors see no downsides to her using the plant in this way and have condoned its use.
Just because certain people in society lack self controll ,should the rest of us be denied thier use ……?
People have all sorts of addictions and battles with things as simple as food,such as obesity,bolemia etc…should we all be denied food….?
People abuse pain medications ,does that mean we should deny them to the people who are in pain and are suffering too…?
Just because a few people choose to over indulge and cannot function properly or do not meet with the lifestyle you choose to live,does that mean these things have no benifit….absolutly not,it just means some people have no controll and let situations get out of hand and choose to be consumed with them…….in other words the run wild with it and have no controll over themselves.
It has been proven in studies that these addictive/compulsive type personalities will use anything from food to cleaning as a outlet to manifest thier addictive obsessive personality………..you may know someone like this who cleans the house every day untill the nap of the carpet lays a certain way….or has to have everything organized in a perfect order. These same people will use liquor,food and other things in the same way and will have problems with this no matter what they use as a outlet for this mania.
To say you had a problem with a substance is undeniable,to say others will have the same exsperiance as you is insane.No 2 people will exsperiance anything in the same manner as you did ,they may similiar exsperiances or share opinions that are the same……but to say your problems will occure in everyone is absurd and unfounded speculation.
I applaud you for recognizing you had a problem and deciding to make a change and wanting others to do the same when they have problems,but this does not relate specifically to marijuana ,you also claim problems with liquor too….why single out a substance that is not physically addictive,has caused no deaths on record and is used as a medicine,why not single out liquor which kills hundreds of thousands every year ,causes millions in medical problems and has no medicinal value at all……….?
Cigaretts kill thousands of people are very addictive and have no medical value either and cause many problems in society…why not single out this product as well….?
I think you have decided to make marijuana your scapegoat ,instead of realizing the problems you had were self created and could be prevented by exercising some will power as millions of us do everyday and choosing to not be lazy and choosing to not let anything become an obsession so that all we do is watch the weather channel all day and choose to not exspand our minds in benificial ways…………..I see the exact symptoms you describe in lazy people everyday manifest itself in sloth and uncleaness,lack of direction,no self controll and no comitment.
These people suffer the same symtoms and effects as you describe and yet take no substances at all…………………basically sober people,yet have the same problems as you described.It`s unfair to blame marijuana or anyone else for your problems in life that happen from poor choices.
I am glad your are living a more happy productive life no matter what logic you had to use to get there,but please quit spreading the misinformation to others as some sort of actuall facts.
You would do better to anylize the procedure you used to overcome your difficulties and use that formula to help others to better themselves and give yourself more credit for pulling it together ,instead of giving marijuana the credit for your change………..you were able to choose to do better,it was not simply beacuse a certain chemical was not present anymore,millions of people do not have that chemical in thier bodies but yet have the same symptoms you had.
Please evaluate the choices you made and what you are doing to make your life better ,not what you are not doing,that helps no one just acting like a simple act of not smoking marijuana is going to solve everyones problems ,because that is not so.
I sincerly hope you re-evaluate your stance on this matter and realize your bad exsperiance was from bad choices and your now good exsperiance is from good choices not from a product that millions of people use and have NO results like you claim,your exsperiance was just that….your exsperiance…..not what will happen to everyone.
This is story of your problems that could have caused the same results if your catilyst was food,liquor ,sex or just lazyness ,these also have the same outcome if used in the manner you speak of.
Bizzle,
I just wanted to point out that the government has probably already compiled a list of people based on comments they made about drugs on the Internet.
Think next time before you “recommend” smoking pot or using any other illegal substance. Typing something out leaves such a “permanent” record.
By the way, I have a 4 year degree in psychology (so, I do know about mental disorders) along with my Masters degree in IT. I also am mentally ill with bi-polar disorder. So it’s hard to insult someone if you are mentally ill yourself isn’t it. You guys don’t know anything about me and yet you will stoop so low as to say I abuse my son.
Drug addiction is a terrible thing, but DENIAL is the worst part about it. With this denial comes extreme anger if anyone tries to point out that you might have a problem.
Admin you are scum. You would really try to threat people when comment on your articles, really?
P.S. the ip address will only trace back to their ISP. (Internet Service Provider) you would have to get in contact with them to find out where they actually live, where their IP address is really coming from. Good luck getting any ISP to give you that information.
“I would never recommend drugs or alcohol to anyone, but they have certainly worked well for me.”
-Me
Hunter,
Yeah, you tell that to the United States government. I bet they have a really hard time dealing with the Internet Service Providers.
I think the fact that you can be tracked needs to be TOLD to the people. I think that there are certain websites that might not benefit from this information.
Maybe those same websites that have been trying to get me to shutdown my website are the ones who are about to suffer.
Admin, your rhetoric disappoints me. I have not smoked pot in a month, and my spiritual goal in life is to free myself from all addictions, including anger and denial. I am not angry, though I am appalled by your behavior, and I have every right to defend my freedom, especially when it comes to something that has made me more spiritual, humble, and aware than any book, religion, or education ever could.
I have spent a lifetime around addictive personalities, including the many bi-polar and schizophrenic people in my family. If there is one thing I have learned about addictive personalities, is that taking away a substance absolutely does not take away the addictive mindset. You can say NO all you want to an addiction, but it is only when they find something more fulfilling to say YES to that there is a true inner change.
You are targeting the least harmful of all substances. Your efforts against addiction would be better spent elsewhere.
I am sure that the federal government would spend the time and money to track down, arrest, gather the evidence, prosecute and charge people with alleged possession of marijuana(the only evidence is them saying so on the internet). I am sure that is their priority, never mind terrorist, the economy in the shitter, and everything else they are dealing with.
And what websites are trying to get you to shutdown your website? seriously? I have only seen that kind of paranoia from a meth addict.
And to call Marijuana addicting? Have you ever sucked **** for coke? I know people who have.
Hunter,
I have a Google analytics tracker built into this website that tells me where my traffic is coming from. Website owners use this information to help with their advertising campaigns.
This information shows the number of people and names of the websites in which they came from. I’ve got a lot of people coming from a website related to mushrooms and another one related to LSD. Yesterday, 107 of my 218 visitors came from these two websites.
Are kid/adults “just” smoking pot? I don’t think so and I hope to “open” some eyes.
Tomorrow, I plan to write an article on some of my findings.
Mushrooms and LSD = two substances that are not only NOT addictive, but that are shown to help in the FIGHT AGAINST ADDICTION, not to mention that even science is beginning to agree that they induce mystical experiences and self-discovery. Once a person experiences these substances, their quality of life is often dramatically improved, without the need to ever do them again, which of course doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with further exploration. Let it be noted that the common drug addict finds their effects quite unpleasant, while most other people find a deeper understanding in the nature of existence.
They are also two substances that require a healthy and respectful attitude towards approaching. They especially require that the user be responsible, if he intends to expect to enjoy them. It is well known that they do not interact well with people with mental disorders, and users of these substances who respect them would absolutely not recommend them to these people.
Just because you are uneducated on these substances, live in fear, and buy into political/social stigma, does not mean that there is anything wrong with them. If you start to attack these substances you will be waging a war you cannot win. Mushrooms and LSD are often held in much more spiritual reverence than marijuana, which is a much “easier” substance.
FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group
There are many other exceptionally intelligent people who can be cited as users of LSD and Mushrooms. Mushrooms have also been used as a spiritual sacrament for as long as humans have existed. That is a whole world you know nothing about. Please do not embarrass yourself, and do not attack something that you are absolutely not qualified to discuss.
Fear, political stigma, and guilt of good things by ignorant association with bad, are terrible things. Why must you continually stoop to new lows?
“Kada,
So the police need to come and arrest me for spanking my son. Maybe the opposite is true and they need to go to your home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Because, I doubt you have a legal prescription for that marijuana that you are smoking right now. Do you know that your computer can be tracked all the way back to your home address. Isn’t that amazing.
Wait is that a knock on your front door that I hear now?
Or maybe it’s in Elton, Louisiana where Bizzle lives.”
You dumbtard, thats not where i live. HAHAHAHAHHA
BTW i am a Activist for the legalization of Marijuana, and im sure the government knows right where i am. I send mail to them from this address all the time. I send them emails from this address all the time. Did you think i was going to feel freaked out from the magic of your ability to think you know where i am? LOLLERSKATES.
I do nothing illegal from my residence mr smart ass, not that you even have the right city im in anyways. You don’t frighten me in anything but the way you think, and the way you think is completly retarded.
If your new article on the horrors of LSD and mushrooms is as hysterical as your other musings, this should be entertaining.
As for me, I’m eagerly awaiting the government’s arrival at my doorstep for about ten years of comments I’ve made on the internet condoning and supporting responsible drug use.
Unfortunately those trackers fail at pinpointing peoples locations, they’re often pretty far off the mark. ADMIN do not blame pot your your failure at life. The proof is all around, if you knew of all the different kinds ofpeople who use and enjoy pot RESPONSIBLY you would be amazed. You and your friends give a bad name to people who smoke pot. You obviously had no life and just smoked pot all day.
Pot did not make you do this, mary jane did not force herself into your mouth and force you to inhale. If smoking pot has drawbacks for you because you are weak then don’t do it. But don’t go spreading your story as truth.
And know what legalizing pot is a great thing, people already smoke pot, the people who want to WILL whether it’s legal or not. There are BAD LAWS. puttingsomething into my own body and enojying it is a victimless crime, it’s OUR CHOICE.
Admin,
Do you seriously think that if you were to call the cops and give them the information provided by what been said here and your google analytics tracker they would have any cause to pursue anyone? The answer is no.
“Hey i have someone on my website, and he says pot should be legal…will you go arrest him?”
This would not and could not work.
But now what i am curious to know, if you made this site to help people why are you being so aggressive? Do you honestly think you are helping people by spreading misinformation and spewing fear propaganda.
My address is 2124 abbott street ann arbor michigan 48103.
This is how confident I am that there is no reason to fear the law based on what is debated on an internet platform.
Regards,
Arnold Wescott
Kada,
You must be one of the “great activists”. I can tell because of the names you’ve been calling me in your postings. That’s the way to help the cause. You should be up in front a microphone trying to help the cause.