Comments on: Before I quit – Part 1 http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/ You can be happy again. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-991 John Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:48:09 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-991 Hey, I'd just like to say that I have tried marijuana occasionally. The most I ever did was three times in a week. But, I can say that, at least for me, it was not addictive at all. I will still smoke a little with friends of mine every month or 2, but I honestly don't think it to be a big deal. Marijuana opened my eyes, it helped me to see everything from a surprisingly clear perspective and find inner peace. I love the way I feel after smoking a bowl. I think it is an amazing drug, and I intend to continue using it a handful of times every year. It isn't addictive, because I don't crave it. Although I enjoy the experience, I do not crave that either. Hey admin, marijuana doesn't make you dumber, it's just that dumb people tend to do marijuana. Also, God is just as fake (if not more fake) or a high than drugs. If you need God to get through the day, fine. I won't stop you, but don't ask me to respect you. I don't care if you don't respect potheads, but don't try to stop people who have made an educated choice about their marijuana/drug usage. **** the health benefits (although I do think there are quite a few). In a "free" society, we should be able to make the informed choice of what we desire to ingest. I will never EVER do meth, or heroin, or even crack, because I know how dangerous they are, not because they are illegal. The fact that those drugs are illegal has not prevented me from coming in contact with them. Even if we think that marijuana is bad, the answer is not criminalization, its education and rehabilitation. Hey, I’d just like to say that I have tried marijuana occasionally. The most I ever did was three times in a week.

But, I can say that, at least for me, it was not addictive at all. I will still smoke a little with friends of mine every month or 2, but I honestly don’t think it to be a big deal.

Marijuana opened my eyes, it helped me to see everything from a surprisingly clear perspective and find inner peace. I love the way I feel after smoking a bowl. I think it is an amazing drug, and I intend to continue using it a handful of times every year.

It isn’t addictive, because I don’t crave it. Although I enjoy the experience, I do not crave that either.

Hey admin, marijuana doesn’t make you dumber, it’s just that dumb people tend to do marijuana. Also, God is just as fake (if not more fake) or a high than drugs. If you need God to get through the day, fine. I won’t stop you, but don’t ask me to respect you. I don’t care if you don’t respect potheads, but don’t try to stop people who have made an educated choice about their marijuana/drug usage.

**** the health benefits (although I do think there are quite a few). In a “free” society, we should be able to make the informed choice of what we desire to ingest. I will never EVER do meth, or heroin, or even crack, because I know how dangerous they are, not because they are illegal. The fact that those drugs are illegal has not prevented me from coming in contact with them.

Even if we think that marijuana is bad, the answer is not criminalization, its education and rehabilitation.

]]> By: Ryan http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-976 Ryan Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:13:29 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-976 Marijuana is not addictive at all! all you need is a little willpower, and if you cant quit smoking weed by your self then you really do have a problem. Marijuana is not addictive at all! all you need is a little willpower, and if you cant quit smoking weed by your self then you really do have a problem.

]]> By: Joe-1234 http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Joe-1234 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:10:15 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-906 And I just read your comment attacking the marijuana users who claim there grades went up. So because you were a dumb*** as a kid, and apparently still seem to be lets take a look here. I know many successful people who enjoy smoking marijuan (closet smokers). There are so many marijuana users 3/4th of them you would never know they smoke. I happen to know doctors, nurses, people who have successful businesses, etc etc who use. I also know many people who went on to get very successful jobs, but were forced to quit smoking due to random drug testing, but guess what up until that pot, all the time they spent in school they were smoking pot. I stated in a post before that I had to quit smoking pot before it was pretty easy tbh, nothing like someone who goes through quitting cigs has to go through (or even soda rofl). I now use it for medical purposes, you heard of chrons disease? I spent the past 7 years in and out of hospitals, have had so many surgeries I cant even count them on my hands, I am in pain every day and every minute of my life right now, have a total of 5 open wounds that are healing, but slowly due to chrons. I was homebound before I started smoking pot to help relieve the pain. I was unable to make it to school due to the illness and amount of pain, so I had to do that on my own... had to self teach my self everything and I managed to graduate highschool all on my own, while smoking pot. I guarantee if you lived one day in my life you would be crying for a hit of weed, cause guess what my options are? I either take a bunch of prescription pain killers (opiates), currently am on oxycontin (prescribed), and my options are taking that and basically knockin myself out into a snooze and being a zombie the rest of the day, or I can smoke some pot, and take less of the painpills and get out and live as much of a normal life as I can. God forbid I ask for a better quality of life? But why should people like you know anything about that? Go on and spread your lies and look like the uneducated fool you are. And I just read your comment attacking the marijuana users who claim there grades went up. So because you were a dumb*** as a kid, and apparently still seem to be lets take a look here. I know many successful people who enjoy smoking marijuan (closet smokers). There are so many marijuana users 3/4th of them you would never know they smoke. I happen to know doctors, nurses, people who have successful businesses, etc etc who use. I also know many people who went on to get very successful jobs, but were forced to quit smoking due to random drug testing, but guess what up until that pot, all the time they spent in school they were smoking pot. I stated in a post before that I had to quit smoking pot before it was pretty easy tbh, nothing like someone who goes through quitting cigs has to go through (or even soda rofl). I now use it for medical purposes, you heard of chrons disease? I spent the past 7 years in and out of hospitals, have had so many surgeries I cant even count them on my hands, I am in pain every day and every minute of my life right now, have a total of 5 open wounds that are healing, but slowly due to chrons. I was homebound before I started smoking pot to help relieve the pain. I was unable to make it to school due to the illness and amount of pain, so I had to do that on my own… had to self teach my self everything and I managed to graduate highschool all on my own, while smoking pot. I guarantee if you lived one day in my life you would be crying for a hit of weed, cause guess what my options are? I either take a bunch of prescription pain killers (opiates), currently am on oxycontin (prescribed), and my options are taking that and basically knockin myself out into a snooze and being a zombie the rest of the day, or I can smoke some pot, and take less of the painpills and get out and live as much of a normal life as I can. God forbid I ask for a better quality of life? But why should people like you know anything about that? Go on and spread your lies and look like the uneducated fool you are.

]]> By: Joe-1234 http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-905 Joe-1234 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:55:25 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-905 Ok Admin you are way to uneducated to be arguing against marijuana. First off you talk about lots of other drugs coming from plants, which is 100 percent true and you almost have an argument, but you don't. You see Cocaine comes from the Coca plant. Now follow me here, when the Coca plant grows does it naturally form a powder or rock that you can snort or smoke? NO! You can chew the leaves which people have done for thousands of years (which is the only way that plant should be used). Heroin you also have to do a lot with before you use it as a drug. It's from the poppy plant, but when it grows it isn't readily available to be injected into your system... but we do make pills out of opiates which are basically over the counter heroine which doctors still prescribe! So now that most your points have been thrown out the window lets take a look at how the marijuana plant grows. You take a seed, much like any other seed, and you plant it in the ground, you can grow it in almost all areas, now once the seed germinates it takes a few days for it to sprout from the ground, and it will eventually grow and mature completely. Now most drugs that come from plants you got a lot more work ahead of you before you have your "drug", look on youtube how to make cocaine to see the difference. Instead with Marijuana you just cut the buds straight from the plant, thats all. No chemicals needed, it is just naturally that way. Now you can take these buds and either smoke them, cook them, or vaporize them. If you don't mind doing a little bit of damage to your lungs (which is minimal, and it's up to the person to do with there body what they want), then smoking is fine, but you can also cook it into foods or make it into a butter which will have 0 health side effects, or you can vaporize it which still have 0 to very small amount of health side effects. Did you know the biggest drug problem we have in America is prescription drugs? Who would of thought. How many people have died from using marijuana? None. It's funny you put up a website spreading propaganda and lies, yet you cant even win an argument for the life of you on the comment boards. On the Third Day of Creation God said: 'Let the earth bring forth THE GREEN HERB, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.' Genesis 1:11 Ok Admin you are way to uneducated to be arguing against marijuana. First off you talk about lots of other drugs coming from plants, which is 100 percent true and you almost have an argument, but you don’t. You see Cocaine comes from the Coca plant. Now follow me here, when the Coca plant grows does it naturally form a powder or rock that you can snort or smoke? NO! You can chew the leaves which people have done for thousands of years (which is the only way that plant should be used). Heroin you also have to do a lot with before you use it as a drug. It’s from the poppy plant, but when it grows it isn’t readily available to be injected into your system… but we do make pills out of opiates which are basically over the counter heroine which doctors still prescribe! So now that most your points have been thrown out the window lets take a look at how the marijuana plant grows. You take a seed, much like any other seed, and you plant it in the ground, you can grow it in almost all areas, now once the seed germinates it takes a few days for it to sprout from the ground, and it will eventually grow and mature completely. Now most drugs that come from plants you got a lot more work ahead of you before you have your “drug”, look on youtube how to make cocaine to see the difference. Instead with Marijuana you just cut the buds straight from the plant, thats all. No chemicals needed, it is just naturally that way. Now you can take these buds and either smoke them, cook them, or vaporize them. If you don’t mind doing a little bit of damage to your lungs (which is minimal, and it’s up to the person to do with there body what they want), then smoking is fine, but you can also cook it into foods or make it into a butter which will have 0 health side effects, or you can vaporize it which still have 0 to very small amount of health side effects.

Did you know the biggest drug problem we have in America is prescription drugs? Who would of thought. How many people have died from using marijuana? None. It’s funny you put up a website spreading propaganda and lies, yet you cant even win an argument for the life of you on the comment boards.

On the Third Day of Creation
God said:
‘Let the earth bring forth THE GREEN HERB,
and such as may seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind,
which may have seed in itself upon the earth.
And it was so done.’
Genesis 1:11

]]> By: UninformedLuddite http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-867 UninformedLuddite Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:59:26 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-867 Shaqualla, I also respectfully disagree with you. Heroin causes constipation and nausea. It is prohibition that causes the harm with heroin. And don't talk about ODs because if you do a little bit of study you will find it isn't heroin that kills you it is when it is used in conjunction with alcohol and/or benzodiazepenes which are both legal money makers for both industry and the government. And before anyone tries to shoot me down with the propaganda that they have been taught since they first opened their eyes please include just ONE credible peer reviewed article that says otherwise (DEA publications or DEA funded studies do not count) <a href="http://conspiracymuse.blogspot.com/2006/02/war-on-drugs-is-war-on-truth.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://conspiracymuse.blogspot.com/2006/02/war-on-drugs-is-war-on-truth.html</a> Shaqualla,

I also respectfully disagree with you. Heroin causes constipation and nausea. It is prohibition that causes the harm with heroin. And don’t talk about ODs because if you do a little bit of study you will find it isn’t heroin that kills you it is when it is used in conjunction with alcohol and/or benzodiazepenes which are both legal money makers for both industry and the government.
And before anyone tries to shoot me down with the propaganda that they have been taught since they first opened their eyes please include just ONE credible peer reviewed article that says otherwise (DEA publications or DEA funded studies do not count)

http://conspiracymuse.blogspot.com/2006/02/war-on-drugs-is-war-on-truth.html

]]> By: Robeonekanobi http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Robeonekanobi Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:28:12 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-835 Marijuana DID NOT MAKE you go on to other drugs and become an addict. YOU made that decision. That's like saying the gun MADE YOU kill someone. Um, sorry, but YOU picked up the gun and YOU pulled the trigger. If that were the case, I should be a heroin addict or something after smoking pot for twenty years. But no, I haven't gone on to harder drugs to satisfy my want for a buzz. I rarely drink alcohol because of the side effects, i.e., hang-over, horizontal for a day, etc., I use pot for medical purposes, and also use it just like any other American or person around the world like I would a drink after work. If pot is so bad, how the hell do I take care of all my animals?(two cats, three scorpions, one frog, fish, spiders, etc.) And how the hell did I serve and protect this country while I was in the military if marijuana is so dangerous? Thank you to the posters' that defend the harmless effects of marijuana. People die EVERY DAY from overdoses of alcohol, over-the-counter meds, prescription meds, tobacco use, car/vehicle accidents, but NOT ONE DEATH IN RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY!!! And no, Bob Marley DID NOT die of cancer from smoking too much weed, he died because of a malignant cancer that formed from a foot injury and he refused to have surgery due to his religious beliefs, so you can't use that argument..... Please get off of the propaganda machine and open your eyes to the reality of the state of our society as a whole. Don't just listen to other people, do the research for yourself, I did. WOW!!! What an eye opener... Marijuana DID NOT MAKE you go on to other drugs and become an addict. YOU made that decision. That’s like saying the gun MADE YOU kill someone. Um, sorry, but YOU picked up the gun and YOU pulled the trigger. If that were the case, I should be a heroin addict or something after smoking pot for twenty years. But no, I haven’t gone on to harder drugs to satisfy my want for a buzz. I rarely drink alcohol because of the side effects, i.e., hang-over, horizontal for a day, etc., I use pot for medical purposes, and also use it just like any other American or person around the world like I would a drink after work. If pot is so bad, how the hell do I take care of all my animals?(two cats, three scorpions, one frog, fish, spiders, etc.) And how the hell did I serve and protect this country while I was in the military if marijuana is so dangerous? Thank you to the posters’ that defend the harmless effects of marijuana. People die EVERY DAY from overdoses of alcohol, over-the-counter meds, prescription meds, tobacco use, car/vehicle accidents, but NOT ONE DEATH IN RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY!!! And no, Bob Marley DID NOT die of cancer from smoking too much weed, he died because of a malignant cancer that formed from a foot injury and he refused to have surgery due to his religious beliefs, so you can’t use that argument…..
Please get off of the propaganda machine and open your eyes to the reality of the state of our society as a whole. Don’t just listen to other people, do the research for yourself, I did. WOW!!! What an eye opener…

]]> By: Insomnolence http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Insomnolence Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:58:42 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-832 Shaqualla, I will respectfully disagree with you, you mentioned that LSD is a 'harmful' drug, in the same league as Meth & Cocaine, however, numerous studies have concluded that LSD is not physically harmful whatsoever. I will say, that LSD has the potential to be mentally harmful, if used by someone with a bad mindset in a bad setting, or by someone with an unstable psyche or underlying mental condition - but these people shouldn't be taking a drug as unpredictable as LSD. LSD also has the potential to be incredible beneficial as well, if used correctly. And that's the major problem here: a lot of people don't realize that psychedelics and psychoactive plants (like Cannabis) are tools, not toys. Tools require the skill and preparation of the user to be effective - a lot of morally weak people (like the creator of this site) cannot grasp that it is them as a person that is the problem, not a herb that is otherwise inanimate until used by humans in a specific way. Get off your propaganda-powered moral high horse and wise up my friend (the creator of this poorly constructed and cited website I'm speaking of now) and take a look what's going on in the real world. Shaqualla, I will respectfully disagree with you, you mentioned that LSD is a ‘harmful’ drug, in the same league as Meth & Cocaine, however, numerous studies have concluded that LSD is not physically harmful whatsoever. I will say, that LSD has the potential to be mentally harmful, if used by someone with a bad mindset in a bad setting, or by someone with an unstable psyche or underlying mental condition – but these people shouldn’t be taking a drug as unpredictable as LSD. LSD also has the potential to be incredible beneficial as well, if used correctly. And that’s the major problem here: a lot of people don’t realize that psychedelics and psychoactive plants (like Cannabis) are tools, not toys. Tools require the skill and preparation of the user to be effective – a lot of morally weak people (like the creator of this site) cannot grasp that it is them as a person that is the problem, not a herb that is otherwise inanimate until used by humans in a specific way.

Get off your propaganda-powered moral high horse and wise up my friend (the creator of this poorly constructed and cited website I’m speaking of now) and take a look what’s going on in the real world.

]]> By: nolan http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-824 nolan Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:51:59 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-824 im sorry I have one more, Shaqualla, will you marry me? im sorry I have one more, Shaqualla, will you marry me?

]]> By: nolan http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-823 nolan Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:50:11 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-823 ok, you gave us this site <a href="http://www.opioids.com/poppy.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.opioids.com/poppy.html</a> and u said most hard drugs are formed from plants. Yes its true, they are, so is alcohol, so is tobacco. My point is, and i believe jimbo was getting at the same point, marijuana, tobacco, opium, shrooms, coca, all these drugs are a natural substance. Are they good for us? prolly not, but that does not make them bad things. Many ancient, and may i add, prosperous cultures used these natural drugs. Heroine, Morphine, Codeine, alcohol, all a natural substance gave to us by the earth, then man raped them and made them 30times as addictive, and 100times as lethal. Now you say you were addicted to pot, but there have been COUNTLESS studies that say other wise. Now there are people who have chemical dependencies in there blood, but THC is a no addictive chemical, it washes out and leaves no craving to the body. You see the effect of human tampering in cocaine. In the mountainous regions of Asia, people smoke and chew on the coca plant. The derivative of cocaine, And they live to ripe old ages! In my opinion, the government should not be able to tell me what plants my stupid ass decides to go out and smoke and eat! Now i am about to start rambling, but i have one more. Think of it this way, what was the reason most people start doing drugs and drinking in the very beginning? Because we thought it was cool right? So make it legal and people wont touch it. they will just be like "oh shit, I just got some pot from the gas station" and the other guys will be like "dude, that is lame, why are you so uncool? do something cool you jerk!" And he will run home crying and he will just throw it away. End of story. Everybody is as boring and uncool as you! ok, you gave us this site

http://www.opioids.com/poppy.html

and u said most hard drugs are formed from plants. Yes its true, they are, so is alcohol, so is tobacco. My point is, and i believe jimbo was getting at the same point, marijuana, tobacco, opium, shrooms, coca, all these drugs are a natural substance. Are they good for us? prolly not, but that does not make them bad things. Many ancient, and may i add, prosperous cultures used these natural drugs. Heroine, Morphine, Codeine, alcohol, all a natural substance gave to us by the earth, then man raped them and made them 30times as addictive, and 100times as lethal. Now you say you were addicted to pot, but there have been COUNTLESS studies that say other wise. Now there are people who have chemical dependencies in there blood, but THC is a no addictive chemical, it washes out and leaves no craving to the body. You see the effect of human tampering in cocaine. In the mountainous regions of Asia, people smoke and chew on the coca plant. The derivative of cocaine, And they live to ripe old ages! In my opinion, the government should not be able to tell me what plants my stupid ass decides to go out and smoke and eat! Now i am about to start rambling, but i have one more. Think of it this way, what was the reason most people start doing drugs and drinking in the very beginning? Because we thought it was cool right? So make it legal and people wont touch it. they will just be like “oh shit, I just got some pot from the gas station” and the other guys will be like “dude, that is lame, why are you so uncool? do something cool you jerk!” And he will run home crying and he will just throw it away. End of story. Everybody is as boring and uncool as you!

]]> By: Angelo Caiazzo http://saynotopot.com/my-addiction/part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-813 Angelo Caiazzo Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:50:47 +0000 http://saynotopot.com/?p=1#comment-813 For the article writer: Call a spade a spade. You ****** up, and you need something to blame it on. Your story carries weight with some non-thinkers on this thread because they see you in themselves--- you party animal you. Not a dork, huh? Now never will I tell a man pot is good for him, but never either will I tell a man what he can eat, drink or smoke. So long as he doesn't break any REAL laws---you know, torts where someone else is actually harmed---then what the hell good is freedom if one is not even free to eat Oreo cookies, or grow some pot with his peppers, and smoke the pot and eat the peppers? Free to abide by someone else's inhibitions, or fears? You are furthermore using bad reasoning, namely thinking yourself now, through your travails, enlightened, when really you are, let's hope, still growing and learning about real truth. The voices are clear. Anti-marijuana fanatics have been exposed here, as they are exposed everywhere those who know the truth about the herb are not censored out. It is the anti-drug clinics, the very rhetoric it uses, and stigmas it propagates, that are what we need to slowly wean ourselves off of. Because everyone knows, the claws of the ignorant have dug deep into the mind of man, making him fearful of his neighbor, by virtue of the worst scapegoat-loving insane pursuit of heretics since the witch trials and McCarthy. Say No to Ignorance, you poor sleeping souls, say no to ignorance. Open your mind and stop parroting the bullshit you have been fed by those who know what you like to eat. For the article writer: Call a spade a spade. You ****** up, and you need something to blame it on.

Your story carries weight with some non-thinkers on this thread because they see you in themselves— you party animal you. Not a dork, huh?

Now never will I tell a man pot is good for him, but never either will I tell a man what he can eat, drink or smoke. So long as he doesn’t break any REAL laws—you know, torts where someone else is actually harmed—then what the hell good is freedom if one is not even free to eat Oreo cookies, or grow some pot with his peppers, and smoke the pot and eat the peppers? Free to abide by someone else’s inhibitions, or fears?

You are furthermore using bad reasoning, namely thinking yourself now, through your travails, enlightened, when really you are, let’s hope, still growing and learning about real truth.

The voices are clear. Anti-marijuana fanatics have been exposed here, as they are exposed everywhere those who know the truth about the herb are not censored out. It is the anti-drug clinics, the very rhetoric it uses, and stigmas it propagates, that are what we need to slowly wean ourselves off of. Because everyone knows, the claws of the ignorant have dug deep into the mind of man, making him fearful of his neighbor, by virtue of the worst scapegoat-loving insane pursuit of heretics since the witch trials and McCarthy.

Say No to Ignorance, you poor sleeping souls, say no to ignorance. Open your mind and stop parroting the bullshit you have been fed by those who know what you like to eat.

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