Jesda wrote:One thing I hate about marijuana is that you cant as easily control the high. Youre just stuck with it until it wears off.
If your buzz gives you problems...a hot shower, cleaning the pipes, physical exertion, eating, or getting real scared will help lift it. It's a hell of a lot better than alcohol, in that respect.You know, the thing about pot being a gateway drug is true, but only because it's illegal. Once you get your foot in the door to the black market, you can soon get about anything. We should lower the drinking age to 18, and legalize pot for adults too.As far as it being a health risk compared to tobacco: Marijuana resin is much worse. I don't know if it burns radioactive (like tobacco), but I've heard it's more carcinogenic; and buds are a lot more moist so you get more sticky resin than with dried out tobacco leaves. It's hell on lungs.Fun facts about my favorite herb: Mohammed said pot's OK, but not alcohol. The war of 1812 was largely over hemp supply. The Declaration of Independence is written on hemp. Egypt was the first to outlaw getting high on pot. Marijuana Was ACTUALLY illegalized in the U.S. in 1937 because William Randolph Hurst and the DuPont family were scared about a hemp harvesting method that had been recently invented (the decorticator, which would have made paper production from hemp cost half what it did using trees. Hemp also had many many other potential uses). Hurst owned many newspapers (and the mills producing the paper, and the timber). He allied with the DuPonts (they had many products and processes threatened by hemp oil and fiber), who hired scientists and legislators, helped create the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and installed Harry Anslinger as it's head (if they didn't install him, he was at least firmly in their pockets. He even got his very own DuPont(tm) trophy wife and slice of the family fortune out of the deal). Hurst's papers and magazines used the scientists and Federal Bureau of Narcotics in a major marketing blitz to kill off the most useful plant known to mankind with it's unique oils, superstrong fibers, seeds of high nutritional value, and medicinal properties. Of course, Hurst already had a stick up his @ss when it came to Spaniards and Latinos (especially Mexicans), so it made his attack on their drug of choice much more fierce than economics would alone. It didn't help that during the Spanish American War, in 1898, Pancho Villa's army of stoners had seized a million acres of Hurst's Mexican prime timber. I think that's where it started.
Modified by 420sxse at 10:22 PM 4/20/2006