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I've met as many people who were addicted to video games as I have who were addicted to pot.

The reason its not addictive is because it leaves your body so slowly. In many ways it triggers many of the same kind of receptors that other drugs do which people develop a physical addiction for. The difference is you don't "withdraw" from marijuana, so your body never feels addicted to it. It absorbs into your fat cells and leaves your body slower than almost any other drug. As a result, your body never really goes through any real highs or lows in terms of its concentration in your body. This is why the drug isn't physically addictive and your body never "compels" you to get more, like your body would if you withdrawing from heroin or nicotine or even alcohol. All of those substances leave the body quickly.

It is psychologically addictive, but ANYTHING can be psychologically addictive, including video games, masturbation, rubbing yourself with a spoon, or whatever you can imagine. Banning something because it is psychologically addictive would require banning all kinds of things and is a horrible standard.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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Snake, why are you still making threads? I thought you threw a hissy fit and where going to leave the site =P

OP: both.



Both.



4 ≈ One

damkira said:

Marijuana comes from a plant, but so does cocaine and heroin. I don't really get the argument you're trying to make.. just because something comes from a plant doesn't mean it isn't harmful.

 

 

Well, cocaine is about 1000 times the concentration of what the raw leaves contain.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

Would you die, if you just cut some plants along the roadside and oven-dry it and then smoke it?



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Tyrannical said:
damkira said:

Marijuana comes from a plant, but so does cocaine and heroin. I don't really get the argument you're trying to make.. just because something comes from a plant doesn't mean it isn't harmful.

 

 

Well, cocaine is about 1000 times the concentration of what the raw leaves contain.

Indeed.  Most drugs rely on concentrating plant substances for a more potent effect.

That is why marijuana with a higher THC content sells for so much more.  But then again you could take a bunch of pure THC and you couldn't overdose on it even if you wanted to.  You might fall asleep for like 3 days or something...but its not toxic, so you couldn't kill yourself.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

both! =D LOL