[QUOTE=Marbalo;51387940]I concede all points.[/QUOTE]
Really? Wow.
What's it like to give up on everything you stand for
While I don't agree with most of what Marbalo said, there is something worth mentioning about the legalization of marijuana. What would happen if it started being mass-produced like cigarettes, and the entire industry was monopolized just like big tobacco companies?
Right now it's fine because in the states where it is legal, it's regulated to hell and back and as long as you get the right paperwork you can start to grow it yourself. Basically "anybody" can do it, which is good because there is no danger of true monopolization. But what if it hits the same point as cigarettes?
Personally I don't think it could ever hit that level. What makes cigarettes so lucrative is their addictive properties. I've personally smoked weed probably two dozen times in the last year or so. It's been a few months now but I usually find my way back to it at some point, and I can say with confidence that I've not ever been addicted to it. I have never felt a single craving to find someone who has it and smoke it. It's more of a social thing.
With cigarettes on the other hand I always find myself picking up more of them on my commute to and from work. I've been smoking since 2012, and for the last year or so it upped to about a pack a day. I decided to put a genuine effort in to quit smoking starting Monday and so far it's been going good, but every day is difficult because I have biological and psychological cravings for them. Right now I'm thinking about going up the road to get some but then I think about how many hours it's been since my last one, and how if I've gone this long without them I can go even longer. It's to the point where I have internal monologues and I try to rationalize buying some. "Well I mean, if it's been 3 days so far, what's one gonna do? I mean, one every three days is fine, right?" I've never felt withdrawls from weed. Not once. Unless wondering when your buddy is finally gonna pass that shit counts as "withdrawls".
[QUOTE=haloguy234;51389058]While I don't agree with most of what Marbalo said, there is something worth mentioning about the legalization of marijuana. What would happen if it started being mass-produced like cigarettes, and the entire industry was monopolized just like big tobacco companies?
Right now it's fine because in the states where it is legal, it's regulated to hell and back and as long as you get the right paperwork you can start to grow it yourself. Basically "anybody" can do it, which is good because there is no danger of true monopolization. But what if it hits the same point as cigarettes?
Personally I don't think it could ever hit that level. What makes cigarettes so lucrative is their addictive properties. I've personally smoked weed probably two dozen times in the last year or so. It's been a few months now but I usually find my way back to it at some point, and I can say with confidence that I've not ever been addicted to it. I have never felt a single craving to find someone who has it and smoke it. It's more of a social thing.
With cigarettes on the other hand I always find myself picking up more of them on my commute to and from work. I've been smoking since 2012, and for the last year or so it upped to about a pack a day. I decided to put a genuine effort in to quit smoking starting Monday and so far it's been going good, but every day is difficult because I have biological and psychological cravings for them. Right now I'm thinking about going up the road to get some but then I think about how many hours it's been since my last one, and how if I've gone this long without them I can go even longer. It's to the point where I have internal monologues and I try to rationalize buying some. "Well I mean, if it's been 3 days so far, what's one gonna do? I mean, one every three days is fine, right?" I've never felt withdrawls from weed. Not once. Unless wondering when your buddy is finally gonna pass that shit counts as "withdrawls".[/QUOTE]
I can go a month without smoking weed and my only real thought is "Shit life is boring again" because life is by and large, pretty boring
I can barely make it a day without a ciggarette though.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51389072]I can go a month without smoking weed and my only real thought is "Shit life is boring again" because life is by and large, pretty boring
I can barely make it a day without a ciggarette though.[/QUOTE]
The hardest part is the first two days. Once your body gets most of the nicotine out it's smooth sailing, but the occasional cravings are always going to be there. What's interesting with cigarettes is it's both a psychological and biological addiction. I smoke because it passes time. Makes me feel good. Oh, there's 10 minutes left on this thing I'm doing? Well that's not enough time to start another thing yet, I'll go have a smoke. Oh, just woke up? I think I'll have a smoke.
Realistically speaking, the average person only NEEDS three cigarettes a day. One when they wake up, one in the middle of the day, and one in the evening, just to taper off any dips in nicotine concentration. However most people smoke WAY MORE than this. I can smoke up to a pack in one whole day, sometimes two. That's where the psychological aspect comes in. The act of lighting and inhaling something. Blowing the smoke. Holding the cigarette. I think that's why things like nicotine gum or the patches usually don't end up working. I've known several people who did those and they just went back to smoking again, and after smoking myself I can understand why. It's not the same. I tried vaping/e-cigs and I stuck with that for about a month but I ended up getting very bad headaches from it. The lowest nicotine concentration wasn't strong enough for me, and the middle one was too much with how often I used it.
Gotta say though, never felt anything like that with weed. If it's truly as dangerous as the media says it is, then why hasn't it turned me into a braindead zombie who wants to murder my family?
[QUOTE=Marbalo;51387940]I concede all points.[/QUOTE]
it's like i saw a unicorn
a reasonable argument
soak it in fellas
I have quite a few friends who work in the school system and their big worry is edibles making their way onto campus. It's going to make it all but impossible for schools to keep drugs off their campuses because you simply can't know if something has weed in it or not.
It's a pretty big deal because selling or sharing drugs on campus is a mandatory expulsion (having it is not).
[QUOTE=haloguy234;51389058]With cigarettes on the other hand I always find myself picking up more of them on my commute to and from work. I've been smoking since 2012, and for the last year or so it upped to about a pack a day. I decided to put a genuine effort in to quit smoking starting Monday and so far it's been going good, but every day is difficult because I have biological and psychological cravings for them. Right now I'm thinking about going up the road to get some but then I think about how many hours it's been since my last one, and how if I've gone this long without them I can go even longer. It's to the point where I have internal monologues and I try to rationalize buying some. "Well I mean, if it's been 3 days so far, what's one gonna do? I mean, one every three days is fine, right?" I've never felt withdrawls from weed. Not once. Unless wondering when your buddy is finally gonna pass that shit counts as "withdrawls".[/QUOTE]
I smoked for five years, quit in February thanks to that Allen Carr book. It's pretty great, recommend it.
Closer to the topic at hand: I sort of like how the writers didn't say much about tobacco and alcohol in this episode, mainly focusing on prescription drugs. Everybody's heard the "alcohol is worse than weed, yet it's legal" argument, not a lot of people know about legal opioid drugs.
Oh, shit, the thread's been dead for 3 days, I haven't noticed
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