| greendeath: About driving high - holy shit i have driven a few times high.. horrible. The reaction times i experience are scary to say the least. No matter what, being high while driving has no positive effects.. thinking in depth about driving is probably the WORST thing you can do. With the combination of common mistakes made while you're even sober and the slower reaction time while high, its another risk. I agree that its not as high risk as driving drunk, but its still a risk.
uitmokum: to repeat what indyrockboy said and expand on a little: cannibis is a chemical, its a plant isn't it? and to whoever said herb doesn't cause addiction.. wtf? the chemical compound THC [ tetrahydrocannibol ] is definately psychologically addicting, just as any other substance addiction can be. There are no signs of THC being chemically addicting though through what I have read, however.
I also wanted to point this out to those of you who try to compare alcohol and pot: it is difficult to assert that alcohol is on the same level that marijuana is. Alcohol is technically a depressant, whereas marijuana is an antidepressant. Alcohol is an example of a chemical addiction, but also carries its psychological addiction.
Like a lot of the stories defined in previous posts I have seen my share of scary things that have happened because of pot. My uncle, for example, got addicted to marijuana. He attended a little bit of college, sounds promising? well he didn't keep going with that, he got heavily addicted. Now he has been in and out of work since college doing work at factories and what-not. He finally got into what he likes to, and knows how to do; mechanics. He now [at approximately 44 years old ] has begun his career. I forgot to mention that he still lives with my grandparents. He has trouble getting out what he has to say lately also. Its frustrating to say the least, it takes so long to get out simple things. and whoever said "it only effects unimportant things that short term memory provides" is utter bullshit. Short term memory is almost as important as long term. Have you ever spoke with someone with Emphasema? yeah they don't have much of a short-term memory and yes it is very detrimental to health. My great aunt on my other side of my family had this short term memory loss from smoking way too much. She died a few years back, but the point is she would forget who I was or that i was in the room with her. She would recognize me as her great nephew but it would be other things.
enough rambling.. pot in excess is horrible. I have no sympathy for the guy who got caught whose life is 'over' because of it. I think you just have reached the dramatic realization that you have to fess up for the laws you break. Yeah they might be wrong, but yeah you live in the country, so abide. If you are to take a stance against law however, you better come up with something good because a lot of it has been said and its not much factual evidence. |