Talk:Marijuana

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Contents 1 marketplace 2 hallucinations 3 fat bongs and other user "experiences" 4 Argument for legalization

[edit] marketplace

Who needs a sales pitch if you're buyin'? --Kels 15:54, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

I'll take a couple of ounces, supply has just plain dried up around here!!! Trashbat 15:56, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

Sorry gents, you're about seven years too late to be buying from me. Just an occasional customer these days :) --Robledo 16:02, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

I'm not a gent, I'm Canadian! --Kels 16:03, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

hehehehe And I'm about *counts fingers* errr, many years too old to be smoking it. Not that it stops me! Trashbat 16:09, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

I heard Jamaican red gum is popular in Canada, or was many years ago. Poison, part of the rock/sex/drug counterculture that leads to destruction. Heart♥Gold ^tx 01:06, 29 May 2007 (CDT)

I'm a mental health nurse and work with people who experience psychosis (short and long-term) as a result of smoking marijuana. I can dig up the evidence and research that says it sends you loco-crazy-insaneinthemembranes. M. Spica the Hiver ^{In Friendship & Co-Operation}

I, when young and foolish, used to partake of the occasional herbal jazz cigarette, and I am living proof that... well, oh shit, which cause am I living proof of? Dang! human^{be in} 20:09, 2 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] hallucinations

I always wondered about that whole hallucination thing. I had about a year there when I used quite a lot of hashish, and proper weed occasionally since then (not in a few years, though), and I've known way heavier users than me, but the only time I've ever heard about hallucinations is in write-ups like this one. Distorted sense of time? Hell, yes. Mood effects? Sure, all the time. Hunger? Well, never go grocery shopping when you're stoned, leave it at that. But hallucinations, no. I don't even know any real people who have reported that. Anyone here got any insight? --Kels 07:07, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

It's definitely been reported, and it is classified as a hallucinogen, but i think that is because it doesn't fit neatly into any other group. I really think Mar. and hash stand on their own, and hallucinogenesis is a very minor property.--PalMD^{-yada yada} 07:19, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

To further confuse the issue, in many places, some drugs are classified legally, as opposed to medically or chemically. Isn't LSD a "narcotic" in the US? human^{be in} 11:48, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] fat bongs and other user "experiences"

Fat bongs used to give me the most beautiful kaleidoscopes when I closed my eyes. Sent my brain nuts: image after image would flash up at the most dizzying speed until after a while they all merged into this glorious, seething whole of shapes and colours. Used to have this nonsense word that would jabber away at the same time (japehelperbelcemensina - no shit ;) as a kind of mad counterpoint to the visuals.

Also once had this wonderful 10 mins of being-on-the-moon-type weightlessness and a not-so-wonderful 5-10 mins of lying on someone's sofa feeling like I was falling down a mineshaft (Hendrix played on the background, uncaring). Nowt compared to acid (or mushies or 2CB or even ket), of course, but (mostly) fun nonetheless. --Robledo 19:47, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Argument for legalization

It is physically impossible to smoke enough marijuana to fuck yourself up as badly as being sent to prison for 15 years will. --Gulik 20:11, 28 June 2007 (CDT)