Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 526208)

It is legal here so I'm not advocating anything re. that.

But the full on "this shit cures all" drives me nuts. My CIP loved one spent years telling me he was "healing" himself by eating the massive doses. By the (hopefully) end of it he was telling me Donald Trump was calling him and appointing him the next official rapper for the United States. Fun times!

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 526211)

Weed is a gateway to hard drugs in the same manner Simon & Garfunkel is a gateway band to Slayer.

Weed smokers and coke nuts are totally different personalities, only mixing when the latter need to come down the next morning. Coke people and weed people are fundamentally different people. Often, booze and weed people are fundamentally different.

Weed can lead one to psychedelics because they’re similar introspective highs. But psychedelics are generally harmless (maybe you get a bad trip, but no one dies of mushrooms or acid).

Psychedelics can lead to MDMA use, which can lead to coke use, but this is a really tenuous link.

As for weed leading to heroin, if you’re contemplating heroin you’ve got issues. You’re filling a hole that recreational users don’t understand. Same with meth. If you want a lousy speed buzz that keeps you up forever without the euphoria of coke, you’re fucked on some basic level.

The only true gateway drugs are booze (you might try anything on enough of it) and opioids, which will physically hook you quickly.

Biden needs to drop the phrase “gateway” altogether. He should confer with Hunter. Hunter knows it’s bullshit.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 526226)

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 526212)

Edibles are impossible to predict. You can get pulverized, and it Just Keeps Going. The high is too long and unless you smoke a ton, way too strong. Edibles makers are fucking it up for everyone else.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 526233)

Once again you are wrong. Edibles are fantastic, you just have to buy a product that is consistently in the ballpark of the number of milligrams you want to ingest. I use them all the time. If you're taking 20 milligrams, you're going to have a bad time. Five milligrams is perfect. If it's a long night, have another one, 3 hours in.

TM

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 526234)

I suspect ideal dosage depends on a lot of factors, and is probably a personal issue to be worked out between one and one's edibles (and there may be people for whom 20 milligrams is a "just getting warmed up for the big Melt Banana show" type of situation).

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 526235)

That is a fair point. The other day some dude told me he takes a 100 milligrams when he does edibles. That blows my mind. But, yeah. I imagine Snoop Dog would probably run through my gummies like Skittles.

TM

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 526237)

All I want for Christmas is.... President Pelosi.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 526238)

You are smoking crack rock. And apparently in doses that are way too high.

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 526238)

You are smoking crack rock. And apparently in doses that are way too high.

TM

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 526240)

But Trump could be realizing there's no "off switch" for this and resign for "health reasons," BEFORE losing an election, or impeachment. The question becomes can Pence ram a new VP through (what, the Senate, right?) before his shit starts to burn.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 526240)

But Trump could be realizing there's no "off switch" for this and resign for "health reasons," BEFORE losing an election, or impeachment. The question becomes can Pence ram a new VP through (what, the Senate, right?) before his shit starts to burn.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 526241)

I'm sorry, but what are you talking about? The House will pass articles of impeachment and the Senate will gesture towards a trial and vote it down. I will be shocked if more than 4 Republicans break ranks and vote in favor of removal.

Trump isn't going anywhere. Despite all the booing, he actually believes that people love him. He is going to burn the Republican Party to the fucking ground and he will have to be dragged from office after he loses in 2020.

TM

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 526231)

Someone I love kicked a very nasty coke addiction by spending a two weeks in a room with as much weed as he could smoke. Never touched coke again.