How do you feel about the use of marijuana?

I don't like it myself, makes me hyper, flushed, dizzy, nothing like the supposed "mellow" feeling everyone says.

Why is this survey under "pets/animals"?

i smoked pot in college and just after.... i always felt very withdrawn and paranoid after smoking. since then i have only smoked maybe 2 or 3 times with much nicer results! i think the use of marijuana should be legalized.

Pets/animals catergory?
I would be very disappointed if I found out my dog had been smoking pot.

I have smoked pot in the past. I do not smoke pot now. When I smoked pot, I liked it. I don't want to smoke pot now. I don't care whether others smoke pot or not.

Damn! I just realized this was under the pets/animals category. Were you high when you typed that?

I don't fudging care, actually. I don't think kids should do it, and if they do it, adults should be discreet about it. The smell of it makes me ill and I'd rather find highs from working out, from taking a hot bath, from going out dancing with my friends...experiences that make me feel closer to my body and spirit than drugs could ever give me.

If there is marijuana in our town I haven't heard of it and I've never seen it, let along tried it.

I don't want to even try it. I've been where it's being smoked and all that happened is that I got a 3-day migraine from just smelling the smoke! I'd hate to think what would actually happen if I did smoke it.

I think it should be legal.

I've smoked it in the past, but I'd like to know what the survey creator was smoking when they categorized this survey.

I think it makes people do strange things like miscategorizing surveys. I don't smoke it myself, but I'm not about to tell others not to.

yea marijuana! Legalize it, tax it, package to sell like cigarettes, and make the world a better place.

People tend to look down on people who smoke everyday.. but why is it worse than having a drink after work? It does less damage to your body.

After it's legalized, the government can spend it's time and money on more important things that need attending to... crimes that actually hurt people, and the environment.

Doesn't make any effect on me.It's too hyped.
Nothing so great about it,it's mildly relaxing.If you are the kind who gets high on weed,okay,just don't pretend everybody likes it.
Legalize it,of course,like every other drug.
Pets/Animals??

I believe it should not be illegal for adults to use it privately for recreational/social enjoyment. I believe adults should be able to grow their own and share it freely with their friends. I believe it should be offered to people medically for pain/nausea relief. I hesitate to say LEGALIZE! only because I can see the government stepping in to regulate and tax the hell out of it. Oh, and I would rather people not get high and then drive cars, trucks, motorcycles and wrecking balls....

For the record, I do not smoke it. I would if it was legal for me to do so. In fact, I'd be an ultra pot head freak!
As for people who choose to smoke it now and risk punishment!!!REBELS!YAY!!!!OUTLAWS!!!!YAY!!!!

I wouldn't want my child to smoke it until after she was an adult. I am unsure about how it might affect her growing brain.

I think it sucks.
It's crap.
Hydro is crap.
Sass is crap.
Chronic is good.

But it smells like crap either way.

I don't want to use it, I don't care if others do. I used to.

I don't think it's particularly good for you. Though, I think that to go your whole life not having smoked it a few times would be like never having done math or learned to read...

As long as you dismiss drugs as 'getting high', then yes, they are stupid. However, realize that 'getting high' isn't the only reason people take drugs.

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Oh, sorry I must have fallen asleep.

I used marijuana from the time I was 14 until I was 19. I stopped using when I found out I was pregnant with my son, but my ex-husband did not. He still uses marijuana, and he's a deadbeat with no job. I don't want drugs around my son, and I won't tolerate people who use it around me. It's fine if you're young and have little or no responsibility, but when you get serious about life, it's time to grow up and give up the weed.

I'd also like to add that, despite my negative opinion of pot, I do support its legalization. There are proven health benefits to it, and I believe you should be able to use it if you want to. Just like smoking, drinking and gambling, though, there should be age restrictions. And taxes! Just imagine how much money could be made by subsidizing pot farms and using that money to pay for schools and health care.

Legalize it already!

My feelings exactly! You took the words right out of my mouth.

You go gurl!!

Your so cute!

I can't think of any other reason.

Used it once. Fell over and banged my head. Never did it again. How relaxing is that!

Don't like people who do use it!

How cool would it be to go to the store for a carton pre-rolled joints of your favorite kind of pot?

Art Bell said once that the Wall Street Journal reported that if the government legalized and taxed marijuana, it would realize something like 500 million bucks a year... Crap, it could wipe out the deficit!

The state of Ohio has the most lenient marijuana laws overall out of any state (from what I understand)... Most amounts only illicit a fine of $150 and they take it away from you to take home to smoke themselves.

I think it's ridiculous that tobacco and alcohol are legal and marijuana isn't. I also think it's ridiculous that our governments try so heavily to restrict what we can and can't do to our bodies.

people have used drugs for a lot of reasons other than getting high... not to argue that they don't use them to do that, but quite a few people use marijuana medicinally in order to help them deal with nausea from chemotherapy, with AIDS and with glaucoma. Some Native Americans use peyote in their religious rituals. And quite a few people have used a variety of psychedelics like mescaline (peyote), psilocybin (mushrooms), LSD and ecstasy to try to further their own spirituality and try to understand the workings of their own heads better. It's a bit like playing particle physics scattering experiments with your brain but it can be effective.

A lot of art and writing has been inspired by the use of various illegal psychoactives: Edgar Allen Poe, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron...

I'm not saying they should necessarily be used lightly but a lot of banned drugs have other uses than getting high and in many cases the only substantial difference between them and a legal or prescription drugs is that a committee decided to make them illegal.

I used to use it but I found that's all I was doing. Now I have more of a life. I don't care if people do it, as long as they aren't on it all the time like I used to be. It's amazing how boring the people you hung out with when stoned are when you are straight. They all rely on smoke to get laughs.

Couldn't this survey have had some options?

Because the idiot qualifiers let this through with no category specified, and with no options. It must have been last week when we were getting qualifiers trying to be nice by letting crap surveys slide through.

I think people should go ahead and use it.

yuck

Oh, I thought Cody meant something besides medicine (isn't it true that they've outlawed marijuana even for glaucoma? I heard something like that).

But whatever it may be, inspiration, spiritual growth, it still is "acquired" through the high. I mean, otherwise you might as well be taking baby aspirin.

I've never used marijuana even though I had a chance one time. I do think it should be legalized for medical use though.

no comment on what cody might or might not mean .

I believe that in the US marijuana is still a "Schedule I" drug, which means it has no medicinal purpose, which is in fact inaccurate, but that's the way it's categorized.

you're right, you don't get the insight with the 'high', but ... for instance, LSD really messes up your perceptions. It can give you the opportunity to see things from a radically different perspective, and to gain an understanding of how your own mind colors your perceptions and preconceptions - what's going on in your head that changes how you see things vs. what's really going on outside your head that you can't see clearly. It's not a good shortcut for spiritual growth, but it can help some people along the way.

Why is this under Pets/Animals?

I believe that the survey creator left it under misc. and the first responder categorized it... interestingly.

IC. Was the survey creator warned ahead of time?

(Giggles). Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/interview/

http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/People/shulgin.html

There are plenty of other reasons.

If I'm ever in Costa Rica, I'll give you some CO(2) to inhale (no more harmful than holding your breath for a minute (not to say that the latter isn't harmful, it is, but obviously it's not going to kill you). Within 30 seconds, you'll realize that CO(2) DOES NOT get you high. Yet, it had changed something so basic about the way you view reality as to be worth further investigation. It is an enlightening experience-- like a religious experience, or being in love. Consider it, expanding your horizons.

Read: LSD, my problem child. By Albert Hoffman.
Or "The Discovery of Love"

The latter is an account of a grown, rather conservative man (with GROWN CHILDREN to put it into perspective), wealthy, but who felt unfullfilled. He took LSD in the sixties as part of an experiment in a San Francisco mental health clinic, and claims that it made his life immensely better. HE resolved family issues, etc. He claims that he had FORGETTEN what it is to love, and that LSD had allowed him to rediscover it. HE had stopped loving his family, etc. He was just living. After LSD, he had a renewed appreciation for the world.

There are also some good books on Ecstasy and psychotherapy.

There's more to it than you've been told. I'm no fool, (well, that's up for debate) and I've done plenty of drugs. Sometimes to get high, but usually for more important reasons. They haven't done me any real harm (and the harm that was done was a result of using drugs 'to get high,' or jumping into the deep end of the pool, not yet having tested the water). I quit (quite) a while ago (fear of legal problems that might result in losing scholarships or preventing me from getting certain jobs), no problem, addiction was never an issue. Mostly, to be honest, I benefitted. Others I have known have both seen good and bad sides. For many it has literally brought meaning to life. For other people, they feel very good.

That being said, I'm not discoutning the fact that most people use drugs to get high, and that it doesn't do them any good. However, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Or to be more direct, let's not abandon one of the most powerful tools for exploring what it is to be human, just because some people abuse them.

I wrote a fairly long poem which summarizes it all...

Nearly all of the great philosophers have done, and discussed, drugs. Read Freud's "On Cocaine".

I tried it the first time when I was 10 years old (1972). I kept trying it every time the opportunity arose (which wasn't often) until I was about 15, and I actually got high. Up until then I was kind of wondering what all the fuss was...I really liked it, and started to buy it from time to time. Prior to that I had preferred drinking, but I soon fell in with the group of friends that are still my best buddies to this day. The general consensus was that smoking dope was vastly superior to drinking, so I didn't drink for a couple of years in high school. There have been two periods in my life when I smoked every day. Both lasted 2 or 3 months. The first time was shortly after high school when I had a really stupid job with a couple of my friends, and we were basically high at work the whole time. A few years later, I was dealing a bit and smoking the profits. Shortly after that, when I was about 27, I noticed that I didn't really enjoy it anymore. I stopped doing all drugs around that time (not including alcohol, coffee, cigarettes etc.). From about the age of 19 to 27, my preference was for the combined effects of alcohol and LSD.

I don't think that any drug should be illegal. I don't think drugs are good, but I don't think they are bad either. I believe that the most important thing is that people educate themselves about the substances they ingest prior to ingesting them. I also think that doing drugs should not be an activity unto itself. Drugs can be an excellent enhancement to another activity and should be used socially. Sitting around doing drugs by yourself and little else, is just pathetic. I think that anyone who does that has a problem.

Why, Thank you very much

Perhaps those that are almost dead to begin with.

You're the kind of person who should do drugs. That sounded a little weird but what I meant to say is, you're obviously mature, responsible and well-informed. You know how to deal with stuff. But there's few out there like you. Even I, who am the most like you out of my whole group of friends, am still way too silly to trust myself with that kind of thing. It really depends on the person.

cody talks a lot better game than he knows - he sounds well-informed but half of what he says is bullcrap. When you call him on it he just blusters. It's not all smoke and mirrors but a lot of it is.

Oh...I know he thinks very highly of himself and his mind power, which comes off clearly in his writing...but it's not up to you or me to judge whether his conceit is justified I personally think he has a lot to learn about life still but he's still one of the most intelligent and articulate people I've ever known on-line.

Huh! That would be too easy. The government likes torturing us first. Jerks! Don't they know how much more revenue they could generate, if only they would consider legalizing the dang thing already!!
Geeze! Not only that, but I think that, it would probably give the cigarette company's a hard run for their $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.Wow!!! That's food for thought. & I don't even smoke. & I think that lealization is the way to go.

No problem.

Just think of all the uses it could have... I read an article once about the commercial growth of marijuanna and how the Ky. farmers are looking for an alternative to tobacco. The farmers are going bankrupt left and right. The farmers in Kentucky want to start growing marijuanna without THC for rope, paper, clothing, etc. One of the reasons for not allowing this is that the govt. says it would be too easy to hide smokeable plants among the non-THC plants. It's absolute bullcrap because the non-THC plants would cross pollinate and render the smokeable plants useless for party purposes.

Wow!!! I didn't know that. Ky farmers going bankrupt? They(big bro) should let the farmers grow the marijuana & monitor it like they do everything else in the U.S.

You know why the government is in the stae that it;s in right now don't you??? Because they have a bunch of MEN running it!! LE t a woman take over & get things done!

What time is it where your at?

When I wrote that comment? Umm.. I think it was last night on my last break from work.. so around 10pm?

I don't know about women running it either.. I mean, it wouldn't do any good to have a bunch of women politicians who think the same things as the men.. I think you and I should run things.

Not again.....

Each to their own.
If you're not hurting anyone else then fine.

actually, from what someone told me, dogs love to get high and they love to get drunk.

Makes brownies real good.

I thought a lot of farmers in Kentucky already grew pot.

Yeah, but it's not legal.

Actually, during WWII.. it was really easy to grow it legally. The govt. was practically begging the farmers to grow hemp for military purposes..

http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_3.shtml

Yay! Yay! Yay! I would love to help thing with you. Shall we hire the rest of the girls here as well? Wow! That's a scary thought.

I've never used it. I don't object to its use but I think it's sensible to use it in moderation. People who smoke it regularly are as bad as people who smoke too mcuh tobacco or drink too much alcohol.

i smoked as a teen and in my early twenties, but quit due to anxiety...it has a reverse effect on me...almost like a stimulant (actually i think it is a stimulant)...but now, i can't stand second hand dope smoke...blech....don't get me wrong...i love to sniff a bag of nice bud, but when someone's toking up...i'd rather not be around, or them be around me

i think i like it cuz i use it and its great for relaxing at the end of the day.i think it should be legal to use.regulated,no.

what are you a narc?

I've used marijuana, only a few times.

I've tried it a few times. Since alcohol & tobacco are legal, marijuana should be too.

dg