Ok, so here we are, 4 days after 4/20 and I'm sober while posting this.
I just wanted to post today to clarify a few things about my drug use.
To begin, I have been smoking pot for approximately six years now, dating back to midway through highschool. Why do I get high? Because I like it, same reason that people drink or drive fast, it's fucking fun OK?
That being said, I occasionally get shit for doing drugs (and yes, hippies, marijuana is still a drug even though it groes naturally in the ground, fucking yeast fart alcohol and thats a drug too so fuck off) from people who don't do drugs. Not that I'm the biggest stoner around, as many of my aquaintances smoke much more than I do, but I consider myself to be a regular user nonetheless.
This post is essentially dedicated to the people out there who give me shit, or give other people shit for getting high.
First, health risks. People don't seem to realize that the health risks involved have been debunked time and time again by every scientific body on the planet and so I still get a lot of "You know it's bad for you, right?" I'm going to explain to you exactly what is bad for you about smoking pot: smoke entering your lungs. period. It's no worse and no better than smoking a cigarette if the joint is rolled properly (not that cigarettes are great for you or anything, don't get me wrong)and that's it. (And yes, that DOES mean that intaking the marijuana via brownies or something like that is completely harmless.) All that jazz about killing brain cells and such is simply not true and I dare you to find me any peer-reviewed science journal saying otherwise.
My doctor, as well as multiple professors at my university (the #1 university in Canada for medical science) are all extremely well qualified medical scientists and every single one of them has confirmed to me the previous facts. None of these people hold fake degrees, they are all incredibly well educated people in the field, so don't give me that shit about "he must not be a real doctor if he thinks weed isn't bad for you" FUCK OFF. On a side note, some people have asked me why I don't smoke cigarettes instead because at least they are legal. I don't like them, they make me dizzy and I don't like the smell.
Next issue: people accusing me of smoking to "escape reality"
Fuck all of you, I've said it before and here it is again: I smoke to ENHANCE reality, not to escape it. I like reality, but sometimes I want my food to taste better, my music to sound cooler, or the people around me to be more interesting. I still hear/see/taste/smell and feel all the same things when I'm high, only to a much more interesting degree. Escapism is lame. Don't lump me in that bunch of fucktards...
Lastly, that garbage about regretting descisions I make when I'm high. Fuck that. I make far worse descisions drunk. When I'm really drunk, I starting hitting on everybody in the room and needing to apologize later. When I'm high, I eat a lot and listen to music. Fuck all of you. The only thing I might agree with in this category would be not remembering things when I'm high, a perfect example being this tuesday when I awoke in a friends basement with nobody around except a snoring DJ on the next couch. It turned out that I got really sleepy on 4/20 and didn't go home...
Anyways, sorry for the delays on my posts lately, I've been high.
-Thor's Hammer
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Does The Canadian Medical Associations Journal Count? - http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887?ijkey=d57b4ac939ef256300e5719229e5b1772c4b161d&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
ReplyDeletePot makes you stupider is the gist of it.
http://jop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/471
There's the Journal of Psychopharmacology. A Lot of Pot reduces your prepulse inhibition aka your ability to not be started by a non-startling stimulus.. or something
Anyways you get my point. I'm sure you can find a ton of articles saying it doesn't affect you besides lungs and I'm sure I can find a ton that say otherwise.
- Brows
As a personal preference, I choose to partake in activities that, as a consequence, prevent my urine from being tested positive for cannabis. With that said, conclusions reached about those articles are just slightly misinterpreted, at least in the whole ‘makes you stupider’ business. “The comparison of the IQ difference scores showed an average decrease of 4.1 points in current heavy users (p < 0.05) compared to gains in IQ points for light current users (5.8), former users (3.5) and non-users (2.6),” which translates to too much pot will reduce your IQ (notably not that drastically), but when used in moderation, like anything in life, is good for you, it actually increased IQ by 3.2 points more than non-users. To boot, they concluded “that marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact on global intelligence,” so if you stop you are back on track. As for intelligence that’s all cute but what about the serious mental stuff addressed in the second source right? Well reduction in PPI, in other words being more jumpy when others normally are not, occurs more in “chronic, but not acute” weed users; the experiment described this reduction in PPI as being "schizophrenia-like", therefore with a simile, a comparison that is not a direct relation. To conclude with their data which proved that “cannabis dependence was found to be associated with more diagnoses of mental illness other than schizophrenia (mainly depression),” this statement is a bit more effective as a deterrent. Once again, the repeating fault seems to be the extreme topic of the study, which focuses on the detriments of being a chronic user and not the casual/regular type that Thor’s Hammer talks about. Anyways couldn't help but jump on this discussion- nothing like rhetoric to break up the study sessions.
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First off FUCK YOU BROWS
ReplyDeleteyou donnie downer
that being said you guys should watch the incredible documentary "Super High Me"
Haha he dared someone to find a peer reviewed journal that said otherwise.. which i did so you can chill the fuck out lol... respek swank
ReplyDelete- Brows
"Super High Me" was an incredibly awful documentary.
ReplyDeleteand I love my illicit drug use.