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**Scott Bails** · 09-24-2014

Originally Posted by Klonk

Can't agree with your comments about habitual pot smokers though. Most that I know or have come in contact with are quite successful, focused and have plenty of drive and reasoning. Go figure. Nothing wrong with it as a way to wind down as far as I'm concerned. Stupid? Nah.

However....

**Scott Bails** · 09-24-2014

Sorry - double-post

**No Pride** · 09-24-2014

Originally Posted by Klonk

I agree with her being a publicity whore and her actions calculated. Can't agree with your comments about habitual pot smokers though. Most that I know or have come in contact with are quite successful, focused and have plenty of drive and reasoning. Go figure. Nothing wrong with it as a way to wind down as far as I'm concerned. Stupid? Nah.

+1

**progeezer** · 09-24-2014

Hmmm...methinks I agree with Scott & Ernie.

I'm sure she calculated her actions, but I bet that in her own head she didn't think of herself as a publicity whore, but rather as a noble defender of the (cannabis) faith looking for shock value that would be enough to improve the status( public opinion, finances etc.) of the group she heads.

**ronmac** · 09-24-2014

Originally Posted by Scott Bails

However....

That's more of a lesson about racing than it is about smoking pot.

**mozo-pg** · 09-24-2014

This isn't a popular opinion but I'd move well beyond pot legalization to include drugs like, ah, heroin. The Swiss prison services have prescribed legal heroin to their offenders for decades with the net result of stopping the spread of blood and borne pathogens and overdose.

In Canada, the previous federal governing party instituted a pilot project of legal heroin distributed in a clinic to severely dependent adults, called project Naomi. The net result was a huge reduction in overdoes (instead, legally prescribed in safe limits) and the spread of hepatitus. So you legalize heroin and reduce the underground economy and place decision making with the government within a health care context. It would generate large revenues government could hypothetically redirect into the health system instead of the criminal justice system.

Bringing users into a safe environment like a clinic also results in getting treatment to the most severely dependent individuals and saves lives for people (they are not really addicts - something a person does but something a person is) who no longer have to be dependent on organized crime to supply them with drugs. Those who continue to use safely are often able to return to work, pay taxes, and become contributing members of society.

For marijuana, it's a shame Canada is lagging behind other countries, like the U.S. The harms associated with the abuse of pot is radically surpassed by alcohol abuse. Penalties should really apply to users who drive under the influence not for someone simply smoking a joint.

**Just Eric** · 09-24-2014

Haven't any of you guys seen Reefer Madness?? Crazy Weed will lead you directly to a life of degradation, prison and immorality. Avoid at all costs!

;-)

**moecurlythanu** · 09-24-2014

Originally Posted by Just Eric

Haven't any of you guys seen Reefer Madness??

I haven't seen the movie, but I have heard the song.

**progeezer** · 09-24-2014

Originally Posted by moecurlythanu

I haven't seen the movie, but I have heard the song.

Following are the lyrics to a Cab Calloway song from the 1930s:

"Reefer Man"

Man, what's the matter with that cat there?
Must be full of reefer
Full of reefer?
Yeah man
You mean that cat's high?
Sailing, Sailing

Sailing lightly
Get away from here
Man is that the reefer man?
That's the reefer man
I believe, he's losin' his mind
I think, he's lost his mind

Oh, have you ever met that funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)
Have you ever met that funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)

If he said, he swam to China
And he sell you South Carolina
Then you know
You're talkin' to that reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)
Have you ever met funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)

If he said, he walks the ocean
Any time he takes the notion
Then you know
You're talkin' to reefer man

Have you ever met this funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)
Oh baby baby baby reefer man
(Reefer man)

If he trades you dimes for nickels
And calls watermelon's pickles
Then you know
You're talkin' to that reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)
Have you ever met funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)

If he takes a sudden mania
He'll want to give you, Pennsylvania
And you know
You're talkin' to the reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)
Have you ever met funny reefer man?
(Reefer man)

If he said, one sweet is funny
Because, he won't sell me Atlantic
Then you know
You're talkin' to that reefer man

Songwriters
ROBINSON, J. RUSSEL / RAZAF, ANDY

Published by
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

ab Calloway - Reefer Man Lyrics | MetroLyrics

**moecurlythanu** · 09-24-2014

I was thinking more Hawkwind, but thanks.

Open your eyes, you'll get a surprise, evil is sweeping
the nation,
It's killing your sons and what merely stuns is
Your daughters are out for sensation
When they turn on their morals are gone
They don't really know what they're doing
It's a teenage malaise, a dangerous craze
Leading their bodies to ruin
Reefer madness has stolen all their souls
Reefer madness is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll

Marijuana monster is stalking the streets
He knows what he's up to, he knows what he eats
He gobbles your body and spits out your mind
If you don't believe it then you must be blind
Reefer madness has stolen all their souls
Reefer madness is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll

Marijuana's real enough
Marijuana's real enough
Marijuana's real enough

One night I was smoking dope, when I looked at
my hand, and I saw that I had eleven fingers,
one of these fingers fell from my hand,
onto the carpet, crawled across the floor,
Up on my shelf, inside my piggy bank and stole
my stash, stole my stash.
Reefer madness has stolen their souls
Reefer madness is right out of control
Evil reefer madness is a mind eating troll.

**notallwhowander** · 09-24-2014

**Brian Griffin** · 09-25-2014

"Military" Madness is the bigger problem, IMO

BG

**walt** · 09-25-2014

"The sky is high and so am i, if you'se a viper".

**Casey** · 09-25-2014

Please remember: it's the civilians who tell the military when & where to go. Oftentimes, they also tell them what they can & cannot do. Got a problem with the military? Take it up with the politicos in DC.

**Plasmatopia** · 09-25-2014

Originally Posted by Casey

Please remember: it's the civilians who tell the military when & where to go. Oftentimes, they also tell them what they can & cannot do. Got a problem with the military? Take it up with the politicos in DC.

It might be quicker to take it up with their corporate paymasters.

**No Pride** · 09-25-2014

Originally Posted by notallwhowander

I'm glad I never acquired whatever he was smoking!

But I came close when somebody sort of bullied me into eating a pot brownie. It's apparently a very different experience when it goes through your digestive system instead of the respiratory one. The high keeps ramping up until you're praying for it to stop. Never again!

**mozo-pg** · 09-25-2014

Originally Posted by No Pride

I'm glad I never acquired whatever he was smoking!

But I came close when somebody sort of bullied me into eating a pot brownie. It's apparently a very different experience when it goes through your digestive system instead of the respiratory one. The high keeps ramping up until you're praying for it to stop. Never again!

Ernie, just be happy someone didn't slip a tab of acid into your can of Pepsi. You'd be praying harder!

**Klonk** · 09-25-2014

This has happened to me Greg as I'm sure you know already lol great friends that I have.

I was wondering why the woods my pals and I were drinking in were pulsating like breathing lungs. Oh, that and the flaming hands reaching out of our campfire...