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Yes, I’m Dependent on Weed
New York Magazine ^ | September 15, 2017 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 09/17/2017 8:14:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: KC_Lion

Article reads like a drunk college freshman wrote it.


41 posted on 09/18/2017 3:34:11 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: aquila48
Some of his views, particularly economic and some foreign policy would be conservative. On social issues he is full Libertarian, anything goes. Which suits his lifestyle.

This dude has issues, and his gross (in both senses of the word) oversharing of personal information illustrates some of those. He practically brags about promiscuity.

As for the pot use, I sympathize, I know a couple of folks who have used it to mitigate medical conditions. While I don't think that making pot legal for all is a good idea. There is a legitimate argument in such cases for limited medical use.

Sullivan however didn't make it. He instead describe how he is self medicating to treat a symptom of his problem, instead of trying to find out why he has insomnia. His 90 degree turn half way into the article to complain about his alma mater, doesn't help.

I get the feeling that while he was halfway through, someone yelled "SQUIRREL!" When he got back to the keyboard, he just decided to rant about something else. It's like reading Spicoli from Fast Times

42 posted on 09/18/2017 3:37:05 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: nickcarraway

No, my kid did not hear about the white out incidents lol.(some boys actually sniffed glue in class) I was straight with her when discussing drug past because I wanted her to know how easily addiction can sneak in, what a bad trip can feel like and the stupid decisions made while high that could have ended very badly and only by pure luck didn’t. She never got into drugs, thankfully.


43 posted on 09/18/2017 4:47:09 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Arthur McGowan

Isn’t this the pole smoker who advocates butt secks for every body?

He’s a walking AIDS. Penicillin fears him.

Still, I love pot and ingest it daily, so there.


44 posted on 09/18/2017 5:20:01 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: kelly4c

Statistically, those who experiment with cocaine in their youth but never use it ever again are more successful as adults than those who never experimented, for some reason.

There was a study.

so yeah, revel in your past! I know I do. I’m glad I’m alive after all that.


45 posted on 09/18/2017 5:26:46 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: nickcarraway

“I smoke pot ‘cause it makes that pillow taste better.”


46 posted on 09/18/2017 6:01:46 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: aquila48

Yikes!


47 posted on 09/18/2017 6:31:51 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: nickcarraway

Nothing that comes from faggotry can be good.


48 posted on 09/18/2017 6:37:21 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t ever try to sell me the pathetic lie that more weed openly in the environment will NOT find its way into the hands of minors. What an imbecilic argument to make.


49 posted on 09/18/2017 6:39:13 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: aquila48
And this guy is supposedly a conservative?

Says who?

He might hide behind some presumably "conservative" principles, but if you dig down just a little, you'll find a raving leftist.

There's no such thing as a "gay conservative." Not in this galaxy.

50 posted on 09/18/2017 6:43:27 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: TheStickman
Article reads like a drunk college freshman wrote it.

More like a high-schooler.

With very few exceptions, I've found that most self-declaring "gay" men I've been acquainted with are emotionally and mentally stunted.

51 posted on 09/18/2017 6:45:18 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Gargantua
Experience is a great teacher, and motivator to adjust to the reality of cause and consequences. Aside from the legitimate use of marijuana for medical reasons as well as pain management, the use of it for a crutch to deal with life or escape from reality is not a healthy way to live. To each his own of course. I have known and been acquainted with too many individuals to agree that pot is beneficial to body or soul. I am unacquainted with Anslinger etal. Not lost in the thirties for sure.
52 posted on 09/18/2017 9:07:20 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: Valpal1
"Are you seriously claiming that inhaling smoke from burning vegetation isn’t bad for your health?"

That would depend. Is there tar in the smoke resultant of the burn? Is that tar absorbable by the alveoli, or does it build up over time, thus impeding oxygen absorption?

Are there active ingredients (chemicals) in the smoke? On par, are they vasodialative or vasoconstrictive? The first lowers blood pressure, the latter spikes it.

So if you have high blood pressure and you smoke a plant that directly applies a vasodilator to the lungs' alveoli, it lowers you blood pressure. If the tars are 98% absorbable by the lungs, then it just gets flushed out with your other waste, and leaves no scarring or damage.

So if someone has hypertension and high blood-pressure, smoking a vasodilative plant can be quite beneficial.

More to the point, one needn't "smoke" anything. This substance can be eaten, vaporized with heat, and/or absorbed directly through the dermis.

So your all encompassing generalization is aught but food for fact-starved fools. You can surely do better.

53 posted on 09/18/2017 9:31:48 AM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: allendale; wbarmy

“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “

-Kipling


54 posted on 09/18/2017 9:37:42 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Wpin
God didn't "create" crystal meth. Man does that in a very stinky lab. All mood altering drugs are NOT addictive. Some make you feel real crappy, and nobody would take them again.

None of which has anything to do with the triggers or functions of actual "addiction."

God help us all.

For folks who are hopefully at least minimally intelligent, some of you do alot of quite ignorant generalizing. Moreover, if your non-arguments are the best you can come up with, you really have no place criticizing a plant whose user is far more erudite, informed, logical and rational than you have been thus far.

;^)

55 posted on 09/18/2017 9:38:10 AM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: nickcarraway

He’s also dependent on “pipe.”


56 posted on 09/18/2017 9:40:30 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: mountainfolk
"Not lost in the thirties for sure."

No, you're not. Just your oft-repeated, and more frequently exploded prejudices about a plant God made for a reason.

57 posted on 09/18/2017 9:40:34 AM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: Fightin Whitey

HEY PISS THE BOOG.

(urinate on your expelled mucus)


58 posted on 09/18/2017 9:41:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: nickcarraway
"But my memory? Much worse."

Perhaps he'll forget to take his AIDS drugs more than a few times.

59 posted on 09/18/2017 9:44:02 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: fwdude

He doesn’t even bother to quote any study or statistics - simply pulls it out of the air.

But if there are such “studies” I’m sure they were done by people with a strong desire to make that point.


60 posted on 09/18/2017 9:47:42 AM PDT by aquila48
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