Who here DOES NOT smoke pot?

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carrie's younger brother

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It seems like every day I find out that one of my coworkers smokes pot. I do not. It's just a personal preference based on who I am. I am not making any judgments here. My reason for posting is that I feel like I am in the minority. I would not consider myself a naive person by far, but I am bowled over by the increasing number of people I know who smoke pot! I guess I've buried my head in the sand about this for a while and at times I almost feel like a "narc" and a nerd for not doing it. lol
So, is there anyone here like me?
 

Walter Oobleck

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I don't and anymore I think I'd be more surprised by someone who told me they do not smoke pot, never have, and never will, more so if they meet the criteria for someone that is included in the stereo-typical group of pot smoking folk. If I'm somewhere and someone hands me a roach I might inhale but that hasn't happened for a few years.
 

fljoe0

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I don't. I'm not against it or anything and I have friends that do but I don't. I really think it should be at least decriminalized. I've not really heard anyone say if it's bad for your lungs or not but I assume it has to do some harm. I'm all for keeping my lungs healthy. Now if we had some of those fancy baked goods around here like they have on the show "Weeds," that might be more to my liking. ;-D
 

kingzeppelin

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Nope, even though I'm old enough to have experienced both the allegedly "Swinging 60's", and the "Flower Power Era".
A decent beer or three, or a nice Scotch/Irish Whisky does me just fine to "take the edge off".
In my opinion, there is no need for you to feel like a "nerd" carrie's younger brother.
If non users are truly now the minority, that makes us the "rebels" and not one of the herd!
Live and let live, that's my point of view. :thumbs_up:
 

GNTLGNT

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...I have smoked it infrequently in the past, and am not opposed to a toke now and again...but it is rare when I do...my vice is Marlboro...
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Mr Nobody

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I don't, never have and never will. I feel like I'm in the minority these days. That suits me fine - I tend to want to zig when everyone else zags anyway.
One of my old friends used to be heavy into it. He'd go and have a smoke outside during work hours, or nip to the toilet if it was a bad day and he had some speed. He reckoned you couldn't tell, but you definitely could. Last I knew, he was on about pot, speed, etc not doing for him anymore. Whether or not he fell into the harder stuff I neither know nor care - our friendship had ended by then (over a woman. We both liked her, she liked us both well enough. Thing was, I was single while my mate very much wasn't. In the end, they got together and kind of rubbed my face in it. I heard on the grapevine that it didn't last; he went creeping back to his ex after a while. I got a few calls from him and the woman I'd been keen on after that, but I ignored them).
 

HollyGolightly

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I haven't smoked it in ages - maybe even 15 years or so, but I get extremely paranoid and am totally no fun to be around when I smoke weed. We've got friends who still smoke it like they did in high school, it doesn't bother me. I wouldn't want anyone smoking it around my kids, but other than that, whatever helps you out is OK by me.
 

Grandpa

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Here I am, living where it's legal, and I don't smoke it and don't want to.

However, while I was not in favor of the vote to legalize recreational use, now that it's here, it's worth pursuing. There's always been this argument, "Make it legal, regulate it, tax it, and the organized crime around it will wither, you won't be stuffing people into the prisons, and the state will make money on the deal." Whether you bought into that hypothesis or not, it had logic to it. Well, now Colorado is in that very position, so it's a worthwhile experiment to see if the hypothesis holds up.

Right now, tax revenues are exceeding expectations. I can't say what's happening to organized crime. Certainly, pot smokers aren't worried about going to jail.

The counter-argument is that by embracing it, you'll have far more people indulging in another intoxicant, with all the detriments that such activity brings to society in terms of effects on individuals and such things as putting people with diminished capacity behind the driver's wheel. It's too soon to tell if that's coming to fruition yet.

An ad running in Colorado stations now:

 

dsurrett

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I've never tried it, but am not as opposed to its legalization. I've heard from relatives who have used prescription marijuana for pain relief and they said it helped when nothing else did. Not sure if I buy the whole "gateway drug" argument. Alcohol and pills could most likely also be shown to be gateway drugs, but they'll never be outlawed since so many 'respectable' people use and abuse them.
 

VultureLvr45

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I generally do not. Have a life long friend who started smoking weed in high school. He has been smoking it most every day since (over 30 years). It takes a toll, as he isn't 'as sharp' as he was. He works at a low level job, but is content to go home at night, get high, and watch tv.

Have another friend, who is a bit on the crazy side. We can thank the military and Vietnam for his 'quirks'. He will tell you the same story 17 times in a row. Nice guy but his loneliness is palpable.

Then there is my sister. Who lost her 'being' to drugs. Beginning with alcohol and weed, and having easy access to heavy narcotics as she was a nurse, she slid into addiction. She never really wanted to get clean, lost her nursing license, was a really rotten mom (her kids are now grown with kids of their own), and she is still on several types of pain medicine.

I know several people who could utilize some of the anti-anxiety and pro-eating aspects of weed, but who sanctimoniously refrain. I'm not opposed, it is illegal currently, in my neck of the woods and I prefer not to break laws. Finally, lost my Mother-in-law to ovarian ca and my own mother has had bouts with breast ca. If I could legally give her tincture or the green juice that is supposed to cure ca, I would.

On the up side, an occasional giggle fit helps so much with morale in the drama of life.
 

The Nameless

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I have never smoked pot in all of my 32 years, and about 15 years ago I would not have had a problem with others smoking it. I used to go with my mates in school to their little pot smoking area in the dense(ish) woodland area of our school grounds, just to hang out with them, while they all smoked it. The reason I never tried it was that it was put in cigarettes and at that point I'd already started smoking for about a month or 2, and realised how stupid and disgusting it was and quit. I know that's not the only way to take it, but it was the only way I was ever around it, and I had no desire to pay for it to pit it in cakes.

Back then it was always resin (or rocky) and I actually quite liked the smell of it, and still don't mind people smoking cannabis resin around me, but 95% of people now smoke skunk (or green), and that smells awful. It smells like stale Stella artois. It's almost offensive. Also, they all seem to think nobody can smell it on them........ Wtf?

Anyway, in your own home - I don't care. Just not my thing.
 

VultureLvr45

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Here I am, living where it's legal, and I don't smoke it and don't want to.

However, while I was not in favor of the vote to legalize recreational use, now that it's here, it's worth pursuing. There's always been this argument, "Make it legal, regulate it, tax it, and the organized crime around it will wither, you won't be stuffing people into the prisons, and the state will make money on the deal." Whether you bought into that hypothesis or not, it had logic to it. Well, now Colorado is in that very position, so it's a worthwhile experiment to see if the hypothesis holds up.

Right now, tax revenues are exceeding expectations. I can't say what's happening to organized crime. Certainly, pot smokers aren't worried about going to jail.

The counter-argument is that by embracing it, you'll have far more people indulging in another intoxicant, with all the detriments that such activity brings to society in terms of effects on individuals and such things as putting people with diminished capacity behind the driver's wheel. It's too soon to tell if that's coming to fruition yet.

An ad running in Colorado stations now:

Ha Ha Ha, Pops, that add was spot on funny! :rofl:
 

not_nadine

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Not anymore - but I did fer sure. It was mostly a high school thing and after for a bit. I have friends that still do, and more power to them.

I just cant.. If I do now... I will take a toke and get all kinds of paranoid thinking back at something I said to someone in the third grade or something...

I hear ya, GNT.