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baisez le monde.
12-01-2006, 01:07 AM
I was looking through my dads shit today and I found this book published in 1969 called "Drugs and You". Here's just some of the propaganda bullshit being spread around back then..


Facts about Marijuana

1. It is all but impossible to smoke marijuana and carry on a normal way of life
2. Marijuana salesman usually "push" other stronger drugs.
3. Most marijuana smokers are "missionaries" and force pot on others.
4. Most students who smoke pot on a regular basis drop out of school.
5. Marijuana smokers have littlr or no control of their emotions and their physical functions.
6. Pot smokers tend to lose control of their better judgement. Nearly all heroin addicts took their first "fix" while under the influence of marijuana.

Why Do People Defend Drug Use?

You may still be wondering why anyone in his right mind, to say nothing of apparently well-educated and talented people, should speak up in favor of drug use. There are a number of reasons for this which you would do well to bear in mind.

-Many of the "intellectuals" who aregue that restriction on the use of narcotics should be dropped are users themselves. They are following the old psychological pattern of serving as "missionaries" to recruit new users, in the hope that this will "spread out" their guilt and make them feel less "marked", less freakish, less rejected by society. (ha! HA!)

Can You Tell When Someone is Under the Influence of Pot?

No one can predict accurately what the effect of pot will be on the individual. Typically, however, a person using marijuana will appear to be heavily intoxicated. He loses most physical coordination. ............ The eyes of the user will be dilated and bloodshot, and the habitual smoker often wears dark glasses because bright lights hurt his eyes. His throat will be dry and parched. He may often have a strong apetite for sweets.


What Does Pot Do to the Mind?

The typical effects on the personality of the regular pot user may be summarized as follows:

-He "drops out". He loses interest in most of the things that would normally be important to people like him. He tries to avoid all activities that would require him to interect with other people. Thus, he does not care about getting good grades in school, excelling in sports, succeeding at a job, or doing anything to win respect and admiration from others. The typical pot user often says that he "just doesn't care anymore" - and he doesn't.

- He thinks about pot all the time. Just about everything else is unimportant to him.

- He tends to put things off. He tries to avoid decisions as long as possible.

- He forms a new set of friends. As the pot smoker develops new habits and ways of thinking, his old friends will probably drift away. Seeking companionship, he will only turn to other pot smokers. In all probability, he has few if any close friends. Thus, his whole social life revolves around the use of the drug. In his eyes, if he were to quit, he would become a lonely “outsider”.

In conclusion, the intelligent responsible person will look at the scientific evidence regarding marijuana and at the actual record of experience. It all adds up to one simple statement:

USERS ARE LOSERS!

Samwhore
12-01-2006, 01:09 AM
its basically all true, but thats exactly what i love about pot<3

AlwaysBlazed
12-01-2006, 01:17 AM
Alot of it is true, but not bad. Just a different lifestyle. The facts are all bullshit though. I do hang out with people who smoke pot, we all started together or after. I never forced pot on any friends sept one who i do as a joke (since hes the only one who never did it in the group, he just sticks to drinking). I think about pot a lot, not all the time.


He may often have a strong apetite for sweets.

now that's funny hah

Samwhore
12-01-2006, 01:20 AM
Alot of it is true, but not bad. Just a different lifestyle. The facts are all bullshit though. I do hang out with people who smoke pot, we all started together or after. I never forced pot on any friends sept one who i do as a joke (since hes the only one who never did it in the group, he just sticks to drinking). I think about pot a lot, not all the time.



yea, i dont force pot on my friends, but instead of sweets i want to each NACHOS

baisez le monde.
12-01-2006, 01:35 AM
wow guys I don't know about you but most of this is not true for me, at all.

I don't think of pot all the time
I have maaaany non smoker, rather straightedge friends
I love school with a passion
I still do the same activites I used to do (theatre, volleyball, etc.)
I don't feel like an outcast or a freak in society because I smoke
I don't wear dark glasses lol
I never lose most of my coordination!

Samwhore
12-01-2006, 01:37 AM
wow guys I don't know about you but most of this is not true for me, at all.

I don't think of pot all the time
I have maaaany non smoker, rather straightedge friends
I love school with a passion
I still do the same activites I used to do (theatre, volleyball, etc.)
I don't feel like an outcast or a freak in society because I smoke
I don't wear dark glasses lol
I never lose most of my coordination!

i applaud you baisez, its hard for me to do that, but many people, when they see me, think that im not a stoner

smoke it
12-01-2006, 02:48 AM
this offends me as a stoner. fuck the world, im gettin high

660
12-01-2006, 03:15 AM
ya thats all bull shit
i mean i love weed smoke a lot of it everyday and do think about it alot, but i'm in school and care about what i'm taking.

As to pushing people into weed i will admit i do, and have got many people to start smoking. its not that i force it on them but i always ask people why not and when they give me there reasons i can ussaly destroy them with way better reasons to smoke then not. speacialy at partys since i'm not a huge drinker but will smoke blunt after blunt

and that last crazy fact about people on hard drugs taking there hits when there high on weed is just stupid to say its weed thats making them try it. More likely there freaking out and need to calm down, i know when i've been trippin hard on shrooms smoking a joint is what i need to stop freaking.

TheSmokingMonkey
12-01-2006, 03:18 AM
It's sort of true for me...

but that's why I always say, everything in moderation.

It's bad to smoke too much... but it's just as bad to not smoke at all (for me).

BabyFacedAbortion
12-01-2006, 03:19 AM
Yeah baisez, I'm basically the same way..although for some reason I look like a stoner, I'm not really sure why as I dress kind of ghetto sometimes.

I don't think about weed all the time, since I've been with my boyfriend thing,
I've only smoked on the weekends.

I have many straight edge/non-pot smoking friends. My boyfriend thing only drinks.

I do extremely well in school, and I just made honour roll. (Although I'm in alternative school)

I don't own sunglasses.

ect.


that shit is insane though, I feel like society used to be incredibly immature and ignorant for some reason, but I don't understand how in 20-30 years we could evolve that much.

Frivolous248
12-01-2006, 03:44 AM
Wow. This has really opened my eyes. I mean, thats all true, whether you druggies want to admit it or not.

I'm done...

I need to get my life back on track.

halo
12-01-2006, 03:45 AM
I agree with you baisez le monde. Although i do think about pot a lot it has never really interfered with school that much. A while ago i noticed i was having trouble remembering things in school so i decided to cut back and only smoke on weekends or days off and never on school nights. If i had to choose between my grades and weed it would definetly be my grades. And that whole lazy thing is way off too. I just started working out at a gym and i enjoy it even if i am sore the day afterword haha.

Peace out!