Is marijuana Satan's smoke, or God's Gift?

1. Male
2. 40
3. yes
4. no
5. pain relief, mind expansion, motivation, abstract thought
6. no adverse effects
7. both
8. sometimes
9. seizure disorder, depression, congenital neck malformation
10. it keeps me from having seizures, reduces depression, eliminates neck pain
11. designated grower
12. there are only 7 people in the country who get it from the government, I'm not one of them
13. pot should be legal, pot arrests ruin lives and trash families and careers, it's not a gateway drug and it's not addictive. Pot is Medicine to me, and because of the law I am being deprived of it - that sucks. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

1. Female
2. 20-29
3. Yes, smoked and ate marijuana
4. Yes, but note that I did a ridiculous, extraordinary amount of weed, and I was just starting to get into smoking at the time (no tolerance).
5. Nausea, no vomiting. For about 30 minutes (although time perception is altered on weed so it could be for less time) till I passed out.
6. Am allergic to alcohol, and I did drink a few beers that night. I definitely think alcohol intensified my nausea.
7. Recreational, although it's not just all fun and games for me. I like to use it for introspection/deep thought, meditation, calming purposes, etc. So in that light, it could be said that I use MJ for psychological purposes, thus medical purposes.
8. No, I believe weed only intensifies your own emotions/attributes. If you're lazy to begin with, weed will just make you lazier. Since I'm lazy, weed just made it that much easier to be lazy. But in no way was weed the cause of my laziness (which has affected my life).
9. N/A
10. N/A, although I do have asthma, and weed seems to keep my asthma attacks down to a minimum (maybe bc I'm calmer all the time?).
11. I buy from an illegal source bc I have no medical reason to buy it legally.
12. No, but I've always wanted to try it. Why,do you have any?
13. Regarding availability, MJ is in reality pretty hard to find for the average person, at least where I live. Ppl here usually get weed through close friends or family members. It's not like ppl are on every street corner peddling weed (I wish it was like that!). In fact, it took me 2 years of steady searching to finally find a source of weed.

As for MJ being a gateway drug, I don't believe that to be true. If you start out using ANY drug, the average person will become curious and want to try out other drugs. The only reason why weed is singled out as the gateway drug might be bc weed is a little easier to find than other drugs (but as stated earlier, it's still hard to find and getting even harder to find), so it's most likely that your first experience with drugs is with weed. Also bc weed usually generates fun highs and rarely if ever does weed cause a bad trip. Bc of this, ppl usually end up with a good experience with MJ, causing them to imagine that other drugs can give a similar experience. But overall, like many others have said, it mainly just depends on the person.

Here in Hawaii, during the past 20 years or so, the police have been focusing on cracking down on marijuana growers and marijuana in general. I strongly feel that it is because of this MJ is now extremely hard to find in Hawaii. I also strongly feel that this is why Hawaii is now leading the nation as far as ice (crystal meth) use. I strongly feel that if the police and DEA didn't focus all of their attention on eradicating marijuana, then Hawaii wouldn't have such a big crystal meth epidemic.

Oops, I think I misread #5. Change my answer to this:

5. I feel mellow, happy, relaxed and capable of having deep thoughts about anything, and I'm also able to enjoy everything much more than I normally do. These effects last about 2-8 hours, depending on how much was smoked

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Originally Posted by shadowfox

I strongly feel that if the police and DEA didn't focus all of their attention on eradicating marijuana, then Hawaii wouldn't have such a big crystal meth epidemic.

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I've been reading about this lately, it's a shame cause your state always had such sweet weed. Have you considered joining the THC ministry (Roger Christie) and cultivating your own legally? Check it out - www.thc-ministry.net ... look for me there.

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Originally Posted by stokes

I've been reading about this lately, it's a shame cause your state always had such sweet weed. Have you considered joining the THC ministry (Roger Christie) and cultivating your own legally? Check it out - www.thc-ministry.net ... look for me there.

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Yeah it sucks, I started to get into weed after they cracked down on it. So I would mostly get regular stuff from the mainland. Of course, once in a while I'd get lucky and get some really interesting Hawaii based stuff, but it still sucks bc I know I'd get the interesting and really good stuff much more often if they hadn't cracked down on all the Hawaii growers.

I think I checked out the ministry awhile ago. It sounded like a good idea until I heard that the card you get for joining doesn't really help anything, cops will still bust you. If this is the case, then paying so much to join a ministry isn't really worth it imo.

1. Are you male or female? Female
2. What is your age range (10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, etc)? 10-19
3. Have you ever smoked or consumed marijauana directly? no? :rolleyes:
4. Have you ever felt any adverse effects (nausea, dizziness, vomitting, headache, etc? yeah :D
5. If not, what sort of effects did you encounter?Choking a lot, smiling and laughing at everything, twitching, rubing my eyes, eating/drinking more than usual. How long did they last? Oh sometimes they last an half hour, hour, 2 hours.
6. If you have discovered adverse effects (nausea, dizziness, vomitting, headache, etc) after inhaling or consuming marijuana directly, do you think the effects may have been the reult of taking another drug before using marijuana, such as a painkiller, an alcoholic beverage or some other kind of medication? No, I dont take painkillers, I dont drink, and i dont take medication. Nor have I ever worried about lacing sine I know what I am smoking, and from whom I trust.
7. Do you use marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes? Well in my opinion I know whats better for me than any docter. Enough said.
8. Does your consumption of marijuana interfere with any of your activities (job or school)? No, never gave me much trouble with it interfering. Maybe some drama at home for bout 2 days but after that nope.
9. If you use marijuana for medicinal purposes, do you suffer from a disease such as AIDS, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, etc? Nope
10. If you suffer from a disease that isn't one of tha above, which disease is it? How does the inhalation and/or consumption of marijuana help you? Lets just say it helps.
11. Are you able to buy your marijuana from a deisgnated grower, or do you buy your marijuana from an illegal source? Why? :mad:
12. Have you ever tried marijuana issued by the government? NoIf not, why?Because its dumb.... If so, what is your opinion of it- price, quality, accessibility, etc?
13. What is your opinion about the accessibility of marijuana? Do you believe marijuana is a gateway drug?Yeah i do, lots of people end up thinking its not good enough for them or they might get bored with this drug and go up to a bigger one. Marijuana was never a gateway drug since well I've done it before mj. I used to think "Oh marijuana isent as good at acid, e, coricdin so why bother?" But I was wrong very worong. Im done with the other shit so now i've got this illegal substance thats a lot better for me inside and out. Explain. Do you have any other comments?

*Gushing* ThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!!

I lost my password, found it, then I couldn't remember where I posted ( :confused: ), and when I finally found it here, I was so happy to see that so many people have posted!! Thank you!!

Some people required more info on what exactly this is all about, so here's more of the details. (PS- I'm a girl, not a guy!!) I'm a biology student attending school in Canada, and for most courses we get an MIS to complete; this is a Major Independant Study worth a great deal of our mark. For the most part, we get a skeleton of an outline for what to do, and a bunch of options; because our teacher enjoys giving us freedom, she deemed that the MIS for this class could be about whatever we wanted it to be about, as long as it had to do with biology in some way and she approved it first.

Why did I choose MJ of all the choices I had? People in my class were doing anorexia, migraines, Parkinson's disease- I wanted something that would not only be fascinating to learn about, but something I could learn about that would clear up a lot of the fog in my head. I was witness to a bunch of commercials from the US government that advetisted marijuana as the cause of all the world's problems, which sort of confused me for various reasons- if MJ was so bad, why was it not portrayed that way on TV? (If you look at movies, those who smoke weed are always laid back and relaxed while those who do heroin, cocaine or ecstacy start acting really weird). With the exception of Reefer Madness, this seemed to be the first time MJ was advertised in such a horrible fashion.

And what have I learned? What haven't I learned? Here's the breakdown, not only from the amazing hostory I found on this site, but from books and magazines I've collected- MJ was widely used in ancient countries such as China and Egypt for many things, not limited to a food source, a relaxation drug and, in larger doses, a hallucinogenic. The plant was also used to make sails for ships, ropes, etc. It had a wide use of applications. I even found a recipe in a withcraft book for an out-of-body experience, with many poisonous ingredients listed; 40 grams of MJ was one of the ingredients (and from my research, that's a LOT of MJ!!)

See, the pagans used to use MJ all the time for out-of-body/hallucinogenic and otherwise interesting experiences. Once the Catholics gained power, they deemed MJ as a horrible thing related to pagans and the Satan they worshipped, and so it was banned. That was the first war on drugs- not because MJ was bad, but because the catholics wanted to isolate non-catholics in any way they could. (sorry if I've offended anyone religious, but it's on this site's history page!!)

Eventually, MJ came into use again. Actually, it never went out of use- large countries a little to large to be converted to the catholic faith still used it for many reasons. It migrated over to North America with the immigrants and had many useful applications there. However, North Americans decided they no longer liked immigrants and banned MJ because they thought this would cause the immigrants to leave. It didn't work, but MJ was still kept banned. Although it was used in over half the pharmacutical products sold, it was slowly closed down so that America had to import everything hemp from over seas. Later on, Canada tried the same tactic and banned MJ because they decided they no longer liked immigrants either- especially the coloured ones. So allow me to repeat- MJ was banned not because it had any adverse effects; it was banned because [i]North America wanted to get rid of the immigrants[i]. Cool, eh?

Looking online, I found many interesting tidbits.
->It's estimated that pharmacutical companies stand to lose 20% of their profits if MJ is legalized because of the wide range of maladies that MJ cures. Wanna know who the biggest opposition to MJ is...?
->Many companies in the US who want to do unbiased research to examine the properties of MJ have to wait for approval by a branch of the government who refuses to reply to their requests. The companies that [i]have[i] done research and were approved to do research by this 'branch' have stated the many detrimental effects of MJ, even though they appear to have no scientific evidence to back it up, and even then they state some interesting things- such as the fact that MJ smokeables are made using the 'leaf, flower and stem of the cannabis plant'. For all those who are either experienced or have thoroughly researched MJ, you might find this a bit odd. After all, isn't the bud the only part that contains THC?
->Canada enlisted a guy to grow MJ for them so the government could sell it at a ridiculously high price. The guy growing it had never grown MJ before, and high concentrations of arsenic and several other toxis compounds were discovered in the MJ. This MJ was also made using the stem and leaf. As someone I spoke to casually commented, "You might as well smoke grass clippings". It's even been suggested that the government did that to purposely make people sick so they could prove MJ is bad. That or they're trying, in a very horrible fashion, to try and incorporate MJ back into the pharmacutical companies so they can collect taxes from it's use.

Well, that was a lot of writing. I found more, but if anyone has the patience to go through that rambling, I doubt they'll have the patience to go through the rest of it!!

Once again, thanks a bunch and I really appreciate this!! :D :D :D

1. male
2. 10-19
3. yes
4. yea
5. ive felt euphoria sleepyness mellow happy
6. only when i have alcyhol b4 hand
7. no
8. never
11.illegaly bc i have no cancer O_O
12. nope
13. no i dont think marijuana has influence if u take n e other drugs thats a person choice not a drugs?

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1. Are you male or female? Male
2. What is your age range (10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, etc)? 10-19 (18)
3. Have you ever smoked or consumed marijauana directly? Yes
4. Have you ever felt any adverse effects (nausea, dizziness, vomitting, headache, etc? Dizziness occationally, but I wouldn't say it's a bad feeling....
5. If not, what sort of effects did you encounter? How long did they last? A nice Euphoric High, just much calmer then before and have a great sense of happiness. They can last anywhere between 30 minutes (bad quality weed) to 4 hours.
6. If you have discovered adverse effects (nausea, dizziness, vomitting, headache, etc) after inhaling or consuming marijuana directly, do you think the effects may have been the reult of taking another drug before using marijuana, such as a painkiller, an alcoholic beverage or some other kind of medication? Have only drank and smoked marijuana, and no, it didn't have any effect on the marijuana...
7. Do you use marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes? Both, medicinal in the fact that it gets me to sleep quickly. Otherwise I'm up all hours of the night regardless of whether I want to fall asleep or not (had that same effect before trying marijuana, marijuana simply cured the problem)
8. Does your consumption of marijuana interfere with any of your activities (job or school)? Out of school. Interfere? Not really, while I can be high working, all it does is make me work harder, because it makes me concentrate better.
9. If you use marijuana for medicinal purposes, do you suffer from a disease such as AIDS, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, etc? No
10. If you suffer from a disease that isn't one of tha above, which disease is it? How does the inhalation and/or consumption of marijuana help you?
11. Are you able to buy your marijuana from a deisgnated grower, or do you buy your marijuana from an illegal source? Why? Isn't a designated growere still an illegal source? lol.... Call it an Illegal source... but it's a friend.
12. Have you ever tried marijuana issued by the government? If not, why? If so, what is your opinion of it- price, quality, accessibility, etc? Haven't had it.
13. What is your opinion about the accessibility of marijuana? Do you believe marijuana is a gateway drug? Explain. Do you have any other comments? Marijuana is more accessible then cigarettes to minors, alcohol to minors, or any other drug. Around here it is everywhere. I don't believe Marijuana is a gateway drug, if anything was it would be alcohol. With Marijuana you can keep your senses and a level head (speaking from my personal experience) and alcohol can make you an incoherent and lose concentration. I tried cigarettes while drunk and I can garauntee I wouldn't have tried them sober (or even smoking herb... cigarettes are addicting)
Other Comments: People who use marijuana aren't as bad of people as society thinks. It's a recreational hobby where you can relax and just hang out with some friends (or by yourself)... but most of the people consuming marijuana are usually good people, if you can get by societies view of potheads.