Cannibis use, whether smoked or eaten, linked to greater heart issues.

[Kurosaki]

Except for certain occupations, I’m not aware of any laws that prohibit people working under the influence of anything. Though the corporate world does frown on it.

Getting fired is a bit more extreme than 'frowned upon'.

 

[ST Guy]

Yes, but when your stoner friends are people like CEO’s, COO’s, presidents, directors, managers, etc, there is more leeway.

 

[Rtmac]

Except for certain occupations, I’m not aware of any laws that prohibit people working under the influence of anything. Though the corporate world does frown on it.

I'm certain it wouldn't work for everyone. For me however, it keeps my brain from bouncing off it's rev-limiter. When I was still working, everyone knew that if you had bad news to give me, do it after lunch.

 

[ST Guy]

Yep, everyone is different.

I could have spent my career stoned at work, but I didn’t.

 

[Kurosaki]

Yes, but when your stoner friends are people like CEO’s, COO’s, presidents, directors, managers, etc, there is more leeway.

There's more leeway with everything when your friends are people like that.

 

[ST Guy]

I think people would be surprised at how many of the movers and shakers in the Silicon Valley smoke weed.

 

[Abacinator]

A lot of the negative press against cannabis is funded by the booze industry

 

[Mike95060]

If my job involved interacting with people versus machine tools, I might imbibe in the workplace. I have no desire to be stoned around machine tools, ever. Two different mindsets for two different times.


@OldMadBrit, Whats up with that nasty Mitsubishi?

 

[two wheel tramp]

I had my heart checked out in 2023 along with my lungs to make sure the PE in 2021 hadn't fucked me. It's in good shape.

Weed used while bicycling definitely helped my endurance and stamina. My most recent bong hits had me flat in my chair for 20 minutes until I became annoyingly productive and attacked garden chores for half a day.

It also makes me eat like a piglet at times.

 

[OldMadBrit]

The easy access to high THC cannabis in the youth cohort is very concerning. Several students end up ZOMBIFIED by over consuming extract with vape pens. Some kids end up with hyper emesis, which was not a thing before all these drug delivery systems became widespread and inexpensive. We also now know that exposure to advertising which is fairly common in urban areas with cannabis billboards dramatically increases acceptable use in teens. The only upside all this is that drinking has cratered. Being drunk and stupid has never been cool, but it is vanishingly rare at the parties my students attend.

California produces five times as much cannabis as it can consume, dramatically, lowering price per unit. Parents between 30 and 45 or so are very accepting of kids experimenting with what they consider a benign drug. It never was, and it still isn’t, but it presents a much greater threat to the psychological health of young people then it has in the past.

The number of drivers I encounter on my way home Lane sharing that are blowing out. Clouds of vape. Smoke is disturbing.

This for sure. I could almost get stoned splitting lanes on any given afternoon commute, with all the smoke coming out of the vehicles I pass.

 

[OldMadBrit]

@OldMadBrit, Whats up with that nasty Mitsubishi?

It's in the shop for a bunch of updates and fixes.
The biggest issue is that it keeps eating clutches and there aren't many options available for these anymore. It's getting a Clutch Masters twin disc that's rated for 900HP - hopefully this will be enough lol.
I'm also on a mission to find a company that can 3D print Inconel headers, as it keeps eating both the stock and aftermarket ones.

 

[WFO]

I grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains during the seventies. Many of my friends, many of my friends' parents, and I smoked a lot of weed. One of my friend's dad was an astrophysics professor at a local Jesuit university. He had a nice growing room tucked away with some choice sensimillan that they would harvest every autumn. One day I asked him if he thought smoking marijuana made you stupid. He said yes, smoking marijuana does make you stupid. I guess drinking can make you stupid too. I've seen that wreck a few lives; as in, people died. I've never heard of anyone dying because of a marijuana addiction. I've often stopped smoking weed for months at a time - never for any particular reason. It was never difficult, even with a bunch of weed stashed away in various places around the house. I really had a lot of fun getting stoned with my friends while we were in high school. Incidentally, I remember everything. Perhaps I could have become a better person without it, but who knows? I really have no regerts.

I think the worst thing about smoking marijuana is the stigma involved with it.

 

[Climber]

I think that weed is like anything else, ok if taken in moderation but increasingly (with greater potency) greater problems when abused. My daughter broke up with a guy because weed became more important than anything else in his life, and one of my nieces is seperated with her husband and father of their 4 kids because he lost interest in anything but smoking his weed.

 

[ST Guy]

Yes. Everything in moderation.

I have a brother in law who smokes regularly. My sister would prefer that he doesn’t but it helps with the pain he feels from getting shot in the neck many years ago.

 

[cheez]

This for sure. I could almost get stoned splitting lanes on any given afternoon commute, with all the smoke coming out of the vehicles I pass.

I used to play a game in Texas called "skunk or stoner"- get a whiff of something skunky, guess if it was a dead or spraying skunk, or a stoner smoking some skunky ass weed. It was a fun game, I almost never lost.

It's not a game in California, there's not nearly enough skunks to keep up.

 

[Rtmac]

one of my nieces is seperated with her husband and father of their 4 kids because he lost interest in anything but smoking his weed.

Whenever I quit my wife ends up saying "For gods sake, will you please go smoke some weed!"

I used to play a game in Texas called "skunk or stoner"- get a whiff of something skunky, guess if it was a dead or spraying skunk, or a stoner smoking some skunky ass weed.

My brother and I still laugh about when we were teenagers and whenever our mom would get near one of cars in the driveway she'd say "Oh my god, I smell a skunk... I'm getting inside the house!"

 

[greenmonster]

I still consider marijuana a gateway drug although there are those that dispute that. When you're told as a kid never take drugs, never associate with those that do, a line is formed in your mind. Once you smoke a little pot, usually to fit in with your teenage friends, you see that nothing bad actually happened that you that you were warned about, so it becomes easy to try harder drugs thinking they are harmless too.
Not saying everyone does this but heroin or meth is never someone's first drug. They work up to the hard stuff over time. And pot starts it off.
Also, you begin to associate with drug sellers engaged in criminal activities so there's the whole "mixing with the wrong crowd" thing that begins to happen.
True you can get a cannabis card but that hasn't stopped street sales.

I smoked weed in high school but once I turned 21 that was it for me. I grew tired of going to smoke filled parties where everyone was giggling at stupid stuff and not accomplishing anything. After a number of years like that I'd had enough.

 

[GAJ]

May as well call beer or cheap liquor a gateway drug.

 

[Rtmac]

When you're told as a kid never take drugs, never associate with those that do, a line is formed in your mind. Once you smoke a little pot, usually to fit in with your teenage friends, you see that nothing bad actually happened that you that you were warned about, so it becomes easy to try harder drugs thinking they are harmless too.

I never took being told not to do something as a kid very serious... I made my own choices. Being told "not to" just made me want to try it more. I've tried pretty much every drug you can think of at least once, never had a problem any of them. The "gateway drug" and the "addicted after the first time" myths are both horseshit, at least in my experience.

I grew tired of going to smoke filled parties where everyone was giggling at stupid stuff and not accomplishing anything.

That what's called having fun.

 

[Rtmac]

May as well call beer or cheap liquor a gateway drug.

Kissing must be the gateway to rape.