Quote from: caskur on June 06, 2024, 01:58:44 PMMarijuana kills people on the roads everyday like alcohol....

Marijuana is legal here and I use it every day. But I do NOT drive while stoned. If I have to go to the store or the bank or anything it gets done before my first puff. After my first puff I'm not driving for the rest of the day. The very last thing I need is a DUI.

Quote from: Oliver the Second on June 07, 2024, 11:29:00 PMMarijuana is legal here and I use it every day. But I do NOT drive while stoned. If I have to go to the store or the bank or anything it gets done before my first puff. After my first puff I'm not driving for the rest of the day. The very last thing I need is a DUI.

I hate smoke of any kind. It's so gross.

Quote from: Shen Li on June 08, 2024, 12:05:01 AMI hate smoke of any kind. It's so gross.

I've no problem with it. A few people I know smoke pot and eat gummies, I'm cool with that. But it has been many years since I've felt the desire to partake of that myself, even in the presence of others that do.

Quote from: Oliver the Second on June 07, 2024, 11:29:00 PMMarijuana is legal here and I use it every day. But I do NOT drive while stoned. If I have to go to the store or the bank or anything it gets done before my first puff. After my first puff I'm not driving for the rest of the day. The very last thing I need is a DUI.

That is commendable but you know very well that other humans aren't so commendable.

I am very well aware of the drug industry because I have a family of addicts and drug dealers...

Drugs are a huge part of our society and have been since the sixties... I was 14 nearly 15 when I got stoned off my tits the first time.

DOPE has been decriminalised where I live for over 2 decades.

I hate marijuana with a passion. I always had too much and it used to make me violently ill...

The only nice way of using it, if there is one, and that's the oil heating it up with a spoon and breathing the vapour. And I haven't done that for 1/4 of a century.

It's not a drug that suits me physically and worst of all are all my friends and acquaintances who ended up stoned and road kill.

One poor BIL is the same age as me and now looks 30 to 40 years older...

My brother who is 1 year younger is on Kemo because his addictions have given him cancer.

It also causes me extreme anguish watching drugged people I know die slowly.

3 of my nephews are smack junkies.

Quote from: caskur on June 08, 2024, 05:37:05 AMThat is commendable but you know very well that other humans aren't so commendable.

I am very well aware of the drug industry because I have a family of addicts and drug dealers...

Drugs are a huge part of our society and have been since the sixties... I was 14 nearly 15 when I got stoned off my tits the first time.

DOPE has been decriminalised where I live for over 2 decades.

I hate marijuana with a passion. I always had too much and it used to make me violently ill...

The only nice way of using it, if there is one, and that's the oil heating it up with a spoon and breathing the vapour. And I haven't done that for 1/4 of a century.

It's not a drug that suits me physically and worst of all are all my friends and acquaintances who ended up stoned and road kill.

One poor BIL is the same age as me and now looks 30 to 40 years older...

My brother who is 1 year younger is on Kemo because his addictions have given him cancer.

It also causes me extreme anguish watching drugged people I know die slowly.

3 of my nephews are smack junkies.

 I almost died using heroin. A few times.

 It would be perfect if it wasn't so intense and all consuming.
 

Quote from: Dove on June 22, 2024, 02:51:07 PMI almost died using heroin. A few times.

 It would be perfect if it wasn't so intense and all consuming.
 

Heroin is the only pain killer that takes away pain 100%.

Too bad 10% get addicted... (maybe more)...

I am not against heroin. I think addicts just need their daily dose from a pharmacy with encourgent to wean off it. I know they use a replacement ( methadone? ) but methodone is more addictive than Heroin and harder to get off.

Quote from: caskur on June 23, 2024, 09:39:25 AMHeroin is the only pain killer that takes away pain 100%.

Too bad 10% get addicted... (maybe more)...

I am not against heroin. I think addicts just need their daily dose from a pharmacy with encourgent to wean off it. I know they use a replacement ( methadone? ) but methodone is more addictive than Heroin and harder to get off.

 It never works that way or I'd have done that.

 Addicts always use more and more.

 Methadone is a good MAT drug because it stays in the system much longer than heroin or morphine.

 I didn't chose MAT meds...because I wanted to be free of dependency. 

 But using heroin once a day wouldn't be sustainable because it leaves your system pretty quickly. 

 At the peak of my addiction I was using probably about 5 times a day if I had access to enough. Your whole life becomes about getting more. It's nonstop. Horrible way to live.

Quote from: Dove on June 23, 2024, 10:02:16 AMIt never works that way or I'd have done that.

 Addicts always use more and more.

 Methadone is a good MAT drug because it stays in the system much longer than heroin or morphine.

 I didn't chose MAT meds...because I wanted to be free of dependency. 

 But using heroin once a day wouldn't be sustainable because it leaves your system pretty quickly. 

 At the peak of my addiction I was using probably about 5 times a day if I had access to enough. Your whole life becomes about getting more. It's nonstop. Horrible way to live.

When our house burnt down an old man saw the smoke, got his camera and headed towards the house. He took plenty of shots and I was grateful he did. When he gave me all the photos and had chat, he had to leave because he was overdue for his methadone. He became addicted to methadone because he hurt his back at work and they put him on methadone. HE said he couldn't miss the time he had to take it, his scheduled time... he couldn't  even go an hour past his schdule time without being distressed.

But you can go past your times because you won't die... you just feel like dying.

In 5 days time it will be 10 years I stopped chain smoking and 3 days ago off nicotine lozenge 6 years.

And yes, I always feel like smoking especially if I talk about it like now.

I cannot afford to smoke at $65 a day. That is how much the charge for smokes. They want people to give up.

It would cost me $90 a day for 51 cigarettes a day. But you know what is really good....no more bums coming around to bum a smoke off me.

 

Quote from: caskur on June 23, 2024, 10:43:55 AMWhen our house burnt down an old man saw the smoke, got his camera and headed towards the house. He took plenty of shots and I was grateful he did. When he gave me all the photos and had chat, he had to leave because he was overdue for his methadone. He became addicted to methadone because he hurt his back at work and they put him on methadone. HE said he couldn't miss the time he had to take it, his scheduled time... he couldn't  even go an hour past his schdule time without being distressed.

But you can go past your times because you won't die... you just feel like dying.

In 5 days time it will be 10 years I stopped chain smoking and 3 days ago off nicotine lozenge 6 years.

And yes, I always feel like smoking especially if I talk about it like now.

I cannot afford to smoke at $65 a day. That is how much the charge for smokes. They want people to give up.

It would cost me $90 a day for 51 cigarettes a day. But you know what is really good....no more bums coming around to bum a smoke off me.

 

 I haven't smoked cigarettes in years either.

 I do vape on occasion though.

Quote from: Dove on June 23, 2024, 10:59:19 AMI haven't smoked cigarettes in years either.

 I do vape on occasion though.

Remember Scoundrel on the 3rd Rail? He used vape.

You cannot vape in Australia unless a doctor gives permission...

Kids are  vaping (vainglorious) and they are going to stomp on it so there isn't a new generation addicted to nicotine.

We live on a nanny continent... sometimes it is good but sometimes it's downright abominable. I think it's good that kids are being deterred though.

See that....   the bloody auto correct change vaping to vainglorious

    


Don't get confused Dovey.

Prohibition does not work, just ask Al Capone.

Quote from: caskur on June 23, 2024, 11:31:24 AMRemember Scoundrel on the 3rd Rail? He used vape.

You cannot vape in Australia unless a doctor gives permission...

Kids are  vaping (vainglorious) and they are going to stomp on it so there isn't a new generation addicted to nicotine.

We live on a nanny continent... sometimes it is good but sometimes it's downright abominable. I think it's good that kids are being deterred though.

 Yep. Sometimes my daughter (the 18 year old) grabs my vape. I smack her in the head and yell about how she doesn't need a nic addiction.

Quote from: Dove on June 24, 2024, 05:26:20 PMYep. Sometimes my daughter (the 18 year old) grabs my vape. I smack her in the head and yell about how she doesn't need a nic addiction.

Lol,... just reading that reminded me I once craved nicotine and still do but will never have it again....

Let's not talk about nicotine anymore....lol