Jun 5, 2012 -- 10:23PM, loveontheair wrote:

Hello,

Strange how these liberals are against smoking cigarettes and want them banned. But these same liberals want to smoke pot and legalize it. Stay out of casinos.

love

I don't want cigs or joints banned, except anywhere I or my family have to smell or breathe their smoke.

And I am heartily in favor of higher insurance premiums for anybody who voluntarily allows the products of combustion to enter their lungs.

Jun 6, 2012 -- 2:46AM, arielg wrote:

Jun 5, 2012 -- 10:23PM, loveontheair wrote:

Hello,

Strange how these liberals are against smoking cigarettes and want them banned. But these same liberals want to smoke pot and legalize it. Stay out of casinos.

love

That is a very good observation. 

It's an assinine 'observation', especially considering the nonsense behind it.

Jun 6, 2012 -- 2:46AM, arielg wrote:

Smokers enjoy their cigarrettes just like the pot smokers enjoy theirs. (Maybe not as much) 

Weed may not be  as bad as some people say, but smoke goes into the lungs. It is certainly not  harmless either.

Like I said, smoking marijuana is SOOO 1990s. Vaporizers do a much better job and produce no smoke. DO catch up.

Jun 6, 2012 -- 2:55PM, catboxer wrote:

You oughta try some of my finger-licking lip-smacking high-octane banana bread.

Just simmer a tablespoon and a half of flaked "medicine" (if you know what I mean) in about 6 tbsps of oil (I use a combination of butter and coconut oil), for an hour or two.

Don't boil it, simmer. Then strain out the oil and use it to make banana bread, or brownies, or Betty Crocked's date nut bars or whatever, according to your regular recipe.

Tastes great. Lasts a long time. And best of all, IT'S SMOKELESS.

I'll try that, but doesn't coconut oil harden the arteries? (Or am I confusing this with palm oil?)

We have friends that call this 'marijuana butter'. Makes for wonderful recipes.

Jun 8, 2012 -- 6:33PM, arielg wrote:

Halucinogenics  have being used since time immemorial as a sacred guide to explore  different states of consciousness   that are not available to the  mind in its normal state.

That is how some people started using them  them in the US in the 60s.  Then,  it's use  started  gradually  coming  down to lower  levels of intellect,  intent on seeking   cheap thrills and  entertainment  to get away from reality. Totally the opposite.  Which is what most people use it for today.

Why do cheap thrills and entertainment have such a bad reputation?

Reality is over-rated. It's indispensible in the morning, but by four in the afternoon I've had enough of it. Don't forget, American politics is part of reality, and it's depressing as hell.

Jun 8, 2012 -- 6:33PM, arielg wrote:

Like I said, smoking marijuana is SOOO 1990s. Vaporizers do a much better job and produce no smoke. DO catch up.

It depends why you need that "job" at all. 

"Need"??? Who said anything at all about "need"?

We all "need" only food, water and air (and, some would argue, love). The only semi-'need' is to eliminate the carcinogens caused in the smoking of the product. Call me funny, but occasionally,I feel the 'need' to go to an art gallery too. So sue me.

Jun 8, 2012 -- 6:33PM, arielg wrote:

  And a better question is to ask why do you need to artificially change your perception of reality? What is the point?

See above re: "need[s]". The point is to experience more than the dull ordinary quotidien trials tribulations of day-to-day living. Sorta like what we get when we hear good music or see great art. If you really have to ask "What's the point?", then you surely have no appreciation ("need"?) for good music, art, literature, food, etc., that was produced under the influence.

Jun 8, 2012 -- 6:33PM, arielg wrote:

Halucinogenics  have being used since time immemorial as a sacred guide to explore  different states of consciousness   that are not available to the  mind in its normal state.

Hmm, first it's 'what need have we'; now it's "sacred". DO make up your mind. (Not that pot is a hallucinogen to begin with.)

Jun 8, 2012 -- 6:33PM, arielg wrote:

That is how some people started using   them in the US in the 60s.  Then,  it's use  started  gradually  coming  down to lower  levels of intellect,  intent on seeking   cheap thrills and  entertainment  to get away from reality.

Is this supposed to be a history lesson or something?