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My experience from observing people over the years is that prolonged or heavy cannabis use is as damaging as prolonged or heavy alcohol use, if not more so. Lig

by epo 16y ago

My experience from observing people over the years is that prolonged or heavy cannabis use is as damaging as prolonged or heavy alcohol use, if not more so. Lightly used each is relatively harmless. The 'elevated consciousness' is just your drug addled mind flattering itself, to an outsider you will seem imbecilic. Your slightly self-satisfied tone is really, really unwarranted.

swift 16y ago
The high you get from cannabis, to my mind, restores a playfulness and creativity to your thinking that most people have as children but lose as adults. It can sometimes make linear, technical thinking harder, but it tends to make it easier to see the big picture and brainstorm new ideas. It certainly can benefit artistic work, too. Acid is even better; it maintains the creativity advantages of cannabis while adding a clarity of thinking that can often be superior to sobriety. I'm not saying everyone will benefit from these drugs, or that they will improve your performance on every task, but you seem to suggest that they don't offer any benefit at all and simply reduce the user to an imbecile. That does not remotely resemble my experience.
- rblion 16y ago
  I agree fully. It just amplifies who you are deep down. It can be creative under the right conditions or destructive under the wrong conditions.
rblion 16y ago
to each his own. you get yours, ill get mine. don't judge a sentient being based on a few sentences. who are you to do that?
- epo 16y ago
  Wasn't judging, just pointing out that your claim of elevated consciousness and the implication that cannabis was somehow 'better for you' than alcohol was illusory. I was commenting on the tone of your writing not on you yourself. Yours is just the most recent generation to rediscover acid, cannabis etc. You'll make exactly the same mistakes that they did in the 50s, 60s, 70s .... Anyway, no offence intended, to you or any other sentient being.

by epo 16y ago

swift 16y ago

The high you get from cannabis, to my mind, restores a playfulness and creativity to your thinking that most people have as children but lose as adults. It can sometimes make linear, technical thinking harder, but it tends to make it easier to see the big picture and brainstorm new ideas. It certainly can benefit artistic work, too. Acid is even better; it maintains the creativity advantages of cannabis while adding a clarity of thinking that can often be superior to sobriety. I'm not saying everyone will benefit from these drugs, or that they will improve your performance on every task, but you seem to suggest that they don't offer any benefit at all and simply reduce the user to an imbecile. That does not remotely resemble my experience.

rblion 16y ago
I agree fully. It just amplifies who you are deep down. It can be creative under the right conditions or destructive under the wrong conditions.

rblion 16y ago

to each his own. you get yours, ill get mine. don't judge a sentient being based on a few sentences. who are you to do that?

epo 16y ago
Wasn't judging, just pointing out that your claim of elevated consciousness and the implication that cannabis was somehow 'better for you' than alcohol was illusory. I was commenting on the tone of your writing not on you yourself. Yours is just the most recent generation to rediscover acid, cannabis etc. You'll make exactly the same mistakes that they did in the 50s, 60s, 70s .... Anyway, no offence intended, to you or any other sentient being.