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That seems like we need a follow up poll then - do you smoke weed! The discussion resulting from "do you smoke weed but not drink alcohol" might be interesting

That seems like we need a follow up poll then - do you smoke weed! The discussion resulting from "do you smoke weed but not drink alcohol" might be interesting too?

vincentmilliken 12y ago
Would be interesting to see a poll on smoking weed, I would say a lot of people who do smoke weed would not drink alcohol that often, if none at all.
- GuiA 12y ago
  They've been done before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594543 Search Google with "site:news.ycombinator.com marijuana ask hn" and variations thereof.
  - vincentmilliken 12y ago
    Awesome thanks!
newaccountfool 12y ago
Why leave it at that? Why not ask everyone if they do amphetamine daily or just once a week?
- raverbashing 12y ago
  Ahem "After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[17] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality
  - NotOscarWilde 12y ago
    It's important to remember this, quoting from another HN comment [1]: > Erdős was a heavy user of many other stimulants (like coffee), but only started to use antidepressants and then amphetamines in 1971 when he was 58 after his mother died. He was already established as a first rate mathematician (he should have won the Fields Medal), and using amphetamines to work 19 hours a day was his way of coping with the death of his mother. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316764
nebstrebor 12y ago
Is Twitter's management team on HN? That could skew the results...

That seems like we need a follow up poll then - do you smoke weed! The discussion resulting from "do you smoke weed but not drink alcohol" might be interesting too?

vincentmilliken 12y ago

Would be interesting to see a poll on smoking weed, I would say a lot of people who do smoke weed would not drink alcohol that often, if none at all.

GuiA 12y ago
They've been done before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594543 Search Google with "site:news.ycombinator.com marijuana ask hn" and variations thereof.
- vincentmilliken 12y ago
  Awesome thanks!

newaccountfool 12y ago

Why leave it at that? Why not ask everyone if they do amphetamine daily or just once a week?

raverbashing 12y ago
Ahem "After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[17] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality
- NotOscarWilde 12y ago
  It's important to remember this, quoting from another HN comment [1]: > Erdős was a heavy user of many other stimulants (like coffee), but only started to use antidepressants and then amphetamines in 1971 when he was 58 after his mother died. He was already established as a first rate mathematician (he should have won the Fields Medal), and using amphetamines to work 19 hours a day was his way of coping with the death of his mother. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316764

nebstrebor 12y ago

Is Twitter's management team on HN? That could skew the results...