There’s a huge upside to it, if you’re into that feeling. And the paranoia bit is a little overplayed; it really happens to people who are either naturally paranoid to begin with, took too much, or both.
Why do you ask? Are you just out to get me? I think you’re just out to get me, man. Ha ha ha, I said man, but you’re a chick! Get it? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Snork!
You got any pie?
Seriously, it’s been years since I’ve smoked, so it’s a little hard for me to remember. But besides the paranoia, everythings a little distorted. Time moves slowly. Music is delicious. Food sounds like a symphony. Things you see smell fascinating. Everything is totally deep, or freakin’ hilarious.
I’m not much of a partaker anymore, but I remember this to be true, and that the paranoia really only happened with an initial use, say after a long break. Semi-regular use seemed to diminish the paranoia and increase the effects as a general relaxant. (Of course, even semi-regular use may have other drawbacks.)
I don’t remember paranoia so much as a sudden state of extreme introspection, especially when alone. Which can be kind of jarring, if you’re expecting to just catch a little buzz and not think too much about things, and suddenly find yourself immersed in a painfully frank self-evaluation of your behavior, your relationships with others, your accomplishments (or lack thereof), etc…
Like this one guy who told us the story of why he doesn’t smoke.
He got so paranoid, one night he thought people were stealing the skirting off of his house trailer. 
He said he kept jumping up every five minutes or so because he swore he could hear them out there removing it, but every time he ran out onto the porch and yelled, they’d mysteriously disappear.
R.I.P. Jimmy, you crazy bastard.
I see other posters have tackled this, but I’ll speak up anyways.
It’s Recreational Outrage. And it’s a kind of Pit post that annoys the Hell out of certain other posters: The subject of the Pitting is not something that I could normally be expected to have affect me in any kind of personal way; I had to pick it up via a news server, rather than being made aware of it through my local news; and I really don’t have a solution offered - I’m just venting steam.
Which means it’s pointless, according to those people and nothing more than a way for me to validate myself by showing how much more moral I am than the sort of person who would do this. Putting the tag on the OP is an attempt to avoid rehashing the whole useless arguement as a hijack to the thread.
Wee Bairn, I’m not sure I agree with the harmlessness of pot*, though I agree that as actions that a dirty cop could do, it’s pretty low key. While I think he should be charged to the full extent of the law, and fired, too, it’s not where my true ire rests. It’s the supervisors who have chosen not to charge him.
*I don’t mean to dispute the risks to pot itself, but to question how pot dealing and selling may affect things beyond simply making a mostly harmless intoxicant available.
well, if you thought it’d avoid re-hashing…
anyhow - to me, this isn’t “RO” anymore than the 498 million Bush Sux threads are, this is more of a decrying of lack of accountability w/in a police force, something that most should be angry about. And since there’s a certain faction of “the cop/law said it therefore even if it seems really really a stupid thing, I’ll believe it up until and possibly after criminal charges” , it’s appropriate
the more typical RO to me is the ones where the ending of the news story is “sick fuck du jour did sick fucking thing” probably to a child, some one w/disabilities or possibly cute fuzzy puppies.
I agree with you- a police officer is not supposed to take stolen pot and smoke it, no matter if he thinks pot is harmless and no matter it was going to be destroyed anyway- epsecially if he’s a amateur who can’t handle his high- must have been some great pot 
. I just thought it funny the people in the link are acting like the guy tricked an old lady out of her pension, or forced a woman to have sex to get out of a speeding ticket.
wring, I can only call 'em as I see 'em. 
It may not be the worst kind of RO situation, with the baby killers being condemned to prison rape in the minds of the OP. I think it’s an important principle, but… let’s face it, I am venting about something that really has no direct effect upon me. Hence, the RO label, to let people know.
Though I do flatter myself to hope that I do provide a bit more meat to my outrage threads than the stereotypical ones.
Wee Bairn - no worries.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki let’s face it, I am venting about something that really has no direct effect upon me. Hence, the RO label, to let people know. [/quote]
I did appreciate the label (the ones I really hate are the ones w/vague titles like “I burn w/rage of a gazillion suns” to find the link to the sick fuck etc.) But you do lose points for not acknowledging my pun.
Wee Bairn -
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nuhuh?
(edited to go back and retrieve the ‘edited comment’ quoted above - who knew that you couldn’t read the ‘edited’ notes in reply mode? :smack:
Well, there was a recent thread about “gyp” being offensive, so I don’t want to accidentally offend anyone.
“gyp” I get. “piker” I don’t (though I admit I don’t know the entomology of the saying, just the end result)
From Wikipeida. I learned it from Snatch’d- Brad Pitt was called it a lot 
the meaning of the term “Piker” that I was thinking about isn’t covered (even remotely) by that. Piker as in some one who is inexperienced to the point of naivity sort of thing, like if some one proudly says they ate a raw jalepeno pepper, some one else could ostensibly come along and say “piker - I have habeneros for dessert!”
edited to add: consulting dictionary.com, I see I may be the only one w/that definition in mind. huh. learn sumpin’ gnu everyday. I swear (frequrently) tho’ that my daddy taught me that definition.
Oh yeah, me too, but someone started a thread about the origin of gyp being gypsy, even though no one using gyp even thinks about origin or gypsies, or even knows what an actual gypsy is maybe. I’m not sure if this use of the term piker even came from the offensive one (I don’t see how it would, Irish travelers aren’t known as being “inexpereinced” per se), but just to avoid derailing someone else’s thread, I thought I’d be safe 
Well the weed is just how they got caught, when watching on CNN yesterday they mentioned that he’d also stolen cocaine. His wife admitted to using it in a 3-day binge.
The cite in the OP says it was a 3-week binge. That’s a lot of coke.
Err… Pun?
Oy. :smack: That cognitive test this morning took even more out of me than I’d thought.
do I have to “re-hash” it? the grass is always greener ya know. hope your nose isn’t out of joint. We’ed be better off if I stopped, don’t you think?
Hay, toke it easy on me! I’ve been ragged on enough today.