# Poll: What percentage of this board has smoked pot... ever **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 6, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541 "2006-04-06T06:24:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/201 "2006-04-07T23:26:21Z")
> [@Mrs O'Malley's Cow](#): > > I could honestly care less if someone wants to do it behind closed doors Could _not_ care less? ---
**Author:** ![Webner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Webner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webner)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/202 "2006-04-08T00:30:40Z")
Yes. I smoked for the first time about two years ago, when I was seventeen. Started smoking a lot about a year ago, and smoked almost daily last summer. It got out of hand, so I pledged never to buy pot again. Now I only smoke if someone offers me some at parties, and I feel like it. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/203 "2006-04-08T00:37:13Z")
Before a mod gets in here, please note, **Webner** , that this board is really not the place to discuss _current_ drug use, even of the occasional, mooching sort. ---
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Silj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jacob\_Silj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jacob_Silj)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/204 "2006-04-08T00:38:19Z")
Like **Indygrrl** , I too am perplexed at the concerns involving legality. Assuming you have no similar convictions, isn’t mere possession of small amounts of pot usually a warning, or just a ticketable offense? A misdemeanor at most, right? I once saw on Cops an officer make the perp dump out probably a quarter ounce on the side of the road and let him drive off. If I was a cop, the hassle of driving to the station, paperwork, appearing in court, etc. would be too much of a hassle in a case of simple possession. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/205 "2006-04-08T01:17:44Z")
Some states are a little backwards. I won’t say where and where-not, as (1) I don’t really know all that much about it anyway and (2) I don’t believe that kind of discussion would be kosher; but there are some places where you’ll pretty much get away with it, and some places where you’ll still get your ass ruined. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_O_Malley_s_Cow)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/206 "2006-04-08T01:40:11Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Could _not_ care less? Yes, thank you Walloon. I need to improve my typing skills. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/207 "2006-04-08T01:55:04Z")
I’ll try to back NeutronStar up here a bit, with the following data: Page 1: Yes: 33/46; .717 No: 13/46; .283 Page 2: Yes: 30/42; .714 No: 12/42; .286 Page 3: Yes: 26/41; .634 No: 15/41; .366 Page 4: Yes: 23/33; .697 No: 10/33; .303 Or ; Yes total: 112/162; .691 No total: 50/162; .309 I’m sure I counted wrong, but you can see that it is somewhere around a third who have never smoked. I always passed, myself, so that is another no. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/208 "2006-04-08T02:15:42Z")
Twice in college. First, I insisted that I was fine, then proceeded to walk to the Munchie Mart (I shit you not) and buy a 64oz Gatorade and an Extra Large bag of BBQ chips. Second, in a hotel room on a team trip, immediately followed by the best night of sleep I’ve had in years. I’d do it again if A) I knew I would get away with it and B) I needed to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/209 "2006-04-08T02:46:52Z")
Nope. Not once. Which, for some unknown reason seems to surprise people. A lot. I don’t get it. Oddly enough, I’m all for legalization, though. (That won’t alter my decision to not use it; I just don’t see how it is more dangerous than alcohol.) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/210 "2006-04-08T03:02:19Z")
On occasion. First time stolen from my mother’s hidden stash ( she wasn’t ever a heavy user by any means, just a very occasional recreational toker and quite discrete about it ) in 7th grade. Next time junior in High School and irregularly afterwards through my ( extended ) college years and a bit beyond. Haven’t touched the stuff in awhile now. I enjoyed it as an occasional thing, but unlike booze ( where I’m a middleweight, mostly due to being a 230 lb male ) and opiates ( which I seemigly have a high tolerance for - no I don’t use heroin, I found this out through prescription meds ), a little marijuana goes a long way for me. If I get stoned at all, I usually get pretty damn stoned and I dislike feeling that loss of control on a regular basis. So it’s never become a habit with me. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/211 "2006-04-08T03:03:46Z")
I never have. I suspect that I would like it if I had, but I always said that alcohol was my drug of choice. I suspect that I have had more than one contact high as I had many roomates in college who smoked pot heavily. But I was usually drunk by that time. If it were made legal I would try it, but not probably smoked, but perhaps ingested. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/212 "2006-04-08T06:56:46Z")
Well, I have. Obviously. It’s legal here. I can’t say that it did much for me. It relaxed a little. That’s all. I always got a _major_ high from drinking alcohol. Bad part is: I can’t drink alcohol [I’m an ex-alcoholic] and now my doc says marijuana might help relax my lungs. And guess what? I CAN’T smoke pot anymore. I got the worst case of the coughs, ever. It’s simply to sharp to enter my lungs. Drat. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/213 "2006-04-08T06:57:21Z")
Does the second-hand “Beautiful Haze” smoke in the girls’ room in high school count? I don’t think it should, because I never got one decent high out of it, it just made my clothes and hair smell 😛 Otherwise, nope. Never have. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/214 "2006-04-08T07:42:09Z")
> [@gum](#): > > Bad part is: I can’t drink alcohol [I’m an ex-alcoholic] and now my doc says marijuana might help relax my lungs. > And guess what? > I CAN’T smoke pot anymore. > I got the worst case of the coughs, ever. It’s simply to sharp to enter my lungs. > Drat. Can’t you eat space cake? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/215 "2006-04-08T07:56:15Z")
many times many in my mispent youth, with many outfreyn relations. But it was Ethanol the Loyal that strode with me right to the gate it could not pass and waited as I began the dance of the twethsteps. Still they sit, time has been as nothing to them; and sometimes, when their darkness is high I cast a couvetous eye, and then remember that EVERYTHING’S a trade off. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/216 "2006-04-08T07:58:38Z")
disclaimer for posting on ambien ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/217 "2006-04-08T08:03:55Z")
**fetus** , I’ve tried space-cake once. Bad trip. Really baaaaaad. Maybe I ate too much of it, I dunno, but I’ll never have it again. I was watching ‘Crocodile Dundee part II’ on TV for a while, when eating the cake, I swear: I was scared shitless of the movie. [heh] Also: I wasn’t aware I could be so lithe. My legs were around my neck for a while. I did that just for fun. I was too frightened to go to sleep. Next day my muscles were very sore. So, no. No more space-cake. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/218 "2006-04-08T13:53:39Z")
Yes, once upon a time. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/219 "2006-04-08T14:01:58Z")
Nope, never, no how. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541/220 "2006-04-08T15:02:02Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > Yes, once upon a time. What in 1960 for 20 minutes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-percentage-of-this-board-has-smoked-pot-ever/351541.md?page=12)