The anti-marijuana ads currently being shown are crazy!

[gris_gris]

Hey I like my weed just as much as the next guy but…what was the question?

[Arden_Ranger]

I haven’t lit up in quite a while but I do know that I am not oen of those people who can drive when I’m high. The road seems to narrow and the other cars are too close and going too fast and I’m all tensed up with a white knuckled grip on the steering wheel.

I only did it once and never again. It is way too freaky for me. When you’re stoned you’re supposed to be at home becoming one with the couch and noshing on chocolate chip cookies or having amazing sex. Not driving.

I guess there is a test where if you stand up straight and tilt your head back with your eyes open, looking up, they will look at the movement of your eyeball, supposedly it moves back and forth quickly if you have smoked pot within the past day or two. No help on a roadside.

And if I had gotten pulled over and they tried that, they would have had to try looking at my eyes as I fell on my ass.

[Cerri]

I think that the reason we don’t see adds against alcohol is because the U.S. already tried to get rid of it, yeah prohibition, and all that led to was a rise in gang activities.

Hmm…anyone else see a pattern here? =p

[neutron_star]

*Originally posted by Arden Ranger *
I haven’t lit up in quite a while but I do know that I am not oen of those people who can drive when I’m high

Exactly. People who don’t smoke pot frequently tend not to even want to drive stoned. People who smoke all the time tend to see driving stoned as no big deal. I have known a lot of frequent pot smokers in my day and none of them ever had any problems driving stoned. A few even claimed to drive better under the influence. People who made that claim usually tended to drive like aggresive maniacs when sober. The pot calmed them down and made sticking to the speed limit seem like less of a hassle.

*Originally posted by Obisidian Flutterby *
**There is also the fact that some people who sell (not a lot, but if you get people who sell pot AND stuff like cocaine, speed whatever) will lace their weed with the other drugs. This keeps people coming back to them when they can’t get the same effects from more normal (ie non-laced) weed. **

I think this practice is more confined to the mythical schoolyard drug pusher than it is to actual reality. Why? Well, the types of drugs you would lace pot with tend to cost a hell of a lot more than pot. Why would a dealer lose money on the gamble, that maybe, just maybe, he’ll get someone addicted to a drug that they don’t even want to use in the first place?

I mean, selling drugs doesn’t exactly involve a long-term profit model or anything. Many dealers don’t even end up selling long enough to get someone hooked. They either get busted or suddenly start thinking they might get busted for some reason, and close up shop in a fit of paranoia. Plus, while many dealers may be greedy, I have yet to meet the man who would try to covertly turn a pothead into a raging junkie.

Then there’s also the threat of retribution. Many potheads are very anti-hard-drugs. Not only do they screw your life up, but they end up getting associated with pot through propaganda and giving all of us a bad name. I’ve never tried any hard drug, never will, and don’t like being lumped in with track-mark-encrusted thieves.

A pothead would take this personally, on the same level that a regular person would if the guy at McDonald’s slipped a few crack rocks into his Dr. Pepper. It would NOT be considered a treat, they WOULD notice its presence, and they WOULD be mad. Now, I’d probably just get all huffy and fume over it for a few days, but not everyone is like that. Cocaine dealer isn’t exactly the safest profession in the world. I would imagine the last thing they need is more potential enemies, especially at the cost of free coke.

I’m not saying that this has never happened, but the person who did it would not only have to be devoid of compassion and incredibly greedy, but also profoundly stupid.

I have also encountered laced stuff once or twice. I knew it though because some of my friends can tell and the feel of the high is different. For example once I’m darn near certain that I smoked something laced with speed… I wasn’t relaxed I was vibrating off the walls.

Are you sure it was laced? Maybe it was just REALLY good weed. Sometimes a good Sativa (as opposed to the stonier, more common indica) can make a person feel quite energetic.

All I know is that after almost ten years of frequent smoking, I have never encountered something I even suspected to be laced. In fact, I have yet to met someone IRL who claimed to be unwittingly duped into buying laced crap.