In college, I learned the hard way that smoking pot after a long night of drinking gave me the same problem you experience with pot alone.

Horrible spins, and a night spooning with the toilet.

Now I use it to my advantage, by doing it the other way around.

I can feel great all night, drink much, much less, save a lot of money, and avoid hangovers.

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PSP: ^^I don't know if it breaks the mold for me or not^^ but I will applaud you on never driving while under the influence of anything. I smoked a ton of pot when I was your age and I really did like it back then. For some reason, I just can't tolerate it for the last 2 decades There's scary shit in pot now.
Back then (Like ItsMe said) we knew what we where getting and now (like Irony said) you have NFC what you're getting. I stand firm that driving while under the influence of alcohol is 10X's more evil. I don't think I can say much more without looking like a complete buffoon.

Ask Beth about my pot/vacuum story from the 80's

All drugs affect people differently, that is why there are warnings on most of them.

But ETC you're right, it all depends on how it effects you and for some, all it does is makes happy and relaxed, while others it isn't a fun experience.

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For the record, I'm really enjoying this conversation. This is all very interesting.

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Wheelhouse

I voted "Yes, rarely" because I can count on one hand the times I've smoked in the last 30 years.

I started when I was 12 and continued until about 17. That was the generation I grew up in. Everyone did everything, and eventually grew out of it. The ones that didn't, were dead or imprisoned.

When I returned to the area after a 30 year absence and began reconnecting with people I went to high school with, and some who I just hung out with and played the "whatever happened to so-and-so?"game. More often than not, the response was "they're dead" (from alcoholism-related diseases, car/motorcycle accidents, drug overdoses) or in jail due to same. Out of a graduating class of almost 700 people from my high school, it was very sobering, to say the least, to find out how many were dead due to substance-related issues.

My main reason for giving up pot? I got too paranoid in public. Driving while high was out of the question, as I got tunnel vision and felt the sensation of always driving up an incline, even if I was on a straight, flat road. I didn't like the feeling of not being in control of my faculties.

I always made sure to smoke pot before I drank, because I would get so sick if I drank, then smoked. (projectile vomiting comes to mind-blech!)

I smoke every once in awhile; in fact, the last time was at my New Year's Eve party last year. It was a chance thing and I had a great time. Laughed and laughed (and ate WAY more than I usually do-LOL). Before that, I couldn't tell you the last time I smoked.

The other reason I don't partake in drugs anymore (besides outgrowing it) is I have a Coast Guard Captain's License which subjects me to random "whiz quiz" notifications where I have to produce a sample within 24 hours or be subject to sanctions. I have to notify the governing agency who administers the test when I plan to be out of the country or anywhere inaccessible to a testing facility.

It is also a good way to bow out instead of giving in to peer pressure to imbibe in any other substance that can show up in a drug screen. I can't even eat a poppy seed bagel as the opiates in poppy seeds (although minute quantities) will show up in the tox screen.

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I love the Sabres. I love Pot. I love BC. Why cant all 3 be in the same area. I am a pot smoker through and through. I get terrible hangovers even when I dont drink much. I have always preferred Pot over Alcohol. I never judge anyone who drinks or anything like that. I just hope in return drinkers don't judge me for smoking pot because its "illegal". As Bob Saget once said(In Half Baked) " Marijuana is not a drug, I used to suck dick for coke. Would you suck some dick for marijuana?" No pot head would ever suck dick for weed. It is not an addicitive drug. Its just awesome as hell lol. Anyways growing up in BC with parents who smoked pot I like to say I never had a chance. In all honesty I smoke everyday, before I go and do anything pretty much(goin to see some friends, goin to hockey, goin christmas shopping) but never before work or anything. I just lke to do it in my spare time. I also drive a lot and do pretty much anything a sober person would while high and have never really had any problems. Some close calls but all body parts are still in tact lol. I think growing up in BC and smoking the best pot in the world has really helped my tolerance to it though enabling me to do such things while baked.
Anyways I just wanted to say EVERYONE whether or not you smoke pot should watch The Union: The Business Behind Getting High. I've pitched it a couple of times. Its just very enlightening about the War on Drugs and how the US Gov has used Marijuana as the poster boy for it but now we are finding out it really isnt that bad and a lot of pro's to it as well. Its the most prohibited plant in the world and it is also the most useful. Just watch the movie please. It wont make you go out and buy a bag and convince you smoking pot is good. But it will show you another side of marijuana that the gov't doesnt want you to see.

PS. As I right this there is an ad right below for drugfreeworld.org and obv Marijuana is the drug they use to showcase it. Its like the Sidney Crosby of the drug world LOL.

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Eh

Same here. I can't even take sinus meds without it having the opposite effect on me. It says may cause drowiness yet I can't sleep all night. Everyone is different, but alcohol and driving do not mix. That I am sure of. Do not drink and drive

As you right this, is a reason not to smoke right there.

Chill. It's temporary.

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Wheelhouse

Drinking and Driving hell no and that is something I will not do ever. Rather crash(sleep) in my car than get a DWI.

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Careful. You can get a DWI for that too.

Crazy right?

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Wheelhouse

True, reason I don't drink too much, not a huge fan of getting shitfaced really, I don't mind a good buzz, but when you cross the point of great buzz to full blow shitfaced where the world is spinning you can't walk straight, and all that, I don't like it.

There have also been times I didn't like being high on pot, where I am not feeling good, but when that wears off I feel great, but the last time smoking, it was some White Widow shit, OMG was it good, went right to you and felt amazing.

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My favorite strain.

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http://www.legaltripz.com/Pics/white_widow.jpg

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Wheelhouse

When I smoked at the end of a hard night of drinking I got very nauseous, dizzy and felt my mind and body frighteningly disconnected. When I smoked pot with very little alcohol I still felt out-of-body in relation to my faculties, but less dizzy and not as nauseous. Never once did I experience anything "high" or "mellow" as others do, just varying degrees of sick and out of control that did not appeal to me at all.

After maybe five negative pot experiments from my late twenties through early thirties, I had had enough. Haven't had any weed for eight years, and have no desire to use it again.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

I think what you have is an addiction to marijuana, my friend. I don't care, mind you...it's your life, but don't tell yourself otherwise.

In fact, this brings me to an interestuing point. I know people who are addicted to pot. Good friends I've had for years who reach for a bowl before they get out of bed to brush their teeth in the morning, smoke in the car on their way to everything, smoke on their way home from everything, and then smoke when they get back home again every night.

Don't kid yourself, people can be addicted to pot just like anything else.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

Some people just don't jive with it, man.

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mechaphil

You can get addicted to anything non-habit forming.

But those people aren't in enough control of their mental health then. You can do anything with a high addiction rate also, but not get addicted because you in your brain no better.

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In his case though, he operates by a normal human being outside of smoking.

I know people just like him who smoke all the time.

Pot addiction isn't an ever growing problem when it occurs, like addiction to much more dangerous drugs, because it doesn't drive you to consume more and more, and it doesn't impair your ability to function in society.

I don't want to speak for you, SabresEH, but the people I know that smoke as much as you do just function better that way. They are more calm and relaxed, but they're still driven and motivated.

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Wheelhouse

Doesn't seem to bother Michael Phelps.

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People should really read that article I posted earlier about how THC is believed to kill dying lung cell tissue preventing it from building up and causing cancer while also keeping fresh tissue exposed to the air we breathe, essentially improving your breathing.

Robin Williams once said that cannabis can be used as a performance enhancing drug by placing a giant hershey bar at the finish line.

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