I mean I am no pot head and haven't smoked weed for over a decade but come on, just legalize the shit.

Living in California I could get myself a card but won't. I suffer from anxiety and insomnia like pretty severally and this would likely help me quite a bit. I sleep maybe three hours a night and basically it sucks hard and contributes to my anxiety. Some days I feel like I am living in the movie Fight Club. Also due to the fact that it is not legal at a federal level this as not an option for me because of my job. I would lose my security clearances and would be fired immediately.

I have a friend that suffers from the same issues I do and it works for him and he literally has an endless supply of some high quality shit and he has offered pounds of it to me for free (all legally in CA laws for the record in his circumstances). He basically smokes pot all day at work and makes nearly six figures as an artist and and doing tattoos. Not all pot heads are lazy ass losers...

I have been to so many doctors over the last year and have been on so many drugs that have not worked and it has cost me thousands of dollars. All of these drugs have far more dangerous side effects than weed.

I mean really, who gets high and beats up there girlfriend or kills somebody in a car crash in a blackout like with what is in my opinion the worst legal drug on the planet, alcohol. Only thing that happens when you get faded is relief from anxiety/pain/insomnia with zero side effects.

Last year it was nearly legalized in the state of CA for recreational use but unfortunately this did not happen for several reasons. Fact is a lot of people would lose money if that happened. Farmers who illegally grow it would lose their farms if legalized, Citibank did everything they could to stop the law from passing due to the amount of drug money they profit from. The worst offender is HSBC; this bank is straight up criminal, they literally specialize in laundering money for the Sinaloa Carter, Afghani heroine traffickers and fund terrorism.

If you don't believe me: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21568403-two-big-british-banks-reach-controversial-settlements-too-big-jail

I really don't want to get into politics, especially on the Internet. However, I just read an article that prompted me to make this post.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/61681-rand-paul-calls-out-jeb-bushs-marijuana-hypocrisy-and-hes-not-wrong

Respect to Rand Paul and please not another bush in the White House. Why the fuck are people spending decades in jail for this sort of shit. With the U.S. Having the highest per capita prison population by large a margin changes have got to be made.

People do not resort to criminal activity trying to fund their habit with weed as with meth, opiates, ect. People that commit robbery, murder someone for a drug habit or killing someone driving drunk deserve to go to prison; people that get pulled over and searched by some shit head cop who finds some pot do not deserve decades in jail. Just pisses me off.

Also, sorry for the rant lol...

Crazy_Bastard wrote:

I live in Colorado. I was pretty against marijuana for most of my life up till a couple years ago. I never dreamed something like this would happen and it's benefitted me immensely. Weed helps my ADHD, is much better than alcohol IMO, and has helped me grow as a person. Personally, I found myself a job at a medical marijuana facility, working as a grow hand. I started with zero experience a year ago and have learned so much and met so many cool people. It's decent pay and I love every minute of my job. I would say the impact of legalization is much more prominent here in Colorado. I live in a city where medical use only has been legalized, and you see shops on every 3rd or 4th street. It's even crazier in Denver county, where recreational is legal. It's pumped a lot of jobs into our economy here, to say the least.

Yeah on top of the anxiety and insomnia I have something called "Hyperfocus ADHD". Also I believe I might have mentioned it in another thread I have struggled with alchohol. I went to an addiction/alchohol specialist for some help with this issue (and eberassingly to say rehab twice). Fact is I have a supernaturally high metabolism for both medications and alchohol. Especially alchohol, going though gallons of the shit daily and would go to work in the morning with no hangover and absolutely nobody noticed at all ever.

They tell you you are stupid if you think you can hide this amount of alcohol abuse from people. Well, in my case I can pull this off. Even the doctor I went into that specializes in this shit was totally baffled when I informed her half way through our first session that I was drunk. She tested me and blew a .21 then gave me an EGT test which basically measures your tolerance level. A normal problem drinker would test between 600-700 on an EGT, I tested over 2000, and by over 2000 that means off the charts tolerance wise. I am by no means trying to brag, it was hell and fucking trust me detoxing off that amount of vodka is miserable and can quite easily kill you via seizures. It is quite amazing to me that health wise I am AOK.

Fact is though the entire reason I drank was not to get drunk but to self medicate my anxiety and insomnia. I figured it was best to get an actual proffesional to help medicate me instead of slowly kill myself otherwise. In doing so I have been prescribed dozen of drugs over the last year. I can take a high dose benzodiazepine like Valium or Xanax and it doesn't even faze me. Supposedly this stuff is addictive as shit and I just don't get it, it does nothing for me with anxiety. Also the stupid fucking doctor that uped me to a high dose on Xanax was informed about me being an alchoholic and still handed them to me like candy. That is extremially dangerous and well, just fuck him (Kaiser phyc in general), he gave it to me for my anxiety and if a normal person pops a Xanax and drinks even a small amount of alcohol you die. They use benzodiazepines to detox people off alchohol as it is a GABA inhibiter (as is vodka lol) as lack of GABA in the brian leads to said seizures and death in detox. You however NEVER give a benzo of any kind to someone that was drinking as much as I was. I had fucking 15 minute session with this doctor; do you really think that is an acceptable amount of time to diagnose a patient? Fuck you Kaiser and thank god I'm not dead.

I ended up going off my insurance to a private physiatrist who prescribed me about 12 different drugs. Wellbutrin, Prozac, Seriquil, Resteral, cymbatal ect. They do nothing to me. I take a Seriquil (prescribed for sleep) and it does nothing for me. Usually a 100 mg dose would knock a normal person out within an hour, I was at the max dose of 600 mg, still nothing...

It's just frustrating. Thousands of dollars wasted on meds and they don't do shit. However, I am currently on adderall and Resteral and it seems to be working sort of. A normal person pops an adderall and they stay up for days. As I mentioned I have Hyperfocus ADHD, if I do not take this drug I will quite literally be up for 24+ hours in front of a computer coding myself into psychosis. Taking it helps with my anxiety and actually helps me sleep. This is not normal as it is basically meth in a pill. I don't know I really should sign up as a test subject at a medical facility just to troll them as I am apparently some sort of mutant.

Thankfully I have been sober from alchohol for quite some time now but my life still gets pretty complicated sometimes and I am thankful that I am surprising healthy and have not gotten into any trouble legally.

Reason I linked that Rand Paul article. When I was in my early twenties I quite literally should have incurred some legal issues to be honest. Some of the shit that I used to do back then is just baffling looking back. I was running with some real shady motherfuckers. My time in San Jose, Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe and the UK was straight up nuts (and for the record quite fun). While living in San Jose I hung around with a group of Vietnamese gangsters and holy shit, it was "cray cray". We just did not give a fuck. I won't go into details but trust me, you don't want to fuck with these people. They will drill holes in your teeth and stick needles under your fingernails if you get on their bad side, or sometimes just for fun. Hanging around with them I am lucky to be still alive to be honest (especially as a white dude hanging with these guys being as xenophobic and paranoid as they are). Oh the stories I would tell if I wished lol.

Anyways, again sort of a tangent but hell you mentioned that pot helped with your ADHD. I can't help but wonder if that would work for me as well with all said above issues. However that is not an option for me so meh...

Also Hyperfocus ADHD is quite different from normal ADHD. Sometimes it can be a boon. Basically if you enjoy the task at hand hours will go by in what seems like minutes and you will get a lot of shit done at a preternatural speed. Still causes problems though...

I'm also stereoblind and dyslexic. The stereoblind actually helps you due to a lack of 3D perspective in recreating 2D representations in a 3D world. Dyslexia also has its boons there was a documentary on HBO recently about this subject. Life is strange but given all the shit I deal with I feel I've done quite well for myself so far.

http://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/benefits-of-adhd

JoshWoodzy wrote:

That was adorable. But yeah, I just don't have a problem with it unless you look like this guy: Then you are taking up way too much oxygen and should vacate the planet.

I agree 100% with this. My sisters ex was a huge pot head. I remember going over to his house when she first met them for a party and he was/is that guy. He had the bong shrine with the bead curtain and each of the several pipes and bongs he owned all had "clever" names. He lived with four other pot heads in a three bedroom apartment. One of the guys that lived with him had a girlfriend that basically stayed there all the time rent free so technically five potheads. If any of you recall the vapid/giggley asian girl from the movie Knocked Up, that was her.

However, there will always be these types of douchbags wether pot is legal or not...

Syd Lexia wrote:

I really don't see any compelling reason to legalize it. Oh, but it's all-natural. So's hemlock, what's your point? People are always like, "Well it's less dangerous than alcohol or other legal drugs." So what? So make that stuff illegal too. You know why we have all these problems these days? Cuz our moms were all full of alcohol, nicotine, THC, and/or God knows what else when they were pregnant.

Yeah, big surprise, it's not a good idea to smoke anything, drink or take prescription drugs when pregnant . But really? The solution to this problem is to make alchohol, 99% of perscription drugs and perhaps cigarettes illegal instead of legalizing weed? Like that's going to happen, and do you honestly think that all the worlds problems are due to what our mothers put into their body while pregnant?

I guess we're all just crack babies with fetal alchohol syndrome and the victims of whatever drugs that may have been taken during pregnancy and therefore everything sucks and we are all uncapable of happiness.

Okay...

Some bitch that smokes, does any sort of drug is stupid if pregnant. This is obvious.

I'm really not trying to argue here but I just don't see that logic. I completely understand that you and me hold different political views thus the reason that I don't want to get into politics on this site or anywhere else on the Internet but come on.

Syd Lexia wrote:

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