Long overdue! get ready to clap you stoners and herb doctors!

[Caribou]

Every drug company has teams searching through nature for cures and treatments. Everything is based on natural occurring chemicals. Aspirin comes from a tree. Digitalis from foxglove. Victoza from lizard spit.

Marijuana is illegal so the booze companies don't have the competition and the booze companies pay lots in taxes to keep it that way. Why do you think the feds are always after the moonshiners? They don't pay taxes, you don't really think they are against drinking? This is all politics and they have been brainwashing us for generations.

The drug companies don't want it to be legal because they can't patent it and it treats many conditions. Often better than their expensive drugs.

I used to drink a fifth a day, now a sixpack or less a year. I used to smoke weed, now about once every lustrum.

Don't let the druggie argument sway you, I know many millionaires that use marijuana. They run successful businesses and do excellent work. There is correlation and then there is cause. Almost every homeless bum has eaten McDonalds, and continues to do so. If you want to make McDonalds illegal I don't care. Their meals are probably more harmful than weed.

 

[Magus]

Mc-Ds= garbage on a bun. ever wonder what that 25% filler is? me too, but it won't stay down after I eat it.

 

[Wingnut]

I'm with Backlash on this one: better to deal with a natural plant than ANY of that Big Pharma cr@p. Healthcare... what a racket. Folks dishing out heller money for chemical cr@p... and the "cure" is often worse than the disease. When the list of possible 'side effects' is as long as one's arm, I'd think twice about taking ANY of that Big Pharma BS.

That hand who mentioned cocaine: once a natural substance like the coca plant is refined into a more powerful drug, then IMO it becomes "chemical cr@p." My friends from the surf shop & I did a truckload of blow back in the day, and we had a 'good connection' (if there IS such a thing), but I phased out of it and saved myself a ton of money.

Same goes for weed, I smoked plenty of it when I was young, but now I can take it or leave it... bought a few grams of chronic recently, haven't taken but a single bong hit in the past week, dunno if that makes me a "doper" or an "addict." I must say, doing a bong hit and spending time in the yard watering the trees & watching the birds is 'quality time' for me.

Beats waiting for some crackerhead to unload my truck in Compton, North Philly or the Lower Bronx, lol. That other hand has it right: this is all about keeping the populace stoned & easy to control. Just one more trick in a bag of tricks designed to destroy America without firing a shot... the phony socialist plandemic, Dominion voting machines, legal weed, etc.

As for those armed robberies of dispensaries, I'd bet money that the perps were jacked up on meth rather than high on weed. I mean seriously, how much violent crime is associated with potheads? The stoners are too busy raiding the fridge or trying to decide what to watch on TV, lol. Property crimes? I'm sure there are plenty of those committed by potheads.

Meh, I'm getting older now and I try not to be too judgmental... but it ain't EASY, lol. Okay, I'm back to my cold beer at 0345... couldn't sleep, so I took my usual remedy, a cold one and then back to bed, lol. If that makes me a "drunk" I'm okay with it. Cold beer did more for me than ANY scumbag politician EVER did, that's for GODDAM SURE, lol. CHEERS!!!

 

[Wingnut]

BTW, one hand mentioned that eating weed is wasteful compared to smoking it... not necessarily true, as the high produced by eating weed can be much more intense. And I'm talking about actually eating weed, NOT cooking it in brownies or whatever. When I lived on the NW side of Show Low, AZ, the trailhead leading out to Rim Road 300 was literally minutes from my home... I'd load up whichever dirt bike I was gonna ride that day, go to the trailhead and hang out for a bit while prepping for my ride. Nobody around, Johnny Cash cranked on my stereo... I'd drink a few beers and then mack a thumb-sized nugget o' chronic before firing up the bike and going for a ride. I'll have to dig up some video links to those rides, they were awesome... wildlife galore, deer & elk everywhere, insane views from the Mogollon Rim, no other people in sight for miles & miles on end, call it PARADISE!!!

P.S. I don't think I'll ever forget those rides, or forget chewing buds like a friggin' cow and washing 'em down with cold beer, lol... Johnny Cash (or possibly Merle Haggard) belting out the tunes as I prepped for a heller good time. For those unfamiliar with Rim Road 300, it runs for over 100 miles along the Mogollon Rim in Arizona, and the scenery is absolutely spectacular! If you're into offroading, whether you're on a dirt bike or in a side-by-side or 4WD rig, this is a trail I HIGHLY RECOMMEND (no pun intended, lol). Just watch the elk leaping into the trail ahead of ya... ya don't wanna tangle with one of those when you're on a dirt bike, lol. It'll be: Elk, 1, Dirt Biker, 0, AYE???

Edit: Okay, I dug up some White Mountain videos... just note that the Hero Cam makes foot-deep ruts look like little wrinkles in the dirt, lol. Probably why I donated that POS to some younger skateboarders, that and the tedious editing involved. These short clips are actually unedited, just extracted from longer films. Meh, ya gets what ya pay for, lol...

Rim Road 300

More Rim Road 300

Even More Rim Road 300

And A Final Dose Of Rim Road 300

Whenever ya hear me say "PEGS!!!" in the videos, that means I'm standing on the footpegs because the road is too damned rough to sit in the saddle... of course, the cheesy Hero Cam makes it all look as smooth as a paved road, lol. Oh, well, those are the confessions of a "doper" and an "addict" made while riding Rim Road 300... that trail will forever be locked into my memory, until Death or Alzheimer's do us part, lol. Okay, NOW it's time to crash, I can still get a couple of hours sleep before the new day begins... "HASTA LUEGO, YOUSE DIRT BIKING HEE-ROES!!!"