Tell me why pot is bad but booze isn't.

I'm a total pothead, usually stoned five nights out of the week, and to be honest, Ayeka's description of potheads is a shameful generalisation. My group of stoner mates is always open to meeting new people, we have conversations about politics, life philosophy and whether a trout could take a black panther in a fight. We're trustworthy, honest and reliable, and perfectly able to go to work and function in society when not stoned. We're just like ordinary, regular joes, except we spend ninety percent of our leisure time battered out of our skulls.
 
Most music is better when high. C'mooooon now.

Gugs was dead on when he said that everything is fine in moderation. Although I am usually an extremist. oops. :(

Im moving to the Netherlands godamnit ...
 
Here's a song about it. It's called "The Irony Of It All", from The Streets' "Original Pirate Material".

TERRY:
Hello, Hello. My names Terry and I'm a law abider
There's nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
Bounce 'em round like bunnies
I'm likely to cause mischief
Good clean grief you must believe and I ain't no thief.
Law abiding and all, all legal.
And who cares about my liver when it feels good
Wwhat you need is some real manhood.
Rasher Rasher Barney and Kasha putting peoples backs up.
Public disorder, I'll give you public disorder.
I down eight pints and run all over the place
Spit in the face of an officer
See if that bothers you cause I never broke a law in my life
Someday I'm gonna settle down with a wife
Come on lads lets have another fight

TIM:
Eh hello. My names Tim and I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail
For the choice of herbs I inhale.
This ain't no wholesale operation
Just a few eighths and some Playstations my's vocation
I pose a threat to the nation
And down the station the police hold no patients
Let's talk space and time
I like to get deep sometimes and think about Einstein
And Carl Jung and old Kung Fu movies I like to see
Pass the hydrator please
Yeah I'm floating on thin air.
Going to Amsterdam in the New Year - top gear there
Cause I taker pride in my hobby
Home made bongs using my engineering degree
Dear Leaders, please legalise weed for these reasons.

TERRY:
Like I was saying to him.
I told him: "Top with me and you won't leave."
So I smacked him in the head and downed another Carling
Bada Bada Bing for the lad's night.
Mad fight, his face's a sad sight.
Vodka and Snake Bite.
Going on like a right geez, he's a twat,
Shouldn't have looked at me like that.
Anyway I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.
Can't stand crime either them hooligans on heroin.
Drugs and criminals those thugs on the penny coloured will be the downfall of society
I've got all the anger pent up inside of me.

TIM:
You know I don't see why I should be the criminal
How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal
And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol
I just completed Gran Tourismo on the hardest setting
We pose no threat on my settee
Ooh the pizza's here will someone let him in please
"We didn't order chicken, Not a problem we'll pick it out
I doubt they meant to mess us about
After all we're all adults not louts."
As I was saying, we're friendly peaceful people
We're not the ones out there causing trouble.
We just sit in this hazy bubble with our quarters
Discussing how beautiful Gail Porter is.
MTV, BBC 2, Channel 4 is on until six in the morning.
Then at six in the morning the sun dawns and it's my bedtime.

TERRY:
Causing trouble, your stinking rabble
Boys saying I'm the lad who's spoiling it
You're on drugs it really bugs me when people try and tell me I'm a thug
Just for getting drunk
I like getting drunk
Cause I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.

TIM:
Now Terry you're repeating yourself
But that's okay drunk people can't help that.
A chemical reaction inside your brain causes you to forget what you're saying.

TERRY:
What. I know exactly what I'm saying
I'm perfectly sane
You stinking student lameo
Go get a job and stop robbing us of our taxes.

TIM:
Err, well actually according to research
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.

TERRY:
Why you cheeky little swine come here
I'm gonna batter you. Come here.
 
dill_the_devil said:
I'm a total pothead, usually stoned five nights out of the week, and to be honest, Ayeka's description of potheads is a shameful generalisation. My group of stoner mates is always open to meeting new people, we have conversations about politics, life philosophy and whether a trout could take a black panther in a fight. We're trustworthy, honest and reliable, and perfectly able to go to work and function in society when not stoned. We're just like ordinary, regular joes, except we spend ninety percent of our leisure time battered out of our skulls.
Amen.:) :Smokedev:

*packs bong*
 
markgugs said:
I just don't have the financial resources to partake often anymore, and like it or not, constant pot-smoking will build up your idiocy over time.
I've heard this as well, but almost every graduate student I knew at university smoked like a chimney. And now that I think about it, most PhD professors I knew smoked quite a bit too, heh.
 
markgugs said:
What do you do?

I am a "Customer Accounts Adivisor." I work in collections for a furniture/electronics/appliance store. I call deadbeats and go into their shitty neighborhoods if I cannot get in touch with them and reposses their shit if they are past-due.
 
JayKeeley said:
Which university professor only works 12 hours a week???
Pretty much every professor I had, lol.

I'm obviously exaggerating, but there are VERY few professors that work more than 4-6 classes per week, plus maybe some research/writing material, etc.

My point is that it's not a 45+ hour/week job that requires a ton of discipline daily. Once you know your course material, that's about all there is. I'm obviously oversimplifying, and I'm by no means suggesting that college professors are simpletons or less than smart, but there's a reason why an old joke about "become a college professor..." exists.
 
BloodStainedWalls said:
I am a "Customer Accounts Adivisor." I work in collections for a furniture/electronics/appliance store. I call deadbeats and go into their shitty neighborhoods if I cannot get in touch with them and reposses their shit if they are past-due.
Ok, and again, I am not demeaning or trivializing what you do. Hell, a job's a job. But I'm sure you'll admit it's not exactly cerebrally challenging.
 
No it isn't. That is why I'm looking for something new. I should have never left college after my junior year. lol Anyways, it IS physically challenging though. Lugging Refridgerators, big screen tv's, and such up three flights of stairs etc, isnt exactly easy.

Also, no offense taken man. I am a really hard person to offend so never hold back. :)
 
I guess my line of reasoning right now is based on my new job.

It's VERY complex and challenging. There is simply no way to sell and penetrate high-level officials at Fortune 500 companies if I smoked the ganj everyday like I did years ago. It would simply be impossible.

I'm sure JayK would agree that if he smoked regularly, he'd never be able to keep up with his challenging consulting job either.