Dang bro! You better be carefull with those cactus!
that really sound like it hurt bad!
.. I got stuck with one a few yrs back, and my finger hurt like hell!
My finger even started swelling up after
That! So I don't mess with those suckers anymore,lol!
If we are to get into an argument over the relative dangers of marijuana and semisynthetic opiates you will win. That wasn't my point however as we can also talk about the realtive safety of putting some plastic powder into your nasal passages vs filling your lungs with the product of combustion and all that entails. Chemicals are chemicals are chemicals, some less harmful, some more so. The chemicals that one puts into one's body as a result of smoking marijuana are far far less pure and less predictable over the long run than a single, well tested opiate ingested in any way save IM or IV.
An overdose of oxycodone will kill, not so with pot, oxycodone if done to excess can endanger your hearing, possibly produce hypogonadism and there is some evidence that the drug itself may have some effect on one's heart. These things are known and rare. After all this time, due to government intractability and obstinance, we really don't know what the chemicals in marijuana do over the long or even the short term.
My comparison was a simple one - other than the sort of chemical we are talking about is it any less accurate to question one's attention to the creation of one chemical than it is to question the time spent on another?
But let us turn it to another chemical. I have spent a total of 8 years preparing for what a particular small series of experiences . I tended to the cactus, fed them, moved them - harvested them with a scar on my fingernail still healing to show for my delicate dance with spines (damn did THAT one hurt - for weeks - it embeded itself into my nail and could not be removed- it has to grow out ripping the flesh underneith a tiny bit every day).
Now I will be working mashing the harvest up and treating it with - more chemicals in order to arrive at a final product. If we apply your question again, is my devotion to such an effort an indicator of a problem on my part? But what have I done in reality? I have rendered a natural product more easily ingested
If one takes one's marijuana harvest, an then goes out to purchase 50 lbs of ice, and does all the work necessary to render their product more easily and more enjoyably ingested - is that a sign of a problem?
Finally, let us, none of us, kid ourselves, we all know people who have a problem with pot - we all know people who smoke their lives away, we all know people who are incapable let alone unwilling to go a day or two without a smoke and frankly - resonable or not, we all know people who, because of their penchant for a fine marijuana buzz, knowing the legal consequences, have ruined their lives over the substance - not directly but the result is the same.
Many years ago, there was an actual inebriation faction - a group of people who had discovered pot and thought themselves superior to "juicers" - those who drank beer or hard liquor. We thought them sloppy and unrulely but what was more important was that we thought ourselves superior because our drug of choice was "better" than theirs. I had hoped after all those years that sort of thing was over. I am not saying that you do such a thing and I am posting this not necessarily in argument to YOU personaly but in order to bring some sense of reality and balance to the conversation. One chemical is not "better" than another either by virtue of it's being "natural" (whatever that means) or by virtue of it's potential harm to the user.
I found myself unable to control my use of amphetamines many years ago and brought myself to a detox and treatment center. In the meetings we all declared our drug of choice, the one we had the problem with - when one of my associates stated that the problems he had were not with heroin, not with amphetamine, not with pot but with nitrous oxide I laughed - such a silly thing, such a trivial problem. I should not have laughed at all.
Bro, seriously I really wasn't trying to start a fight nor argument at all with you.
4 real. I am a easy going guy.
I was simply pointing outt the diffrences is all.
And yes, marjiuana is also a chemical as well as oc is. Along with all the rest of the "drugs".
but what really gets me with the "oc" and just pills in general is, I watched my father
Go down that drug addiction rd, and he had legit pain! But it got to the point to where
He was overdoing it by far! Because of pain/ tolerance, & about 5 years of snorting
Pills, it ate a hole the size of a golf ball in the back of his throat. Damn I hated seeing that!
After that, being in the hospital for months, having surgery to close it up, he returned
Home, to do the same dang stuff again, but worse! I seen my father the night before he passed.
He didn't even know he was in t his world, from all the stuff mixed together he had done
That day, and through the week. And its sad to say, even after seeing all that with my dad,
I myself still turned around and done the same damn shit! Anyways, I am so glad I overcame
That, and pray daily for the ones that's still doing it.. you guys take care..
