I have never met someone who has been taking drugs and has a great life. Drugs must be dangerous, or they probably wouldnt be illegal
Me neither, all they do is hang out at bars on weekends and chase chicks. Trouble is, most of the human race is in that group, so I have to drink a bit as well just to fit in sometimes. I don't smoke though, lung cancer just doesn't appeal to me as a lifestyle choice.
Some fun facts about alcohol:
"Health hazards associated with the excessive use of alcohol or with alcohol dependency include dramatic behavioral changes, retardation of motor skills, and impairment of reasoning and rational thinking. These factors result in a higher incidence of accidents and accidental death for such persons than for nonusers of alcohol. Nutrition also suffers and vitamin and mineral deficiencies are frequent. Prolonged alcohol abuse causes bleeding from the intestinal tract, damage to nerves and the brain, psychotic behavior, loss of memory and coordination, damage to the liver often resulting in cirrhosis, impotence, severe inflammation of the pancreas, and damage to the bone marrow, heart, testes, ovaries and muscles. Damage to the nerves and organs is usually irreversible. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in alcoholics and is 10 times more frequent than in nonalcoholics. Sudden withdrawal of alcohol from persons dependent on it will cause serious physical withdrawal symptoms. Drinking during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Overdoses of alcohol can result in respiratory arrest and death."
If you look at just the health impacts, alcohol and tobacco rate alarmingly close to heroin, and above many other illegal drugs. There's a whole category called "party drugs" which are considered mid-range drugs (worse than pot, safer than heroin) that are used excessively in some party scenes, yet when you look at the health impacts alone, nearly all users come out of it with little or no health damage whatsoever. All the really harmful side effects of using these substances tend to come down to just one single thing: the fact that they are illegal.
It's just stupid kids who are basically saying "Hey, I'm cool, I do drugs man!"
They might as well be saying "Hey look at me, I can whack myself in the head with a baseball bat and it makes me dizzy!" Yes killing your brain makes you cool. I'm sure you wouldn't be using it anyways.
Should be interesting in 40 years when all the pot-heads are brain damaged and can't function properly.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Thats the WOW mentality culture for you , it will spread like wildfire and we need to stop it from tainting the new games that are coming out
Save Warhammer online and pirates of the burning sea from WOW players!! now!! blizzard do something , you created these monsters now you must do something to stop them
On a serious note though , they think it is cool to brag about stuff like that..
No he got it, from ACid, Shrooms, Ether, and Masculine, from vehehery high dosage and excessive use.
Ohh and the brain damage poster, please show me the "unbiased" link with the study, thats not goverment issued but done by a private party. I do not by all means advocate the usage of drugs i for one do not smoke reefer, but getting angry at some one for saying they got f****d up thats intolerable. The reason why people take drugs, is for the same reason why people drink to get drunk, and we all know why they do that. For the record drugs are not bad just the irresponsible people taking them, everything in moderation is fine but when people take it beyond that then it gets bad.
What about people who abuse the diffrent Codine's stuff like Vicodin and Perc? those are prescription drugs and no one hears about those addicts who screw up while driving a car, but as soon as some one OD's on X or does something stupid on weed then ohh snap Drugs kill people and all the people that take them must be all arrested.
For the people who dont know ibuprofen will eat your liver eventually and thats when taken excessively.
Its 5:24 am here, so i went into rant mode but this has been a long time comming i have read so many posts with people saying "all people who take drugs should be put to death/jail/or should burn in hell with out any prior knowledge of the experience.
PS: Practically all our favorite artists, singers, actors/actress do or did drugs, the teachers in our schools do or have done drugs, our presidents......
PPS: For those people who want to get educated go to erowid.org details and descriptions.
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Originally posted by Squall15 There not ALL just emos, some are fake emos, as in some of the kids will just dye their hair black and call them selves emos to fit in.
Originally posted by Vhayne Why is it now "cool" to talk about how $#%#ed up you are to complete strangers? Lately, when I join a PUG, I sometimes get one of these asswipes. They love to share their stupidity with others apparently. I just don't get it. I wish there was someway to report them, but in some cases that's not terribly easy. In the past I ran a guild. I had to make rules not to talk about such things in guildchat. If I hadn't, then I could see the outcome possibilities. Some popular member would start commenting on how high he was that night, I would get pissed, others might get pissed, we'd have a private discussion, he would probably leave (good thing), then the supporters or liberalists would leave also, cutting our ranks in half. I just didn't want to deal with the drama. I just turned 29. I remember growing up, and the cliche "Just say no" was going around. There were no pot smoking party scenes in movies (aside from Cheech and Chong), and it wasn't a funny thing generally. Maybe I was just a naieve kid, but the way I understood it, drugs were a bad thing, and people usually were against them. At least to the point of not making it a pop culture comedy thing. I just can't understand how it's transitioned into what it is presently. I won't tolerate it. And I hate to think my kids, when they get older, will be exposed to this type of talk and influence on a near daily basis. My how the world has changed.
its always been like this, it will always be like this, and thats all there is to it.
yeah idk wtf this dudes talking about, im 32, i grew up in the 90's in my teen years and shrooms and lsd, and ecstasy was everywhere, i did my fair share,
Originally posted by Blurr Should be interesting in 40 years when all the pot-heads are brain damaged and can't function properly.
Heavy pot smoking began in the 60's. Hmm, let me see, that seems to be 40 years ago. I don't see a bunch of 50 -60 year olds walkin around like retarded zombies. Pot isnt any worse than alcohol.They are only a problem if you are irresponsible and abuse them.
Personaly i couldent care less if someone is throwing E:s or doing Acid on some rave or w/e and then tells everyone in a guild chat. Hell my guildmates are my guildmates and different ppl have different ideas of fun.
The one thing i do hate is rather ppl telling other ppl that they are fucking there lifes up becouse they get stoned ones a month and then themself drink 70cl vodka everytime there is a party going on. Hell ppl live different lifes and when u play a game whit ppl off different age, nationality and social status the gap will only be bigger.
Originally posted by outfctrl Well, when I was in my 20's and 30's I always had a doobie in my hand. Then when I was in my 40's, I always had a scotch in my hand. Now that I am in my 50's, Shots of tequila and Viagra.
Originally posted by Blurr Originally posted by Precusor
Originally posted by Blurr
Should be interesting in 40 years when all the pot-heads are brain damaged and can't function properly.
You dont get brain damage from smoking pot. Yeah I'm sure Tommy Chong got it from somewhere else. I think it's wonderful that a retarded man has accomplished all THIS. They might be nutty movies, but they sure paid off. I wonder if you will ever be able to afford to live in a house even half the size of his garage? Probably not....
Originally posted by outfctrl Maybe not, but it is 10 times worse than smoking cigarettes
Says who? While it has some of the same harmful effects if smoked (smoking anything at all has those effects anyway), you can also mix it with pastries and such to get rid of all those negative effects. The article linked just above observes:
"Marijuana is not toxic, but it is a highly effective medicine" ... "Marijuana is a remarkably safe and non-toxic drug that can effectively treat about 30 different conditions ... I predict it will become the aspirin of the 21st century, as more people recognize this."
Originally posted by Vhayne Why is it now "cool" to talk about how $#%#ed up you are to complete strangers...
Why not? I mean, I wouldn't, it's a boring subject unless everyone I'm in a pug with is stoned, too. But why does it bother you so much? If the player who says he is high is screwing up the pug I'd boot his butt faster than I could smoke a roach inbetween classes, last stall of the Boys Room. But you banned discussion of this topic in your guild chat? C'mon, dude, relax. These are kids experiencing being high for the first time. There is nothing else to talk about at that precious moment in your life, it's so powerful and liberating that you just have to tell someone.
I would have griefed a guild like yours.
Just say yes---and watch out for the cops and moralizing guild leaders.
Originally posted by rushin maybe the op should be a bit more tolerent of others? In lot's of cultures taking drugs is part of life, many of us do it quite happily and have a great time thanks very much. I dont know if you are American but they are an easy target with the neo-conservative government making their citizens insular, intolerent and easy to control.
Sorry but when i grew up taking drugs was the norm, pretty much everyone i knew dabbled, some more than others. Same goes for people i have met in MMO's from other shall we say liberal countries. Drugs arent bad, ill informed attitudes however are. I'm 34, i'm not a gibbering wreck, i have a good job and a life, but i like to go out and enjoy myself, hell i might even mention to compete strangers that i enjoy myself o_o
so to finish with a cliche, take a chill pill man
Refer to my quote in the left hand column. Addiction may be "somewhat acceptable" in different cultures but that does not make it a good thing. "In some cultures if you commit a crime against someone the judge can order you to give one of your children to the family as repayment. Its cultural! (But a very bad idea).
Besides you can lie to yourself and say all is well, but dont tell me that. Dont you dare tell me that. I've seen the effects of drugs on people I love and it has been one of the sadest experiences of my life .
What are you smoking? Hahahaha
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Me neither, all they do is hang out at bars on weekends and chase chicks. Trouble is, most of the human race is in that group, so I have to drink a bit as well just to fit in sometimes. I don't smoke though, lung cancer just doesn't appeal to me as a lifestyle choice.
Some fun facts about alcohol:
"Health hazards associated with the excessive use of alcohol or with alcohol dependency include dramatic behavioral changes, retardation of motor skills, and impairment of reasoning and rational thinking. These factors result in a higher incidence of accidents and accidental death for such persons than for nonusers of alcohol. Nutrition also suffers and vitamin and mineral deficiencies are frequent. Prolonged alcohol abuse causes bleeding from the intestinal tract, damage to nerves and the brain, psychotic behavior, loss of memory and coordination, damage to the liver often resulting in cirrhosis, impotence, severe inflammation of the pancreas, and damage to the bone marrow, heart, testes, ovaries and muscles. Damage to the nerves and organs is usually irreversible. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in alcoholics and is 10 times more frequent than in nonalcoholics. Sudden withdrawal of alcohol from persons dependent on it will cause serious physical withdrawal symptoms. Drinking during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Overdoses of alcohol can result in respiratory arrest and death."
If you look at just the health impacts, alcohol and tobacco rate alarmingly close to heroin, and above many other illegal drugs. There's a whole category called "party drugs" which are considered mid-range drugs (worse than pot, safer than heroin) that are used excessively in some party scenes, yet when you look at the health impacts alone, nearly all users come out of it with little or no health damage whatsoever. All the really harmful side effects of using these substances tend to come down to just one single thing: the fact that they are illegal.
It's just stupid kids who are basically saying "Hey, I'm cool, I do drugs man!"
They might as well be saying "Hey look at me, I can whack myself in the head with a baseball bat and it makes me dizzy!" Yes killing your brain makes you cool. I'm sure you wouldn't be using it anyways.
Should be interesting in 40 years when all the pot-heads are brain damaged and can't function properly.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Thats the WOW mentality culture for you , it will spread like wildfire and we need to stop it from tainting the new games that are coming out
Save Warhammer online and pirates of the burning sea from WOW players!! now!! blizzard do something , you created these monsters now you must do something to stop them
On a serious note though , they think it is cool to brag about stuff like that..
Yeah I'm sure Tommy Chong got it from somewhere else.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Ohh and the brain damage poster, please show me the "unbiased" link with the study, thats not goverment issued but done by a private party. I do not by all means advocate the usage of drugs i for one do not smoke reefer, but getting angry at some one for saying they got f****d up thats intolerable. The reason why people take drugs, is for the same reason why people drink to get drunk, and we all know why they do that. For the record drugs are not bad just the irresponsible people taking them, everything in moderation is fine but when people take it beyond that then it gets bad.
What about people who abuse the diffrent Codine's stuff like Vicodin and Perc? those are prescription drugs and no one hears about those addicts who screw up while driving a car, but as soon as some one OD's on X or does something stupid on weed then ohh snap Drugs kill people and all the people that take them must be all arrested.
For the people who dont know ibuprofen will eat your liver eventually and thats when taken excessively.
Its 5:24 am here, so i went into rant mode but this has been a long time comming i have read so many posts with people saying "all people who take drugs should be put to death/jail/or should burn in hell with out any prior knowledge of the experience.
PS: Practically all our favorite artists, singers, actors/actress do or did drugs, the teachers in our schools do or have done drugs, our presidents......
PPS: For those people who want to get educated go to erowid.org details and descriptions.
"It''s like they took a gun, put it to their nugget sack and pulled the trigger over and over again, each time telling us how great it was that they were shooting themselves in the balls."
--Exar_Kun on SWG''s NGE
I once prayed to God for a bike, but quickly found out he didnt work that way...so I stole a bike and prayed for his forgiveness.
"Some people play tennis, I erode the human soul."
-Tycho
Does black hair make someone a emo?
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Want to ENJOY an mmo?
Dont start a guild and dont be a leader or volunteer to be coleader or captain.
Just play the damn game:)
Personaly i couldent care less if someone is throwing E:s or doing Acid on some rave or w/e and then tells everyone in a guild chat. Hell my guildmates are my guildmates and different ppl have different ideas of fun.
The one thing i do hate is rather ppl telling other ppl that they are fucking there lifes up becouse they get stoned ones a month and then themself drink 70cl vodka everytime there is a party going on. Hell ppl live different lifes and when u play a game whit ppl off different age, nationality and social status the gap will only be bigger.
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Well, when I was in my 20's and 30's I always had a doobie in my hand. Then when I was in my 40's, I always had a scotch in my hand.
Now that I am in my 50's, Shots of tequila and Viagra.
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You dont get brain damage from smoking pot.
Yeah I'm sure Tommy Chong got it from somewhere else.
I think it's wonderful that a retarded man has accomplished all THIS. They might be nutty movies, but they sure paid off. I wonder if you will ever be able to afford to live in a house even half the size of his garage? Probably not....
Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn't Damage Brain
Says who? While it has some of the same harmful effects if smoked (smoking anything at all has those effects anyway), you can also mix it with pastries and such to get rid of all those negative effects. The article linked just above observes:
"Marijuana is not toxic, but it is a highly effective medicine" ... "Marijuana is a remarkably safe and non-toxic drug that can effectively treat about 30 different conditions ... I predict it will become the aspirin of the 21st century, as more people recognize this."
Smoking pure cannabis is more harmful to lungs than tobacco, a health charity is warning.
A study by the British Lung Foundation found that just three cannabis joints a day cause the same damage as 20 cigarettes.
And when cannabis and tobacco are smoked together, the effects are dramatically worse.
Evidence shows that tar from cannabis cigarettes contains 50% more cancer causing carcinogens than tobacco.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/cannabis/index.shtml
Why not? I mean, I wouldn't, it's a boring subject unless everyone I'm in a pug with is stoned, too. But why does it bother you so much? If the player who says he is high is screwing up the pug I'd boot his butt faster than I could smoke a roach inbetween classes, last stall of the Boys Room. But you banned discussion of this topic in your guild chat? C'mon, dude, relax. These are kids experiencing being high for the first time. There is nothing else to talk about at that precious moment in your life, it's so powerful and liberating that you just have to tell someone.
I would have griefed a guild like yours.
Just say yes---and watch out for the cops and moralizing guild leaders.
Causailty hasn't been established, and is difficult to establish given the time periods involved and the associated legal issues.
Nonetheless, if you chose to smoke excessive amounts of pot, you are taking a pretty massive risk with your brain chemistry.
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