Referees...all kinds...everywhere

Pop up ads on the computer for things you looked up when considering a purchase. They never get the message you have made the purchase already and do pop ups for weeks on the same items.

tens of thousands of tail cams all over the country for years and no one has a Sasquatch photo yet.

hendey lathe
9) And you notice they paid with some kind of government assistance card, they're in a handicap spot, seemingly not handicap in any way and they're driving a brand new Escalade!!!!!! And here I am getting in my 22 year old truck just trying to get by, what am I doin' wrong?!?!

 
It's obvious, hendey! They know how to push all the buttons, fill out all the paper work, and access the system. You're just too honest to figure it out!

Porktown

Now sure, stuck to a chair for an hour but not stumbling around acting a fool. Just stuck there not bothering anyone, obviously foolish too. 

 
I started in the early '70's, but by the time the early '80's rolled around, pot had become so poweful that after just 3 tokes, your brains were drippin' out your ears onto your shoulders and you were STUPID for about 3 hours. Now, the growers have refined it to a poison. When Colorado was the first to legalize, google how many automotive accidents there were with drivers under the influence of a controlled substance. I was a recreational user 45 years ago but wouldn't dare touch it now, even for the glaucoma.

Mitchell
Now, the growers have refined it to a poison. When Colorado was the first to legalize, google how many automotive accidents there were with drivers under the influence of a controlled substance. I was a recreational user 45 years ago but wouldn't dare touch it now, even for the glaucoma.

Marijuana is a rather complex plant, it contains many chemicals with THC being the “high”, possibly others in it too that give some sort of high. They have the strains now that go from a “Coors Cutter” to grain alcohol. There are some strains that have been refined to have the most THC and basically a poison as you noted, just like pure alcohol is a poison. They have also worked on many strains with only trace amounts of THC or possibly eliminated, but filled with the other chemicals that help with glaucoma or seizures and basically eliminate the THC. It is just like how they make seedless grapes or other plants from selective breeding and other techniques.

From what I have been told from friends that still use, the legal states and medical dispensaries are much more organized and have an idea what you are getting. If you want the glaucoma stuff and no buzz, it is available. You want glaucoma relief and a slight buzz, there is that. Just like the booze, some are fine with a few light beers or glasses of wine. Others feel like they need to be drinking as close to pure alcohol as possible and not satisfied unless falling over drunk. I do think many states put limits on how strong though, just like booze. Their upper limits on both booze and marijuana are arguably way too high for recreational use.

Mitchell

Porktown

Now sure, stuck to a chair for an hour but not stumbling around acting a fool. Just stuck there not bothering anyone, obviously foolish too. 

 
I started in the early '70's, but by the time the early '80's rolled around, pot had become so poweful that after just 3 tokes, your brains were drippin' out your ears onto your shoulders and you were STUPID for about 3 hours. Now, the growers have refined it to a poison. When Colorado was the first to legalize, google how many automotive accidents there were with drivers under the influence of a controlled substance. I was a recreational user 45 years ago but wouldn't dare touch it now, even for the glaucoma.

3 tokes? What are you crazy!
there's half hitter quitter now........jus sayin 
 
BH

Porktown
Their upper limits on both booze and marijuana are arguably way too high for recreational use.

a man's got to know his limitations, Pork 
drink a pint  of 151 rum or blaze a whole 28% THC Cheech 'n Chong sized blunt 
It's the same only different...
some can handle it, most can't
 
 
all drugs don't affect everyone the same either.
case in point from personal experience..
 
In my knucklehead dayz, a good friend ate quaaludes (714's) like Pez .
He's down 3 and 4 at a time.
I hated them, as just one would have me walking sideways and falling down
but I could drink a pint of 101proof  bourbon in a couple hours (and did regular when I was bouncing)  and not be near as forked up while dancing with bar babes like Denny Tarrio 

 
KTF

People who stop by to visit out of the clear blue. I would prefer to know when they planned on coming.

genieman77

a man's got to know his limitations, Pork

No doubt. With street traded marijuana, you have no clue what you are getting though, until you end up with certain connections/trust of a dealer. Are you getting that 151 rum level potency or are you getting the Miller Lite level? If it were just marijuana, so be it, luck of the draw. Most have an idea of what you are getting by the look and smell of it. Now days, street drugs have a much greater chance of getting laced with stuff like fentanyl than ever. Sure, back in the day guys would lace with other stuff and usually sell to people knowingly paying more for it being laced. Now, there are people dying or having life long issues from what they think is just taking a puff of weed. Legalize it and put your resources to fentanyl and other drugs that really tear lives apart. PA is already half way there with the medical. If need be, set it up like the LCB stores and collect even more state taxes from it.

The ONLY thing anyone that has ever used it before, can maybe call it a “gateway”, is that you met/purchased from a dealer or found those connections. That possibly can get you other drugs. That is the only “gateway” that marijuana is. Legalization solves that. No doubt there will be older people selling to younger people. But at least they aren’t selling them actual poison.