Stiletto Stoners (AKA Professional Women Stoners)

[Thomas Paine]

Today Show Video: Young Professional Women Smoking Pot

AlterNet Article: Marijuana in America: More Mainstream Than Ever, More Arrests Than Ever

Thought this was interesting.

[NeedleInTheHay]

doesn't surprise me one bit... ive smoked with a lawyer, a professor, a doctor and pretty much any gender, race, or age.... its actually quite hard to find someone who doesn't smoke at least here and there... but on the flipside, i live on the biggest campus in the country so im sure usage would be way up in that type of environment.

[pyramidsong]

It's not surprising. I have smoked weed with physicists, engineers, mathematicians, I'm studying to be a vet... I don't think profession is relevant to the enjoyment of a little herbal refreshment.

[millenniumman75]

This is disturbing.

[WineKitty]

I have said a million times on SAS that its ridiculous that alcohol is legal and pot isnt. It doesnt surprise me at all; I have always known that pot is smoked by everyone.

[Ospi]

I can do without pot to make me feel good thank you.

[Phibes]

Weed is bad. Having paranoia each day cannot be good for you.

I don't understand how people with SA can even contemplate using weed. Don't they know that drugs and alcohol contribute to mental illness. Maybe some peoples anxiety and depression has come about from drug abuse in the first place and so if they stay away from it after a year or so they might be back to normal.

Instead they continue to use the drugs and see a therapist and take ssri's and what not and wonder why they aren't getting better. Cut out the root problem.

[mountain5]

The only issue I have with it, is that I don't want to be looked on with suspicion on by pot smokers just because I don't share their habit, and frankly that's the vibe I get sometimes.

[WineKitty]

Originally Posted by Phibes

Weed is bad. Having paranoia each day cannot be good for you.

Not everyone experiences paranoia when smoking weed. And weed is not bad simply because the government says so.

I don't understand how people with SA can even contemplate using weed. Don't they know that drugs and alcohol contribute to mental illness.

Again, not everyone has a "problem" when it comes to using alcohol or pot. (And lets stick to talking pot as you cannot link it together with other drugs).

[WineKitty]

I just love that name stilletto stoners.

[Phibes]

Originally Posted by WineKitty

Not everyone experiences paranoia when smoking weed. And weed is not bad simply because the government says so.

First of all I wouldn't listen to anything the government has to say. It seems to me that you're under the false assumption that I'm a sheep leading my life according to 'big brother's' wishes and someone who hasn't used before.

You're right, not everyone gets paranoid while stoned but a hell of a lot do. Me, Dale (friend with SA), I've seen some people on this site mention freaking out on weed/acid), my old mate John who went to a Mental Hospital cause of his love affair with weed and alcohol. It's not just that though, there are heaps of other negative aspects to it; Physical, Mental and Sociological.

Why not just be clean and sober. It's so much better. But hey.., keep fooling yourself into believing it's ok to be pro-drug use.

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by Phibes

Why not just be clean and sober. It's so much better. But hey.., keep fooling yourself into believe it's ok to be a drug user.

There's nothing wrong with making statements like this so long as you also believe that it's okay for you to keep fooling yourself that it's not okay to be a drug user.

Have a nice day,
Kelly

[TiMeZuP]

Originally Posted by WineKitty

Again, not everyone has a "problem" when it comes to using alcohol or pot. (And lets stick to talking pot as you cannot link it together with other drugs).

Like you just previously did?

Originally Posted by WineKitty

I have said a million times on SAS that its ridiculous that alcohol is legal and pot isnt. It doesnt surprise me at all; I have always known that pot is smoked by everyone.

[TiMeZuP]

^lol I was trying to understand that statement as well. Im still scratching my head trying to figure out what I missed

[VIncymon]

Originally Posted by Phibes

First of all I wouldn't listen to anything the government has to say. It seems to me that you're under the false assumption that I'm a sheep leading my life according to 'big brother's' wishes and someone who hasn't used before.

You're right, not everyone gets paranoid while stoned but a hell of a lot do. Me, Dale (friend with SA), I've seen some people on this site mention freaking out on weed/acid), my old mate John who went to a Mental Hospital cause of his love affair with weed and alcohol. It's not just that though, there are heaps of other negative aspects to it; Physical, Mental and Sociological.

Why not just be clean and sober. It's so much better. But hey.., keep fooling yourself into believing it's ok to be a drug user.

Phibes I know where you're coming from, but if I were you, I wouldn't bother arguing this over the internet with strangers.

Once something is "IN" and slightly popular ..its very hard to convince someone it is bad for him/her. Its like those grown-ups that keep smoking nicotine. As far as they are concerned "I'm not dead yet, so it can't be that bad." When people use that sort of logic, its best not go further.

You have friends who became ill from pot use. I have a COUSIN who messed up his whole life from pot use. I have nieghbours, who messed up their lives from Pot use. I'm done arguing.

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by TiMeZuP

^lol I was trying to understand that statement as well. Im still scratching my head trying to figure out what I missed

Just exposing hypocrisy, that's all.

Have a nice day,
Kelly

[Brightpaperwarewolf]

Originally Posted by millenniumman75

This is disturbing.

How so? There's plenty of professionals for smoke cannabis. Cannabis smokers aren't typically those people who lay on the couch all day and eat munchies, don't believe those movies, they are just exaggerations. They are professional, smart people. With all my problems caused from cannabis, it was because I smoked way too much, not because cannabis itself is bad, because of my self-control, not cannabis itself. Good cannabis is pretty expensive, so how does one afford it? A professional job. A heavy cannabis addiction isn't sustainable simply working a **** job contrary to popular belief. You need to make some money.

I'm certainly not one to deny the bad effects of cannabis when I mentioned them myself multiple times. But some of the things said here are entirely wrong. Getting ill from cannabis? If anything, cannabis was the major reason I recovered from cancer, to combat the effects of chemotherapy. There's good and bad to cannabis. If anything the biggest danger to cannabis is getting arrested. Sure you can be delusions, paranoia, anxiety if you smoke too much, but it isn't that detrimental when you look at the bigger picture. It doesn't warrant people getting their lives ruined for it because of the law. It doesn't warrant a waste of money on enforcement on some buds that aren't that harmful, even in the deepest of addiction.

[Zeddicus]

Personally, I've never smoked or ingested any type of drug, and I probably never will, but to me, marijuana is just a plant. It's something you find in the wild, and if you want to harvest that plant, grow and cultivate it, or do whatever, then that's your business. If someone abuses or misuses marijuana in such a way as to damage their physical or mental health, well then, nobody else can be blamed. If nothing detrimental to their health or well-being happens, then, good. It's only when the handling or usage of said substance begins to interfere in the safety and/or quality of other peoples' lives (such as, as an example, driving under the influence of alcohol, not to take marijuana out of context and blend it with the effects of alcohol) that I have a problem with it. Otherwise, people are responsible for their own actions and lives.

Originally Posted by Phibes

Why the hell did you even post that, you make a whole lot of sense f**ker.

That's not very nice. There's no need to resort to insults on these forums.

[Thomas Paine]

Originally Posted by Kelly

There's nothing wrong with making statements like this so long as you also believe that it's okay for you to keep fooling yourself that it's not okay to be a drug user.

Have a nice day,
Kelly

Nice

[BeNice]

Originally Posted by VIncymon

Once something is "IN" and slightly popular ..its very hard to convince someone it is bad for him/her. Its like those grown-ups that keep smoking nicotine. As far as they are concerned "I'm not dead yet, so it can't be that bad." When people use that sort of logic, its best not go further.

You have friends who became ill from pot use. I have a COUSIN who messed up his whole life from pot use. I have nieghbours, who messed up their lives from Pot use. I'm done arguing.

In?

So, you're point is basically that you know some people that pot didn't work out for. Were their lives really messed up that much? Are they broke, living on the streets now? Lot's of people turn out to not be into pot. It doesn't negatively affect you the way other drugs do, though. I've had much, much worse problems with alcohol. Compared to alcohol, I've never even had a problem with weed. I've had moments where I'm a little bit too stoned and then that fades away and I'm okay, but I've never been sick for two days because of weed.