Is weed bein used to "subdue" folks, like when Nat. Americans were given "firewater"?

[Darth Nubian]

maybe if their pot-smoking carried beyond their formative years into the years they spend in positions of power, we might not have such passive aggressive foreign policy and narrowed views of the world outside our borders...

Yes because once you stop smoking you immediately forget all of the feelings and opinions you formed during your period of self discovery. Our foreign Policy is about the projection of American power and influence. Power is a drug that is greater than anything you can smoke, snort, or ingest. No amount of weed is going to change that.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Marijuana makes you psychotic over time. Avoid it.

 

[thekingsmen]

Native Americans used it for ceremonies and rituals. It was apart of their culture. Where are you getting your information from?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Weed was smoked before America was even a thought

You'd have an excellent, supported argument if you said crack cocaine though

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

Native Americans used it for ceremonies and rituals. It was apart of their culture. Where are you getting your information from?

my comparison was weed (nowadays, and for everybody) vs "firewater"/alcohol bein given to native americans, waay back in the day

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

my comparison was weed (nowadays, and for everybody) vs "firewater"/alcohol bein given to native americans, waay back in the day

native americans can't process alcohol breh, there is a huge fukking difference between alcohol and weed.

 

[MMS]

noone i know who smokes regularly is successful

so you might be on to something

inb4 well such and such actor/celebrity smokes

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

noone i know who smokes regularly is successful

so you might be on to something

inb4 well such and such actor/celebrity smokes

george soros, Sir Richard Branson, ted turner. all billionaire potheads.

 

[daze23]

isn't weed famous for making people paranoid?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Also, Native Americans knew nothing about alcohol or its effects. Everyone knows what weed and booze does in 2012, like any other thing if you choose to abuse it that's on you

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

Soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932)

i think youre right about this, and in the future it will be designer drugs, not just weed or alcohol

mainly, i think pills and alcohol are worse psychologically to people right now but weed is definitely an escape mechanism that people use to remain ignorant, but happy (at least for the moment) too

 

[MMS]

george soros, Sir Richard Branson, ted turner. all billionaire potheads.

inb4 well such and such actor/celebrity smokes

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

You can't just say *waits for logical counter argument to my claim* those aren't actors or celebrities. they're entrepreneurs

 

[daze23]

it's just as anecdotal as saying "noone I know..."

 

[MMS]

You can't just say *waits for logical counter argument to my claim* those aren't actors or celebrities. they're entrepreneurs