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I personally like to save it for evenings and weekends mostly because I'm on zoom calls all day with clients and co-workers but when the camera is off I can usually be found with my bubbler in one hand and guitar in the other.
Love how you're not getting downvoted by the weed advocates... it's almost as if they see this huge block of text and are too lazy or stoned to read it, so they just skip it.
You'd be surprised at how many hard working potheads are out there and just not advertising their use. I can say from my own personal experience that the latest tech gadget or software that you use was most likely built by potheads. I've yet to work in an engineering group where most of the top talent were not daily users. You've probably seen the clip of Elon Musk lighting up on Joe Rogan's podcast - he's not the exception.
As far as why the government would ban it, you just need to look at the history of prohibition in the United States. When the US was colonized, industrial hemp was an important cash crop. In the 19th century the pulp and paper industry was booming. William Randolph Hearst (the newspaper mogul) made a significant investment in the timber industry. Because hemp grows quickly and can be used to make paper products, it posed a real threat to the wood and pulp industry. The Du Pont company around this time patented nylon. They also discovered a new method for using wood pulp to manufacture paper. Du Pont feared that in addition to being an easy source of paper, hemp could also be used as a substitute for nylon. Much like today, they had powerful friends in high places and Hearst and the Du Ponts enlisted the help of the Secretary of the Treasury (who also happened to be heavily invested in Du Pont at the time). Hemp even became a threat to the oil and gas industry. When Ford motors discovered a way to extract ethanol from hemp, the oil industry had a new enemy and a push began to make hemp and marijuana illegal in order to eliminate all potential competition. At the time, the public was unconcerned about competition for these companies. To motivate them, Hearst began publishing sensational headlines (which his papers were famous for) tying hemp with the psychoactive marijuana and something he knew people would regard with suspicion - Mexican immigrants.
Some famous quotes from the time: “Was it marijuana, the new Mexican drug, that nerved the murderous arm of Clara Phillips when she hammered out her victim’s life in Los Angeles?… THREE-FOURTHS OF THE CRIMES of violence in this country today are committed by DOPE SLAVES — that is a matter of cold record.”
In another article, one of Hearst’s papers proclaimed: “The fatal marihuana cigarette must be recognized as a DEADLY DRUG, and American children must be PROTECTED AGAINST IT.”
“Marijuana, perhaps now the most insidious of our narcotics, is a direct by-product of unrestricted Mexican immigration . . . . Mexican peddlers have been caught distributing sample marijuana cigarettes to school children.” —the New York Times, a 1935 letter to the editor
“I wish I could show you what a small marijuana cigaret can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That’s why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of whom are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.” —a letter to Anslinger from a Colorado newspaper editor
“Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.” —from a newspaper in 1934
This racist and fear-mongering views of marijuana fueled reefer madness and prohibition.
I personally like to save it for evenings and weekends mostly because I'm on zoom calls all day with clients and co-workers but when the camera is off I can usually be found with my bubbler in one hand and guitar in the other.
Hi
I saw the house passed a bill to legalize weed. Idk where it’s at now but still, it should happen.
Stop being a lowlife
Be like Trump: be sober. Weed makes you slow and lazy... That's lefty shit
I'm speaking from my own personal experience. 20 years every day smoker. I'm happier, healthier, and wealthier than I ever was stoned.
Love how you're not getting downvoted by the weed advocates... it's almost as if they see this huge block of text and are too lazy or stoned to read it, so they just skip it.
It is almost like that isn't it.
Indica for Medicine and Sativa for Work / play etc. Reffermadness is Lame.
You'd be surprised at how many hard working potheads are out there and just not advertising their use. I can say from my own personal experience that the latest tech gadget or software that you use was most likely built by potheads. I've yet to work in an engineering group where most of the top talent were not daily users. You've probably seen the clip of Elon Musk lighting up on Joe Rogan's podcast - he's not the exception.
As far as why the government would ban it, you just need to look at the history of prohibition in the United States. When the US was colonized, industrial hemp was an important cash crop. In the 19th century the pulp and paper industry was booming. William Randolph Hearst (the newspaper mogul) made a significant investment in the timber industry. Because hemp grows quickly and can be used to make paper products, it posed a real threat to the wood and pulp industry. The Du Pont company around this time patented nylon. They also discovered a new method for using wood pulp to manufacture paper. Du Pont feared that in addition to being an easy source of paper, hemp could also be used as a substitute for nylon. Much like today, they had powerful friends in high places and Hearst and the Du Ponts enlisted the help of the Secretary of the Treasury (who also happened to be heavily invested in Du Pont at the time). Hemp even became a threat to the oil and gas industry. When Ford motors discovered a way to extract ethanol from hemp, the oil industry had a new enemy and a push began to make hemp and marijuana illegal in order to eliminate all potential competition. At the time, the public was unconcerned about competition for these companies. To motivate them, Hearst began publishing sensational headlines (which his papers were famous for) tying hemp with the psychoactive marijuana and something he knew people would regard with suspicion - Mexican immigrants.
Some famous quotes from the time: “Was it marijuana, the new Mexican drug, that nerved the murderous arm of Clara Phillips when she hammered out her victim’s life in Los Angeles?… THREE-FOURTHS OF THE CRIMES of violence in this country today are committed by DOPE SLAVES — that is a matter of cold record.”
In another article, one of Hearst’s papers proclaimed: “The fatal marihuana cigarette must be recognized as a DEADLY DRUG, and American children must be PROTECTED AGAINST IT.”
“Marijuana, perhaps now the most insidious of our narcotics, is a direct by-product of unrestricted Mexican immigration . . . . Mexican peddlers have been caught distributing sample marijuana cigarettes to school children.” —the New York Times, a 1935 letter to the editor
“I wish I could show you what a small marijuana cigaret can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That’s why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of whom are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.” —a letter to Anslinger from a Colorado newspaper editor
“Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.” —from a newspaper in 1934
This racist and fear-mongering views of marijuana fueled reefer madness and prohibition.
Who said he/she couldn't handle it ?