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Question: Do you think pot is a Gateway drug?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 232906" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I presume by gateway drug, you mean that it leads to bigger things. It's not a term I'm familiar with.</p><p></p><p>I do know I can't be around people smoking it, it makes me feel really ill with griping colicky pain and nausea. I used to work at the university and there were places on campus where you just didn't go at lunctiime, if you didn't want to be a passive pot smoker. However, there are other ways to take it and as someone interested in herbs and herbalism, I was always curious to try it, one day under controlled conditions.</p><p></p><p>Then an idiot at work slipped me some hash brownies, telling me they were "herbal biscuits". I ate two on this Friday afternooon, and about 20 minutes later suddenly felt as if someone had poured a jug of warm water over me, from the top of my head. I realised at that point that I'd been had, but didn't waste energy yelling at anybody. Besides, I felt too calm to do so and was focussing my energies on how the H I was gonig to manage to safely drive him through peak hour traffic with three pre-school kids in the car...</p><p></p><p>I was high all weekend, only really coming out of it properly on the Sunday afternoon. By this stge I was good and angry at the idiots at work who had allowed this to happen (everyone else had been in on the joke, they had all been out to lunch at the home of one of the secretarys, she had plied them with hash and alcohol, I had just thought they were plastered, not stoned).</p><p></p><p>But that weekend totally cured me of thinking that pot was harmless, that it was OK to use freely. Maybe once it was fairly harmless, but it has been refined, selectively bred, developed - until now it is far stronger than it used to be. My co-workers claimed I was over-reacting, but I wonder - if they were drunk, they may not have noticed the pot effects and possibly just blamed the alcohol. Also, it might be that it affects me more than most people. From what I know about tis particular secretary who hosted the lunchtime party (and who deliberately excluded me because she was one weird person with some big hang-ups that included being afraid of disability and disabled people) - she would have only had the best. So I got some strong stuff.</p><p></p><p>And I've never, ever, wanted to try it again. </p><p></p><p>I beleive they are working on a medical marijuana that has had the hallucinogenic properties taken out. THAT I'm prepared to try, when my doctor suggests it. But I'm not chasing after it. </p><p></p><p>I have wondered if I just happen to react badly to these things, in the same way I react badly to antidepressants. Who knows?</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 232906, member: 1991"] I presume by gateway drug, you mean that it leads to bigger things. It's not a term I'm familiar with. I do know I can't be around people smoking it, it makes me feel really ill with griping colicky pain and nausea. I used to work at the university and there were places on campus where you just didn't go at lunctiime, if you didn't want to be a passive pot smoker. However, there are other ways to take it and as someone interested in herbs and herbalism, I was always curious to try it, one day under controlled conditions. Then an idiot at work slipped me some hash brownies, telling me they were "herbal biscuits". I ate two on this Friday afternooon, and about 20 minutes later suddenly felt as if someone had poured a jug of warm water over me, from the top of my head. I realised at that point that I'd been had, but didn't waste energy yelling at anybody. Besides, I felt too calm to do so and was focussing my energies on how the H I was gonig to manage to safely drive him through peak hour traffic with three pre-school kids in the car... I was high all weekend, only really coming out of it properly on the Sunday afternoon. By this stge I was good and angry at the idiots at work who had allowed this to happen (everyone else had been in on the joke, they had all been out to lunch at the home of one of the secretarys, she had plied them with hash and alcohol, I had just thought they were plastered, not stoned). But that weekend totally cured me of thinking that pot was harmless, that it was OK to use freely. Maybe once it was fairly harmless, but it has been refined, selectively bred, developed - until now it is far stronger than it used to be. My co-workers claimed I was over-reacting, but I wonder - if they were drunk, they may not have noticed the pot effects and possibly just blamed the alcohol. Also, it might be that it affects me more than most people. From what I know about tis particular secretary who hosted the lunchtime party (and who deliberately excluded me because she was one weird person with some big hang-ups that included being afraid of disability and disabled people) - she would have only had the best. So I got some strong stuff. And I've never, ever, wanted to try it again. I beleive they are working on a medical marijuana that has had the hallucinogenic properties taken out. THAT I'm prepared to try, when my doctor suggests it. But I'm not chasing after it. I have wondered if I just happen to react badly to these things, in the same way I react badly to antidepressants. Who knows? Marg [/QUOTE]
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