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This is what I dont understand. Why do people have to become so defensive about this issue? I didnt say anything intended to scare people away from marijuana...or that it was even bad. Please re-read my statement....YES we need food, yes we need water, yes we need air...I am not a moron....but we dont need any of these things in EXCESS....read that? In EXCESS.
No, Carmel, you said marijuan is not a "long-term solution". It is. "Excess" is deefinitely to avoided, but there is no implkication of "excess" in anything I advocated. Long-term use is not "excessive" use, in fact, I seriously doubt that it is even POSSIBLE to "use marijuana in excess". It tends to be self-regulating.
I am actually trying to address a totally separate issue. Ive said it a million times....it doesnt matter if its food or pot or sex or fast cars or ant farms or model planes......you are choosing to accuse me of attacking your substance of choice, and thats just not accurate. If we are adressing one issue in excess and neglecting others....then we are not in balance, and that statement doesnt have anything to do with your healing plant. REAL men and women have the confidence to confront ALL aspects of their own reality, that includes pain and sadness....whether they find that in a New Age seminar or a bad b-horror flick.....so dont use that machismo crap as an excuse. I never said Patriot needed a big circle jerk of holistic mumbo jumbo.....I said that he needed to have the guts to decide whats really causing the problem, because substance use doesnt seem to be doing the trick.....not that it might not work for someone else, see?
I would agree with you that when people have problems,. there is generally no single thing that can solve them. Lifestyle changes may be necessary in order to reach the desired end. However, marijuana is a catalyst for making many of those changes. It seems to me that you were dissing the marvelous, miraculous WEED that has proven to be so beneficial to so many people. Otherwise, why did you even preface what you said with "this may botherr the weed advocates" or whatever it was you said.
And i dont read anti-drug literature. My husband uses pot on an almost daily basis, so i do have very personal experience with the effects of such usage. THAT DOES NOT MEAN ITS THE SAME FOR YOU, but I am only human and only capable of relating to others based on my experience, as are you i imagine. Not to mention for the mind-freeing effects you should be exepriencing from your cure-all, you sure are closed to anyone elses perspective.
I think you are projecting whatever problems you and your husband have been having onto marijuana. Your husband smokes, does things that bother you, so it must be the WEED, huh? Sounds very similar to diagnoses made in the early 80s by some self-appointed "drug experts" in St. Petersburg, Florida that I know of.
I don't think I have been approaching this from a "close minded" perspective at all. You took my suggestion that Patriot switch from boozing to smoking and decided I was telling him to smoke marijuana in excess (again, something I doubt is even POSSIBLE). Look, marijuana has been shown to be an effective treatment for PTSD, just the thing Patriot was talking about...."not being able to shake the Straight shit". I think that he should start smoking and obtaining some of the benefits of marijuana.. Fo ryou to take what I said and use it as a launching pad for yuour diatribe is really irresponsible and counterproductive. Sure, maybe some lifestyle changes are in order, given time. But he just may find that he gewts what he needs from simply sparking up a bowl instead of drinking a cocktail. I stand by what I said. Research (the legitimate, scientific kind) and personal experience backs me up on this.
Its the same for pot, its a remedy yes.....but if you dont do anything else except smoke pot your problems arent going to change, just get covered over.
Coveredx up? Is that anything like "stuffing feelings"? Again, you seem to be giving Mary the short shrift. For some people, POT IS ALL THEY NEED TO HELP THEM DEAL WITH WHAT IS BOTHERING THEM.
Please, dont you see i am not attacking pot? I am saying that pot isnt special...effective? YES....healthy? YES......in a category of its own when being used as a health or emotional remedy? NO.....just like everything else....its subject to the same rules. I may not have a Phd in Cannabis, but I do have education and experience in observing people habits and lifestyles as they relate to good health and function.....and no substance in and of itself trumps all the components of true homeostasis....period. Thats not a rant against pot, its a simple fact about all life as we know it.
Well, I happen to have a PhD in cannabis, and I know that it is "special", it is unsurpassed as a treatment for the type of thing that Patriot was desribing. We have obviously evolved to have a synbiotic relationship with the cannabis plant. It is indeed an effective treatment i
in and of itself. If your rant was limited to preaching against "excess", I wouldn't feel the need to respond to it. From what I read, you were saying that marijuana is not an effective treatment, merely a way to "cover up" the problem. Nothing could be further from the truth. Drugs like cocaine, heroin, valium/xanax, etc., yes, they may "cover up" the problems at hand, marijuana does nothing of the kind. It truly opens the mind to new possibilities, and enables one to think through their problems from the new perspective it affords. It is not a "drug" in the sense you are talking about.
Sure, all the other methods you describe can be beneficial, but the immediate problem at hand needs to be addressed first. If someone has a thorn in their side, the thorn needs to be removed, then they can be told about ways to avoid being stuck. I think that the fastest and most effective immediate solution to the prooblems that Patriot was talking about can be best remedied by marijuana.
I am not telling him not to smoke pot....thats coming from YOUR closed ideaology, I am telling him that YES one substance is alot more healthy than the other, but looking for the answer in the same bed with your problem might not be the best effective idea. Its a RESPONSIBLE observation, not a selfish selling point on what I think is the only answer FOR him.
Again, you are lumping in marijauana with dangerous drugs like alcohol, cocaine, benzodiazapenes, and heroin. "THe same bed"? HEll, they don't even live on the same
block.......
You are right that marijuan ias less dangerous than alcohol, but you are wrong to lump it in with every other substance.
