Cannabis: Do you smoke it? Should it be legalized?

Quote:

---

Finally,
About my attitude; I went to Europe for a few months, I was 8-10 yrs old, ran into some people and got the shit beaten out of me by people with my attitude. Since then I've collected a few blackbelts, and some martial arts need a bit of work, such as my Iaido, but i'm pretty confident that I'm able to defend myself, and people who talk about weed in the way you guys do kinda ticks me off. lol I look down on that shit.
[/b]

---

Like that makes a difference when a group a ten boys come up and bottle ye then stab **** out ye, wit ye gonnae do now karate kid?


Cannabis is native to Afghanistan (removal of a dictatorial regieme my ass!) India, Nepal, Morocco and also the South America and also I believe the Caribbean.
The name "Hash" comes from the word Hashashin, which was the name of a band of murderers that operated in the Middle East in the middle ages, their name (which later came be to be the word Assassin) meant "Hash Eaters" as it was believed that they ate/used Hashish.

Seki

you can learn all the martial arts u want, i used to do some martial arts but nothing prepares you for a real fight, most of the moves you learn are based on people fighting fair lol. :P iv had ma share of fights and thats wha iv learned lol.

Yup, in reality it duznt matter what martial arts you know, fact is there is always gunna be someone with alot less to lose than you, and people like that wudnt think twice about stabbin etc.

Quote:

---

Firstly,
William Shakesphear was a European in the 1600's. Pot is native to south America, which in the early 1600's was hardly heard of, let alone the smoking capeabilities of pot.
[/b]

---

Erich Goode (in Drugs in American Society, 5th edition, p. 213) tells us that "there is no definite date of the earliest recorded use of marijuana, although descriptions of cannabis use can be found in ancient texts from China, India, Persia, Assyria, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. For example, marijuana is mentioned as a "healing herb" in The Divine Husbandman's Materia Medica, circa first or second century AD. In 650 BC, the use of cannabis is mentioned in Persia and Assyria. In 400 BC, the use of cannabis is mentioned in Rome

Weed has been around a long time and much more popular then you know.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by usokki
Secondly,
Winston Churchill, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were arround for the 1800's to 1900's when that kind of stuff was considered to be unlawful. People in that time looked so farly down on people who did those that no one did it. Prostitutes and girls wearing revealing clothing was uncommon why the hell would they smoke weed.

---

Hemp in America

George Washington may well have cultivated some cannabis for medicinal and occasional recreational purposes.

Both he and Thomas Jefferson (who quite disliked tobacco) are known to have exchanged gifts of smoking mixtures.

In the 1790's, Washington also began to cultivate "India Hemp", the resinous variety developed in India.

Cannabis at that time had several names, such as "common hemp" (C. sativa, cultivated for fiber and seeds), and "India hemp" (C. indica, grown for fiber and resin).

The latter is not to be confused with "Indian hemp"(Apocynum cannabinum, dogbane), used by native Americans. The modern term "Indian hemp" is applied to jute, which is not related to Cannabis sativa.

Jute was not introduced to America until much later.

Washington's concern about India Hemp is illustrated in these excerpts from letters to his overseer Pearce:

"Let particular care be taken of the India Hempseed, and as much good ground allotted for its reception next year as is competent to Sow..." [5 Nov. 1796].

Modern day translation:

"Don't mess up my Indica crop, and plant as many Indicas as you can fit on my property without over crowding."

George was truly a lover of Indian (India) hemp (Cannabis Indica).

If you have any doubt left that George Washington grew and smoked Cannabis Indica please let me know about it, and I will provide even more proof.


"I wouldn't miss the hemp harvest at Mount Vernon for all the tea in China."
- to Ben Franklin in France during fundraising for the American Revolution according to Dr. Burke, President of the American Historical Reference Society and consultant to the Smithsonian Institution.

i would but my mom wont let me once i stole from my dad and my mom hit me on the anal passage for no reason

Can I ask, what is it with you and butts?

You always talks about anal passage, etc.

Alot of people find it very distasteful .. as they were complaining before.

We've let you back on here, but this is a warning.

Gunna not shit over my topic kthxbye.

i tried it once calms you down loads, william shakespear did smokepot, i live in britian and most of the english teachers say he did :P

Quote:

---

Like that makes a difference when a group a ten boys come up and bottle ye then stab **** out ye, wit ye gonnae do now karate kid?[/b]

---

I've never been attacked with a knife before, however I've also been trained in a manner to self defend against that. The only way they'd actually start stabbin' me is if there was like 3 or more people. In which case I'd nail each individual one in he nuts and run away. *I don't care what you say, it's not fair if there's 3 people with 3 knives against me, I'm gonna do what I can to get the hell out of there*

About martial arts not training you for a real fight, just look at what it does to one's mind and body. Strengthens it, makes the body faster, and you actually think better. Now look at what drugs do to you: you eventually turn into a drug-obsessed monster with no life, no friends, no job, and a horrible life. Due to this, you're thinking about drugs all the time, so your mind isn't as clear. You want proof, Seki you started this forum; proof you've been thinking about drugs. Drugs make you chill out right? well once you've been 'chilled out' so many times that you have slow reactions. It's been proven that drugs mess with a part of your brain that allows you to react, and feel stuff.

Now back onto if martial arts prepares you for a real fight, it does. If I get attacked by someone, and I'm use to taking/blocking punches from tournaments (and those are good punches) chances are i'll stop sloppy, random hook shots at my head, put them in an armlock, and knock them out. It isn't hard to beat someone once you're faster than them.

One more thing, why the hell do people do drugs anyway?

Maaaan you really need a toke.