Jon Singleton struggles with marijuana

[cgilmo]

Of course it's not a cure all, even the biggest proponent has never claimed that. It has indisputable results in certain medicinal situations and only someone that refuses to educate themselves on the matter would disagree.

Yes, it gets claimed all over the place.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mar...CQDg&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAw&biw=1422&bih=686&dpr=0.9

 

[Bootstraps9]

All the people on high (no pun intended) horses about marijuana being terrible and never being legalized must not have ever met an alcoholic. They are both drugs. One is legal. One is illegal. One's use is directly connected to tens of thousands of deaths per year in the USA. One's use is connected to a number of deaths per year smaller than that of falling airplane parts and shark attacks. Guess which is which. I had an alcoholic family member and know many potheads. The potheads are better. You can't compare a pothead to someone who has a few drinks every once in awhile. You have to compare him to an alcoholic. Anything can be fine in moderation.

The fact that these two drugs (three if you count cigarettes) aren't on the same playing field of legality is pure political BS. I personally believe they should all be illegal, but I would certainly prefer legal. I do love my booze!


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[Lancemountain]

Yes, it gets claimed all over the place.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mar...CQDg&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAw&biw=1422&bih=686&dpr=0.9

To be fair, besides a ICP concert, cannabis really does cure racism.

 

[Mighty Bombjack]

You are kidding yourself.


now, it's not as dangerous as harder drugs like alcohol but some of you people who call it a cure all are out of your damned minds.

I guess "habit-forming" can be said about most things, even baseball cards (as above), but I haven't seen evidence of marijuana dependence or withdrawal on par with what Singleton describes here. I think there are deeper issues with him, but I do hope the best for him in whatever he is facing. I may be kidding myself. I just haven't seen it.

As to the curing power of the evil weed, I can only attest to its effects on pain as described by two people very close to me. These opiates that docs are slinging frack people up, both in the short and long term (and are killing tons of folks as well). These same people close to me got off of those pills via edible cannabis and were grateful for it.

Me, I just like a little in my tea after work.

 

[KLARNOLD]

The fact that these two drugs (three if you count cigarettes) aren't on the same playing field of legality is pure political BS. I personally believe they should all be illegal, but I would certainly prefer legal. I do love my booze!

Do you think the disparity between the two is that when one is drunk, they think they can still drive a car and when one is stoned, they don't care to drive and are less likely to get behind the wheel?

 

[Bootstraps9]

Do you think the disparity between the two is that when one is drunk, they think they can still drive a car and when one is stoned, they don't care to drive and are less likely to get behind the wheel?

It's more so that stoned people don't drive fast and are focused on the road. Drunk people are overconfident. In my experience with people, people will drive stoned just as often as people drive drunk. They just seem to be better drivers than drunk people, and above was my guess why.


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[DaBaddestHic]

Regardless of whether his addiction was a physical or psychological one, and how you feel about whether weed should be legal or not, I'm glad to see that he seems to be getting his act together. Would suck for someone that young with so much potential to lose it all because they have some bad habits they can't control. Hope he keeps it together!

 

[smapdi]

Anything is habit-forming. Smoking weed, drinking alcohol, gambling, collecting baseball cards, collecting anything, consuming anything. Weed has been shown not to be physically addictive like cocaine or heroin or alcohol. But if you value the experience of getting high above everything else, you're going to have a hard time.

 

[bobthewondercat77]

Facts:

1. Marijuana (like all drugs) affects everyone differently. Some can smoke regularly with relatively minimal effect, others have all sorts of struggles with it.
2. Marijuana is not physically addictive, but can be psychologically addictive, or can be used/abused as a self-medicating treament for anxiety and other issues, and be involved in addiction / withdrawal cycles in that way.
3. Alcohol usage causes more disease, more death, more violence, more crime and more addiction than marijuana. Feel however you want about marijuana legalization, but there is no reasonable argument to have one legal and the other illegal.
4. None of us know Jon Singleton and what he really experiences, so it's not really fair for us to comment on his situation knowing only a few quotes from interviews.

 

[bobthewondercat77]

Anything is habit-forming. Smoking weed, drinking alcohol, gambling, collecting baseball cards, collecting anything, consuming anything. Weed has been shown not to be physically addictive like cocaine or heroin or alcohol. But if you value the experience of getting high above everything else, you're going to have a hard time.

Well said. Additionally, if you value the experience of busting boxes looking for a big hit, or any other form of gambling, you can fall into an addiction trap there as well. Even prospecting can be like people who constantly lose on the stock market or sports gambling despite a poor track record.

 

[JoshHamilton]

~I thought marijuana was non habit forming~

I know you're being sarcastic, but it is habit-forming.

You can go without pot and not have any physical withdrawal symptoms that you would with booze, but it can still affect you.

 

[Bootstraps9]

I know you're being sarcastic, but it is habit-forming.

You can go without pot and not have any physical withdrawal symptoms that you would with booze, but it can still affect you.

Everything in the world is habit forming! A habit is something created by an individual. Marijuana, alcohol, baseball cards, hoarding, video games, brushing your teeth, everything forms habits in people. Addiction is physical and involves withdrawal if/when you can stop doing said thing.


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[JoshHamilton]

Good point.

 

[Nate Colbert 17]

sounds like collecting baseball cards, or any other extreme collecting. right down to the.......everyday people lose jobs, spouses, and friends because they can't stop collecting it.

Hold on there, slappy!

You done gone from preachin' to meddlin' !