Wait, I thought drugs killed you off young. How can this be? Oh Dear, the War On Drugs never told me this....

Agrees!

Puff n pass,
nice onion.
that a new belt?

Wait, you mean the boomers didn't quit having fun? Well surprise, surprise, surprise.

Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird.

Great headline. +1

I'm 44 and still smoke weed, drink whisky and smoke Marlboros. I'd chase you off my lawn if it didn't make me dizzy and give me chest pains.

Abides

A lawn joke. No way.

I'm having a groovy happening in my head right now, so i'm really getting a kick outta these replies

Paging Samsaran! Samsaran, your special brand of epic self-righteousness is required in this thread!

HaywoodJablonski: A lawn joke. No way.

Dude, you're harshing our mellow.

there are a lot of different drugs to USE
so any overwhelming blanket assertions are pointless

/agrees

Get off my lawn!

jestme: Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird wasted.

Gulper Eel: HaywoodJablonski: A lawn joke. No way.

Dude, you're harshing our mellow.

Dude, you're marshing our mallows.

davynelson: there are a lot of different drugs to USE
so any overwhelming blanket assertions are pointles

*cough*narc*cough*

stay off my grass

My fav part of the article:

Intriguingly, the so-called cannabinoid system, which mediates the effects of marijuana in the brain, reduces addictive behavior in aging mice that have been genetically altered to crave alcohol. As the mice age, the cannabinoid receptor binds less frequently to a specific protein, which seems to diminish the animals' taste for alcohol. No one knows how aging may alter the cannabinoid system in people, but the system has wide-ranging effects on appetite, memory, addiction, and the perception of pain and pleasure.

Which apparently means the longer you smoke weed, the less you wanna drink? Or, perhaps in people, the less you want to do of some other destructive behavior?

Maybe I don't get it, but that sure does seem to deflate a few more arguments in the anti-marijuana crowd.

Spit Take: I'm 44 and still smoke weed, drink whisky and smoke Marlboros. I'd chase you off my lawn if it didn't make me dizzy and give me chest pains.

Same here at 41, except for the whiskey and chest pains. I substitute Percocet and back pains.

Rickerkioz:
Maybe I don't get it, but that sure does seem to deflate a few more arguments in the anti-marijuana crowd.

You don't get it.

Take my father, for example. Here's how it goes, according to his wisdom:

Alcohol -> marijuana -> cocaine -> heroin -> murder

And that's just the way the world works.

after i eat my dinner i will enjoy an after dinner mint from my bonnnng.

When these guys were kids, they used Killer Weed.
Now they use weed killer.

FTA: "pig in the python"

I'm familiar with cleveland steamer, rusty trombone, and blumpkin, but this one's new.

Old people are so lame to get high with. They're always like "Hey, that Matlock is one gnarly bastich" and "Dude, my robot insurance just ran out the other day".

I would get off their lawn but they pay me to mow it.

Malinki: Alcohol -> marijuana -> cocaine -> heroin -> murder


Thats exactly how it worked for me, except backwards.

I expect to move into the alcohol stage just as soon I hit parole.

Spit Take

I wanna party with you bro. We can throw shiat at the stupid kids on your lawn, no need for us to stroke out or anything.

/43
/smokin weed, smokin weed
/drinkin beers, drinkin beers
/beers, beers, beers

They had to do a huge study to find out that stoners stay stoners as they age?

They could have saved a lot of work and just come over to my house on a Friday night.

/yes, the numbers are statistically significant

I can prove that for most people drug use gets worse with aging. How many infants are toking on a bowl? How many teenagers? Yes some kids start out in the womb hitting up their crack dealer and doing the occasional meth, but that is more rare, most drug users went a good decade maybe 2 before starting.


So really it may not stop with aging but it certainly gets worse with it!

Once you've smoked a PCP laced joint at 17 (unwarned, damn) you can never go back.

I love it.

They say not to smoke weed when you're young because your brain is still developing.
They say not to smoke weed when you're old because your body doesn't process it as well as it used to.

For crying out loud, some of these people have been toking up for 40 years. How can so-called experts claim it has "devastating" effects on your body when these users are still healthy?

/approves

Samsaran: Alcohol and drugs never made anybodies life better.

Likewise with bad spelling.

I fully intend to be like the Wizard back home...He grew what he could use and no more, but the pigs kept harassing him- locking him up and burning his crop...But he never quit.
Eventually they quit bothering him because he was just too damn old to lock up...He passed away at 87 with a doobie in his fingers.

Samsaran "Alcohol and drugs never made anybodies life better."
-How in the HELL could you possibly know that?

DirkGozinya: Samsaran: Alcohol and drugs never made anybodies life better.

Likewise with bad spelling.

Especially amusing considering that his profile lambasts people who misuse "your" and "you're", and "there" "their" and "they're".

vudukungfu: Puff n pass,
nice onion.
that a new belt?

you win!

masterskip: Old people are so lame to get high with. They're always like "Hey, that Matlock is one gnarly bastich" and "Dude, my robot insurance just ran out the other day".

I would get off their lawn but they pay me to mow it.

Well, hurry the hell up! Then get off my lawn.


/53 and still smoke it
//first joint at 13
///quit all the other stuff about 20 years ago though
\wait,what?

infantry: Drug use doesn't stop with aging so, like, whatever groovy happening you wanna have on my lawn is cool, man, long as the fuzz doesn't find out

i disagree. i think a lot of people grow out of drug use.

drug use is also exceptionally childish. it is for kids. and yeah, i look down upon those who use

No, they just get smarter about using.

somewhere there is someone right now saying "drug use is childish" while downing their 34582395467th cup of extra-caffeine coffee.

46 - still smokin'

/Dave's not here man.

infantry: Drug use doesn't stop with aging so, like, whatever groovy happening you wanna have on my lawn is cool, man, long as the fuzz doesn't find out

i disagree. i think a lot of people grow out of drug use.

drug use is also exceptionally childish. it is for kids. and yeah, i look down upon those who use

Which is one of many reasons why you were stuck in the infantry.

Used to be an old guy on my block selling weed. Cops said they wouldn't bust him as it would cost too much to jail him - as long as he stuck with weed, they let him go.

Dropped acid at 12, and about 200 more times before I hit 18. Make more $ than you. Have better sex, too.

/gym in 26

Samsaran: Alcohol and drugs never made anybodies life better.

Yeah, but for little nobodies like me, they work just fine.

Malinki: Take my father, for example. Here's how it goes, according to his wisdom:

Alcohol -> marijuana -> cocaine -> heroin -> murder

And that's just the way the world works.


Chocolate ice cream -> Alcohol -> marijuana -> cocaine -> heroin -> murder

Chocolate ice cream, the deadliest gateway drug.

smells_like_meat: Once you've smoked a PCP laced joint at 17 (unwarned, damn) you can never go back.

Back... to Oz? Kansas? What ever your claim is, I disupute it.

I'm 45 and I've smoked weed regularly (4-7 yimes a week) since I was 14. I don't see myself ever stopping. I gave up hard drugs in the 90s (coke/acid/alcohol) but weed? Hell no.

No--I don't live in mom's basement
Yes--I have a good job and a real life

smells like meat

Did they tell you it was "Love Boat"?

Then, standing on top of the picnic table, a man named Kermit screamed to the sky, "I'm farkED UP!"

Rickerkioz
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Which apparently means the longer you smoke weed, the less you wanna drink? Or, perhaps in people, the less you want to do of some other destructive behavior?

Maybe I don't get it, but that sure does seem to deflate a few more arguments in the anti-marijuana crowd.

Not necessarily. The cannabinoid system is natural and exists without marijuana use. Marijuana use might keep the system from fulfilling its natural anti-addiction functions.