Study: Weed Makes You Stupid

Anyone who ever had a garage band knows how hard it is to find a good, reliable drummer. The band I had in my younger days went through several talented guys. They were great musicians and improved the entire venture exponentially — when they remembered to show up. Which wasn’t often. We fired one after another and finally resorted to taking turns on the drums ourselves. (We were awful.) But these talented, brilliant drummers loved getting high, and so things like remembering to show up for their commitments often fell by the wayside. Their pot use made them unreliable people. And this was a couple of decades ago when weed was still relatively weak.

Weed today is, on average, five or six times as potent as the stuff the hippies smoked back in the ’60s and ’70s. In 1972, the average THC content in most marijuana in the United States was 3% to 4%. Today’s pot commonly has a THC content of 20% or more. Additionally, the percentage of the compound CBD has decreased, which experts say can increase the overall effect of the more potent grass.

Note that I’m not here to bash the positive results many have had from treating chronic issues with medicinal herb but to remind everyone that getting high all the time for no reason is dumb. Don’t be a lotus-eater.


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I smoked some 46% THC a few days ago. It was some bad ass green mean smokin' machine
I was as screwed up as a lab rat. Today I tried edibles for the first time. Enjoyed those too.

Cotton wrote:I smoked some 46% THC a few days ago. It was some bad ass green mean smokin' machine
I was as screwed up as a lab rat. Today I tried edibles for the first time. Enjoyed those too.

46% !!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow . Was it more of a tar than a leaf?
I grew some great sinsemella a long time ago.
1 bong was good for many hours. 2 bongs about wrote off the day.
Yes, had hash cookies before. They were nice smooth high.

gave it up many years ago.

Well...I've taken a LOT of heat for suggesting this...but...something has changed.

I mean, everywhere. Nationwide. Worldwide.

Restrained, thoughtful discussion has been replaced with hysterical, spittle-frothed, expletive-laden RAGE. Failures of logic are universal. Lies are the rule, now; and honesty is called lies by the liars.

We're not ABLE to use critical thinking; and we're not willing, or motivated, to tune out the brainless liars in media, in politics, in our own spheres.

Something happened, in the last fifteen years.

One thing that happened was, pot use got mainstreamed. Now it's all-but-legal. Which itself is stupidity; something is either legal or it is not. Sending mixed messages to the citizens, and then holding them responsible for complying with the law...invites anomie; chaos and rage.

Morality cannot be legislated; but the law MUST buttress, augment, morality. When law is ambiguous and reinforces nothing, it's an invitation for non-compliance of the law, of all law - for people to make up their own rules.

And we wonder why the disrespect for the law.

No...I'd posit, as the title says, pot does make people stupid; and when the Stupids reach a critical mass of the population...you get what we have, now. Imbecilic chaos; psychotic, misanthropic leaders in politics and industry; a media that conceals the truth, rather than reporting it.

Sprintcyclist wrote:

Cotton wrote:I smoked some 46% THC a few days ago. It was some bad ass green mean smokin' machine
I was as screwed up as a lab rat. Today I tried edibles for the first time. Enjoyed those too.

46% !!!!!!!!!!!!!  Wow . Was it more of a tar than a leaf?
I grew some great sinsemella a long time ago.
1 bong was good for many hours. 2 bongs about wrote off the day.
Yes, had hash cookies before. They were nice smooth high.

gave it up many years ago.

"Gave it up"?. That's nice. I tried weed once for about 30 years lol

As for the 46%, it was a firm yet breathable bud. It was named "Lemon".. something. No tar texture at all

Better than having your own Hamlet

Cotton wrote:

Sprintcyclist wrote:

Cotton wrote:I smoked some 46% THC a few days ago. It was some bad ass green mean smokin' machine
I was as screwed up as a lab rat. Today I tried edibles for the first time. Enjoyed those too.

46% !!!!!!!!!!!!!  Wow . Was it more of a tar than a leaf?
I grew some great sinsemella a long time ago.
1 bong was good for many hours. 2 bongs about wrote off the day.
Yes, had hash cookies before. They were nice smooth high.

gave it up many years ago.

"Gave it up"?. That's nice. I tried weed once for about 30 years lol

As for the 46%, it was a firm yet breathable bud. It was named "Lemon".. something. No tar texture at all

Better than having your own Hamlet

'Gave it up' ............. more sort of grew out of it?
Just sort of had other things to do I preferred.

I don't see pot as being overly harmful.
Motorbikes would be worse !!!!!!!!!