This reply saddened me. I had at least hoped to give you pause for thought but it seems you are set in your ways and not open to questioning anything relating to your views.
It's a bit of a straw man approach to suggest that being empathetic and considerate of others people's lives and circumstances results in supporting atrocities. I think I'll just have to leave that there because you don't seem like the kind of person who is open to debate or discourse.
Again, judgement and categorization. If someone ingests THC then they are a criminal, apparently. It really doesn't affect most people's lives or 'colors' everything they think, say and do. This is only your interpretation and it's important to recognise that. As others have said I'm sure there are many people you've interacted with and thought were perfectly nice and respectable but who also do something you don't agree with in private.
What about a time before laws? Before 'someone' said it was bad? What then? Was the shaman a criminal degenerate who was just focused on his next fix? Mankind has sought to alter their state of reality with whatever they had to hand since time immemorial.
I made reference to the psychoactive effects and how the differing levels of THC could have the potential for mental health issues but your reply makes it seem like you didn't read my message and just want to push your own agenda.
I don't know, like I said, I'm saddened by your posts here. It seems like your biggest issue is that you don't want to be tarred with the same brush as these 'sinners'/'criminals'. It's an ego thing, it's all about you and how you're perceived.
To that end all I can suggest is that maybe this isn't the forum for you. It may be better to stick to the echo chamber in which you normally reside, a safe little world where you elevate yourself above others to make yourself feel superior.
It's a messy old world out there, people don't have the same life you do, none of this is black and white. Where you have a hard line between the two, in the real world there's a million shades in between.
If having a cannabis forum offends your delicate sensibilities then like I said maybe find a church group or something (and I bet you there are even members of those who partake in things you don't agree with)
I really do hope you can take a step back from your blinkered world view and open your mind to the possibility that people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit.
When you're tolerant of everything, even atrocities seem reasonable by comparison......and you're right, there is a complete lack of empathy on my part.
Because I'm not a criminal and there is no such thing as an enlightened stoner. Everything you see and do is colored or affected by this drug. Your choice of friends, your love interests, where you work, what you do in your free time and even where you go on vacation.
THC and CBD users are quick to point out the many benefits of usage, most of them are conflated, full of hyberbole and poorly researched.
Much like other drugs in history.
Vodkas name literally translates to "water of life".
Similar claims were made about coke and luadinum at the turn of the century.
Yet you rarely if ever hear anyone talking about the bad effects of getting high.
The fact that it's a psychoactive drug is enough for me.In case you don't know what that means, chronic, long term use can affect your brain chemistry and turn you into a completely different person.
And I do not want to be associated with it in any way, shape or form.
Period.
This is supposed to be the Electronic Cigarette Forum.
Not the Vape Pen Forum
