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Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
11. That's what I thought ...
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 10:20 PM
Apr 2021

I respect your intellect and opinion, but on this particular subject, you don't know WTH you're talking about.

Specifically, the only person who'd plant a pot in a garden is someone making a joke, or someone on way stronger drugs than pot (think LSD).

Pot doesn't distort your thinking to this level. Sorry, it just doesn't.

And pot is 'good for you' at least in terms of being an effective and relatively safe medicine to ease symptoms of certain ailments (which is what 90% of all drugs are for).

And there is reasonable debate that consuming cannabis (probably not, in the net, smoking the plant, but consuming it) may in fact be 'good for your health'. My dad smoked pot pretty much daily from the 1960's onward, and lived to be 76 ... despite also being an opioid addict the last 25 years of his life due to chronic pain. He didn't exercise, he ate like shit ... and consumed opioids and pot constantly. Lived to 76. I think the pot kept him alive that long, personally.

For the record, Bob Dylan has repeatedly said that song isn't about pot smoking.

It's about biblical stoning, hence the 'Salvation Army' sound of the band.

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