Come on... you must've seen Spinal Tap!
"A splash of water on your face will wake you up in the morning. Water is the most powerful drug there is!"
More like nerves are the most powerful drug there is. There's just ways to interact with those nerves with outside forces. Splashing water on face causes a nice shock value as cold water meets nerve endings.
Cuddles said:
But that isn't really relevant to my point. What I meant was that the question "Is [anything] harmless?" is a pointless question because it is far too vague. Water may be necessary to survival, but it is certainly not harmless and many people die because of it, even when it is unpolluted.
True.
There is valid debate about marijuana, but just asking "Is it harmless?" is not the way to do it.
You're right. Nothing is harmless 100% of the time. Sometimes it's all about relativity, dosages, how it's used, general effects on the population, etc.
Is marijuana, when it is smoked at the average dosage it is available in, at the average intervals it is smoked in, harmless? Even then, the question isn't necessarily valid. Is it harmless, physically, to the human body, even over time? It's probably less harmless than
not smoking, but it's still relatively harmless to smoking cigarettes. But the question isn't valid because there are still other situational parameters.
If marijuana affects the mind, and you are operating heavy machinery or driving a vehicle, then would marijuana, at the average dosage, be harmless? It's probably a lot more harmful than it was in the previous example, simply because it would impact your behavior as you are operating a potentially dangerous machine.
So yeah, I see your point, I hope.
IzakDavidxXx said:
Anybody ever heard about "water intoxication", somebody died down here last month on a radio contest. She drank to much water and died of water intoxicaion!
DAMN! I'll stick to my Bong pipe thanx!!!
Yes. Too much of anything that is ingested can potentially harm the human body. Iron, plasma, fluid, etc. The human body is a delicate mechanism, based on many complicated individual parameters to upkeep one physical condition (staying alive), or an even harder to maintain physical condition (staying healthy).
Too much water can screw up the body, as it can't process it all; but it takes a
lot of water to get to that point.
But have you ever heard of that myth that, "8 glasses of water is what you should drink"? Water usage should depend upon physical activity. If you run or physically exert yourself, you have to replace lost water. If you sit at your computer and vegetate (as I do most of the time), you do not have to.
Marijuana is not necessary to survival. Water is.
You haven't lived in this household mate! LOL.
I think I get the picture.
Bodhi said:
Those seem PERFECTLY LOGICAL at this time. The time is now, how can it be other way? Only the present exists. As for the plastic plane, well yes of course, but we cant realize it when in "normal" consciousness.
In other words, every state of consciousness (I do not like the limitations that the concept imposes) allow us to see a different world. Is that because our perceptions are messed up, or because our point of view changes and then the world seems to be different from there?
In my perspective (which may be askew, admittedly), mind-altering drugs are to reason and perception of reality as cataracts are to physical vision.
Crystal Meth
or any other illicit drug
. I don't even smoke ciggies' or drink alcohol.
