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Quote: AZDuffman

Regular, recreational use, I don't get it.

You get alcohol, same concept, different drug
By the way I never ever do it before or while working
Strictly after work, a few puffs, just for relaxation

Quote: AZDuffman

I really do not care about legalization anymore.

So, alchohol sales were $211.6 billion in 2014, and the cost of excessive drinking was estimated at $223.5 billion in 2006

Excessive Drinking Costs U.S. $223.5 Billion
http://www.cdc.gov/features/alcoholconsumption/

At $3.48 Billion, Coffee Jumps to Second Place in U.S. Specialty Food Sales for 2014. In the coffee category, the definition includes packaged supermarket whole bean and ground coffees along with cocoa, as well as drinks prepared in cafes. Coffee trails only cheese ($3.7 billion) among the 15 specialty food categories the association tracks.

So as addictions go, I don't know if coffee is the only one that costs more than it brings in revenue.

Quote: terapined

You get alcohol, same concept, different drug
By the way I never ever do it before or while working
Strictly after work, a few puffs, just for relaxation

Not quite, but feel free to keep telling yourself that.

Quote: terapined

You get alcohol, same concept, different drug

Why do dopers ALWAYS compare weed to
booze? It's apples and oranges. The effects
each has on the body and brain are totally
different. Pot decreases creativity, booze
enhances it. That's why so many writers
drank so much, and why the show Madmen
had them drinking at the office.

"A study from the university of Illinois found men with blood alcohol content just under the legal limit were more creative and insightful; a separate study showed advertising creatives allowed to drink as much as they wanted came up with better ideas than their peers."

Pot smokers brains go into creative shut down
mode. They think they have great ideas and
are doing fantastic, but they're really just
running in place. Nobody ever grabs a joint
when a drink isn't available, they are not the
same at all.

Quote:

By the way I never ever do it before or while working

I smoked at work exactly once. I was
graveyard in a bakery where I ran
the huge mixers making cookie filling.
I went to the basement at 3am and had
a couple tokes. This was 1970, the pot
then was weak compared to now.

I went back to work and was totally lost. I
knew the job inside and out and I couldn't
function, I couldn't think in a linear
fashion. I kept seeing it all at the same
time and it terrified me. I had to pretend
I was sick and have another guy do my
job. The times I had a couple beers at
work I never had any problem at all. In
fact, work was fun. It was around that time
that I really cut back on smoking. I would
do it with friends and we would stare at
TV slack jawed, what fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrhCKuQQvhE
A six minute Geico ad that is essentially a short subject movie.

Quote: Evenbob

. Pot decreases creativity, booze
enhances it. Pot smokers brains go into creative shut down
mode. They think they have great ideas and
are doing fantastic, but they're really just
running in place.

????????????
What about the huge catalogue of great rock music
Wrong again EB
This is embarrassing
Once the Beatles starting smoking pot their creativity just went to another level
They went from 3 min songs drinking and doing speed
to
Masterpieces on pot :-)

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" vs "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".

Quote: terapined

Once the Beatles starting smoking pot their creativity just went to another level
They went from 3 min songs drinking and doing speed
to
Masterpieces on pot :-)

Quote: Face

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" vs "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".

Maybe.

But also: just about the rest of their works vs I am the Walrus, Revolution No. 9, Magical Mystery Tour, You Know My Name... I'm trying to think of more, but I guess it's close to two decades since I last listened to the Beatles on purpose.

Quote: Face

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" vs "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".

The Beatles (Lennon?) wrote some
of the stupidest, nonsensical songs
in the history of music. Lonely
Hearts Club Band? Eleanor Rigby?
I Wanna Hold Your Hand? Dizzy
Miss Lizzy? Strawberry Fields?
Helter Skelter? I could go on and
on. The ONLY reason they were
successful is because it was a new
kind of music. But the songs
themselves were pure nonsense,
read the lyrics sometime. If they
were written today, nobody would
sing them, let alone record them.

I was there in 1964, I remember the
first album, I was in HS. I thought
at the time these were the stupidest
songs I'd ever heard, except for maybe
Yesterday. I got used to them but I
never ever liked them.

I went for years liking songs where I couldn't even make out all the lyrics, much less know they were meaningful in some ways.

Still like most of them.