(Before anyone chimes in with CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION, kill yourself, because you don't even understand that concept; you chant it with the same unthinking reflexivity of North Koreans pledging undying loyalty to the heir of Fat Man and Little Boy).

Nor can I understand why anyone who loves liberty and independent thought would choose to dope themselves up on this narcotic--imported from the same Middle Eastern shitholes that have never been governed by anything except fanatics and strongmen, by the way. It's understandable that women would want a stupid drug that replaces reality with fantasy, but why so many men use this shit is beyond me.

I would completely happy with shooting dealers and sending the users to forced labor camps.

Discuss. I'm open to different points of view on this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23411930)

the flame is strong with you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412887)

Take Napoleon, for instance, who had this to say about it:

"It is forbidden in all of Egypt to use certain Moslem beverages made with hashish or likewise to inhale the smoke from seeds of hashish. Habitual drinkers and smokers of this plant lose their reason and are victims of violent delirium which is the lot of those who give themselves full to excesses of all sorts."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412031)

http://books.google.com/books?id=cX3ZDajUV_YC&lpg=PA21&ots=rMnRWrYCoO&dq=hashish%20beverage%20egypt&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=hashish%20beverage%20egypt&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_tea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412151)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Drug_Trafficking

LJL if you think Gary Webb's death was a suicide, or if you think the result of "Operation Fast and Furious" was an accident.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412283)

Drunk: Writes The Sound and the Fury

Pothead: YOU KNOW WHAT'S REALLY INTERESTING MAN WHAT IF LIKE THE WORLD WAS SHAPED LIKE A POTATO CHIP AND WE WERE ALL ANTS WOULDN'T THAT BE TRIPPY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412582)

you sound dumb, tbf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412043)

I've been to Afghanistan. That country is a mess because ninety percent of the people are high on some shit. It angers me that we've wasted good American blood defending a nation of worthless jinglies and junkies who fuck boys and shit in holes, because they're too stoned to do anything unless they're literally being threatened with stoning. It also angers me that anyone can see the miserable state of countries where cannabis use is widespread--thankfully not the U.S. yet, but we're getting there--and accept that as our future with a clean conscience. Smoking weed makes docile babies out of the populace, people who are only fit to govern by tyranny.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412214)

"Nor can I understand why anyone who loves liberty and independent thought would choose to dope themselves up on this narcotic--imported from the same Middle Eastern shitholes that have never been governed by anything except fanatics and strongmen, by the way."

either way, it sounds like smoking might do you some good. I work out better when im stoned, im able to relax after working all day better, and i'm often more charismatic (especially with random chicks at bars, hence why i take a few hits before going out).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412257)

No, you're a boring fat fuck who nobody cares about. Kill yourself slowly and painfully.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412335)

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2220451&forum_id=2#22932702

(In which BenSpanklin wonders what a woman's vagina feels like.)

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2169845&forum_id=2#22518187

(In which BenSpanklin endorses "how to induce a wet dream" as the credited questions.)

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2195198&forum_id=2#22736303

(In which BenSpanklin estimates that 80% of women can't orgasm, except by sex with blacks)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284193&forum_id=2#23412917)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23418789)

you lose

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412049)

sincerely htfh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412279)

10. Gay primadonna and worthless toy manufacturer Steve Jobs who died slowly and painfully, without dignity, begging for a cure. Check.

9. Overrated faggot Carl Sagan, a useless Jew (whose family turned its back on Jewry during the Holocaust, no less) who died slowly and painfully, without dignity, begging for a cure and receiving only stony silence. Check.

8. Fraudulent liar Stephen Jay Gould, who never found a principle he couldn't bend for political gain, a smug fat parasite of better scientists, a failed father and husband, who died slowly and painfully, without dignity, begging for a cure and receiving only stony silence. Check.

7. Fraudulent liar Francis Crick, world famous for stealing another scientist's work, the less charming of two faggot intellectual thieves, who died slowly and painfully, without dignity, begging for a cure and receiving only stony silence. Check.

6. Fraudulent liar Margaret Mead, world famous for making up stories and publishing the findings as fact, who peddled research into parapsychology when she wasn't lying about natives, who died slowly and painfully, without dignity, begging for a cure and receiving only stony silence. Check.

5. Lousy hippie Andrew Weil, who writes laughably bad books on breathing and shitting, who openly advocates living like a savage ape, a senile moron who has been widely condemned for peddling New Age nonsense, and who hasn't yet died slwoly and painfully, but has lived his life with such a radical lack of dignity that the sudden extinction of the universe is more likely than any alteration in that fixed habit for him.

4. JFC, where to even start with shitshit Kary Mullis? A truly brilliant man who smokes weed, does not believe HIV causes AIDS, does not believe in climate change, but does believe in fucking astrology and talking racoons.

3. And then there's genius Oliver Sacks, who writes novels disguised as medical articles. Not even worth my time. These potheads are so minor, so utterly lacking in real distinction, that it's clear whoever wrote this list is grasping at straws now.

2. Richard Feynmann, who gave us nuclear weapons, is the first impressive person on this list. Too bad he was a Commie stooge, but that's it. All this effort and so far, there's only Feynmann. The next time anyone whines about the difference between alcohol and tobacco, I will just point out what a shitty list this is compared to the list of genuinely brilliant alcoholics.

1. Half-credit for Sergey.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412546)

theres a lot of shit flame on here but the effort this guy put into this thread is weird

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412760)

I've just had breakfast and will be off to waterfront later today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412778)

oh wait, just noticed his catty writing style

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412611)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNpR1bKXcr8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412636)

(Also, you flatter me; it's been more than a decade since 1L).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412759)

//

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Popularization

In 1859, an Italian doctor, Paolo Mantegazza, returned from Peru, where he had witnessed first-hand the use of coca by the natives. He proceeded to experiment on himself and upon his return to Milan he wrote a paper in which he described the effects. In this paper he declared coca and cocaine (at the time they were assumed to be the same) as being useful medicinally, in the treatment of "a furred tongue in the morning, flatulence, and whitening of the teeth."

A chemist named Angelo Mariani who read Mantegazza's paper became immediately intrigued with coca and its economic potential. In 1863, Mariani started marketing a wine called Vin Mariani, which had been treated with coca leaves, to become cocawine. The ethanol in wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves, altering the drink's effect. It contained 6 mg cocaine per ounce of wine, but Vin Mariani which was to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce, to compete with the higher cocaine content of similar drinks in the United States. A "pinch of coca leaves" was included in John Styth Pemberton's original 1886 recipe for Coca-Cola, though the company began using decocainized leaves in 1906 when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. The actual amount of cocaine that Coca-Cola contained during the first 20 years of its production is practically impossible to determine.[citation needed]

In 1879 cocaine began to be used to treat morphine addiction. Cocaine was introduced into clinical use as a local anesthetic in Germany in 1884, about the same time as Sigmund Freud published his work Über Coca, in which he wrote that cocaine causes:

Exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which in no way differs from the normal euphoria of the healthy person. You perceive an increase of self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work. In other words, you are simply normal, and it is soon hard to believe you are under the influence of any drug. Long intensive physical work is performed without any fatigue. This result is enjoyed without any of the unpleasant after-effects that follow exhilaration brought about by alcohol. Absolutely no craving for the further use of cocaine appears after the first, or even after repeated taking of the drug.

In 1885 the U.S. manufacturer Parke-Davis sold cocaine in various forms, including cigarettes, powder, and even a cocaine mixture that could be injected directly into the user's veins with the included needle. The company promised that its cocaine products would "supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent and render the sufferer insensitive to pain."

By the late Victorian era cocaine use had appeared as a vice in literature. For example, it was injected by Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional Sherlock Holmes, generally to offset the boredom he felt when he was not working on a case.

In early 20th-century Memphis, Tennessee, cocaine was sold in neighborhood drugstores on Beale Street, costing five or ten cents for a small boxful. Stevedores along the Mississippi River used the drug as a stimulant, and white employers encouraged its use by black laborers.[87]

In 1909, Ernest Shackleton took "Forced March" brand cocaine tablets to Antarctica, as did Captain Scott a year later on his ill-fated journey to the South Pole.[88]

During the mid-1940s, amidst WWII, cocaine was considered for inclusion as an ingredient of a future generation of 'pep pills' for the German military code named D-IX.[89]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23412819)

A chemist named Angelo Mariani who read Mantegazza's paper became immediately intrigued with coca and its economic potential. In 1863, Mariani started marketing a wine called Vin Mariani, which had been treated with coca leaves, to become cocawine. The ethanol in wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves, altering the drink's effect. It contained 6 mg cocaine per ounce of wine, but Vin Mariani which was to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce, to compete with the higher cocaine content of similar drinks in the United States. A "pinch of coca leaves" was included in John Styth Pemberton's original 1886 recipe for Coca-Cola, though the company began using decocainized leaves in 1906 when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. The actual amount of cocaine that Coca-Cola contained during the first 20 years of its production is practically impossible to determine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23413319)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23413811)

i get depressed if i don't smoke (and I was depressed before I ever smoked or drank alcohol)

once I was able to get medicinal quality marijuana, i did a lot better at school and life. i regularly try to go without it to make sure my life isn't going to dramatically improve

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23416194)

Anthing more than that is just degeneracy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23416530)

Surest sign of this bort's decline is the number of people who got trolled ITT.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23418276)

/thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2284095&forum_id=2#23418885)