An Interesting Discussion
I have been having severe back pains all day and had been taking all sorts of medicine for it, but nothing was relieving the pain. We were talking about how much of what you could safely take for pain and one of my friends is a nurse. She was telling me how much of what I could take and how long to wait in between dosages. Since nothing was helping with the pain, I said hell, just send me a joint and we’ll just take care of this whole thing right now. Everyone laughed and we got on the subject of marijuana.
My friend that is the nurse said she has had many patients that were scared to tell her that they had smoked marijuana when they thought they had a problem that was caused by it, such as withdrawal symptoms. She was quick to point out that people didn’t really have any problems stemming from smoking marijuana. We then started talking about just how bad it could be. The way we figured it, it was actually pretty harmless when you think about it. It causes just a slighter impairment then consuming alcohol, however it doesn’t have the negative effects on your system like alcohol does.
Really the only harmful effect that we could decide upon was that smoking it could be bad for you. But people smoke cigarettes every day. You could also cook it with something and eat it, which I hear is pretty much one of the best ways to go about it.
Marijuana could pretty much be lumped into the same category as beer and would be handled as such. You shouldn’t do anything while high that you wouldn’t do while drunk. So really, whats the big deal?
The First Issue Is Here
I haven’t been on here in a while. I guess I’ve just been busy with other things. The college life is in full swing and I’m always preoccupied with something. Today I got the new magazine that I subscribed to, and I thought I’d post a little something up here and get things moving again.
I got my new issue of High Times today. I had spent about 3 hours at a books-a-million a couple of weeks ago and needless to say, I did a lot of reading. If you’ve ever been to a book-a-million, you’ve seen the massive magazine section they have in the back of the store. They’ve got just about anything you’d like to read, and believe me, there’s a lot of stuff.
I read all of the baseball and football magazines, all of the Men’s magazines, hunting and outdoors, I even read some tattoo magazines. Nothing else really catches my eye until I stumble across a High Times magazine. Never read it before, so I thought I’d check it out. Playboy really surprised me with the articles that they have when I first started reading those magazines, so I figured that maybe High Times would have something of interest as well.
Come to find out, they’ve got some interesting articles in there. They have some fun and interesting facts, as well as some good interviews with people. There isn’t much creativity to the magazine though. No short stories or interesting fiction. There isn’t much on world events either. It would be a much better magazine if it had some of these things added to its content. Overall though, it’s a magazine worth a read each month. You would think the magazine caters solely to people who smoke marijuana, but its an enjoyable read for just about anyone. I’d recommend at least getting one issue and taking it home and reading it.