smoking and usage

MrLanky · #1 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 02:56 AM

I know everyone has heard at some point that marijuana is bad and will kill your brain cells fast, but how true is this. I ask this because the typical view of a stoner is well... a stoner. you imagine them as silly, uncoordinated and generally unaware, but how often does someone talk about a stoner and you imagine them sober? Of the people I have met who smoke weed id say about half were average or below, but i have also met alot of stoners who were really smart. Some of the top kids in my high school class were stoners and some of the people who ive met at colleges are stoners. I have thought, and am 99.9% convinced, that marijuana has no effect, other than getting stoned, on your brain. So, how many of you know or have know a smart stoner?

Lexus_Rolla · #2 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 02:58 AM

You rang?

bodom · #3 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 02:59 AM

Well, two of my friends are in my school's quiz team and they've done acid also.
One in particular is an absolute genious.

Offspring123 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:01 AM

I'm a smart stoner that ended HS with above a 4.0 gpa. I think the only reason that people associate that is because you only hear about the dumb ones because they are dumb enough to let their name out and such. But of course sometimes that can't be controlled...

Rasta_Man · #5 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:04 AM

I'd like to think that i got a little bit of the ol' brains goin' on. ya hur?

naku06 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:06 AM

maybe the weed has nothing to do with being smart or dumb,maybe its just a stupid lie made up by the goverment.

BONGZILLA420 · #7 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:17 AM

I've always down good in school regardless of being high or not. It's just a ploy to get people not to smoke when its spread around that ALL smokers are dumb.

Lebowski · #8 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:34 AM

Ok im gonna consider the fact that imo theres a big difference between being intelligent and acheiving in high school.

MorningTrip · #9 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:52 AM

I'd like to think of myself as a more "intellectual stoner" than a "smart stoner".

Rahzizzle · #10 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:54 AM

yea there is a big diff between being intelligent and having a 4.0

but either way I am definitely a "smart" stoner

im in the top 10 of my class and am going to UW-madison next year

everything in school just comes so easy to me Im in all advanced classes and everyone there studys and shit and has an A or a B and I go all blazed and have an A, dunno how I havent even brought my backpack home since christmas

Ive done acid and shrooms too, everyone I hang out with tho is practically dropping out of school, like barely holding on.

its pretty gay because i have NO ONE, like absoultely no one cool in any of my classes

Rasta_Man · #11 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 03:58 AM

I did terribly in school.

Just didn't care for it. I knew what i wanted to do with my life. School wasn't a huge part of it.

I still to this day educate myself on what interests me and i feel is pertinent for me to know.

I was one of the kids in highschool who would just cause trouble and get suspended because i already knew it all and didn't want to get up at 8:00 every day.

Still seems to me that i retained alot of my intellect.

Dairyman · #12 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 04:10 AM

Brian Wilson did pot, John Lennon did weed, and I can go on forever. If anything, some of the most brilliant people smoked weed.

so lets get smarter everyone *toke toke toke*

AK Infinity · #13 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MrLanky

I know everyone has heard at some point that marijuana is bad and will kill your brain cells fast, but how true is this. I ask this because the typical view of a stoner is well... a stoner. you imagine them as silly, uncoordinated and generally unaware, but how often does someone talk about a stoner and you imagine them sober? Of the people I have met who smoke weed id say about half were average or below, but i have also met alot of stoners who were really smart. Some of the top kids in my high school class were stoners and some of the people who ive met at colleges are stoners. I have thought, and am 99.9% convinced, that marijuana has no effect, other than getting stoned, on your brain. So, how many of you know or have know a smart stoner?

What’s the diff to the converted? Who cares if they're "smart" or "stupid?" We’ve chosen this way of life irregardless of perception. People need their medicine and Marijuana happens to be ours. Maybe the person smoking is inherently smart or stupid but happens to be a stoner? The counterculture wages a daily battle against perception because people that are different are besieged by a shit load of stereotypes, which most times prove to be wrong. The age we live in is media driven and people literally suck on the tit of what they see over the air waves.
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Intelligence has already been misappropriated by the “sober” world, so why should I give a flying fuck if I’m not like them? I mean look at what they’ve done to this sacred planet brothers and sisters, they’ve literally turned it into a toilet. Who are the men behind this mass global upheaval? The intelligent and sober minded.
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I think the question should be why aren’t more intelligent people getting stoned? Cuz if they did maybe genocide wouldn’t be a word most people know.
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Peace, love, and dope bros get on your knees tonight and pray for a thing called hope.

Tweech's Zone · #14 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by MrLanky

will kill your brain cells fast

That's one of the misleading propaganda statements made by the anti-pot people. No one has been able to prove it... basically because They won't allow research that involves pot... but just a few years back, medical researchers found that brain cells do reproduce, so there's a chance that, even if pot destroys brain cells, they can be replaced with new cells that the body creates.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lebowski

Ok im gonna consider the fact that imo theres a big difference between being intelligent and acheiving in high school.

You got that right. High school achievement requires little more than 'book smarts' and retention of facts. Intelligence is the capacity to learn and to solve problems. Yeah, BIG difference!

aquarius · #15 (**permalink**) 05-02-2006, 05:18 AM

I don't post much, but I thought I'd reply to this... I am graduating in two weeks with a double B.A. in English and Sociology and have a $15,000/year scholarship to NYU Law for next year, so I guess I'm smart by most people's standards.

Also, I feel like getting up at graduation and doing a huge PSA for weed, because I didn't start smoking until sophomore year, and I've gotten mostly A's since then... in high school and my freshman year here, I got horrible grades. I honestly think pot helps me concentrate, or at least makes me happy enough to be willing to do homework and not just sleep and party all the time.

Most of the world's great minds are either a little mentally unbalanced or have some sort of addiction... alcoholism, weird sexual fetishes, weed, gambling, et cetera. Look at Hunter S. Thompson or Ben Franklin.

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#1 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 02:56 AM
MrLanky Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 92	smart stoners...? I know everyone has heard at some point that marijuana is bad and will kill your brain cells fast, but how true is this. I ask this because the typical view of a stoner is well... a stoner. you imagine them as silly, uncoordinated and generally unaware, but how often does someone talk about a stoner and you imagine them sober? Of the people I have met who smoke weed id say about half were average or below, but i have also met alot of stoners who were really smart. Some of the top kids in my high school class were stoners and some of the people who ive met at colleges are stoners. I have thought, and am 99.9% convinced, that marijuana has no effect, other than getting stoned, on your brain. So, how many of you know or have know a smart stoner? __________________ 'I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be" - Douglas Adams

#2 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 02:58 AM
Lexus_Rolla Ri-goddamned-diculous Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: COMPTON LOLZ Posts: 883	You rang? __________________ It better be bumpin' city of Compton. CIRCUMCISION IS NOT MUTILATION.

#3 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 02:59 AM
bodom Psychedelic Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 781	Well, two of my friends are in my school's quiz team and they've done acid also. One in particular is an absolute genious. __________________

#4 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:01 AM
Offspring123 Waiting For My Ruca Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 751	I'm a smart stoner that ended HS with above a 4.0 gpa. I think the only reason that people associate that is because you only hear about the dumb ones because they are dumb enough to let their name out and such. But of course sometimes that can't be controlled... __________________

#5 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:04 AM
Rasta_Man Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 11,223	I'd like to think that i got a little bit of the ol' brains goin' on. ya hur?

#6 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:06 AM
naku06 We want to be free! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: between trips. Posts: 2,208	maybe the weed has nothing to do with being smart or dumb,maybe its just a stupid lie made up by the goverment. __________________ _GC member for responsible psychedelics usage_ Lycaeum/ Erowid/ Tripzine _Byte me_ Ubuntu/ Wine/ Zotero

#7 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:17 AM
BONGZILLA420 Chief ChiefALot Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chicago Burbs Posts: 1,418	I've always down good in school regardless of being high or not. It's just a ploy to get people not to smoke when its spread around that ALL smokers are dumb.

#8 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:34 AM
Lebowski Trichomes. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 4,039	Ok im gonna consider the fact that imo theres a big difference between being intelligent and acheiving in high school. __________________ Mold on marijuana - close up photos! Know how to spot it! Click me for gallery!

#9 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:52 AM
MorningTrip Lucky Diamond Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: t(x) Posts: 537	I'd like to think of myself as a more "intellectual stoner" than a "smart stoner". __________________ By knives, or by butterflies, pains the pleasure of that which we hold in our screams...

#10 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:54 AM
Rahzizzle Sir HashBerry Himself Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 828	yea there is a big diff between being intelligent and having a 4.0 but either way I am definitely a "smart" stoner im in the top 10 of my class and am going to UW-madison next year everything in school just comes so easy to me Im in all advanced classes and everyone there studys and shit and has an A or a B and I go all blazed and have an A, dunno how I havent even brought my backpack home since christmas Ive done acid and shrooms too, everyone I hang out with tho is practically dropping out of school, like barely holding on. its pretty gay because i have NO ONE, like absoultely no one cool in any of my classes __________________ "My Creator had a vision in the things he saw" -Daddy X (KMK)

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#11 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 03:58 AM
Rasta_Man Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 11,223	I did terribly in school. Just didn't care for it. I knew what i wanted to do with my life. School wasn't a huge part of it. I still to this day educate myself on what interests me and i feel is pertinent for me to know. I was one of the kids in highschool who would just cause trouble and get suspended because i already knew it all and didn't want to get up at 8:00 every day. Still seems to me that i retained alot of my intellect.

#12 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 04:10 AM
Dairyman American Psycho Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 140	Brian Wilson did pot, John Lennon did weed, and I can go on forever. If anything, some of the most brilliant people smoked weed. so lets get smarter everyone toke toke toke __________________ "WHO IS LYOTO MACHIDA?"

#15 (permalink) 05-02-2006, 05:18 AM
aquarius former aqua-teenager Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 35	I don't post much, but I thought I'd reply to this... I am graduating in two weeks with a double B.A. in English and Sociology and have a $15,000/year scholarship to NYU Law for next year, so I guess I'm smart by most people's standards. Also, I feel like getting up at graduation and doing a huge PSA for weed, because I didn't start smoking until sophomore year, and I've gotten mostly A's since then... in high school and my freshman year here, I got horrible grades. I honestly think pot helps me concentrate, or at least makes me happy enough to be willing to do homework and not just sleep and party all the time. Most of the world's great minds are either a little mentally unbalanced or have some sort of addiction... alcoholism, weird sexual fetishes, weed, gambling, et cetera. Look at Hunter S. Thompson or Ben Franklin.