the_gin_soaked_boy
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Hopefully it won't be long before Psilocybin is decriminalised.No, I didn't say that.
Psylocibe funghi are illegal but they grow in the park.
The benefits for mental health are clear.
Hopefully it won't be long before Psilocybin is decriminalised.No, I didn't say that.
Psylocibe funghi are illegal but they grow in the park.
The benefits weren't clear when I couldn't find the way out of an alley in Amsterdam.Hopefully it won't be long before Psilocybin is decriminalised.
The benefits for mental health are clear.
I think micro dosing are the operative words.The benefits weren't clear when I couldn't find the way out of an alley in Amsterdam.
I use cannabis every weekend. If I bought a pre-rolled joint in a coffee shop I would smoke maybe a third of it and then go for a stroll around the city.Despite being around it lots growing up I've never touched illegal drugs. Never needed to.
So when in Amsterdam with the mrs I thought... when in rome.
We went to coffee shop and I asked the guy in the little booth in the corner for some joints.
"What kind?" he said.
Having no idea I thought I'd hide my ignornace and said "What have you got?"
The only name I recognised was Skunk.... I'll have some Skunk please.
So my mrs got a coffee and I stocked up at the bar.
Being an ex-smoker I could inhale and soon got through one.
Nowt happened so I stoked another up and not long after BANG!
She sat me down outside the coffee shop and came back two hours later and I hadn't moved.
It was utterly shyte. Incapcitated while hallucinating but sometimnes still aware of what was going on.
There was no silly giggling here.
Fk that. Never again and frankly I really couldn't see the attraction.
Tested randomly anyway at work but my pot days are finished.
Set and setting philly; set an setting. Amsterdam can be manic at the best of times.The benefits weren't clear when I couldn't find the way out of an alley in Amsterdam.
I guess therein lies part of the problem?I use cannabis every weekend. If I bought a pre-rolled joint in a coffee shop I would smoke maybe a third of it and then go for a stroll around the city.
Government has a think......I guess therein lies part of the problem?
Much like alcohol. How strong and how much and how often. And how to regulate that.
Despite being around it lots growing up I've never touched illegal drugs. Never needed to.
So when in Amsterdam with the mrs I thought... when in rome.
We went to coffee shop and I asked the guy in the little booth in the corner for some joints.
"What kind?" he said.
Having no idea I thought I'd hide my ignornace and said "What have you got?"
The only name I recognised was Skunk.... I'll have some Skunk please.
So my mrs got a coffee and I stocked up at the bar.
Being an ex-smoker I could inhale and soon got through one.
Nowt happened so I stoked another up and not long after BANG!
She sat me down outside the coffee shop and came back two hours later and I hadn't moved.
It was utterly shyte. Incapcitated while hallucinating but sometimnes still aware of what was going on.
There was no silly giggling here.
Fk that. Never again and frankly I really couldn't see the attraction.
Tested randomly anyway at work but my pot days are finished.
Agreed, my experience was almost all down to my fkwittery.That's not necessarily the drugs fault, you've just gone in and asked for one of the most potent strains with the most powerful effects and smoked a whole blunt to yourself. Not surprised you were in a whole world of s***
They don't usually sell alcohol in the coffee shops.Agreed, my experience was almost all down to my fkwittery.
However the fact that I could do that is part of the issue, See above regarding booze.
Sat next to me at the bar were a couple of Scousers. They were drinking superstrength cider out of a bottle they'd put chopped up magic mushrooms in. And eating weed cake. And smoking skunk.
Again, therein lies part of the problem.
Maybe they took their own in.They don't usually sell alcohol in the coffee shops.
They don't usually allow that either, nor the use of other drugs. The problem you are describing isn't a cannabis problem, it is a hedonistic tourist acting like a fool problem. The Netherlands actually has a lower rate of cannabis use per capita than the UK.Maybe they took their own in.
I'm describing the abuse of a mind altering substance... much like booze.They don't usually allow that either, nor the use of uther drugs. The problem you are describing isn't a cannabis problem, it is a hedonistic tourist acting like a fool problem. The Netherlands actually has a lower rate of cannabis use per capita than the UK.
And compared with the cost of Acohol abuse to society would the cost of legalised weed be any higher? Not sure it would.Its up to consenting adults to decide what we can and cant put into our bodies - the above comment on 'never gonna ban alcohol and never gonna legalise weed' just shows how ridiculous and hypocritical the whole argument on drugs is.
Regulations on alcohol dont stop people going out to rugby games and vomiting on children or getting in a car and killing other road users. Every weekend there are incidents of serious anti social behaviour and violence due to excessive drinking. The idea that people getting stoned and incapacitated is somehow beyond the pale but drinking to excess is fine is frankly ludicrous!