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How Old is the Average ICMAG Reader? Let's Have a Poll
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OkieSmokie
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Black sheep!!!
i was in another demographic when i started here at icmag.
this is what happens when they dont lock the door here, i keep coming back.
this is what happens when they dont lock the door here, i keep coming back.
OkieSmokie
Member
Bobby Boucher
Active member
I'll be 30 in a few days.. but jesus.. I've been everywhere, seen everything, broken half my bones, incurred a serious neck injury, watched most of my family along with more than a fair share of good friends die in unusually gruesome fashions, lived the third world, lived the streets, worked most every trade I can think of, drove a million miles, made a cool mil, had a good hard stroke, and now I just don't have the time or energy for anything or anyone. Half of my head is blanketed in white hair. My ulcers send food up in the night for me to wake up choking on. My cognitive skills are shot and I don't even have the energy to be angry about it. Everything hurts, all the time.
Everything.
Spilling my drinks every day. Big purple puffballs under my eyes from being in too much pain to sleep right, falling asleep during the day on the drop of a hat.
Mentally 98, just awaiting sweet release. The futility of it all. What a frickin ride.
Everything.
Spilling my drinks every day. Big purple puffballs under my eyes from being in too much pain to sleep right, falling asleep during the day on the drop of a hat.
Mentally 98, just awaiting sweet release. The futility of it all. What a frickin ride.
Bobby Boucher
Active member
I'm not even 30 and I am intimately familiar with most of the places mentioned in Johnny Cash's "I've been everywhere". I had to put her on, pound a few heinies and start in on the makers between now and the last post. Just thinkin about it.. I know I'm going out ugly.
My family is cursed. We die ugly and untimely. I've gotten old enough to find it amusing.
But seriously my nerves are fuckin shot from taking in so much. So.. freaking.. much. Even my eyes and ears are failing.
29.
My family is cursed. We die ugly and untimely. I've gotten old enough to find it amusing.
But seriously my nerves are fuckin shot from taking in so much. So.. freaking.. much. Even my eyes and ears are failing.
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Teddybrae
Well, I 'm so disturbed by your state of being, both internal and external that I wish I believed in god. then I 'd have something to recommend you try. but as it is I have nothing. nothing at all ...
Bobby Boucher
Active member
Aww don't get me wrong bud. I've gotten everything I've ever asked for. I would romanticize with the idea of living hard ever since I can remember.
A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. I'd consider myself lucky to have gotten from life exactly what I asked from it. I just didn't know I would ache this bad, dag nabbit..
A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. I'd consider myself lucky to have gotten from life exactly what I asked from it. I just didn't know I would ache this bad, dag nabbit..
OkieSmokie
Member
That kinda makes since Chappi. Seems that growers would be all for less government intrusion in our lives. And while some Republicans in the past played a major role in the "war on drugs" Trump is not of the old republican ilk. In fact many of those longstanding republicans cant stand that he beat them at their own game.
Trump (with all his faults) ran on giving back the country to the people and on releasing some of the grasp of government. These are certainly not the talking points that the mainstream media give air time too, but with the tax reform and all the government regulations that he has thrown out the window, that seems to be exactly what he is doing despite the opposition from every front.
The other side just wants to offer free stuff in exchange for more government. How well is that working in Chicago or LA? Some of the poorest and most crimeridden places in this country have been run by Democrats for a very long time.
My prediction is that he serves 8 years. (Without taking a paycheck from the taxpayer). Time will tell.
Now if someone can just get the word to him that MJ is a good thing for the country... best we can hope for is taking it off the Schedule 1, dropping the federal criminal statutes, and giving it back to the States to decide and regulate. Its a shame, but i think they will eventually treat it like alcohol. Id rather they treat it like tomatos.
Peace
Trump (with all his faults) ran on giving back the country to the people and on releasing some of the grasp of government. These are certainly not the talking points that the mainstream media give air time too, but with the tax reform and all the government regulations that he has thrown out the window, that seems to be exactly what he is doing despite the opposition from every front.
The other side just wants to offer free stuff in exchange for more government. How well is that working in Chicago or LA? Some of the poorest and most crimeridden places in this country have been run by Democrats for a very long time.
My prediction is that he serves 8 years. (Without taking a paycheck from the taxpayer). Time will tell.
Now if someone can just get the word to him that MJ is a good thing for the country... best we can hope for is taking it off the Schedule 1, dropping the federal criminal statutes, and giving it back to the States to decide and regulate. Its a shame, but i think they will eventually treat it like alcohol. Id rather they treat it like tomatos.
Peace
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insomniac_AU
Active member
I'd prefer they treated it like tomatoes too but realistically that's never going to happen. Governments run on money and where there's an opportunity to make it they will.
I'd still be happy if they treated it like alcohol here in Australia. It's legal and highly taxed and available everywhere over the counter. It's also legal to brew your own beer or produce your own wine as long as you don't sell it. That would be better than what we are dealing with now here. The biggest advantage of treating it the same as alcohol is possibly it will gain public acceptance. No one looks down their nose at someone picking up a bottle of wine or a few beers but if they know you smoke the average unenlightened person thinks you are some sort of junky. General public perception of cannabis is something I'd like to change. It's the thing that has affected me most in my life by smoking.
OkieSmokie
Member
Public perception seems to be the hardest thing to change. But in the USA the tide is slowly turning. Once it does, i think much of the world will follow if for no other reason than that of greed.
If my children asked whether the should drink alcohol or smoke MJ the answer is MJ. Hands down. No question in my mind that alcohol is a far more dangerous drug in every way.
Now how do we go about shifting the public perception? For starters we need better spokesmen for our cause. Snoopdog and cheech and chong dont scream "im normal and im ok"
Many many upstanding citizens use MJ every day. They are just still i the closet. Its time to come out of the closet. That becomes easier when the risk of prison is taken off the table. Once it is legal, the good people need to speak out and come out of the clost! The "smokers closet" that is.
If my children asked whether the should drink alcohol or smoke MJ the answer is MJ. Hands down. No question in my mind that alcohol is a far more dangerous drug in every way.
Now how do we go about shifting the public perception? For starters we need better spokesmen for our cause. Snoopdog and cheech and chong dont scream "im normal and im ok"
Many many upstanding citizens use MJ every day. They are just still i the closet. Its time to come out of the closet. That becomes easier when the risk of prison is taken off the table. Once it is legal, the good people need to speak out and come out of the clost! The "smokers closet" that is.
insomniac_AU
Active member
I totally agree with that. I have professional friends who smoke and are wealthy and about as far from Snoopdog as you can get. I also have friends who smoke who are working class battlers. The thing they all have in common is they are normal taxpaying nonviolent people who are lawabiding in every other way criminalised by stupid laws. We need the public to know normal upstanding members of the community use cannabis. Unfortunately people fear what they don't understand. Education and even better experience is what's needed. I probably would have believed the BS if I hadn't tried it and looked into it myself.
Emperortaima
Namekian resident/farmer
35-44 unless 55-64 picks up and shoots far past the other already leading age group
OkieSmokie
Member
Chappi
Well-known member
Trump ran his canpaign as a populist and executed as a wall street and corporate shill. Facts. I don’t care what he says, doesn’t bother me but it’s an irresistible bait for the media which are happy to play along clenching their pearls rather than talk policy. Fuck CNN and Fox alike both are full of shit.
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