How will the United States fall?

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:47 pm

I'm a smoker since I'm 15 years old. I hate it. But, unfortunately, nicotine conditions a true and very strong physical dependency, going right into seratonin receptors and subsequently the limbic system.

Marijuana is illegal, while alcohol isn't, simply because there is such a grassroots marijuana production movement that the Gov'mint wouldn't be able to realize the regulation, and profit, from it that it does with alcohol.

And as a former abuser of all sorts of recreational pharmaceuticals - LSD, pills, weed, heavy alcohol use, and meth once or twice - I can say that no good comes from any of them. However, they're like the old adage about firearms: "Guns don't kill people - I kill people." I've never robbed anyone, carjacked anyone, or jumped out of a window due to the influence of drugs. I have, however, woken up blind in a bathtub in a building with which I wasn't familiar. In other words, I'm not an ardent anti-drug proselytizer; but if you can continue to live your life without them, by all means do so.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:00 pm

I'm a smoker since I'm 15 years old. I hate it. But, unfortunately, nicotine conditions a true and very strong physical dependency, going right into seratonin receptors and subsequently the limbic system.

I understand that nicotine is a very addictive substance, and I understand that some people are simply unable/unwilling to give it up. It's why they start in the first place that I'm confused aobut.

I have, however, woken up blind in a bathtub in a building with which I wasn't familiar.

Pfft. That's nothing. Try waking up in a hotel in another county, with a trafic cone and a policeman's cap in your bed. And that was just plain old alcohol.
I bet that was one hell of a night.....

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:36 pm

Rochey wrote:
Pfft. That's nothing. Try waking up in a hotel in another county, with a trafic cone and a policeman's cap in your bed. And that was just plain old alcohol.
I bet that was one hell of a night.....

Haha, so are you Cat or Lister?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:02 pm

I think I'm more of a Lister type.

'Course, that still doesn't beat a friend of mine waking up in a bush in the middle of a park, missing his clothes, with no idea of how he'd got there.

And people wonder why we Irish get such stereotypes....

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:12 pm

Yeah, that is a good one. The bathtub thing was my own experience, and I didn't really mind not knowing whose bathtub I awoke in... until then, though, I had thought that drinking yourself blind was just hyperbole.

Blackstar the Chakat · Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:27 pm

Rochey wrote:
I have, however, woken up blind in a bathtub in a building with which I wasn't familiar.
Pfft. That's nothing. Try waking up in a hotel in another county, with a trafic cone and a policeman's cap in your bed. And that was just plain old alcohol.
I bet that was one hell of a night.....

Okay, does anyone else want to know the rest of these stories?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:03 pm

Hell, I want to know the rest of these stories!

In truth, though, this doesn't happen too often to me. I actualy don't drink that much. That previous example was just an instance of going out to a friend's stag-party, and drinking a bit too much.

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:14 pm

Yeah, I drink only occasionally anymore... but time was that I dropped at least $50 a night on a bar tab at least 5 nights a week. As a result, I honestly know less about my drinking stories than anyone else.

Captain Picard's Hair · Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:52 pm

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DITL is your drug of choice now, eh, Mikey?

sunnyside · Post by **sunnyside** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:24 am

The only person I'm worried about needing a DITL intervention is Rochey.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:54 am

Captain Picard's Hair wrote:
Joined: 26 Jul 2007
Posts: 3600
Location: down the shore, New Jersey, USA

DITL is your drug of choice now, eh, Mikey?

I guess an addictive personality never goes away, hmm?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:52 am

The only person I'm worried about needing a DITL intervention is Rochey.

There are some addictions that just can't be overcome.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to give in and suffer here.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:37 pm

I guess it's finally time to resign yourself to that fact... after 4,827 posts...

colmquinn · Post by **colmquinn** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:05 am

I hate to have to do this but, this kinda relates to the topic

I'm a bit behind with the news but it seems the Lakota are trying to exceed from the US nation and take big chunks of Dakota and surrounding land with them. Washington hasn't kept its side of the treaties so they've decided enough is enough and are planning to mount legal challenges to the land that was originally given to them in treaties in 1850.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:51 am

I hadn't seen that - good spot, Colmquinn. Can you link to the source?