Canada: PotHead Haven!

[amicus]

Sorry folks...just can't help meself, but watching a National Geographic special, Explorer, "Marijuana Nation Education", and I almost fell out of my swivel chair when they went from Mendocino County, home of ancient hippy growers, to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and announced that Canada is the largest consumer of Pot in the Industrialized world.

I have always wondered when one on this forum identifies themselves as Canadian, why they always seem so spaced out.

Meh.



Amicus...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Its what Canadians do best.

 

[amicus]

I guess...at least the nitwits lead in something, heh...

Ami...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

that and milking cows.

 

[jomar]

Canadian jokes are easy.

I was reminded how...East coast?...out of touch?...I was watching a documentary on pot and all the LA boutiques offering a wide variety of weed for medicinal purposes. I was never in the culture, but knew folks and forgot how connoisseurs discriminated weed like wine experts do. I wonder of Canadians are discriminating....

 

[amicus]

Izzat the eastern part that still speaks Polish?

ami

 

[sadangel]

Sorry folks...just can't help meself, but watching a National Geographic special, Explorer, "Marijuana Nation Education", and I almost fell out of my swivel chair when they went from Mendocino County, home of ancient hippy growers, to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and announced that Canada is the largest consumer of Pot in the Industrialized world.

I have always wondered when one on this forum identifies themselves as Canadian, why they always seem so spaced out.

Meh.



Amicus...

So what's your excuse?
I have to say, your personal attacks on people, are really getting pretty damn old.

Try to grow up. Or pretend you know how to coexist with people. Either one. Take your choice.

 

[jomar]

Izzat the eastern part that still speaks Polish?

ami

Ha! I got your eastern pole right here.

 

[DeeZire]

So what's your excuse?

I was thinking the exact same thing - the fact that Ami's posts are generally blurts filled with a bunch of pompous, disconnected thoughts presented in short paragraphs fits the profile perfectly - short attention span, an inability to deal with reason and logic, delusions of grandeur, the king complex. Ami is on a permanent pot high.

Dude!

 

[amicus]

I choose neither, I rather like myself just as I am, thank you.



amicus....

 

[sadangel]

I choose neither, I rather like myself just as I am, thank you.



amicus....

you are the only one then that does.

 

[amicus]

Actually, I have some fond memories of Canada, specifically, Esquimalt, was at one time a Naval base...coming back from Kodiak Island on an LST, during my stint in the Navy, we stopped and 400 Canadian nurses threw a party for us.

I met a young lady named Penny and we had a wonderful evening, talking. I even named a daughter after her, rather as an after thought, as my initial choice was Calamity Jane, because she came into this world red faced, screaming and angry...but..I had to settle for Penelope Jane and she is still a fireball.

Then I went up that big ole River, the Frasier, I think, to view a 600 acre parcel of land with thoughts of a resort condo set-up...that didn't work out, but the drive was lovely.

Som get over yourself, I thought the piece on Pothead Canadians was hilarious and yes they are said to be picky in their choice of prime weed.

Amicus...

 

[Xelebes]

I'll say anything to fit your stereotype.

 

[amicus]

Location: Edmonton, Alberta,

ah, okay...took me a moment...



ami

 

[Leto Degeneres]

I have always wondered when one on this forum identifies themselves as Canadian, why they always seem so spaced out...

In an interview after filming "The Human Stain" Anthony Hopkins described Canada as a kinder, gentler nation. He wasn't the first or last to use those words. I don't know that you've discovered the reason why, but I'd have to agree with Hopkins

 

[amicus]

That was, in my opinion, an awful movie, one watches only once.

I really have no fixed opinion on Canadians in general although I am aware of the History, as it related to Colonial America, the French and Indian War and such oddities.

In modern terms I do see it as an extremely regulatory country, with a very high suicide rate among the young. It could be the cold climate, it could be the form of government which is not conducive to individuals.

Sorry...

Amicus...

 

[slyc_willie]

You mean Canada smokes more pot than New Mexico? I find that hard to believe.

Personally, I have no likes or dislikes concerning those who imbibe canabis. Although, I hate being the only sober one when they start talking. It's like . . . dude . . . everything is just so . . . damn . . . important, y'know? It gets irritating to hear the stoned reveries concerning the virtues of classic rock over, and over, and over again.

Granted, I've never heard of anyone who went on a pot-inspired killing spree. Stoned people are pretty much like drunk people. Just happier.

Where I work, drug use is rampant and freely discussed. I'd say half the kids in the restaurant smoke pot as freely as I do cigarettes. There's some stigma against the harder drugs like cocaine and ecstasy, but not much. And when I tell them I don't "smoke out," some of them make the automatic assumption that I'm some right-wing nut job (no offense, Ami ). I wonder what that says about the left wing constituent base . . . .

 

[amicus]

I figured California would top the list, but I guess not.

It is indeed a culture unto itself, I don't partake but circumstances lend to some intimate awareness of it.

In accordance with my views concerning individual liberty, I have always maintained that government should play no role in what a person chooses to smoke, ingest or whatever. Even with some remote historical knowledge of the Opium trade, I still think freedom should reign, but I would not begin to know how to predict the consequences.

I do wonder though, what the real attraction of the various narcotics might be. Personally, I do not like the detachment from reality that some seem to provide, the dream like world in which there are no firm rules and such.

Amicus...

 

[TE999]

Two stoners are standing on a street corner in Vancouver smoking some herb.

A fire engine goes roaring by, lights flashing, siren whooping, horn blaring.

One stoner says "Dude. Who was that motherfucker?"

The second one replies "I dunno, but I thought he'd never leave."

 

[Leto Degeneres]

That was, in my opinion, an awful movie, one watches only once.

I really have no fixed opinion on Canadians in general although I am aware of the History, as it related to Colonial America, the French and Indian War and such oddities.

In modern terms I do see it as an extremely regulatory country, with a very high suicide rate among the young. It could be the cold climate, it could be the form of government which is not conducive to individuals.

Sorry...

Sorry for what? It's true, the movie failed to live up to its promise, but nevertheless, Anthony Hopkins said what Anthony Hopkins said quite apart from the movie.

You seem to be making a connection between regulation and suicide rate since you brought them up in the same sentence, and you go on to mention it a second time.

I don't know what constitutes a high suicide rate, nor do I know where Canada ranks among nations. I can say that if it's on anyone's mind in Canada it's probably social workers, bureaucrats, media dramatics, and those with an agenda. I lived there only a year, but the only griping I heard was about the GST. They didn't even seem to gripe much about the U.S. They did seem, on the whole, well-up on American politics. Not once in that year did I hear of a suicide, nor did suicide enter a conversation.

<shrug> Canada's just fine.

 

[amicus]

Does funny things with time, don't it?

ami

 

[TE999]

Does funny things with time, don't it?

ami

It sure does...messes with your chromiums too.

 

[amicus]

ldegeneres
Really Really Experienced

Sometimes my choice of films and how I value them differs with others, that was why I offered the, 'sorry'.

Several years ago I was quite active with a poetry site that seemed to be mostly young teenaged girls, or at least it was their writing that caught my eye; so emotional, so descriptive.

But what I read puzzled me, cutting, goth, vampires, werewolves, running and suicide and during that time, one young girl did kill herself and her sister posted messages to all her friends.

It piqued my curiosity as to how many might contemplate, brag, act out, about taking their own lives so I did a google and Canada popped up as the most suicide prone in the world.

It also surprised me that the actual number of deaths was more young males than females although the girls attempted it more often, but apparently not intending to commit the act, just draw attention.

Amicus...

 

[slyc_willie]

I do wonder though, what the real attraction of the various narcotics might be. Personally, I do not like the detachment from reality that some seem to provide, the dream like world in which there are no firm rules and such.

Amicus...

Doesn't alcohol provide pretty much the same feeling? And, it's cheaper and legal. Meself, the few times I've tried marijuana, I felt like a horse with blinders on. Only able to see and hear whatever was directly ahead of me. I felt sluggish and foolishly dulled. Not exactly a frame of mind I want to be in to, say, write. More like a frame of mind to do . . . nothing, really.

But, to each their own, I suppose.

 

[amicus]

Yes, to each their own, I guess. I have my vices, as I guess we all do. Hope yours fill in the empty places from time to time...

Amicus...