Cannabis - A Wonder Drug?

[auspiv]

Quote from jficquette:

Why do any drugs? Why drink? Its indicative of a lack of coping skill.

How do you expect to ever make any money trading when you can't even cope with reality unless drunk or high?

If you can't stop drugs, drinking then the odds are your not mentally stable enough to trade.

what if somebody just likes to get high? and yet they're perfectly functional when they're sober? for many people, it is just a fun thing to do every once in a while; a way to "get drunk," but with what could be considered a safer drug, not a way to "cope with reality."

 

[MandelbrotSet]

Quote from filter_sweep:

You might find the book "Reefer Madness" to be interesting. It was written by the same guy who wrote "Fast Food Nation." The illegalization of drugs in the US has always had more to do with politics and race than it has to do with health. Opium was originally made illegal in San Francisco as a form of persecution against the chinese who were starting to settle the area. The illegalization of marijuana was originally a form of persecution against mexicans who were starting to migrate into the southern states.

Yet alcohol is a much more harmful drug but remains legal. Why? Politics and power.

For the record, I don't smoke, drink, or do any drugs besides an occasional over the counter sleep aid, but I find the anti-drug war we have in this country to be illogical and another example of political corruption. Not to mention the gullibility of the american public in the face of the propaganda machine that is the media.

Thanks for another intelligent post on the subject matter.

It's about time somone started stating the truth.

 

[MandelbrotSet]

Quote from jficquette:

Why do any drugs? Why drink? Its indicative of a lack of coping skill.

How do you expect to ever make any money trading when you can't even cope with reality unless drunk or high?

If you can't stop drugs, drinking then the odds are your not mentally stable enough to trade.

LOL

I bet Wall Street is a lot more strung out on drugs (refeer and coke) than any other group or industry combined ...

LOL some more.
:eek:

 

[pneuma]

Quote from filter_sweep:

The illegalization of marijuana was originally a form of persecution against mexicans who were starting to migrate into the southern states.

I heard that hemp was taking on cotton as a major fibre, they demonised the THC and social use and made hemp illegal to protect the cotton industry.

pneuma

 

[caroy]

Quote from jficquette:

Why do any drugs? Why drink? Its indicative of a lack of coping skill.

How do you expect to ever make any money trading when you can't even cope with reality unless drunk or high?

If you can't stop drugs, drinking then the odds are your not mentally stable enough to trade.

I second your thoughts. I did however finish a book lately called "Sway" the power of irrational thinking. The book mentions that the same center of the brain that lights up with cocaine use lights up when one makes money.

I wonder what the tie in is then with trading. Is trading itself like a drug? I'm not arguing that good moral traders have the same chemical make-up as someone on drugs but this is certainly an interesting topic.

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from jficquette:

Why do any drugs? Why drink? Its indicative of a lack of coping skill.

Agreed.

Caffeine is a drug for pussies who can't cope with too little sleep.

Aspirin is a drug for pussies who can't cope with a little physical pain.

Beta blockers are a drug for pussies who can't cope with an audience.

Pepto is a drug for pussies who can't cope with a little clogged plumbing.

 

[NeoRio1]

Making weed legal would really have no affect on the potential and present addicts of the world. People who abuse drugs abuse drugs. If weed was made legal it wouldn't create a huge mass of people abusing drugs. Why you ask? The reason is because the perentage of alcoholics during the prohibition did not decrease before or after. Addicts choose to abuse whether it is illegal or not.

 

[daytrade]

to much of anything is not good, and with mind altering substances, _ including alcohol, they can progress to issues that are very unfortunate,, as for related to trading, there are many traders that use, just due to the percentages of odds, but i also know that there are ones that use for specifically relating the use to trading, usually in the moderate usage anti anxiety medication in the Hypnotics and Sedatives category, i think you will also find that a great deal of traders have drinking issues that they are not aware of, a cocktail or two or three or... after close to relax.

 

[Brandonf]

Quote from caroy:

I second your thoughts. I did however finish a book lately called "Sway" the power of irrational thinking. The book mentions that the same center of the brain that lights up with cocaine use lights up when one makes money.

I wonder what the tie in is then with trading. Is trading itself like a drug? I'm not arguing that good moral traders have the same chemical make-up as someone on drugs but this is certainly an interesting topic.

I have read a lot of research which suggests that a person's brain chemestry is forever altered by drug use, which I believe based upon an experience with my cousin. We where at my gramma's and he'd gone into the bathroom, and had been there a long time so I went to check on him. When I walked in he had a needle full of drugs and was crying, I asked him why he was crying and he said he did not want to be a junkie..then he injected the meth.

 

[daytrade]

and its not that easy for someone to face life as it is, once trapped in the usage of a substance for so many years, that becomes what they are use to , and life does seem fearful. sad but true.