[QUOTE="Tokugawa77"]

[QUOTE="zpluffy"]

That's not a myth because it happens all the time. The people you hang out with defines who you are. It may not happen to you or her, but it happens everytime.

Pro-weed always uses their own personal experience as their main strongest point, when it's actually their weakest.

zpluffy

Happens all the time? where, in movies and TV? unless you can cite actual research (even then, the nature of the topic would make data collection almost impossible) that shows that kids start smoking just because their friends are doing it, I have no reason to believe that it is anything more than an exagerated factor at best. And of course kids will tell their parents, "it wasnt my fault, my friends were doing it!" when they;re caught, but if you do drugs, the capacity and desire to do so was there from the get go, regardless of what their peers were dong.

Okay, first of all I never said that peer pressure is solely responsible for the used of weed. It's one of them. If you don't believe that peer pressure exist or a myth, then you must come visit earth sometimes.

Didnt happen in my experience, have no reason to believe it unless you can prove otherwise.

That's not a myth because it happens all the time. The people you hang out with defines who you are. It may not happen to you or her, but it happens everytime.

Pro-weed always uses their own personal experience as their main strongest point, when it's actually their weakest.

zpluffy

Happens all the time? where, in movies and TV? unless you can cite actual research (even then, the nature of the topic would make data collection almost impossible) that shows that kids start smoking just because their friends are doing it, I have no reason to believe that it is anything more than an exagerated factor at best. And of course kids will tell their parents, "it wasnt my fault, my friends were doing it!" when they;re caught, but if you do drugs, the capacity and desire to do so was there from the get go, regardless of what their peers were dong.

I know that weeds will someday be legalize. Just the way it is. Does making it legalize would make me agree with it? most likely not. I would love to hear your reason on legalizing weed besides the financial side because of tax.

zpluffy

Well because banning drugs infringes on personal liberty.

[QUOTE="Tokugawa77"]

[QUOTE="zpluffy"]

There are a lot of times where people use it because their friends uses it. One would probably never done it before and doesn't want to but eventually uses weed because sometime their friends introduces it or they want to fit in to certain group, Eventually they become addicted to it. True, there are a lot of things that functions or sometimes provides worse effects than weeds. But would that make me agree on the use of weed? No? Two wrongs won't make it right.

zpluffy

In my experience, this rarely actually happens. This cultural perception that people automatically start smoking when their friends do it is plain myth. I had a lot of friends in high school who tooks hits daily and I didnt try it until junior year. Seriously, if kids are so weak willed, they have much bigger problems than falling to pper presure.

Conforming is one of the main thing in High School and even in adult world. If your friends smoke tobacco, mostlkely you would too. If the people you hang out with are heavy drinker, most likely you would too. Personal experience doesn't justify that. So if you're friends don't smoke weed or hate weed, you think you would smoke weed during your junior year? Probably, but less likely.

That's a myth. Plain and simple. People's actions just cannot be simplified and explained as a desire to fit in. There are many other factors at play here, and though conformity may play a part, it is nowhere near as important as pop culture makes it out to be.

Your car, your rules. This reminds me of people who change the radio station the moment they step in a car.

[QUOTE="Rich3232"][QUOTE="zpluffy"]

Which claim?

-That weed is a bad substance

-weed is used to conform

-weed is used to escape problem

zpluffy

There are a lot of times where people use it because their friends uses it. One would probably never done it before and doesn't want to but eventually uses weed because sometime their friends introduces it or they want to fit in to certain group, Eventually they become addicted to it. True, there are a lot of things that functions or sometimes provides worse effects than weeds. But would that make me agree on the use of weed? No? Two wrongs won't make it right.

In my experience, this rarely actually happens. This cultural perception that people automatically start smoking when their friends do it is plain myth. I had a lot of friends in high school who tooks hits daily and I didnt try it until junior year. Seriously, if kids are so weak willed, they have much bigger problems than falling to pper presure.

[QUOTE="Tokugawa77"]

Look food habbits are not the way to lose weight. As long as you dont gorge yourself on a regular basis and stay away from trans fats and other garbage, all you gotta do is excersize. I don't mean jogging on a treadmill or something stupid like that, but find a physical activity that you enjoy. Paintball, skiing, martial arts, etc are all great physical activities with moderate to strenuous physical exertion; I knew a guy when I was doing brazilain jujitsu that dropped a good twenty pounds after three or four months of classes. I myself lost thrity pounds in one season of high school lacrosse. I still eat all the rich, fatty, salty, unhealthy food that I want, I just excersize as well.

Cataclism

Yes, losing wieght is as simple as burning more calroies per day than you consume, but when people live sedentary lifestyles, they basically have nothing else to do but eat. Think about it. Sitting on the couch, watching tv, might as well grab a handful of chips. I already ate lunch, but damn does that cliff bar look good. When you are out doing stuff instead of laying around inside your house, you have much less incentives to snack. I mean, if you compensate for physical activity by saying "I just worked out for an hour, that means I can stuff my face now!" then no, excersize wont work. But I find it very hard to believe that someone can lose a significant amount of weight by dieting alone. I suppose my point is that yes, you can starve yourself, but that takes much more mental determination. Why not do something physical that you enjoy and lose the weight that way instead of torturing yourself? Excersize can become very habit forming, as I said earlier, actually cutting down on the amount you eat as a side effect.

Id sooner move to the country where no one gives a sh*t. Honestly, if you live so close to your neighbors that they complain about your dog, its time to move. If you have a**hole neighbors that complain about your dog, its time to move.

Whoever calls me a bigot because I don't believe in same-sex marriage gets b*tch slapped.

Blazerdt47

wow calling people b*tches now? a bigot, and a mysoginist. MYSOGYNIST!!

Well, of course. Tolerant of other Christians, though sometimes even that falls through, come to think of it.