tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post4896453908214532158..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Maureen Dowd's Edible Cannabis Freakout: Another Drug Reportmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-68002310200817165412015-10-18T12:06:24.644-07:002015-10-18T12:06:24.644-07:00I don't do dabs or any of that kind of stuff. ...I don't do dabs or any of that kind of stuff. I actually quit weed again for that matter. But one thing I can tell you for sure is that, since it became legal, the potency sure has dropped. When it wasn't legal it was more scarce and there were fewer strains to choose from, so people sought out the best quality stuff they could get. Dealers only accepted the best quality for their own stock. Now the market is flooded with weak stuff, and the shops charge ridiculous prices for the good stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-1012729488104726502015-06-25T22:12:56.622-07:002015-06-25T22:12:56.622-07:00Marijuana helps to alleviate the pain caused from ...Marijuana helps to alleviate the pain caused from many types of injuries and disorders.Edward@cannabisdeliveryhttp://www.abud-e.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-3368885409646371652014-06-09T07:49:31.228-07:002014-06-09T07:49:31.228-07:00Once we made some brownies for a roadtrip from Mon...Once we made some brownies for a roadtrip from Montana to Denver, CO. Those brownies gave me what can only be called "weed farts" - every time I passed gas, it smelled like someone exhaled a fatty bongrip except, well, not out of their mouth. Only problem was that I had to stop by my uncle's house in Wyoming, and he's a cop with his own drug dog. That dog was on me like a hawk. Luckily, my uncle was off-duty is a nice guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-7594206710952700922014-06-06T23:32:22.221-07:002014-06-06T23:32:22.221-07:00At the risk of sounding morbid, I've been coll...At the risk of sounding morbid, I've been collecting examples of the elevated vapidness of both Brooks and Friedman for years; files overflow. The idea that these two ASSHOLES are taken seriously as "idea men" is something I find truly nauseating. Sorry to vent, but mein Gott! How many times can someone be so pretentious AND wrong and weasely-apologetic for State crimes and Business Criminals and still be aired in the NYT and all over corporate "news"? <br /><br />When Chomsky writes about the "commissar class" in Unistat, I can't help but see both of these fucking twits at the top of the list. I'd write a few long blogspews nailing both of those jackasses, but it wouldn't fit the tone of the OG. Maybe somewhere else. Or maybe nowhere: substantive minds on the progressive Left have been chronicling both blithering idiots for years. You are I are in good company, Giordanista.<br /><br />Dowd seems more like Arianna Huffington to me; I can't take her seriously at all, she's so light and dull and floating in her bubble of money, High Society and whatever passes for "liberalism" today. I find her pretty horrible, but nowheres near the maddening levels of Brooks and Friedman. Their very presence on the national stage as people to be taken "seriously" offends my sensibilities. michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-84796605474752201612014-06-06T20:52:01.516-07:002014-06-06T20:52:01.516-07:00TO get back to the initial reason for your post, M...TO get back to the initial reason for your post, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman are three of many reasons why the <i>New York Times</i> doesn't rate cat box liner these days.Giordanista Heliopoleoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01119108492029667162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-84197625154847806352014-06-06T20:38:53.251-07:002014-06-06T20:38:53.251-07:00Thanks for the complement on the nom du blog. I wa...Thanks for the complement on the <i>nom du blog</i>. I was afraid it might be too pretentious.<br /><br />I've not had a bad experience with any form of cannabis that I recall.<br /><br />I find listening to music--usually mellow non-vocal Classical music-- while lying down the best experience for me. I just focus on the music and let it carry me along like a piece of wood on a stream. I avoid popular music as it is usually way too busy for me to have a pleasant experience from it while stoned.<br /><br />I did once listen to the second act of <i>Goetterdaemmerung</i> (Solti recording) while under the influence, and did have some interesting visualizations of the action, as well as almost aurally overloading on the orchestration. (I don't remember if I used headphones or not, but it was a vinyl recording, not a CD.)Giordanista Heliopoleoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01119108492029667162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-16697248606368086102014-06-06T14:44:33.761-07:002014-06-06T14:44:33.761-07:00@PQ: I have found that my love of baseball and bas...@PQ: I have found that my love of baseball and basketball clashes with getting high; I keep the two separate. I think the aspect of professional, spectator sports that Chomsky (exempli gratis) criticizes is something I agree with, so I'm an ironic "fan." But I can't keep my irony separate when I'm stoned and watching sports: I see billionaires and millionaires and territorial squabbles and egos and fandom as toxic false consciousness and quasi-fascism too clearly when I'm stoned. (Ever see Patton Oswalt in the film Big Fan? THAT - and WTF, Frederick Exley's _A Fans Notes_ too: it all comes through too clearly on THC.)<br /><br />When I'm straight or only on beer I can compartmentalize all this. Your story about being at an event thinking people wanted to kill you: I understood that immediately. <br /><br />RAW talked about a sufi writing technique: write stoned, edit straight; write straight, edit stoned, through as many drafts as you need.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-8351292125344174002014-06-06T12:58:15.101-07:002014-06-06T12:58:15.101-07:00I've had two nightmare trips from edibles. Onc...I've had two nightmare trips from edibles. Once on a medical California hash cookie, consumed too much before going to a baseball game, eventually thought everyone in the ballpark wanted to kill me. Thank god for my (ex)girlfriend who dragged me out of there with spirals twirling in my pupils.<br /><br />Another time I baked my own brownies and ate one then gradually went from ecstatic joy and psychological vistas to a psychotic paranoid painful neverending nightmare. It felt like I could hear the thoughts of all the neighbors around me inside my head and it was frying my synapses. Brutal headaches and vomiting, complete batshit paranoia, and now I'll never touch edibles again.<br /><br />I prefer vapor. Very smooth, subtle, doesn't burn the throat. Doesn't hit the brain very hard.<br /><br />Michael, I tend to prefer the same sort of solo peaceful scenario you describe in your comment. But I've also consistently found that, although being stoned makes me write like crazy it also makes it very hard for me to organize and focus those energies into any kind of formal piece. Usually just pages upon pages of notebook scribbles. So I tend to stay away from it these days unless I need a renewed spark of ideas.PQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-51670922890255540842014-06-06T01:38:15.336-07:002014-06-06T01:38:15.336-07:00@ Giordanista Heliopoleos: you have the coolest na...@ Giordanista Heliopoleos: you have the coolest name of anyone who's ever commented at the Overweening Generalist, and I don't see anyone topping you soon. Congrats!<br /><br />Driving while very stoned is nerve wracking for me. Others like it and swear they're better drivers while stoned. Some people are so used to functioning while high they don't have any problems at all. I know a guy who smokes incredibly powerful weed all day long; he drove me from San Francisco to Berkeley and I felt like I was on acid his stuff was so strong. It was nothing to him.<br /><br />I read a study once that showed stoned drivers were safer than non-impaired drivers - and WAY safer than drunk ones, of course. But I haven't seen the study replicated or updated. I found/find it hard to believe. <br /><br />I do enjoy riding my bike while stoned. Walking in the woods while pleasantly high is like going to my own version of Church. Taking the BART whilst baked is fun, too. <br /><br />But mostly I like being alone, late at night, reading, playing guitar, listening to music, sipping IPAs, going out and looking at the moon...Writing and cannabis go really well together for me. Any one of us may be entirely different in our setting preferences. <br /><br />Thanks for reading and commenting!michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-35814072955959083712014-06-06T01:25:43.421-07:002014-06-06T01:25:43.421-07:00@Eric-
I think Gathers increased the overall hipn...@Eric-<br /><br />I think Gathers increased the overall hipness of CO when he moved there; he's still there, from what I can tell. <br /><br />I expect the "Blue" states to continue on the road to decriminalization/legalization; I can't see Texas or Louisiana coming around anytime soon. I'd love to be wrong on those two states.<br /><br />I'd like to see more famous brainiacs come out and say that pot helps them get creative ideas, helps to reframe old intractable problems, lends insight and a special perspective...like what Carl Sagan did, only we found out after he died. michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-73396157516852389742014-06-06T01:19:39.543-07:002014-06-06T01:19:39.543-07:00@ Unknown-
I've never had a Cheba Chew. I thi...@ Unknown-<br /><br />I've never had a Cheba Chew. I think I would love them if I were going through chemotherapy or had rheumatoid arthritis or something else like that, where anything that diverted the nervous system from the awareness of chronic pain or general Really Lousy Feeling-ness was just what the Doc ordered.<br /><br />There's this doctor who works in Berkeley who writes funny books about being a doctor. He coined the term "pandynia": pain everywhere. I'd use edibles for that, too.<br /><br />I've had vaporized weed. It's pretty cool, but really not much different from smoking the stuff straight. I think maybe it brings out the unique flavor of the strain a little better. Dr. Donald Tashkin, a pulmonologist at UCLA, has found that cannabis may PREVENT lung cancer. I wonder why Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams haven't been reporting this story?:<br />http://www.alternet.org/drugs/media-ignored-experts-shocking-findings-marijuana-helps-prevent-lung-cancer-now-its-med-school?paging=off<br /><br />Thanks for commenting!michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-56658002911401056822014-06-05T22:19:22.719-07:002014-06-05T22:19:22.719-07:00My only experience with edibles was at a party whe...My only experience with edibles was at a party where I got into some spiked chocolate fondue. The problem wasn't the high, it was the fact that the fondue--unlike the brownies, which were labeled as to octane rating--was not so marked, and I was supposed to be one of the Designated Drivers. Oh well.... .Giordanista Heliopoleoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01119108492029667162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-31826756617351243772014-06-05T19:05:37.541-07:002014-06-05T19:05:37.541-07:00Funny post. I remember Mike Gathers commenting on...Funny post. I remember Mike Gathers commenting on Colorado's hipness when he moved there a few years. <br /><br />The next few years should prove interesting. I wonder if the Republicans will take over the Senate in 2014. Will marijuana legalization play a role in the 2016 presidential election? In the 2020 election?Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-87108809828715072742014-06-05T18:50:32.577-07:002014-06-05T18:50:32.577-07:00edibles certainly do seem to have a very different...edibles certainly do seem to have a very different effect than smoking. I had 1/3 of one of those little chocolately "cheba chews" and while I wouldn't really call it a "Bad trip" it was just bizarre enough that I knew 1/3 of one of those was far too much. <br />I'm wondering how the vaping thing is. Those are seeming to get more popular and also might be a better option for those who don't enjoy the act of smoking. <br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03986501503484202538noreply@blogger.com