Keeping it civil instead of returning to our dark ways

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Shee-it. Nowhere. Last time I smoked hash, it was 1984, listening to Zep's "No Quarter" from a cheap boombox around a makeshift bonfire in the woods behind my parents' house and it was produced by a stoner named Jimmy and he called it "Blonde Hash." He told me it worked fast, was smooth and I even didn't have to "hold in my breath." He was right. Those were the days. *sigh*

God thats such an abortion of a song. I used to hang with this cat who thought it was the greatest. I usually let it roll because the option was Rush's "Power Windows". Rush high is not good.

Blond? Hmmm, never heard of it. Ever used a steamer? I have to get one of those. Blows your fucking brains out with no smoke at all.

Why does everybody stop smoking pot and start drinking more as they age? Drinking's a lot worse for you. You'd think it would work in the opposite direction. I understand the legal fear thing, but thats really not such a huge deal in these parts. If you are careful, you can all but eliminate the risk.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Why does everybody stop smoking pot and start drinking more as they age? Drinking's a lot worse for you. You'd think it would work in the opposite direction. I understand the legal fear thing, but thats really not such a huge deal in these parts. If you are careful, you can all but eliminate the risk.

Pot smoke has carcinogens and particulate matter in it just like tobacco. It is terrible for your lungs. Not saying excessive drinking is so great for your body, it isn't, but many of us drink in moderation. Drinking in moderation is not as bad for you as inhaling smoke. Inhaling smoke of any kind is damaging to your lungs.

The legal fear is part of it, but the real problem for me is that I no longer know anyone to buy drugs from. No one I know sells them. I am sure that someone I know knows someone who sells them but I would never ask anyoe except those very close to me and none of them do drugs.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Githefuckouttahere. Hash is a classic. Smooth as your silk panties. I'd give a testicle for fat bar of that stuff these days.

Nothing better than to curl up in front of a fire with good music, a glass of bourbon and a fat ball of hash.

God, where would you even buy that stuff these days? All they sell is cheap shitty domestic weed, coke and X round this dishrag of a city.

Let's take this to the cooking board, people.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Not Me
Pot smoke has carcinogens and particulate matter in it just like tobacco. It is terrible for your lungs.

True, but you smoke a lot less of it, and it isn't as addictive, so it's probably less damage overall.

Incidentally, I am seriously considering getting a hookah. I have always liked hookahs, they just seem really cool, and I sort of live in the hookah district so I might as well. I want to sit about impersonating the caterpillar.

Does anyone know how to smoke one? Is it pretty much like a bong? Should this really go to the FB?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
True, but you smoke a lot less of it, and it isn't as addictive, so it's probably less damage overall.

Incidentally, I am seriously considering getting a hookah. I have always liked hookahs, they just seem really cool, and I sort of live in the hookah district so I might as well. I want to sit about impersonating the caterpillar.

Does anyone know how to smoke one? Is it pretty much like a bong? Should this really go to the FB?

Exactly like a bong.

There's a restaurant in Boston with a hookah room. Really.

Very cool.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
True, but you smoke a lot less of it, and it isn't as addictive, so it's probably less damage overall.

OK, but Seb's comparison was between pot and booze. I think if you do either excessively they are no good for you. But in moderation, I think alcohol is less bad for you than pot.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Very cool.

Unlike your avatar.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Given that one can trade on non-public information, and the issue is the source of the non-public information and if the source has fid. duties to the Co/shareholders - right? - will one of you securities guys explain to me exactly where in the securities laws the duty to not trade on the info comes from for Senators? (Excluding the high probability that there is a rule about G ees/officials trading on info gotten on the job.) While acknowledging that these guys undoubtedly get lots of inside info from duty-holders that they shouldn't trade on, in the above example the source of the non-public info isn't someone with a fid. duty to an issuer and its SHs, so I'm not clear on the source of the obligation not to trade. Just a Q, 'cause I'm too lazy to really think about it myself.

BR(or I may be so tired as to be brain dead, also a possibility)C

Without thinking to hard about this, I think you are right regarding that example, though I would bet dollars to doughnuts that there are non-securities laws that prohibit using the information. My guess is that these trades were based on non-public info disclosed directly to the Senators by the issuer, probably as a result of requests for information from particular sub-commitees.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Me
OK, but Seb's comparison was between pot and booze. I think if you do either excessively they are no good for you. But in moderation, I think alcohol is less bad for you than pot.

Based on personal experience, I have to disagree. I can tattoo myself to the celing and be productive (in fact, I sleep like a baby so I'm super well rested) the next day. get me drunk and I'm useless the next day.

You don't need much good pot to get high, so you'll never smoke enough to do serious lung damage. And there's no empty calories. On the negative side, you don't get the lower risk of heart disease you get from booze in moderation. I fix this by doing both at once.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Signed,

Your typical Urban overeducated, non-skilled, unemployed advertising guy, currently spending my unemployment check at the local Java Joint in the East Village and noodling around on the neato laptop I bought when I got my last bonus in 1998 from Conde Nast.

I thought Toby Young was for W.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Based on personal experience, I have to disagree. I can tattoo myself to the celing and be productive (in fact, I sleep like a baby so I'm super well rested) the next day. get me drunk and I'm useless the next day.

You don't need much good pot to get high, so you'll never smoke enough to do serious lung damage. And there's no empty calories. On the negative side, you don't get the lower risk of heart disease you get from booze in moderation. I fix this by doing both at once.

I was going to make a comment about brownies, those yummy yummy brownies, but I'm just too tired.

There is no lung damage with brownies.

[sgtclub]

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told the New York Times today that Europe needs to move closer to the American perception of the danger of terrorism:

"Your country focused very much on the fight against terror while in Europe we focused to a lesser extent on the consequences for the world," [Scheffer] said in an interview. "We looked at it from different angles, and that for me is one of the reasons you saw such frictions in the trans-Atlantic relationship."
As a result, he said, Europe was lagging behind the United States in merging external and internal security to combat terrorism, and Europe had to catch up.

"If the gap is to be bridged, it has to be done from the European side and not from the United States," he said, adding that the conflict in Iraq, the issue that helped divide the alliance, now provided an opportunity for uniting it.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why does everybody stop smoking pot and start drinking more as they age? Drinking's a lot worse for you. You'd think it would work in the opposite direction. I understand the legal fear thing, but thats really not such a huge deal in these parts. If you are careful, you can all but eliminate the risk.

The legal thing is the main reason. I drink mostly in social situations, and it'd be hard to light up with the people I work with (well, some of them anyway). Harder still to do it in a bar or club.

That, and convenience, which is really the legal thing in disguise. I want to get drunk, I go to a bar or a store and buy some booze. Drugs are not so readily available, or so I hear.

And Atkins. Let's not forget Atkins. Yes, most alcoholic beverages have carbs. But you can control it a little better and make some choices in advance. It's a lot harder to keep yourself from diving into the potato chips when the munchies hit. Or so I hear.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I was going to make a comment about brownies, those yummy yummy brownies, but I'm just too tired.

There is no lung damage with brownies.

Want my fudge recipe? It involves lots of nuts and gooey things, butter and sugar creamed together, and plenty of gently oozing hashish.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The legal thing is the main reason. I drink mostly in social situations, and it'd be hard to light up with the people I work with (well, some of them anyway). Harder still to do it in a bar or club.

That, and convenience, which is really the legal thing in disguise. I want to get drunk, I go to a bar or a store and buy some booze. Drugs are not so readily available, or so I hear.

And Atkins. Let's not forget Atkins. Yes, most alcoholic beverages have carbs. But you can control it a little better and make some choices in advance. It's a lot harder to keep yourself from diving into the potato chips when the munchies hit. Or so I hear.

Kids make the dope smoking a bit harder to have as a regular vice.