would anybody like to hear the truth about drugs? here is what nobody tells you: you might never die from drugs. you might never completely fracture your mind, as some do. but a real tragedy that WILL happen if you keep using is one day, when you are 40 or 50, you wake up and realize you invested and spent your life on smoke and dreams and all that's left to you is the emptiness of a permenant immaturity, trying to live like a 16 yr old all your life.
real maturity comes when you live life to the fullest, are receptive and open minded towards the ideas and experiences of others, to new possibilities, and if you try your best to be a good person while knowing and accepting your own weaknesses and flaws.
i would say there are many cases where drugs actuality help make this kind of maturity possible. moreover i think there are certain techniques and ways of doing drugs that will accentuate this feature of drugs while limiting risks.
@popstone1 Direct experience, or tell people what you've been told by your adult owners and never experience it... live your whole life without the real divine light, and continue to cast satans darkness with the church all you wish popstone... you are the mass that's been brainwashed and cannot see the holy divinity in nature... its like the next hurdle of racism society must face only against plants of power.
you know...if mckenna went to hell after he died from BRAIN CANCER, do you suppose that he is suffering the torments of that cancer for all eternity, along with the flames and screaming and despair? there's a special place in hell for those who decieve and corrupt children, don't you think mckenna is probably there?
jim jones, hitler, david koresh, charles manson, and terence mckenna: a good persuasive rap and plenty of sheep to swallow it on the way to the slaughterhouse.
We sued the Government.. Those two words together = Mind Control... Govern Ment.
Its just the facts. Marijuana needs to be legalized NOW, people are sick mentally, physically, spiritually, and cannabis can be compassionately used can balance out this suffering.
@suhrtz no meth is bad as it messes up your receptors to a point will you can lose the ability to feel happy again if you abuse it. Weed is much better from a health perspective.
-continued- the possibility that it might be easier to control the harmful use of cannabis by regulation of a legal market than to control illicit consumption under prohibition. The contrast between the general welcome for tobacco regulation (including bans on smoking in public places) and the deep suspicion of prohibition policy on cannabis is striking and suggests that a middle course of legalised but limited consumption may find a public consensus."
@Jllucky8 (effects of prohibition) "Prohibition has two effects: on one hand it raises supplier costs, disrupts market functioning and prevents open promotion of the product; on the other, it sacrifices the authorities’ ability to tax transactions and regulate operation of the market, product characteristics and promotional activity of suppliers. The cannabis prevalence rates presented in Figure 1 show clearly that prohibition has failed to prevent widespread use of the drug and leaves open the
Marijuana. Psychoactive. Woke my brain up. stimulatedmy brain to think! Ripped me out of the 'oudated system' but damn I got addicted to it. I havent stopped smoking since I tried it many years ago.
Bottom line: I just spent an hour (sober) voicing thoughts which I imagine, ultimately, will hardly matter to anyone but myself. Would I convert the significance of that time to being proportionately equal to the value of smoking a joint instead? Possibly, which I think is the point of this video. But we are typically in it for the long run... That's what people need to further discuss and research.
However, supplying the information and truths about this monopoly of power resulting from the predominance of political and consumerist control doesn't require the "insight" of using drugs.
I think the simplest way to evaluate your ethical standpoint on the use of cannabis is to think of someone dear to you, like your children or siblings and ask yourself if you would indeed be supportive of their use of it.
The point is we have a fundamental need for structure, which can be counter-expansive but is nonetheless desirable. What about motivational factors? Perhaps at some point in the distant future, society will emphasize personal freedom by rewarding individual spiritual development but it's presently supportive of contribution to a holistic movement.
Though I'm merely echoing inspiring voices that aren't my own, I'll certainly agree that power is unevenly distributed.
People are generally supportive of technological advances, which mostly lead to an improved quality of life, though that's a very broad and dual sided generalization of which the negative consists mostly of its tendency to detract us from how we would otherwise spend the valuable time it occupies.
Society is concerned with establishing ideas and as individuals we are mostly supportive of organized structure. Ex: What's the first thing you would do when deserted on an island.
I smoked it for a few years daily. I can agree on the aspects its perceptual enhancement; but there is no mention of long term effects, which are why I stopped smoking it.
Aside from the obvious physiological symptoms, there is no denying that it impairs complex cognitive processes (while intoxicated and resulting from long term use), mostly memory specific functions. I'll confidently assert that my natural consciousness/imagination isn't nearly as rich as it was before I started smoking it.
Although I do not practice it verbatim, I agree with Terence to get the most out of
the energetic and creative potential of Marijuana, it's best to do it sporatically, like once a week! Like I said, I have been there, but do not sustain that practice, I smoke too much still, and it's compartively tame compared to what some call the Chronic smoker. If I was chronic, I would be asleep all the time! hahah. Peace Weed Heals - RIP Terence.
i smoked weed recreationally for about 5 years, really enjoyed it, then i stopped for 3 years, i have smoked it about 5 times in the past 3 months and every time i smoke now it makes me paranoid, i dont know why, i never got paranoid when i smoked years ago, any advice? im 27 by the way! I miss the stone i used to get years ago. im not a paranoid person in real life. would love to hear your thoughts on this!
@buzzmund Do you know the direct line of where the herb comes from?
Was there too many fertilizers used? Is the PH too imbalanced? Lots of factors make herb cause Paranoia. One common factor is the strength of herb. It's shot up and makes it easier to fall into a paranoid delusion. best way to avoid this, is to grow it yourself in moderation and chillax with your loved one. dont' watch TV too or any Infowars!! SET AND SETTING APPLIES TO HERB TOO.
You should change the weed, maybe a smooth indica brand will change that. It happens to me sometimes, but this is due to my problems. That's a general problem with weed - you never know how it's going to effect you psyche - sometimes you have to grab the weed the market offers you, not the brand you need for your character; the thc strength varies everytime, since there are no quality controls. A pity, unless you grow it yourself...
Hi friend, I know that pot for me is sometimes like a truth serum. Maybe you have changed as a person and something is haunting you or bothering you? If it is, then maybe those feelings overcome you when you are in a meditative state now.
@buzzmund Since you quit for a long time you have no tolerance to it. So when you smoked you probably smoked an amount you used to smoke when you did it all the time. Either that or you smoked some really good shit. Next time only take 1 or 2 hits then chill for a few minutes and see how you feel. If you want more take more. You probably smoked too much in a short amount of time man.
I love when pro weed activists compare it to cigaretts and alcohol, like anyone said that these things are healthy. What is the point? Ohh yeah, cigarettes and booze are bad for you so lets add a third product thats equally bad to even it all out.... If you wanna smoke it go ahead but there is no point in making moot comparisons, it makes you sound well.... like your stoned.
That's an honest answer, and I can respect your opinion - because you say to "go ahead" if someone wants to smoke weed. Most of the opponents to ganja won't go that far, they want to tell us what to do or not. Nobody has the right to put his nose into my affairs.
@LunkwillFook I don't condone drug use. I realize that it is used illegally and thats a fact of life, but if you read my other posts, I am not an opponent of it because of some personal vendetta but rather my belief in the greater well being of a nation, especially a super power nation such as the U.S. is at stake. I believe it should remain illegal for those purposes and those purposes alone. I have nothing against users.
Not drugs are americas problem, it's the food. Obesity is currently the danger you should deal with, not peaceful weed smokers. But hey - that's not of my business.
@LunkwillFook Deflections are not arguments they are just deflections. There are a lot of problems in America this doesn't make drugs any less of one. If you stopped thinking, just for one minute, about your own desires and thought more about the issues of society you would understand where I'm coming from. Just the fact that nearly every country in the world has outlawed weed should tell you something.
I have depression, but I'll never take anti depressants. Weed helps me, it calms me down and puts me in a state where I can put my anxiety away, analyze it, isolate the problem, and deal with it accordingly. Also, it's fun to smoke weed, and there is nothing wrong with that.
weed is bs. it has no LASTING positive effects. you feel like you're more original when you're on it cause you get that satisfying mmMMMmm when you finish something artistic, but then looking at it from a sober perspective you feel like a 6 year old wrote it. i know its useful to cancer patients, pain killers, etc... but as a mind-expander? please. REAL psychedelics: dmt, shrooms, etc are meant for that. those make you curious and smart not curious and dumb like weed and have lasting positives
@createculture so is heroin. you're only happy because you're a happy person. its not weed. the door swings both ways. if you want to say not to blame shit on weed, then you cant say you're happy because of it. otherwise you're using double standards
@ArcticSheep You might be talking yourself in cicles main.
Listen and I'll lay one down for you.
There are two kinds of drugs, drugs that put you into a stupor, and drugs that wake you up. Being able to access the ladder brings higher states of consciousness. Not repeating patterns. Not dumbing down in school. Not the same thing over and over like our pathetic culture. Thats insane!! Creativing.. Consicousness.. Life is our future. An attempt to reconnect with nature may be due.
@createculture i agree with most of what you're saying. i'm just saying weed isn't one of those drugs. lsd, shrooms, dmt, peyote are where its at. weed is neither a wake up drug nor a stupor drug - its just useless.
@nineteen19candles -- there is no doubt plants are tricksters. This is in fact an intelligence test! Good luck :-) Tim Leary said, trust your nervous system..
We need to legalize all substances, if someone has a problem with a substance, then they should be banned from it. The world isn't full of only imbeciles, some of the people are actually capable of being responsible for themselves.
marijuana can benefit your life, depending on the person and how it's used. period. like he said, a capitalist (corrupt) society has no room for that mindstate
I think the main thing with cannibus is balance, and not many people have that. I deliver medical equipment, and deal with people with cancer and AIDS, and some of them take medical marijuana, or a known dosage of THC that is the active ingredient to relieve pain and stimulate hunger because of chemotherapy, or the side effects of other drugs. The problem in the states in that "weed" is attributed to certain behavior, and introduced in school, at the same time habits can be addictive.
Also, I find it hilarious that this video gets flagged for "inappropriate material" while at the same time Lil Jon's "Skeet Skeet Skeet" song is deemed perfectly appropriate.
Don't balance your check book, think of the greek rennisance. This is what we need less responsible Americans. Inhaling smoke healthy? Must be like cigaretts. People should only smoke once a week.. good luck with that. This video is a joke.
Are you against people contemplating historical events? All he's saying is that, under a cannabis high, you might be more intrigued by intellectual discourse rather than mundane responsibilities, and rightly so. I smoke pot to escape the necessary drudgery of my work day and enjoy myself. It's my choice, fuck you if you can't deal with that. (by the way, I smoke approximately once a week, and take prolonged breaks when necessary, so fuck you on that regard as well)
Hey tool, mundane responsibilities make the world go round. You sound like the typical loser who needs to escape his pitiful daily grind instead of living a rewarding life. I doubt weed will provide anyone with "intellectual discourse" as it cannot teach or enlighten on matters you haven't already learned. By the way, its still illegal, so run back to your basement apt, hide and smoke your weed little boy. P.S. Try to get laid it's a good stress reliever too.
Why is smoking cannabis and living a responsible, rewarding life so mutually exclusive to people like you who bash it? Do you really think that everyone who does it is a worthless couch potato? Terrence McKenna, the man in the video who made the Greek Renaissance comment, is a very successful lecturer, ethnobotanist and author. Carl Sagan smoked pot through most of his adult life and he is the most popular astronomer of our time.
The stereotypes about cannabis users that people like you pass around must stop, because they are needlessly ostracizing people from their professional and social lives. It is a needless stigma doing more harm than good. Shame on you, sir, shame on you for propagating that stigma further. Tolerate other people's lifestyles already.
And that "something more interesting" is drugs? I doubt drugs are what the author had in mind, just a guess though. But thank you for using clean language this time around because as I always say, profanity is a sign of a weak mind.
The 'something more interesting' wasn't intended to be drugs, just anything mind-expanding like literature, art, and the sciences. However, Huxley was an advocate of LSD use for spiritual and creative purposes, although he disapproved of its casual, party-drug use. I think sex should be considered a drug, some people chase orgasms like a junkie chases the needle, next thing they know they're pissing themselves in front of Chris Hansen and his MSNBC crew. And profanity is fucking awesome.
@Jllucky8 lol for real! EGO and is Emergencey go. When you don't understand the truth and your personality kicks in to save you from reality. The only place to hide is from yourself, because the older parts of yourself are watching. The ones who carried your dna accross obsicals we can't mention on youtube. You could humble yourself just a touch..
@createculture "EGO and is Emergencey go." Whatever that means... No need to come on here and make cryptic entries taht elude to something you made up. As much as you hate it there is a reality outside your little drug world, if we were all high our national defense not to mention everyday life would go down the tubes. Not just the U.S. but most other civilized countries have recognized this and banned drugs.
@createculture The bottom line is this- If you need to alter your reality you are an unhappy person. This is why most people abuse drugs and get strung out on them because they are trying to escape their unhappy reality. A drugs high is a false reality. This has nothing to do with "EGO", if thats what your trying to say; it has to do with truth. But your old enough to rent a car now so you have all the answers.
I am an unhappy person - SO WHAT? I don't need you, my neighbor or the nanny state to tell me how to deal with my unhappyness. It never crosses their minds that I just want to be left alone. But everyone has an opinion to vomit at me, and people like me. Leave us alone and mind your own business.
the only reason its illegal is because the government can't make money off of it. now the only reason they are considering legalizing it is a last resort taxation in states which are in debt such as California.
remember once a week...the danger is to become habituated...as a sacremental tool dope is fine...use it wisely and dont take any plug nickels...free the weed.
You're missing the point. McKenna was elaborating on the intellectual expansion possibilities that cannabinoids (specifically THC) offer. I don't think he was implying a problem with either way of thinking.
these people in this video are more well read and articulate than most of our political leaders, especially a certain ex president who lacked much in the way of any articulation and intelligence.
we can take advice from these people, or those who in positions of power who want to manipulate us in the name of making a buck for their corporate masters... as mckenna says, 'we are lead by the least among us'.
Ok cannabis haters! what about the flouride the goverment put in all our water it is a rat poison that shrinks and gives tumours to the pineal gland "third eye". They don't wan't people to use cannabis becuase they will find out the goverment is run by the builderberg group! rebel people!
"But there have been no deaths contributed to marijuana" Is a very very bullcrap statement; people die form lung cancer and if your going to tell me tar doesnt contribute to this than its total blasphemy; anyone who is alive knows tar isn't good for you and cannabis has a lot of tar. So my beef is they keep saying marijuana causes no deaths. It is correct that noone dies while on the drug because of the drug; or noone ODs' but at least give truthful information that this could causelungcancer
proof please, or you're just another ranting youtuber. and no i'm not going to google up anything, bring a valid point or go be a loud angry speedbump on the internet.
In over 5,000 years of recorded human use across several different continents, there has never been a recorded case of lung cancer from marijuana use.
When you have something that humankind has used for that long (like olives, figs, or see-saws) and no one has ever come down with lung cancer from it...to suggest that "well it still might cause lung cancer" is grasping at straws.
i do not agree with his original statement about balancing checks not on weed and thinking about history while on weed because i dont smoke and i dont balance my checks and i like history.
Ii get the sense that in this state of his life he is supporting weed for the sake of supporting weed and almost rambling.
That being said; i think there is some truth in his statements. But it isnt all truth; some of it very frail bullcrap opinions
weed over time i would bet money on can be harmful i think any educated person should agree with this statement because tar is harmful
I think without evidence weed is less harmful then cigarettes even though it has more tar because cigarettes have a lot of chemicals.
I think he should instead of comparing weed to drugs that are more often ingestible should compare weed to say nicotine. Nicotine probably causes very very very few deaths if any at all. Smoking is hard to overdose period.
I'm sorry, but you sound like a misinformed dumbass. Nicotine kills nearly 440,000 people a year, while cannabis kills 0. I agree that tar is harmful, but it isn't the WEED that causes the tar, it's the SMOKING of it. There's a lot of different ways to ingest cannabis, ranging from edibles to vaporization.
Comparing THC to nicotine is like comparing apples and oranges...or rather, a pea shooter to a gun. There's no comparison when it comes to the danger factor.
gumpy i dont kno how you can be so sure that weed will damage you... your problem is that you started at such an early age, weed isnt for immature teenagers who approach it as another way to get fucked up... this is why there are millions of american adults who beleive cannabis is a wonderful thing because it will destroy you lulz
I can be pretty sure because I felt it, man. I was reading philosophy, I was forming theories, I was interested in literature (yes, a child of 15), and though my intelligence is still mostly here, I was melodramatic about that, those things, those ABILITIES, have vanished and I struggle to do those things now. Concentration's gone, all the little things and the big things such as abstract thought. I really don't think early age has anything to do with it.
That's unfortunate for you, but it doesnt prove anything objectively about marijuana use.
I had a completely different experience myself. Im far more erudite and well-read than I ever was. Is this "because of drugs?" No....and neither are my failures or shortcomings in life.
Dr. Andrew Weil, Terence McKenna, and his brother Dennis are just a few brilliant people among many others who obviously werent mentally stunted by their drug use either.
i started smoking this summer, im in my junior year and i try and smoke everyday. my gpa has gone up .3 points since last year to a 3.8. it helps me do my homework, study for tests, and even take test. i just got a 100 on a history exam YAY. and i was hgh as hell when i took it.
So to say pot is entirely a good or bad thing is uneducated. What pharmaceutical companies do for one, herbology does for another. Stop telling people how to heal themselves. wow 10,000 deaths attributed to asperin but pot may very well always be taboo! I say be afraid society for the day pot is accepted as a new mind set and not a junkies fix America is in for a rude awakening. But continue to fear it's what americans do best
"Unwelcome in capitalist based society". Wise words indeed. From one who has lost all of his adolescence and whose adulthood is slowly slipping away, I can tell you without a doubt that cannabis can and will damage you. I took it at 15 and it ruined me. It dulled me, stole my intelligence which I've only just begun to get back, completely savaged my personality, changed what I wrote, thought, believed - and it was less, all of it. From my position, that's proof enough. Nah. Fuck you McKenna.
First off, just like alcohol there should be a legal mature age in which you can use marijuana. Your life could have easily been ruined by consuming too much alcohol at a young age. Second of all, McKenna gives his opinion that you should only use it once a week. Using too much Marijuana can have ill affects on some people. Thirdly, the fact that your blaming marijuana on the way your life has come about is just pathetic. You chose to use it, take responsibility for your actions.
Cannabis is a different kettle of fish to alcohol. It's insidious where alcohol isn't, makes changes that alcohol doesn't, the two can't be compared. Legalising it is just flat out idiotic. McKenna said in other interviews he used it every day, quite heavily, and his "once a week" is only to get the apparent benefits from it that tolerance take away. His other opinion is that the research amounts to nothing and the substance is harmless, which, hey, in MY experience at least, is total bollocks.
I have to disagree. My experiences are quite the opposite of yours stated here. I've had nothing but good experiences with Marijuana. I've never had a problem with it, never committed a crime, and got through college (double major with honors) and grad school just fine while using it. I use it to relax and it makes movies more "fun." I say to each his own, and if you do something stupid while smoking weed or drinking beer, it's because YOU are stupid; not the drug, not the drink.
Alcohol is by leaps and bounds more dangerous in just about every respect than marijuana- youre right, they cant really be compared:
- One is a toxic CNS depressant and deliriant which can (and often does) leave users in a coma and/or with serious brain, liver, heart, and renal damage for life.
- The other is an extremely mild and nontoxic psychedelic which has never caused a single death (or coma, or kidney failure, or liver failure, etc) in 5,000 years of recorded human use.
However, who would go to their doctor and say, hey I have a problem I think from smoking and illegal drug. Hmm thats why there arn't any recorded problems or deaths from it.
I would agree if we could assume that absolutely everyone and anyone who smokes marijuana and contracts a terminal illness/condition was afraid to admit to their doctor that they smoke marijuana...or if the 5,000 years of recorded human use didnt include centuries across different continents wherein the current American social stigma against marijuana did not exist and there would be no reason for anyone to deny using it.
There simply is no reason to believe that marijuana use causes death.
Also, hold your horses with that last comment. I used it for a number of reasons, if I were back there I'd probably make the same mistake, and I've been blaming myself ever since it happened, don't worry about that. It's just this. It's people like McKenna crapping on about its' 'virtues' and saying it's completely fine, when there are people who simply lose it with this stuff. It's this bullshit disinformation from drugfucked morons who can't see two feet in front of them that makes me boil.
Can you please just watch the video again. They say that not everybody should use cannibus and the people that do should be well informed about it. McKenna is a Pychadelic drug freak, what do you think he's gonna say; weed is bad? The people that screw their lives up because of marjauna would've screwed it up with something else if they didn't have access to it. Just cause its easier to smoke a joint then drink a 12 pack doesnt mean it can be used more. Moderation my friend. Use your brain.
I think it works differently and should be treated differently, moderate use has more effect than moderate alc use for instance, but I don't think I'll ever persuade anyone about that. Once is too much in my zealous, rigid mind. Not all use is tragically heavy is what I'm saying, and the difference between it and grog as one example makes itself known when it's light. But the research is sparse and inconclusive and it's up to the individual, I just urge people not to. Ok. Now I'll stop. Sorry.
A drug will not "steal your intelligence" or "ruin you."
You "ruined" yourself and what amount of "intelligence" that was ever "stolen" from you in the first place is debatable. To blame your problems on an inanimate object or substance which you couldnt control your personal use of is silly and evasive.
Guns and knives do not kill people either...people do.
Um... ok. Tell that to someone at the end of an ice holocaust or a heroin addict, or the number of studies on any illicit drug that show things as diverse as decreased activity to shrunken parts of the brain that are affected. You can find those here on your very own youtube. As I said before, thinking on higher levels is extremely difficult, much more than it was before, and
I wouldnt bother telling that to an ice or heroin addict, because severe addicts usually have a pathological issue with accepting responsibility for their own actions anyway. Yes, abuse of some substances can result in brain damage...so? Youre not telling me anything I dont know and it doesnt refute my point.
Fortunately logic and common sense are on my side here. Drugs do not "ruin people's lives." You can ruin your own life with drugs, sure...but YOU are responsible for that, not drugs.
I'm not blaming the substance, I'm angry at the idiots who insist on saying it's completely fine and set up others to fail, as every piece of information I had pointed me to that, when it was wrong. I'm angry at a world that isn't satisfied with sobriety and uses substances to expand its' mind, when curiosity and hard fucking work are just as effective and profoundly more rewarding. A world where noone seems to know what intellect is anymore, and everyone is resigned to taking a shortcut.
Yeah, totally. I had that thought just the other week, that everybody is getting high from coffee and it is allowed because it is conducive to industry. People make up for the two hours of sleep they lost because of work, by having a cup of coffee in the morning.
It's just disgusting when you realize how much capitalism uses people and treats them like tools.
cannabis was my first way to open the doors of perception and i agree it should be used less, at least once in a week and what terence says that cannabis dont fix with the capitalist and maket based societies its perfect! rest in peace mckenna!
from the first time i smoked cannabis i smoked pretty much everyday for over a year, i loved it, but over time i learned, that it is a tool not to be abused it quickly loses its magic if you choose to overuse it. Less is so much more, i quit over 2 months ago, i look forward to the next smoke but it is only a treat to be used once per week. i would advise daily smokers to take a week off if u respect the herb it will respect you back
9 times out of 10 im driving high, im 21 and still havent been in an accident. im more worried about other people running into me rather than vice versa
i drive fucked up all the time and the only time i've been in an accident was when i was sober. i almost got in a second accident, but that black ice whatcha gonna do?
great substance
youdevil6 3 weeks ago
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exv092 3 months ago
I cant smoke weed anymore, get too sketch :(
whiskeyjack2010 5 months ago
@whiskeyjack2010 I don't smoke much either but I eat it for medication..
createculture 5 months ago 3
@whiskeyjack2010 let go and enjoy the experience
laffizzle 2 months ago
would anybody like to hear the truth about drugs? here is what nobody tells you: you might never die from drugs. you might never completely fracture your mind, as some do. but a real tragedy that WILL happen if you keep using is one day, when you are 40 or 50, you wake up and realize you invested and spent your life on smoke and dreams and all that's left to you is the emptiness of a permenant immaturity, trying to live like a 16 yr old all your life.
DRUGS LIE TO YOU.
popstone1 6 months ago
@popstone1
real maturity comes when you live life to the fullest, are receptive and open minded towards the ideas and experiences of others, to new possibilities, and if you try your best to be a good person while knowing and accepting your own weaknesses and flaws.
i would say there are many cases where drugs actuality help make this kind of maturity possible. moreover i think there are certain techniques and ways of doing drugs that will accentuate this feature of drugs while limiting risks.
MrMincer 6 months ago
@popstone1 lol or you could just grow drugs and invest in an empire and come up in the world
Jozsus 5 months ago
@popstone1 lol regurgitated brainwashing from your former youth as a darekid?
Jozsus 5 months ago
@popstone1 Direct experience, or tell people what you've been told by your adult owners and never experience it... live your whole life without the real divine light, and continue to cast satans darkness with the church all you wish popstone... you are the mass that's been brainwashed and cannot see the holy divinity in nature... its like the next hurdle of racism society must face only against plants of power.
Jozsus 5 months ago
@popstone1 oh shut the fuck up! seriously.
youdevil6 3 weeks ago
you know...if mckenna went to hell after he died from BRAIN CANCER, do you suppose that he is suffering the torments of that cancer for all eternity, along with the flames and screaming and despair? there's a special place in hell for those who decieve and corrupt children, don't you think mckenna is probably there?
popstone1 6 months ago
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jim jones, hitler, david koresh, charles manson, and terence mckenna: a good persuasive rap and plenty of sheep to swallow it on the way to the slaughterhouse.
magla345 6 months ago
We sued the Government.. Those two words together = Mind Control... Govern Ment.
Its just the facts. Marijuana needs to be legalized NOW, people are sick mentally, physically, spiritually, and cannabis can be compassionately used can balance out this suffering.
createculture 8 months ago 12
@createculture that's exactly how it is, well let's say should be..
ndkone 5 months ago
This clip was flagged, and i had to log in.... fuckin idiots flagging this...
ceclovitchable 8 months ago
once a week? more like once every couple hours...
DontFearGrim 8 months ago
The only creativity I get from smoking trees is the snacks I can craft with what's in the fridge.
Nebzz 8 months ago
I think this is from the union
FloppyMcPrplHat 8 months ago
cannabis has helped me in so many different ways.. it is the best plant on earth.
cannabisbisbisbisbis 9 months ago 2
meth is tons better
suhrtz 10 months ago
@suhrtz no meth is bad as it messes up your receptors to a point will you can lose the ability to feel happy again if you abuse it. Weed is much better from a health perspective.
doughboycod2 8 months ago
@suhrtz Have fun trying to function normally on meth. That should be a challenge.
harvythewondergerbil 8 months ago
where is this clip taken from?
cfeaugas 10 months ago
@cfeaugas i don't remember.. was apart of a download package I dled like 8 years ago
createculture 10 months ago
-continued- the possibility that it might be easier to control the harmful use of cannabis by regulation of a legal market than to control illicit consumption under prohibition. The contrast between the general welcome for tobacco regulation (including bans on smoking in public places) and the deep suspicion of prohibition policy on cannabis is striking and suggests that a middle course of legalised but limited consumption may find a public consensus."
aesop5280 11 months ago
@Jllucky8 (effects of prohibition) "Prohibition has two effects: on one hand it raises supplier costs, disrupts market functioning and prevents open promotion of the product; on the other, it sacrifices the authorities’ ability to tax transactions and regulate operation of the market, product characteristics and promotional activity of suppliers. The cannabis prevalence rates presented in Figure 1 show clearly that prohibition has failed to prevent widespread use of the drug and leaves open the
aesop5280 11 months ago
I have found that the only negative thing about it are the legal sanctions concerning it...
Mikesmistake 11 months ago 2
Having smoked cannabis for over 40 YEARS
Mikesmistake 11 months ago 2
@Mikesmistake Time for you to eat a brownie!
0mega519 10 months ago
No, money is the reason weed will never be legal world wide. silly sallys
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TheScientist05 1 year ago
change the name of the video, mkenna appears 15s on this... (or just cut his part).
diegokmoraes 1 year ago
mckenna smoked weed all the time lol, listen to his whole talk on it.
Rockyzach88 1 year ago
Marijuana. Psychoactive. Woke my brain up. stimulatedmy brain to think! Ripped me out of the 'oudated system' but damn I got addicted to it. I havent stopped smoking since I tried it many years ago.
loveformetal1 1 year ago
its niggers that make weed look bad
KillMePlease91 1 year ago
@KillMePlease91 Oh please That's just the attitude they want you to have. it keeps us divided. wake up baby! We're being played.
kncstylist 1 year ago
@KillMePlease91
its because of people like you marijuana is kept illegal.
get ur head out of ur arse.
Teks69Mauriche 1 year ago
cont.
Bottom line: I just spent an hour (sober) voicing thoughts which I imagine, ultimately, will hardly matter to anyone but myself. Would I convert the significance of that time to being proportionately equal to the value of smoking a joint instead? Possibly, which I think is the point of this video. But we are typically in it for the long run... That's what people need to further discuss and research.
H2Raby 1 year ago
cont.
However, supplying the information and truths about this monopoly of power resulting from the predominance of political and consumerist control doesn't require the "insight" of using drugs.
I think the simplest way to evaluate your ethical standpoint on the use of cannabis is to think of someone dear to you, like your children or siblings and ask yourself if you would indeed be supportive of their use of it.
Cont.
H2Raby 1 year ago
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H2Raby 1 year ago
cont.
The point is we have a fundamental need for structure, which can be counter-expansive but is nonetheless desirable. What about motivational factors? Perhaps at some point in the distant future, society will emphasize personal freedom by rewarding individual spiritual development but it's presently supportive of contribution to a holistic movement.
Though I'm merely echoing inspiring voices that aren't my own, I'll certainly agree that power is unevenly distributed.
H2Raby 1 year ago
cont.
People are generally supportive of technological advances, which mostly lead to an improved quality of life, though that's a very broad and dual sided generalization of which the negative consists mostly of its tendency to detract us from how we would otherwise spend the valuable time it occupies.
Society is concerned with establishing ideas and as individuals we are mostly supportive of organized structure. Ex: What's the first thing you would do when deserted on an island.
cont
H2Raby 1 year ago
I smoked it for a few years daily. I can agree on the aspects its perceptual enhancement; but there is no mention of long term effects, which are why I stopped smoking it.
Aside from the obvious physiological symptoms, there is no denying that it impairs complex cognitive processes (while intoxicated and resulting from long term use), mostly memory specific functions. I'll confidently assert that my natural consciousness/imagination isn't nearly as rich as it was before I started smoking it.
H2Raby 1 year ago
Although I do not practice it verbatim, I agree with Terence to get the most out of
the energetic and creative potential of Marijuana, it's best to do it sporatically, like once a week! Like I said, I have been there, but do not sustain that practice, I smoke too much still, and it's compartively tame compared to what some call the Chronic smoker. If I was chronic, I would be asleep all the time! hahah. Peace Weed Heals - RIP Terence.
oatstao 1 year ago
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jagball22 1 year ago
i smoked weed recreationally for about 5 years, really enjoyed it, then i stopped for 3 years, i have smoked it about 5 times in the past 3 months and every time i smoke now it makes me paranoid, i dont know why, i never got paranoid when i smoked years ago, any advice? im 27 by the way! I miss the stone i used to get years ago. im not a paranoid person in real life. would love to hear your thoughts on this!
buzzmund 1 year ago
@buzzmund Do you know the direct line of where the herb comes from?
Was there too many fertilizers used? Is the PH too imbalanced? Lots of factors make herb cause Paranoia. One common factor is the strength of herb. It's shot up and makes it easier to fall into a paranoid delusion. best way to avoid this, is to grow it yourself in moderation and chillax with your loved one. dont' watch TV too or any Infowars!! SET AND SETTING APPLIES TO HERB TOO.
oatstao 1 year ago
@buzzmund
You should change the weed, maybe a smooth indica brand will change that. It happens to me sometimes, but this is due to my problems. That's a general problem with weed - you never know how it's going to effect you psyche - sometimes you have to grab the weed the market offers you, not the brand you need for your character; the thc strength varies everytime, since there are no quality controls. A pity, unless you grow it yourself...
LunkwillFook 1 year ago
@buzzmund
Hi friend, I know that pot for me is sometimes like a truth serum. Maybe you have changed as a person and something is haunting you or bothering you? If it is, then maybe those feelings overcome you when you are in a meditative state now.
Teoxochitl 1 year ago
@buzzmund Since you quit for a long time you have no tolerance to it. So when you smoked you probably smoked an amount you used to smoke when you did it all the time. Either that or you smoked some really good shit. Next time only take 1 or 2 hits then chill for a few minutes and see how you feel. If you want more take more. You probably smoked too much in a short amount of time man.
buckinfitches 11 months ago
This video is intended to open minds to possiblities that are out there for an ailing body. And maybe some ailing minds too!
A natural god given substance that can be used in mulitple ways..., cant be bad for some. In terms of, natural medicine. Just saying is all!
WeCanAllGetAllong 1 year ago
I love when pro weed activists compare it to cigaretts and alcohol, like anyone said that these things are healthy. What is the point? Ohh yeah, cigarettes and booze are bad for you so lets add a third product thats equally bad to even it all out.... If you wanna smoke it go ahead but there is no point in making moot comparisons, it makes you sound well.... like your stoned.
Jllucky8 1 year ago
@Jllucky8
That's an honest answer, and I can respect your opinion - because you say to "go ahead" if someone wants to smoke weed. Most of the opponents to ganja won't go that far, they want to tell us what to do or not. Nobody has the right to put his nose into my affairs.
LunkwillFook 1 year ago
@LunkwillFook I don't condone drug use. I realize that it is used illegally and thats a fact of life, but if you read my other posts, I am not an opponent of it because of some personal vendetta but rather my belief in the greater well being of a nation, especially a super power nation such as the U.S. is at stake. I believe it should remain illegal for those purposes and those purposes alone. I have nothing against users.
Jllucky8 1 year ago
@Jllucky8
Not drugs are americas problem, it's the food. Obesity is currently the danger you should deal with, not peaceful weed smokers. But hey - that's not of my business.
LunkwillFook 1 year ago
@LunkwillFook Deflections are not arguments they are just deflections. There are a lot of problems in America this doesn't make drugs any less of one. If you stopped thinking, just for one minute, about your own desires and thought more about the issues of society you would understand where I'm coming from. Just the fact that nearly every country in the world has outlawed weed should tell you something.
Jllucky8 1 year ago
right on!!
lapijamebre 1 year ago
I have depression, but I'll never take anti depressants. Weed helps me, it calms me down and puts me in a state where I can put my anxiety away, analyze it, isolate the problem, and deal with it accordingly. Also, it's fun to smoke weed, and there is nothing wrong with that.
N1ntenOwned 1 year ago
@N1ntenOwned My thoughts exactly! I smoke it for the same reasons.
CelorElderOne 1 year ago
weed is bs. it has no LASTING positive effects. you feel like you're more original when you're on it cause you get that satisfying mmMMMmm when you finish something artistic, but then looking at it from a sober perspective you feel like a 6 year old wrote it. i know its useful to cancer patients, pain killers, etc... but as a mind-expander? please. REAL psychedelics: dmt, shrooms, etc are meant for that. those make you curious and smart not curious and dumb like weed and have lasting positives
ArcticSheep 1 year ago
@ArcticSheep the only long lasting effect of weed is happiness :-)
If you aren't able to balance yourself on weed then obviously its not your medicine. Don't blame the plant dude... ItsLot older dan you!
createculture 1 year ago
@createculture so is heroin. you're only happy because you're a happy person. its not weed. the door swings both ways. if you want to say not to blame shit on weed, then you cant say you're happy because of it. otherwise you're using double standards
ArcticSheep 1 year ago
@ArcticSheep You might be talking yourself in cicles main.
Listen and I'll lay one down for you.
There are two kinds of drugs, drugs that put you into a stupor, and drugs that wake you up. Being able to access the ladder brings higher states of consciousness. Not repeating patterns. Not dumbing down in school. Not the same thing over and over like our pathetic culture. Thats insane!! Creativing.. Consicousness.. Life is our future. An attempt to reconnect with nature may be due.
createculture 1 year ago 6
@createculture i agree with most of what you're saying. i'm just saying weed isn't one of those drugs. lsd, shrooms, dmt, peyote are where its at. weed is neither a wake up drug nor a stupor drug - its just useless.
ArcticSheep 1 year ago
couldn't his brain problems have been caused by the years of drug taking?
SSPX3 1 year ago
@SSPX3 i beleive it was caused by satelite radiation that was spewing into his home. ...i think...im not too sure
mancheromanchero 1 year ago
@SSPX3
About 1200 had the same type of tumour when he did who had no history of any type of psychedelic or cannabis use,
FeelOfFriction 1 year ago
weed is gods given medicine.... natures cure for nearly everything.
jackblacksutube 1 year ago 2
3:31
Truer words were never spoken.
KingCobra874 1 year ago
marijuana brings DARKNESS into your life and mind. it makes the user passive and easily manipulated. it lies to you.
nineteen19candles 1 year ago
@nineteen19candles ... one day you will see the light
law4mvp 1 year ago
@nineteen19candles lol u lie to us!
SwishasNHerb 1 year ago
@nineteen19candles -- there is no doubt plants are tricksters. This is in fact an intelligence test! Good luck :-) Tim Leary said, trust your nervous system..
createculture 1 year ago
damn once a week, more like once and hour!
steved943 2 years ago
@steved943 totally made me laugh!
createculture 1 year ago
We need to legalize all substances, if someone has a problem with a substance, then they should be banned from it. The world isn't full of only imbeciles, some of the people are actually capable of being responsible for themselves.
Kitt0000 2 years ago 40
@Kitt0000 Intelligence IS the new attraction :-)
createculture 1 year ago
marijuana can benefit your life, depending on the person and how it's used. period. like he said, a capitalist (corrupt) society has no room for that mindstate
Wakeupsleepyhead1984 2 years ago 4
And you are "probably" a jerkoff. The was goes before the probably, stop getting high and remember what you learned in school.
Jllucky8 2 years ago
I think the main thing with cannibus is balance, and not many people have that. I deliver medical equipment, and deal with people with cancer and AIDS, and some of them take medical marijuana, or a known dosage of THC that is the active ingredient to relieve pain and stimulate hunger because of chemotherapy, or the side effects of other drugs. The problem in the states in that "weed" is attributed to certain behavior, and introduced in school, at the same time habits can be addictive.
BIoodorange 2 years ago
Also, I find it hilarious that this video gets flagged for "inappropriate material" while at the same time Lil Jon's "Skeet Skeet Skeet" song is deemed perfectly appropriate.
jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago 4
cannabis can cure<33333333
pierson123 2 years ago
Don't balance your check book, think of the greek rennisance. This is what we need less responsible Americans. Inhaling smoke healthy? Must be like cigaretts. People should only smoke once a week.. good luck with that. This video is a joke.
Jllucky8 2 years ago
Are you against people contemplating historical events? All he's saying is that, under a cannabis high, you might be more intrigued by intellectual discourse rather than mundane responsibilities, and rightly so. I smoke pot to escape the necessary drudgery of my work day and enjoy myself. It's my choice, fuck you if you can't deal with that. (by the way, I smoke approximately once a week, and take prolonged breaks when necessary, so fuck you on that regard as well)
jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago
Hey tool, mundane responsibilities make the world go round. You sound like the typical loser who needs to escape his pitiful daily grind instead of living a rewarding life. I doubt weed will provide anyone with "intellectual discourse" as it cannot teach or enlighten on matters you haven't already learned. By the way, its still illegal, so run back to your basement apt, hide and smoke your weed little boy. P.S. Try to get laid it's a good stress reliever too.
Jllucky8 2 years ago
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jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago
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jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago
Why is smoking cannabis and living a responsible, rewarding life so mutually exclusive to people like you who bash it? Do you really think that everyone who does it is a worthless couch potato? Terrence McKenna, the man in the video who made the Greek Renaissance comment, is a very successful lecturer, ethnobotanist and author. Carl Sagan smoked pot through most of his adult life and he is the most popular astronomer of our time.
jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago 12
This is what we call the exception and not the rule. I know a drunk who drives most of the time without incident so maybe we should legalize DWI?
Jllucky8 2 years ago
@jadedmisanthropy doesn't the light feel good :-)
createculture 1 year ago
The stereotypes about cannabis users that people like you pass around must stop, because they are needlessly ostracizing people from their professional and social lives. It is a needless stigma doing more harm than good. Shame on you, sir, shame on you for propagating that stigma further. Tolerate other people's lifestyles already.
jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago 4
Shame on you for attacking me and criticizing me on my beliefs. I don't have to tolerate illegal activity.
Jllucky8 2 years ago
And as for your comment about getting laid, well, I will let someone else speak for me....
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." - Aldous Huxley
jadedmisanthropy 2 years ago 3
And that "something more interesting" is drugs? I doubt drugs are what the author had in mind, just a guess though. But thank you for using clean language this time around because as I always say, profanity is a sign of a weak mind.
Jllucky8 2 years ago
The 'something more interesting' wasn't intended to be drugs, just anything mind-expanding like literature, art, and the sciences. However, Huxley was an advocate of LSD use for spiritual and creative purposes, although he disapproved of its casual, party-drug use. I think sex should be considered a drug, some people chase orgasms like a junkie chases the needle, next thing they know they're pissing themselves in front of Chris Hansen and his MSNBC crew. And profanity is fucking awesome.
InterstellarSandbox 2 years ago 2
Oh and this is jadedmisanthropy, btw.
InterstellarSandbox 2 years ago
@Jllucky8 lol for real! EGO and is Emergencey go. When you don't understand the truth and your personality kicks in to save you from reality. The only place to hide is from yourself, because the older parts of yourself are watching. The ones who carried your dna accross obsicals we can't mention on youtube. You could humble yourself just a touch..
createculture 1 year ago
@createculture "EGO and is Emergencey go." Whatever that means... No need to come on here and make cryptic entries taht elude to something you made up. As much as you hate it there is a reality outside your little drug world, if we were all high our national defense not to mention everyday life would go down the tubes. Not just the U.S. but most other civilized countries have recognized this and banned drugs.
Jllucky8 1 year ago
@createculture The bottom line is this- If you need to alter your reality you are an unhappy person. This is why most people abuse drugs and get strung out on them because they are trying to escape their unhappy reality. A drugs high is a false reality. This has nothing to do with "EGO", if thats what your trying to say; it has to do with truth. But your old enough to rent a car now so you have all the answers.
Jllucky8 1 year ago
@Jllucky8
I am an unhappy person - SO WHAT? I don't need you, my neighbor or the nanny state to tell me how to deal with my unhappyness. It never crosses their minds that I just want to be left alone. But everyone has an opinion to vomit at me, and people like me. Leave us alone and mind your own business.
LunkwillFook 1 year ago
Very simple, the only way for THEM to control the profit is to keep it illegal.
AgainstTheWind001 2 years ago
LEGALISEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ffs, dont keep society away from something that natural and awsome.....
snach696 2 years ago
Great Video... what about this is unsuitable to minors?
Also, didn't McKenna admit to smoking several joints a day for most of his life?
shizyo 2 years ago
yes he smoked many joints a day! in the full length video where this clip is from its brought on as a joke..
minors? well we also have a perverted educational system. information is information
createculture 2 years ago 2
the only reason its illegal is because the government can't make money off of it. now the only reason they are considering legalizing it is a last resort taxation in states which are in debt such as California.
v1kingfan 2 years ago
"This video may not be suitable for minors"
WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT, SEX AND VIOLENCE ARE ALRIGHT BUT NOT THIS KIND REAL EDUCATION FU!
3rdeyeoptics 2 years ago 3
HEY ASSHOLES STOP FLAGGING VIDEOS!
3rdeyeoptics 2 years ago 2
i just don't like how its illegal and the type of people you have to buy from.... not all dealers, but in my area at least EHHH. o_x
rawlucas 2 years ago
remember once a week...the danger is to become habituated...as a sacremental tool dope is fine...use it wisely and dont take any plug nickels...free the weed.
merlinpi1 2 years ago
i'd rather smoke weed every day than eat anti depressants........it helps me aclimate myself to the wacky world we live in today.......
ThatWhalingBand 2 years ago 51
beards
desembodic 2 years ago 4
This comment has received too many negative votes show
my checkbook is balanced. does that make me abnormal? i'm happy w/o veggie crutch. i have no fear. let's meditate on that. ohhmmm
lafaust 2 years ago
You're missing the point. McKenna was elaborating on the intellectual expansion possibilities that cannabinoids (specifically THC) offer. I don't think he was implying a problem with either way of thinking.
cooliscool 2 years ago 4
fuck the youtube! smoke weed everyday! write rhymes and make beats! fuck the globalists! yeah!
MBKDragonfly 2 years ago 5
these people in this video are more well read and articulate than most of our political leaders, especially a certain ex president who lacked much in the way of any articulation and intelligence.
we can take advice from these people, or those who in positions of power who want to manipulate us in the name of making a buck for their corporate masters... as mckenna says, 'we are lead by the least among us'.
herbalvegas 2 years ago 5
Ok cannabis haters! what about the flouride the goverment put in all our water it is a rat poison that shrinks and gives tumours to the pineal gland "third eye". They don't wan't people to use cannabis becuase they will find out the goverment is run by the builderberg group! rebel people!
Auriclama 2 years ago 2
"But there have been no deaths contributed to marijuana" Is a very very bullcrap statement; people die form lung cancer and if your going to tell me tar doesnt contribute to this than its total blasphemy; anyone who is alive knows tar isn't good for you and cannabis has a lot of tar. So my beef is they keep saying marijuana causes no deaths. It is correct that noone dies while on the drug because of the drug; or noone ODs' but at least give truthful information that this could causelungcancer
partylwc 2 years ago
proof please, or you're just another ranting youtuber. and no i'm not going to google up anything, bring a valid point or go be a loud angry speedbump on the internet.
CrippledNasty 2 years ago
No, it doesnt cause lung cancer. Do the research.
In over 5,000 years of recorded human use across several different continents, there has never been a recorded case of lung cancer from marijuana use.
When you have something that humankind has used for that long (like olives, figs, or see-saws) and no one has ever come down with lung cancer from it...to suggest that "well it still might cause lung cancer" is grasping at straws.
Gonzo707 2 years ago
partylwc
theres truth and there is bullshit in everything
EVERYTHING is just concepts Everything is a theory
we dont know and probably never will know wut truly is going on and wut truly is this thing calLed ;reality or "time" or "life"
and the fact dat u dont smoke cannabis and dont balance ur acconut or w/e thats just it thats u thats why terrence said "you might"
drugs (from sugar to caffeine to lsd) works different on different people it doesnt act the same for everyone
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diegopunk 2 years ago
i do not agree with his original statement about balancing checks not on weed and thinking about history while on weed because i dont smoke and i dont balance my checks and i like history.
Ii get the sense that in this state of his life he is supporting weed for the sake of supporting weed and almost rambling.
That being said; i think there is some truth in his statements. But it isnt all truth; some of it very frail bullcrap opinions
partylwc 2 years ago
weed over time i would bet money on can be harmful i think any educated person should agree with this statement because tar is harmful
I think without evidence weed is less harmful then cigarettes even though it has more tar because cigarettes have a lot of chemicals.
I think he should instead of comparing weed to drugs that are more often ingestible should compare weed to say nicotine. Nicotine probably causes very very very few deaths if any at all. Smoking is hard to overdose period.
partylwc 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but you sound like a misinformed dumbass. Nicotine kills nearly 440,000 people a year, while cannabis kills 0. I agree that tar is harmful, but it isn't the WEED that causes the tar, it's the SMOKING of it. There's a lot of different ways to ingest cannabis, ranging from edibles to vaporization.
Comparing THC to nicotine is like comparing apples and oranges...or rather, a pea shooter to a gun. There's no comparison when it comes to the danger factor.
Taors 2 years ago
gumpy i dont kno how you can be so sure that weed will damage you... your problem is that you started at such an early age, weed isnt for immature teenagers who approach it as another way to get fucked up... this is why there are millions of american adults who beleive cannabis is a wonderful thing because it will destroy you lulz
and i lawled at karl marx up there
Uaaron65 2 years ago
I can be pretty sure because I felt it, man. I was reading philosophy, I was forming theories, I was interested in literature (yes, a child of 15), and though my intelligence is still mostly here, I was melodramatic about that, those things, those ABILITIES, have vanished and I struggle to do those things now. Concentration's gone, all the little things and the big things such as abstract thought. I really don't think early age has anything to do with it.
Gumpy333 2 years ago
That's unfortunate for you, but it doesnt prove anything objectively about marijuana use.
I had a completely different experience myself. Im far more erudite and well-read than I ever was. Is this "because of drugs?" No....and neither are my failures or shortcomings in life.
Dr. Andrew Weil, Terence McKenna, and his brother Dennis are just a few brilliant people among many others who obviously werent mentally stunted by their drug use either.
Gonzo707 2 years ago
i started smoking this summer, im in my junior year and i try and smoke everyday. my gpa has gone up .3 points since last year to a 3.8. it helps me do my homework, study for tests, and even take test. i just got a 100 on a history exam YAY. and i was hgh as hell when i took it.
buzwazfuz 2 years ago
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jennafergouldie 2 years ago
So to say pot is entirely a good or bad thing is uneducated. What pharmaceutical companies do for one, herbology does for another. Stop telling people how to heal themselves. wow 10,000 deaths attributed to asperin but pot may very well always be taboo! I say be afraid society for the day pot is accepted as a new mind set and not a junkies fix America is in for a rude awakening. But continue to fear it's what americans do best
jennafergouldie 2 years ago
was that karl marx at :52?
electronicmilkman 2 years ago
Yes !
bunburyZ 2 years ago
haha. i wonder if he gets that all the time. "marijuana influences the proletariat to rebel against bourgeois state machinery."
electronicmilkman 2 years ago
im confused as to why terence mckenna says here the best way to do it is once a week, when he would smoke it several times every day.
unicornskickass12 2 years ago
hes obviously stating this from experience. Its his recommendation, you do what you want with it.
clehneis 2 years ago
"Unwelcome in capitalist based society". Wise words indeed. From one who has lost all of his adolescence and whose adulthood is slowly slipping away, I can tell you without a doubt that cannabis can and will damage you. I took it at 15 and it ruined me. It dulled me, stole my intelligence which I've only just begun to get back, completely savaged my personality, changed what I wrote, thought, believed - and it was less, all of it. From my position, that's proof enough. Nah. Fuck you McKenna.
Gumpy333 2 years ago
i dunno, there are doctors and lawyers and presidents who smoked marijuana, and they are obviously not mentally affected
jerbol 2 years ago
First off, just like alcohol there should be a legal mature age in which you can use marijuana. Your life could have easily been ruined by consuming too much alcohol at a young age. Second of all, McKenna gives his opinion that you should only use it once a week. Using too much Marijuana can have ill affects on some people. Thirdly, the fact that your blaming marijuana on the way your life has come about is just pathetic. You chose to use it, take responsibility for your actions.
clehneis 2 years ago
Cannabis is a different kettle of fish to alcohol. It's insidious where alcohol isn't, makes changes that alcohol doesn't, the two can't be compared. Legalising it is just flat out idiotic. McKenna said in other interviews he used it every day, quite heavily, and his "once a week" is only to get the apparent benefits from it that tolerance take away. His other opinion is that the research amounts to nothing and the substance is harmless, which, hey, in MY experience at least, is total bollocks.
Gumpy333 2 years ago
I have to disagree. My experiences are quite the opposite of yours stated here. I've had nothing but good experiences with Marijuana. I've never had a problem with it, never committed a crime, and got through college (double major with honors) and grad school just fine while using it. I use it to relax and it makes movies more "fun." I say to each his own, and if you do something stupid while smoking weed or drinking beer, it's because YOU are stupid; not the drug, not the drink.
robertmfarmer 2 years ago 3
Alcohol is by leaps and bounds more dangerous in just about every respect than marijuana- youre right, they cant really be compared:
- One is a toxic CNS depressant and deliriant which can (and often does) leave users in a coma and/or with serious brain, liver, heart, and renal damage for life.
- The other is an extremely mild and nontoxic psychedelic which has never caused a single death (or coma, or kidney failure, or liver failure, etc) in 5,000 years of recorded human use.
Gonzo707 2 years ago 5
I absolutly agree with you.
However, who would go to their doctor and say, hey I have a problem I think from smoking and illegal drug. Hmm thats why there arn't any recorded problems or deaths from it.
But I use it so I can't say shit.
GuitarRHCPfan 2 years ago
I would agree if we could assume that absolutely everyone and anyone who smokes marijuana and contracts a terminal illness/condition was afraid to admit to their doctor that they smoke marijuana...or if the 5,000 years of recorded human use didnt include centuries across different continents wherein the current American social stigma against marijuana did not exist and there would be no reason for anyone to deny using it.
There simply is no reason to believe that marijuana use causes death.
Gonzo707 2 years ago
no,there are no recorded cases cause noone has died from it.
MadCircle01 2 years ago
Also, hold your horses with that last comment. I used it for a number of reasons, if I were back there I'd probably make the same mistake, and I've been blaming myself ever since it happened, don't worry about that. It's just this. It's people like McKenna crapping on about its' 'virtues' and saying it's completely fine, when there are people who simply lose it with this stuff. It's this bullshit disinformation from drugfucked morons who can't see two feet in front of them that makes me boil.
Gumpy333 2 years ago
Can you please just watch the video again. They say that not everybody should use cannibus and the people that do should be well informed about it. McKenna is a Pychadelic drug freak, what do you think he's gonna say; weed is bad? The people that screw their lives up because of marjauna would've screwed it up with something else if they didn't have access to it. Just cause its easier to smoke a joint then drink a 12 pack doesnt mean it can be used more. Moderation my friend. Use your brain.
clehneis 2 years ago
I think it works differently and should be treated differently, moderate use has more effect than moderate alc use for instance, but I don't think I'll ever persuade anyone about that. Once is too much in my zealous, rigid mind. Not all use is tragically heavy is what I'm saying, and the difference between it and grog as one example makes itself known when it's light. But the research is sparse and inconclusive and it's up to the individual, I just urge people not to. Ok. Now I'll stop. Sorry.
Gumpy333 2 years ago
That was the real point of my original post. Not to bitch, but to say "Please! Find another way to have fun lest you make a big mistake."
Gumpy333 2 years ago
A drug will not "steal your intelligence" or "ruin you."
You "ruined" yourself and what amount of "intelligence" that was ever "stolen" from you in the first place is debatable. To blame your problems on an inanimate object or substance which you couldnt control your personal use of is silly and evasive.
Guns and knives do not kill people either...people do.
Gonzo707 2 years ago
Um... ok. Tell that to someone at the end of an ice holocaust or a heroin addict, or the number of studies on any illicit drug that show things as diverse as decreased activity to shrunken parts of the brain that are affected. You can find those here on your very own youtube. As I said before, thinking on higher levels is extremely difficult, much more than it was before, and
Gumpy333 2 years ago
I wouldnt bother telling that to an ice or heroin addict, because severe addicts usually have a pathological issue with accepting responsibility for their own actions anyway. Yes, abuse of some substances can result in brain damage...so? Youre not telling me anything I dont know and it doesnt refute my point.
Fortunately logic and common sense are on my side here. Drugs do not "ruin people's lives." You can ruin your own life with drugs, sure...but YOU are responsible for that, not drugs.
Gonzo707 2 years ago 3
I'm not blaming the substance, I'm angry at the idiots who insist on saying it's completely fine and set up others to fail, as every piece of information I had pointed me to that, when it was wrong. I'm angry at a world that isn't satisfied with sobriety and uses substances to expand its' mind, when curiosity and hard fucking work are just as effective and profoundly more rewarding. A world where noone seems to know what intellect is anymore, and everyone is resigned to taking a shortcut.
Gumpy333 2 years ago
Truth.
Mehdoozi 2 years ago
I've seen MJ make some people more creative and introspective, and others totally unmotivated losers.
Checker222 2 years ago 2
Yeah, totally. I had that thought just the other week, that everybody is getting high from coffee and it is allowed because it is conducive to industry. People make up for the two hours of sleep they lost because of work, by having a cup of coffee in the morning.
It's just disgusting when you realize how much capitalism uses people and treats them like tools.
68david09 2 years ago 4
cannabis was my first way to open the doors of perception and i agree it should be used less, at least once in a week and what terence says that cannabis dont fix with the capitalist and maket based societies its perfect! rest in peace mckenna!
oliveiradiogo87 2 years ago
just Think for a momment do you trust god made drugs or man made drugs? -(in god we trust)-
Auriclama 2 years ago
sudoku + weed = fun! try iq tests when normal and when fuked up, its that simple
shaggydaplaya 2 years ago
not suitable for minors?
tgip262308 2 years ago 2
Please Weed is bad for you. Heroin is much better.
Jerichogivesouttruth 2 years ago
I believe that marijuana is a great herb and medicine but just like anything if you abuse it can affect you in a negative way.
Vexx1978 2 years ago
I enjoy drugs but find it kinda sad that it's so difficult to enjoy things at the same level while sober.
chairlover721 2 years ago
from the first time i smoked cannabis i smoked pretty much everyday for over a year, i loved it, but over time i learned, that it is a tool not to be abused it quickly loses its magic if you choose to overuse it. Less is so much more, i quit over 2 months ago, i look forward to the next smoke but it is only a treat to be used once per week. i would advise daily smokers to take a week off if u respect the herb it will respect you back
c7v 2 years ago
werd
NotSoUniversal 2 years ago
It's not a drug, it's a Herb.
LEGALIZE
teamradiationgaming 2 years ago
man legalize the shit... but dont smoke and drive... ur going to make a fool outa u thinking a smoked up head can handle a car proper...
ImmerWeeder20 2 years ago
9 times out of 10 im driving high, im 21 and still havent been in an accident. im more worried about other people running into me rather than vice versa
goldencarMH 2 years ago
I hope people do drive into you you stupid pot head.
Jerichogivesouttruth 2 years ago
i drive fucked up all the time and the only time i've been in an accident was when i was sober. i almost got in a second accident, but that black ice whatcha gonna do?
OpakeArawra2 2 years ago
weed is very easy to drive on compaired to lsd or dxm lol
BLINDMAGEVIDCRITIC 3 years ago
That Big Burly Dude with the Beard, hittin' that Bong at 2:01 is a Hoot! Tokers No 1-- Bro.
CosmicFork 3 years ago
terrence is so right. once a week, people really don't realize how cloudy ur mind can get if u smoke everyday...
brayvo 3 years ago