kickycan wrote:George Carlin once said that he believed pot opened up certain doors for him, creatively speaking, that wouldn't have been opened had he not smoked it. But he did also say that it gets to a point where it stops having that effect, and this is when it can possibly actually stifle creativity. I think it depends on the person, and just how much o' the stuff they're smokin'.
I think this states my position much better.
I am a philosophy professor and I am surrounded by 19 year old high-on's who are convinced it is the liberating drug of the future - when in reality I see thier grades plummet, them loose thier jobs, and becomes idiots that can only talk about pot with 8,000,000 euphamisms. It gets REALLY old.
I think you all are talking from a responsible prespective but I can't help but think it sounds like glamorization of things that tend to be destructive to the masses.
I notice that my pot head students can only talk creatively about what they can make bongs out of. 'Dude - I could totally make a bong out of this book!'
I also get tired of them attempting to emulate the dead people on thier tye dye t-shirts. Aspirating your own vomit to death is so friggen cool to them.
This is what I think of when I think of dope - so you need to excuse me and understand where I come from.
TTF