Given where my life was at 10 years ago it's a flaming miracle I'm still going, So I'm delighted to say that in 2010 I've continued to not die, and I'm still seeing huge improvements in my quality of life and personal well being.

I plan to return to karting for next season with a test and hopefully a race before the end of this year, I'm also quitting smoking in order to finance it and have cut down to 10 a day as a prelude to stopping completely in the coming days.

I'm much more secure in myself when out in public having further developed my "I really don't care" attitude to people I don't know, and I'm emotionally much more stable, the confidence is coming back too albeit slower.

In all I'd say 2010 has been a mostly positive year for me, although it has had some pretty major setbacks too: I lost a much loved pet; got through a couple of girlfriends; and my sex life is near non-existant of late.

Quote from -NightFly- :

so is 1000 joints worse than 1 pint!

**** yes, you'd have to empty the ashtray and if you think you can manage that after 1000 joints you're quite quite delluded... :P

Quote from AstroBoy :

But what happens if say a 14 year old girl rapes a 18 year old guy? Whos at fault?

Systemise the routine, Humanise the exception: The law doesn't cover this scenario, should it ever occur It would not be automatic rape, she'd have to be tried by jury. Given her age, probably just by a judge in a childrens court.

The law is a framework, it's judges and jurries who are responsible for dealing out misjustice.

Quote from 5haz :

Read for christs sake, I never said it should be made illegal.

Hey, centre of the universe boy - I have read the thread, and there's more than one person who has suggested it - either sincerely or as a point of reference to mock the illigality of cannabis, which incidentally, if you read my post and understand it you'll see i'm making a clear point - just what are you trying to say or are you hung up on just attacking me for the sake of it?

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if they do legalize it, then who would sell it? would pharmacies? would you still have to go to your local dealer? the dealers rarely put nothing extra into that stuff, so it instantly becomes illegal again.

Apparently Marlboro already has the name 'Marlies' trademarked Could be an urban myth tbh i've not googled it, but I would think BAT and Imperial Tobacco would both be keen to get products on the shelves, amongst others... Possibly even some pre-rolled ones, just to broaden the appeal.

There's been some suggestion in this thread that alchohol is really bad and should be made illegal. There isn't really a sound medical argument against that - but there is a social one.

Doesn't anyone remember prohibition in America? In the end the American government gave up and legalised alchohol because that was the lesser of the two evils.

They should do the same with cannabis.

Quote from Klutch :

Not to mention its a stupid idea and would just waste his own money.

Quote from bunder9999 :

unless you're talking about making hash, but the only good way of making it is to sift through pounds of "garbage". if it gets "bulked out" with anything, it's bits of plant matter that made it's way through the sifter.

Let's go to the most extreme example: Soap Bar. Notice Ketamin on the list of substances that are often added.

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huh? the only use for resin is for smoking ash when you run out of real weed.

This is part cultural and part historical, for a long time hash was more popular than grass in the UK. I understand that skunk is now the predominant cannabis on the market here, but it wasn't always like that.

As for what the current stuff is like, i've no idea. I stopped taking recreational drugs a long time ago - although it's quite possible i'm still stoned from the sheer quantity I took back in the day.

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This makes no sense. Cannabis (weed) isn't cut with anything 99% of the time. Simply because the drug itself is so cheap, it would make it more expensive once it's cut with other unsafe drugs.

You aren't cynacle enough. Resin is often bulked out to add more weight to it. As for mixing in class A, yes i've known a dealer to do that. The basic presmise is sound, many of his customers knew only him as their dealer and he wanted them hooked and dependant upon him. I don't know how sucessful he was as I try not to know people like that for long. But if you think cynically and criminally enough there's all manner of reasons not to sell cannabis pure. Do you honestly believe that every Henry is sold pure? Just how honest do you think people are? You need to spend a little while living as a backstabbing careless bastard to get an idea of what life is really like. You're too nice and trusting.

Quote from amp88 :

Err...you really didn't. You said it was "folly to argue that Cannabis is less dangerous than tobacco" because it was often mixed with tobacco. The fact that it is often mixed with tobacco doesn't make marijuana any more dangerous.

but I said that tobacco was more dangerous and addictive too - like I said, all the facts, different emphasis... I see tobacco is coming hand in hand with cannabis (maybe that'd be the gateway drug! ). Although I have known 1 person who was so anti-smoking he'd only toke it pure from a bong... but he was weird... because of that my conclusion is that smoking cannabis leads to smoking tobacco, so the ill effects of tobacco need to be considered when regarding cannabis in a social context. As I said, on a medical level, tobacco is significantly worse than Cannabis in most respects.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Legalise it, at least then it will be safer, also we could recover from the recession by taxing it and tourism would go through the roof.

But we'd bankrupt Holland (because we would have "drugs and The Queen", and they would only have "drugs and a Queen"), that in turn would finish off the Euro, which would leave Britain as the only Western power left to stem the tide of manufacturing from China.

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I agree with the vast majority of your post but I have to take issue with your logic here. You're saying that because people often (but as you point out not exclusively) mix marijuana with tobacco that makes marijuana more dangerous. This is not logic. Smoking a pipe or bong with no tobacco is less dangerous than smoking a cigarette, would you agree? If so then it's not folly at all to say that marijuana is less dangerous than tobacco.

I said exactly what you said, but instead of questioning my logic I used different words and emphasis.

Also I think it's rellevent to point out that i'm not a Cannabis user, I haven't touched drugs for about 10 years except one wayward weekend when I got drunk and did a few joints a few years ago. I am an ex-junkie, but i've been clean some years and if cannabis was legalised I would have no intention at all to ever use any. Infact i'm recently back from a week in Amsterdam/Haarlem and I didn't go to a single coffee shop.

Quote from Intrepid :

It would very much depend on the demographic of people that use this drug as to whether it would bring in extra revenue for the tax man. The effects of the use on ones productivity, as well as where one gets the money (welfare?) to pay for it all come into the equation. I think the mathematics are far too complex to simply say it would bring in more money to the treasury.

In Intrepid's world all cannabis smokers are unemployed loosers who lack the sense of self worth to make any sort of commitment to the country all, thuys they fail to contribute to his ultra right wing fascist utopia - and the utopia, I meen state, should not be giving them a penny just so that they can spend it all on drugs.

There are so many missunderstandings about the worlds favorite plant. So here's a few:

• Cannabis can be addictive. You can even get DT's coming off it.
  
• Cannabis can be hugely benefitial to some people when used as a medicine.
  
• Cannabis can be harmful. It can cause many psychological conditions.
  
• Cannabis is often cut with other, non-safe, content - including but not limited to more addictive class A drugs, or household products.
  
• Cannabis does not lead to other drugs (that's a social construct which does that - and if you change the social circumstances it's used then you change the social construct).
  
• Cannabis is less dangerous than alchohol.
  
• It's folly to argue that Cannabis is less dangerous than tobacco when it is frequently (although not exclusively) mixed with it - but as base compound - yes tobacco is significantly more dangerous (and also more addictive, thanks to added chemicals such as amonia which increases the addictiveness of nicotene sevenfold).
  

Cannabis is and should be used as a medicine, I don't understand why it isn't. Almost all medicines are highly addictive and have nasty side effects - we take them because the things they cure are worse than the consequences of the drugs.

It makes no sense that cannabis can't be made available to the people it would help because some do gooding christian mother drove her daughter to crystal meth and the doting mum blamed it on the drugs... That's the paradox people, people die in agony because medicine isn't available because of a social issue, and like all social issues, it is little more than a misunderstood generation gap.

Like many medicines I dont see why Cannabis isn't out in the open, available either without prescription from a pharmacy.

Being open about drugs helps in educating in their use - and whilst being open with crack might result in more harm than good - being open with cannabis will help reduce the overall harmful effects of the substance on our society.

The biggest problems caused by cannabis on our society, other than an entire county without fire extinguisher safety pins stolen for use as twooners, is from overuse - and that could be easily cured by encouraging a more responsible attitude toward drug use instead of this "just say no, drugs are bad, they'll **** up your life" approach that's used now - when to anyone who's actually used them, they're pretty sure they're in control (until they aren't - ask me how I know).

all the potential exploits are easily fixable with an ini setting for

reconnect_minimum_time = 60

to set how long until a disconnected car can rejoin, with their laps intact. I'd o a bit further...

reconnect_refuel = no
reconnect_tyres = no
reconnect_damage = no

Quote from rockclan :

Do I smell a christian chuch pastor?

I hope not, we've got youngsters coming.

Small world. I've had her.

Quote from Shotglass :

who all have tal bachman (whoever that is... one hit wonder i suppose) playing in a loop on their mp3 players? or walkmans back in your days

um, Walkmans were really expensive and quite rare back in my school days... Infact that reminds me of a story:

I decided to get a Walkman for my girlfriend at the times birthday, I got quite an expensive Sony one for her, and spoke for quite a while to the salesman before he took my money so he knew it was for someone special. I gave her the Walkman and thought no more of it until a few days later I visited her at her house and who should answer the door... Said salesman was her dad! Which left me a little uncomfortable asking his daughter, who'd just got a brand new Walkman, out to ... play. That was my first ever meet the parents experience.

And oddly enough I still have the pewter tankard she bought me - I found it at my parents house last week and bought it home.

Anyway, back to the mocking and therapy...

Quote from Shotglass :

im still amazed that there is such a thing as a below him

I strongly suspect there isn't. I ve never seen anyone with any experience put those arguments forward. Infact the only times I heard that "above me/beneath me" crap was at school from virgins with no hope.

He wouldn't date her Dustin, he aims beneath himself afterall

You're such a catch BlueFlame...

Quote from danthebangerboy :

Kirsty hardly ever whinged or whined or got in a mood about anything, and if she did it was on the very rare occasion and she had a very good reason, all in all i had it quite good i suppose, guess it werent meant to be, live goes on eh.

Aye, she's always pleasant, and more astute than she makes out. But she does have a habbit of ending every sentence on facebook with "lol". If you get the chance can you show her where the full stop is ?

I hope you're feeling a bit better, I know how up and down it can be at this point of a break up. Try not to rebound and don't let the house get too messy .

Quote from tikshow :

you dont need a 3D glass or a 3D tv play a game in a 3D world(cause you can play in one since DOOM...)

3D games existed long before DOOM. Earliest I can think of is Elite on the BBC Micro B.

That'll teach Jesus. Naughty boy was popping over to the Hustler when no-one was about. Daddy no likee the rude.

So any girl (20% of female populace) who won't sleep with you is a tattoo wielding pierced lesbian?

Your words make you the ugliest person in this thread, and I don't do lower game.. (then again I'm a tattoo wielding lebian).

Once you've been in a relationship you'll find you are incompatible with certain types of women/men/inanimate objects.

For instance I'm quite an astute person, brains the size of an elephants scrotum. Can't help myself, was born like it. Thick girls drive me nuts - because I can't explain stuff, can't have a conversation unless I dumb it down, have to explain my jokes. I'll run rings around her mentally and not even meen too. And it's not like shell appreciate me more because I'm 'higher game' mentally because she lacks the undertanding to realise how intelligent I am.

Dating 'lower game' as you put it, is about the stupidist and unfulfilling thing you can do.

Quote from The Very End :

It's a date!
Btw, don't blame me if I go apeshit, as you said Becky - Norwegians canot drink alco-lol well

I barely ever drink anymore so my limit is 0...

On my phone so excuse typos and lack of specific quoting.

It isn't right to be with someone just for the sake of it, then again I've never held a relationship down for over a year (in point of fact my longest relationship ended when she cheated on our anniversary) so maybe I'm not the right person to ask about lasting relationships!

But the way I see it you can do only so much to mend a broken thing before you have to replace it. I still love many of my exes, and always will, and take no shame from them always owning a small piece of my heart. I still make time for all but 1 (Hayley, who kept trying to **** me and I had to forceably remove her from me every time I saw her even months after we split) and one of my best friends is an ex (you can probably figure out who from the way we talk on facebook)... My point being - for those of us who havnt spent almost all of our adult life in 1 relationship - after a while exes become the best friend you can have, a confidant who knows you well and genuinely wants the best for you. When some time has passed I hope you will be able to see Kirsty in this way. If for no other reason than wihout you her DIY nightmares are going to get seriously out of hand!

It is hard adjusting to being alone, there is no doubt of this. After I broke up with Zee coming home to an empty house every night left me very depressed at the state of my own life, not so much becaus I missed Zee (I did I meen her body was fantastic and she's a lovely if somewhat niave girl) but I felt very lonely, and everyone seemed to be avoiding me (no wonder because I was bloody miserable). It took me some time to feel ok about myself again and as soon as I did I had that overdue holiday and now I'm back - feeling much more posiive and totally ok with being single. It took time, and it's going to take you time too. You don't heal 5 years in 5 days, but you will heal.

And you know, I've had more than a little interest in The Bexter since, but I'm in no rush. Not because I'm happy or because I preffer being single - far from it - but because I think i need to be truly happy before I can start a relationship and be a able to give enough of myself.

If you're not truly happy in yourself then a relationship is only going to excascerbate what you feel, because if you connect with someone when you are miserable then you establish a miserable connection.

So give yourself time, try not to drink too much, and you'll get there.

And feel free to call or pop over for a Jovoporn night.