Cops suck, and then...

[Emperor]

Splendora Texas!

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Ha! I'll take your word for it. Is there a story behind Splendora?

 

[Bayoupiper]

Ha! I'll take your word for it. Is there a story behind Splendora?

Probably the biggest speed trap in Texas.

We had a saying back then that if you barely graduated from high school, couldn't get into college, and flunked the ASVAB, that Splendora PD would hire you.





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[Peacemaker]

I'm so confused...

Didn't you say you went to two domestic calls and marijuana was present? Were they arguing and fighting? Maybe they were angry that the pipe wasn't being passed fast enough?

 

[Peacemaker]

Who would those folks be?

I wonder?

My post should have read, weed smokers at times can be violent..

 

[Emperor]

Didn't you say you went to two domestic calls and marijuana was present? Were was they arguing and fighting? Maybe they were angry that the pipe wasn't being passed fast enough?

Bogarting the pipe is usually not a justifiable offense to provoke violence!

 

[Leonidas]

I wonder?

My post should have read, weed smokers at times can be violent..

...when they're not stoned.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

In Afghanistan most Taliban and Haq Network fighters including suicide bombers are high in hash most of the time. Fact.

 

[JNieman]

In Afghanistan most Taliban and Haq Network fighters including suicide bombers are high in hash most of the time. Fact.

and what else?

 

[Mayonnaise]

In Afghanistan most Taliban and Haq Network fighters including suicide bombers are high in hash most of the time. Fact.

Lol please tell us more about running tox screens on dead Taliban. At least give a source for your "fact."

 

[Leonidas]

Then maybe we ought to bomb them with marijuana, instead.

 

[Peacemaker]

In Afghanistan most Taliban and Haq Network fighters including suicide bombers are high in hash most of the time. Fact.

I can believe that.. It probably has to some degree a calming effect.. There is allot of hash smoking in that region of the world, no?

 

[Peacemaker]

If I'm not mistaken, didn't the kamikaze get high before their suicide missions? What about in Korea? My dad and uncles said that the Chinese were high when they charged in human waves.. Also, in Mogadishu, the fighters there were also high on something..

 

[Leonidas]

Anybody ever have a drink to steady themselves before embarking on a stressful task that was already decided upon when they were stone cold sober? I think its called a shot of courage. Problem is, Muslims are forbidden alcohol.

 

[Emperor]

I can believe that.. It probably has to some degree a calming effect.. There is allot of hash smoking in that region of the world, no?

Most assuredly!

 

[Peacemaker]

Then maybe we ought to bomb them with marijuana, instead.

How about some Prozac?

 

[Peacemaker]

Anybody ever have a drink to steady themselves before embarking on a stressful task that was already decided upon when they were stone cold sober? I think its called a shot of courage. Problem is, Muslims are forbidden alcohol.

Man that's inhumane..

 

[doc ace]

Anybody ever have a drink to steady themselves before embarking on a stressful task that was already decided upon when they were stone cold sober? I think its called a shot of courage. Problem is, Muslims are forbidden alcohol.

Not all were.. A lot of them offered me a can of whiskey while on patrol...

A flipping can of whiskey, I've always wondered how harsh that must have been!

I'm pretty sure the forbidden alcohol was with more zealot and extremist controlled groups. One of the villages we liberated from AQI forces told us of horror stories of men lined up in the streets and executed for smoking, drinking, listening to music...

 

[returningliberty]

Bogarting the pipe is usually not a justifiable offense to provoke violence!

I had some friends in high school who would disagree with you lol.

Also, the idea that pot smokers are never violent...

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/19/nyregion/violent-crimes-undercut-marijuana-s-mellow-image.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11286431/

I think we can put that topic to bed now. When you make something illegal, there will be a black market for it. With a 175% increase in average potency Since The 90's, this is not your grandpa's backyard reefer we're talking about.

 

[tim9lives]

I would argue those that exhibit violent behavior after marijuana use exhibit violent behavior patterns before marijuana use. Been around weed smokers most of my adolescent life. Never saw the hundreds of people I was around get stoned and start looking for fights, unless there were other drugs and/or alcohol alongside.

Couldn't care less who is right or wrong in this debate, but unless you can testify as an eye witness and a participant to hundreds, and I do mean hundreds of examples; you just can't make the claim that THC encourages violence.

Now that synthetic crap these knuckleheads are using now, WOW!

Totally agree. The synthetic crap is just dangerous. I'll add....I have had two lifetime friends who were heavy weed smokers. I lost contact with them after my accident...but would be willing to bet they tried the synthetic crap. Both died of lung cancer within a year of each other. Is there a connection....I can't say for sure. But I am willing to bet that the fake stuff may very well be much more dangerous than anyone really knows for sure.
I am also inclined to think that if it was not for the alcohol lobby......weed would be legal right now. That's a very powerful lobby in D.C. , and is probably scared to death of pot legalization in this country.

 

[Leonidas]

I had some friends in high school who would disagree with you lol.

Also, the idea that pot smokers are never violent...

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/19/nyregion/violent-crimes-undercut-marijuana-s-mellow-image.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11286431/

I think we can put that topic to bed now. When you make something illegal, there will be a black market for it. With a 175% increase in average potency Since The 90's, this is not your grandpa's backyard reefer we're talking about.

Those links are red herrings. They are not germane, as they deal with violence associated with the business side of marijuana, i.e. distribution disputes. I believe the discussion relates to use. This research paper, produced under the auspices of the Justice Department is more relevant.

Psychoactive Substances and Violence

by Jeffrey A. Roth

Series: Research in Brief, US Dept. of Justice

Published: February 1994

19 pages




Of all psychoactive substances, alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. After large doses of amphetamines, cocaine, LSD, and PCP, certain individuals may experience violent outbursts, probably because of preexisting psychosis. Research is needed on the pharmacological effects of crack, which enters the brain more directly than cocaine used in other forms.

Alcohol drinking and violence are linked through pharmacological effects on behavior, through expectations that heavy drinking and violence go together in certain settings, and through patterns of binge drinking and fighting that sometimes develop in adolescence.

For at least the last several decades, alcohol drinking--by the perpetrator of a crime, the victim, or both--has immediately preceded at least half of all violent events, including murders, in the samples studied by researchers.

Chronic drinkers are more likely than other people to have histories of violent behavior.

Alcohol is the only psychoactive drug that in many individuals tends to increase aggressive behavior temporarily while it is taking effect. However, factors at other levels--behavior patterns when people are not drinking, the setting in which people drink, and local drinking customs, for example--influence the strength of this relationship.

Among alcohol abusers, those who also abuse other psychoactive substances, who are diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, and whose parents have been diagnosed as alcohol abusers are at especially high risk of chronic violent behavior. Some researchers have suggested that a genetic process may contribute to this relatively rare pattern.

For example, the aggression-promoting effects of alcohol are strongest in animals having high blood levels of testosterone, the principal male hormone that distinguishes males from females; humans may or may not exhibit the same pattern.

Marijuana and opiates temporarily inhibit violent behavior, but withdrawal from opiate addiction tends to exaggerate both aggressive and defensive responses to provocations.