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I personally jumped for being called narrow minded. It's one thing to smoke it in private, I never said I didn't but i certainly won't in front of kids and I wont promote it on a site that has many underage patrons. Society is going down the crapper badly enough already without artists glorifying drugs within the confines of their work.

If the guys wants a weed theme, great, I could care less, all i said was I'm not making one.

I won't knock the fella. Been there, done that.

Web, "hemp" is as close to what is smoked nowadays as butter is to milk.
Hemp grows on the side of the road in Nebraska, I challenge you to test it and see if it's the same. I'd also like to see a rope made out of some sinsemillia. It'd be more like spider web.

Before anyone gets on my case, I quit when I was 38. Daily smoker (not occasional) for 25 years, so I'm not one to throw stones. Once "clean" I was amazed how much time I wasted chasing after it all those years. I won't even mention the money..........Having quit cigarettes as well I can tell you there is a "mind set/life style" withdrawal. It may not hurt you physically but it does suppress your initiative.

Sorry, WebGizmos, but I have to beg to differ...tried it as a teenager and it made me violently ill....wasn't the only time, either. A year or so later someone replaced some of the tobacco from a cigarette with hash and the result was the same....and more recently, a so-called friend baked some into a batch of choc chip cookies for my 49th birthday...didn't warn me....same result, I was violently ill.

very true

No problem Starkers...It effects everyone differently. When I used to smoke it I got all happy and hungry...but years later it effected me differently which is another reason why I stopped...I started getting nauseas for some reason...maybe old age...who knows. But either way I certainly never put anyone down for not smoking it and respect anyones decision in that regard. I still have friends that indulge and always ask me if I want any...but I just don't have the interest in it that I used to.

Lantec...I agree...it does tend to make you a lazy ass. And its very possible the hemp on the side of the road might not have the same effect as the stuff people smoke now a days...theres all different types of hemp.

Oh...and kids...don't do drugs! This has been a public service announcement!

Oh...anyone found a theme yet? (Just trying to stay on topic)

Again , I repeat, make it yourself. Seeing that pot makes you so ' creative' you should have no problem pasting in a few little leaves.

Your the one that asked for a skinner to make this and when one told you it sounds like a ' fun project ' be he would not advocate such a Theme, you called him narrow minded.
It works both ways. You want your freedom to your opinion yet if someone doesnt agree with you , they are ' narrow minded '

If you want to have bongs all over your desktop , feel free .... if thats what you need to look ' cool'

As for your being open minded in 27 years...

We shall see ...

Just looked back on my post and see the angry smiley could be misinterpreted....was intended to reflect annoyance regarding the person who laced the cookies, not you or anyone else here.

Also, I don't have a such a problem with people who smoke a bit of weed - heck, some of my family members who do - what I can't condone is the use of hard drugs.

I agree with starkers, those who must or want too will. I also gave it up but thats only because I don't want to rot in jail or pay fines. I don't want to give up friends who sold it to me. I don't really want to eat myself any fatter. I don't want to sit on the couch and watch T.V. till I fall asleep. I don't want to go to the store and spend $30.00 on junk food (for the munchies). I don't want the desktop on my computer to reflect (pot) use and don't know why anyone else would. If the person wants too well O.K. but when the cops come, don't be surprised if the computer leaves when they do.

You can't believe everything you here on the news. Fact of the matter is, you can't believe anything you here on the news.



That you can believe.

I got your drift on the angry smiley. I was just agreeing with ya.



I'm with ya on that one!

I think most people have at least tried the stuff. I agree with Giz (in comment #33) and most of his facts I have seen, heard and read before... even from collegiate studies. Much of the anti-pot campaigning over the years has misled people into thinking it is something very bad, which in and of itself is not. There are people who abuse anything they can get their hands on and pot is no different. That said, I would much rather have a friend abuse pot then anything else... including legal stuff like alcohol and many of the prescription drugs around.

Speaking of medical usage... I have had friends with serious conditions who could not function without the stuff and were recommended by doctors themselves to use it. The Chinese used it as far back as 500 BC as medicine and it’s documented by their writings from then. Much of it was for the same reasons people would like to use it for today (i.e. pain, appetite, ect). Of course, drug companies wouldn't have it that way because they would loose crazy amounts of money if such a cheap (and even self grown) medicine was readily available.

Also, my personal feelings on the US 'banning' hemp now is complete idiocy as the plant itself could do much more good then harm. Even though it is closely related to pot it has none of the chemical that actually gets you high (THC), well such a small amount that it won't get you high no matter how much you smoke of it.

As for a theme, I agree with the masses that making such a theme is not the best of ideas as it is illegal in most of the world and 'promoting' it in such a way might not be viewed in good light. I am and have always been a supporter of legalizing both pot and hemp (though with 'controls' in place for pot, i.e. medical usage only). But, there is no way I would currently create a 'theme' for it sadly.

Wow to the guy with the long drawn out history would like to chat with you sometime i like your views i have many of the same though here is the part that no one wants to hear the deepest depth the darkest secret that america or at least the usa has kept and the repeal that was never repealed see marijuana is completely legal in the united states as long as you are on a reservation and are american indian there was a little thing back in the day they called prohibition and it was what got the marijuana taken in the bill it was (sorry lady's) WOMEN that wanted alchohol and marijuana banned in the united states and men were getting weak in their way and got over run by the rich political figures who were moved by controlling wives that ran the prohibition movement oh and by the way prohibition was a violent movement caused by (not marijuana not alchohol) but women (dont think too hard about this but womens rights were good but then again it was a different time and people had different wants and dreams they liked different things from what people of today like and the reason behind it all was the increase in technology) so should we make technology illeagle and go back to living in sod houses start growing hemp again and help the world live a little longer???

What really blows my mind is they say the green house gasses are causing global warming and does no one realize that it is because green is just disappearing from the earth as fast as man can cut it from the ground...

If people were made to grow marijuana the air would be much fresher we wouldnt have soldiers in IRAQ and the earth could finaly heal itself remember things that are used for medicine are not only for people but the planet if the planet didn't need it to live why would it be here...


The religious aspect..... HAHAHAHAHA a bunch of Puritains come to this land and decide what is and is not good for people well think of it like this if you believe in god who created this world you live in??? (the devil???)


Atheist ok now if you dont believe in god and you have to believe in something so believe this the earth would not substain something that would destroy it no living organism exists with out some form of immunity a white blood cell so to speak weather it is rain or snow hurricaine or tornado fire or flood... there has to be a ballance for life to exist cause with out death there is no life with out bad there is no good so if you thrive to take all the bad out of the world you also threaten to take all the good out of the world as well... am I wrong here??? Well no matter cause even the religious types know that tommorow is not prommised though they live like it is not caring about their actions and more major issues by saying it is someone elses problem



Marijuana (Good or Bad)

(lol)

lets say it like this are pit bulls bad???

is it the dogs fault that it was raised to kill by a bad owner

is it a dogs fault that it was beaten and only wants to be free???

there are no good or bad animals only good or bad people

last i saw there are no cats or dogs robbing homes or stores and raping women or kids

this is stuff that only humans do and most of these people are taken into custody and either killed or medicated (MEDICATED) so who is be hind all the mess??? the people who pump steroids into cows to produce more milk??? grow more food??? so that the cost of natural food goes up giving people in a lower class no choice but to eat what they can afford exposing themselves to the drug that the usa dont want you to know about why do you think that people are the way they are???


ADD AHDD people take so many drugs its not funny poor guys if they stop taking the drugs they get violent and confused tired and unfocused but riddlin dont come from a plant but if it did do you think it would be legal??? think about it the goverment runs you they controll your mind and you will never take your eyes off the tv screen long enough to realize what they just pumped into your head you should spend some time learning so that one day maybe the people can unite and do something positive for a change instead of doing just what the government wants you to do though again i am not saying that there should be anarchy or anything like that just that all law should be re written to accomodate the time and the people so that waste is not made people are doing long stretches in prisons for marijuana and cocaine,crack and heroine... And we the people are paying taxes to support these peoples lives and keep them behind bars so that they cant do these things that we consider bad... I could go on forever about this but the truth is that if you dont know everything about something you should at least know something about what you are talking about and not to many people even know the history behind any of this....

well gonna cut it here and leave you with this though....

Tell me where i can get a skinner and ill make a marijuana skin theme and see how many people think that way of me so quick to judge so short to listen... "grow up" dont give advice you wont take my friends that is real...

Off Topic:
I would like to see a skin made to look like "Ragweed". Anybody up for it?(Sarcasm)
Drugs aside, I don't see the point of it. Roses would look better.
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On Topic: No. I have not seen any WB resembling Hemp.

Actually no I was referring to one of my friends who ended up a down and out on the streets of brussels after pot pot and more pot. Serious very bad schizophrenia. Another of my friends has given up pot and gone from being a nobody to a succesful architect...
Most people I know admit to feeling very fragile and not themselves the day after smoking. When you smoke regularly you take this for granted though.

Seriously, pot + schizophrenia- look it up...

Some of you people need to lighten up and quit taking everything so seriously. (thats pointed at one individual really....)
There are far worse things than smoking a joint and sitting in a bean bag chair eating funyuns all day.

Thanks to the person with the bootskin. That was pretty funny.

Journeyman Giz, re: #33, Bravo!  :CONGR   

each cigarette you smoke takes 15 minutes off your life. Each time you laugh, you add 15 minutes to your life. The solution? Smoke weed!


Found this on another forum, thought it applied

BTW, I am not encouraging drugs here - I have never and will never do anything involving illegal drugs.

I alwyas loved this quote by Norman Mailer

“One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.”