Whats in a name? That which we called stoned would still rule.

If stoners started calling being high something else it would make it sound better. Since its a mind expanding drug, instead of saying, "man I'm so stoned" we should say "my mind is so expanded." I know it sounds lame but it makes weed not sound so negative. Stoned is a negative term made up by the man. Notice that it also means being nailed with rocks. That doesn't sound good at all. But who would say, "we need to fight marijuana because there are too many kids expanding their minds." I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. It sounds lame so if someone can come up with a less lame term that would be great.

 

haha that is quite the cleaver idea. i mean who would really say *oh gosh we need to stop the youth of america from expanding their minds*.

 

Yeah, I was just thinking about this today. I don't like how getting high on cannabis is linked to other drugs by the word "high" because then people relate it to coke, heroin ect. I don't know what the word for MJ should be, but I know when my friends and I eat acid, we are "learners" and no one can say "oh my god its terriable, they are learning!"

 

yer my mum calls it 'dope' i dont liek that word. and non smokers call it 'doing weed'.i jsut say 'high', caus thats happy and stuff, still sounds like a delinquent thing of course tho. but anwyay, you can call it whatever u want, i insisted i was being 'healthy' and was very 'healthy atm' while i was contacting friends from a stoning holliday...

 

Dude, you're onto something...

*goes to post this idea on PM*

 

think again, man. read andrew weil´s "The Natural Mind." if you have ever done any drug in your life, you have a responsibility to read this book. he talks about "straight" and "stoned" as ways of thinking, not just states of mind. pretty enlightening stuff.

 

I think it should be called getting 'blurred' because I feel blurry. I know I am going to get shit for this but it is not good to walk around all day high (or 'enlightened') People who do it too much seem to have a decreased mental capacity, slow reaction times and an overall blurred and foggy way of thinking. It is enlightening once in awhile.

 

Let's use enlightened. Nothing that sounds good is gonna sound cool but what adult could say we need to stop our kids from getting enlightened. I don't smoke often so I don't get blurred as you say. I go to the gym at least 2 or 3 times a week and have a good job for my age and actually last month was given my review and was the top employee for my department. So getting enlightened has done nothing to hurt me. In college before I smoked I had less than a 2.5 GPA. After I started my grades went up and I graduated with a 3.01 GPA. Eat it George Bush.

 

I am the same way I smoke too often but it helps mellow meout. I run a program coordinator for kids with disablilities and I am a graduate student. But, for the majority of the population who are not type A's weed is a bad thing.

 

I always say I'm dreamin.

 

i call it goin to mellow out, or going to chill out, im listening to a cd called Experience Chillout right now, good stuff..