Stoners the most social collective?

i think something particularly special to stoners is the chillness of it all. on the whollleee, stoners are chill and if they dont like eachother theyll just not hang out or talk much unlike drunk people or tweakers who like to get into arguements or fights, and e-tards who are only capable of positive emotions when on mdma.

especially for dudes, weed sorta chills out the part of the ego that feels it needs to make a statement or protect its masculinity

 

Or maybe it dulls your emotions...possibly...

 

I'm more anti-social when I'm high.I don't really like talking all that much when I get high.I sound like I'm burnt the fuck out.

 

No matter where you go there's a weed club. The great thing about the weed underground social group is that it brings some people together who outside of the weed underground would never have became friends or crossed paths. There's the kids, teen-younger twenties, then there's the professionals, then there's the wide age range of service industry workers, and the older hippies, the ones that have been smoking longer than I've been alive. I've moved and traveled around a great deal, and I have found that the marijuana smokers, for me, is the quickest way to infiltrate a town, figure out the environment and underlying atmosphere, the smokers tend to know more about what's going on and will be more willing to let another smoker in on the town's "essential need to know down-low" than any other "labeled" group. The "dopers" know what the vibe is, the drunks are too drunk to feel it. The bar tenders are the only sub-sec of the drunk crowd that I will waste any of my time with, they are the zoo-keepers and usually know what the fuck is up.

Marijuana tends to be a more self discovery and awareness element which is not all all true about alcohol which is a complete depressant, marijuana is considered psycho-active, it stimulates parts of the brain inaccessable through other altered states, thus explaining the dual social / anti-social elements of marijuana, whereas alcohol depresses all systems including the brain during intoxication thus explaining the both common social and aggressive behaviors related to alcohol intoxication.

God made pot, man made alcohol; who do you trust?

 

around where I live, the most prominent group of stoners are basically rastafarians, you know, the bob marley type with their dreadlocks and everything.... reggae being the most heard music while stoned... I've been to a few reggae concerts (Fidel Nadal and Alika) and realized how big this community is.... shared a joint with some of these people and they are awesome, they just want to live thier lives happily and enjoy their music and weed

 

god made alchohol as well, he just happened to make it easy enough to make that man followed on. if you take that belief, ie.

and i dont think it dulls the emotions, it just effects which emotions are accessed at all. those which are can be strong (ever seen a sad person or estatic person when stoned? its pretty intense). but the bad emotions that create conflict are definately not accessed as much (defensive, territorial).

 

lots of people do get pretty antisocial when they get high...if i ever start to feel antisocial in a situation where i don't want to feel antisocial, i usually light up a bit of a cigar and get a slight head buzz, it seems to help. i went to a tiny school (12 people in my graduating grade), and despite being in BC i really haven't found any places where all the stoners hang out or whatever. one day i will... i've got a few good buddies to smoke with, but i sure wouldn't mind meeting more sometime.

there's lots of things that are like that though, that create instant brother/sisterhood... like if you're really into metal (like, i mean real metal) and you meet someone else who's into metal, it's like instant friendship... at least out here in North America where metal isn't very big.

 

when i was at the fair this past couple weeks, you could go out into this huge field and there were groups and groups of pot heads smokin in their circles. and this guy came in totally stoned and he's like "hey, do you guys know james" and we're all like "no man there's no james here" and he goes "oh, oh well" and then he sat down and joined the circle for a couple hoots then went over to another circle and we could here him "hey, do you guys know james" it was great.

we're freindly, you can't help it, the high does something to our violent side

 

I can be really social when I'm stoned, but I find I'm WAY more social when I'm drunk.

 

me too, I'd talk to anyone when I'm drunk, or anything, if I'm drunk enough. I think being stoned just makes it so much easier to make conversation because you have so much going through your head you can't help but tell someone.

 

I love chatting with people when I'm stoned...not so much when I'm drunk

 

i like to mingle with people at parties, acquantances, friends, good friends, but when im stoned id rather just be with my good friends

 

i know what you mean ive been with a firend of mine and someone he just met, we introduced ourselfs and 5 mintues later we are passing a blunt talking and i realy dont even know this person, hes all dressed ghetto with some gangster music on in his car but im still talking with the guy so whatever ahaha, i remember hanging with people i only met a couple times and after an hour or two and a couple joints its like we are old firends, the fact that we are getting high together definitly has an impact on the way we interact with people

 

i know exactly what you mean man
me and my brother never really got along until one night i was hanging with some of his friends and him and we all got high. ever since we always smoke together and were good friends. also like at festivals like comfest that i went to tonight, people are smoking and you can go up and just start talking to them and have a smoke. us stoners are friendly