Thank You.
You really dont think weed should be legal? Then you are a criminal not a activist. You are doing something you agree is wrong...now I am confused I guess the real tripped out stoner is you...lol
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Thank You.
You really dont think weed should be legal? Then you are a criminal not a activist. You are doing something you agree is wrong...now I am confused I guess the real tripped out stoner is you...lol
I am so tripped out, it is crazy! It is amazing that I have been able to hold down a well paying job for all of my adult life and have not had to come onto pool forums begging for jobs, listing off the huge assorment of things I have tried to do with my life and failed at miserably. Yes, thats right, like you did not so long ago.
Perhaps you need to look at yourself and consider the fact that you are not a good vehicle for the pro-legalization movement. And with that, pool should have absolutely no part in this movement, IMO.
I think that things would be much worse for people like me if the government tried to regulate and control marijuana. So yes, I am good with the way things are. Weed is readily available to me, I don't have to get on a list or show an ID to get it, and I have no complaints.
I know large concepts are hard for your simple mind to grasp, but I didn't say that smoking weed is wrong, I just said I don't want it to become legal.
Rather fail at everything than work for your boss...lol
Man I will go ahead and ask you this as an adult I know you wont be able to do it this time either as you are another one of my stalkers...lol
Can you find someone else to bother?
Can you find someone else to bother?
I dont understand the Pot and Pool connection ?
How does one promote the other ?
Pool and cigarettes? Mmm , no.
Pool and alcohol ? Mmm , not a great idea either.
Pool and hookers ? Well since you mention it. . . .
Uhh , no.
How does one promote the other ?
Pool and cigarettes? Mmm , no.
Pool and alcohol ? Mmm , not a great idea either.
Pool and hookers ? Well since you mention it. . . .
Uhh , no.
I dont understand the Pot and Pool connection ?
How does one promote the other ?
Pool and cigarettes? Mmm , no.
Pool and alcohol ? Mmm , not a great idea either.
Pool and hookers ? Well since you mention it. . . .
Uhh , no.
In history everyone of those things you mentioned has been done...
Camel, Budweiser, Katarina sisters.
You missed a few: How about when they did pool and airplanes,cars and horse racing?
Or when they did pool and poker?
Or my favorite full contact cage fighting and pool...which BTW got the support of the mob...lol
miller lite...
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It is unclear whether Jefferson ever played billiards, but there is some documentary evidence that he did not look favorably on the game. He wrote in "Thoughts on Lotteries" in 1826, "...But there are some [games of chance] which produce nothing, and endanger the well-being of the individuals engaged in them, or of others depending on them. Such are games with cards, dice, billiards, etc." [1]
There are several mentions - none by Jefferson himself - that the Dome Room of Monticello was intended as a space for billiard tables. Sarah N. Randolph (Jefferson's great-granddaughter), wrote:
"The west front the rooms occupy the whole height, making the house one story, except the parlor or central room, which is surmounted by an octagonal story, with a dome or spherical roof. This was designed for a billiard-rooom; but, before completion, a law was passed prohibiting public and private billiard-tables in the State. It was to have been approached by stairways connected with a gallery at the inner extremity of the hall, which itself forms the communication between the lodging-rooms on either side above. The use designed for the room being prohibited, these stairways were never erected, leaving in this respect a great deficiency in the house." [2]
Randolph says this information was given to her by a "member of Mr. Jefferson's family, who lived there for many years." Sarah Nicholas Randolph, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, was born in 1839 and thus never lived at Monticello herself.
Jack McLaughlin brings the billiard-table story up again in his discussion of the Dome Room. [3] In his notes he states that, in fact, no such law (prohibiting billiard tables) was ever passed, although there was a law passed in 1781 taxing billiard tables quite heavily (50 pounds per annum). [4]
Merrill Peterson also refutes the billiards story in Visitors to Monticello "...nor was any law banning billiards passed in Virginia, nor did Jefferson intend the dome for billiards, nor was it converted into a ballroom." [5]
References:
1. Thomas Jefferson. "Thoughts on Lotteries. February 1826." Ford, 12:436.
2. Randolph, Domestic Life, 332.
3. McLaughlin, Jack, Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder (New York: Holt, 1989), 252.
4. Hening, William W. The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of the Laws of Virigina, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Richmond: R. & W. & G. Barrow, 1810-1823), vol. 10.
5. Peterson, Visitors, 155.
There are several mentions - none by Jefferson himself - that the Dome Room of Monticello was intended as a space for billiard tables. Sarah N. Randolph (Jefferson's great-granddaughter), wrote:
"The west front the rooms occupy the whole height, making the house one story, except the parlor or central room, which is surmounted by an octagonal story, with a dome or spherical roof. This was designed for a billiard-rooom; but, before completion, a law was passed prohibiting public and private billiard-tables in the State. It was to have been approached by stairways connected with a gallery at the inner extremity of the hall, which itself forms the communication between the lodging-rooms on either side above. The use designed for the room being prohibited, these stairways were never erected, leaving in this respect a great deficiency in the house." [2]
Randolph says this information was given to her by a "member of Mr. Jefferson's family, who lived there for many years." Sarah Nicholas Randolph, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, was born in 1839 and thus never lived at Monticello herself.
Jack McLaughlin brings the billiard-table story up again in his discussion of the Dome Room. [3] In his notes he states that, in fact, no such law (prohibiting billiard tables) was ever passed, although there was a law passed in 1781 taxing billiard tables quite heavily (50 pounds per annum). [4]
Merrill Peterson also refutes the billiards story in Visitors to Monticello "...nor was any law banning billiards passed in Virginia, nor did Jefferson intend the dome for billiards, nor was it converted into a ballroom." [5]
References:
1. Thomas Jefferson. "Thoughts on Lotteries. February 1826." Ford, 12:436.
2. Randolph, Domestic Life, 332.
3. McLaughlin, Jack, Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder (New York: Holt, 1989), 252.
4. Hening, William W. The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of the Laws of Virigina, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Richmond: R. & W. & G. Barrow, 1810-1823), vol. 10.
5. Peterson, Visitors, 155.
No law ever passed against billiards in VA?
Man almost every history I ever read about billiards mentioned Jefferson playing billards...So I guess he didn't play???
Thomas Jefferson is still a great man even if he didn't play billiards...
LOL Ok this thread has just become silly now.....
just say no
Please move this thread to NPR or better yet just delete it!
Drugs are bad for humans...ALL drugs.
Grow up and learn to cope with the real world.
Please move this thread to NPR or better yet just delete it!
Drugs are bad for humans...ALL drugs.
Grow up and learn to cope with the real world.
Please move this thread to NPR or better yet just delete it!
Drugs are bad for humans...ALL drugs.
Grow up and learn to cope with the real world.
So I shouldn't be drinking those 2 cups of coffee in the morning to cope with the real world of getting up and ready to go to work?
I shouldn't have a couple beers after work unwinding over a few games of pool with friends to cope with the stress of my job??
The people who need to "grow up and cope with the real world" are the ones who have failed to realise that you cannot control people. They are going to do what they please regardless of the consequences. If they could be controlled you'd never hear about the drunk driver, the underaged drinker, or the guy who downloads kiddie porn.
The grown up thing to do is to live your life according to your moral code, and do no harm to others, rather than try and impose your will over another free human being.
So I shouldn't be drinking those 2 cups of coffee in the morning to cope with the real world of getting up and ready to go to work?
I shouldn't have a couple beers after work unwinding over a few games of pool with friends to cope with the stress of my job??
The people who need to "grow up and cope with the real world" are the ones who have failed to realise that you cannot control people. They are going to do what they please regardless of the consequences. If they could be controlled you'd never hear about the drunk driver, the underaged drinker, or the guy who downloads kiddie porn.
The grown up thing to do is to live your life according to your moral code, and do no harm to others, rather than try and impose your will over another free human being.
??? someone posts a big ad/link on here about smoking pot asking pool players (forum members) to support it and we don't get the right to disagree with his point of view? I have been holding my breath on this forum too long trying not to inhale.
I think it is a stupid idea. If playing pool means I support drug addiction, I will quit playing.
And a little info about your habbits... 'Coffee' increases the risk of throat/mouth cancer, 'beers' - many can't drink after work then not drive home drunk, 'weed' too many start off with that harmless drug 'weed' later getting hooked on meth, cocaine etc...
Now, I won't be starting threads bashing people and their addictions, however, if someone post a thread asking for my support to promote or legalize... yeah ummm.... NO!
The real world...lol If you think pot is a drug then only one of us is living in the real world.
Jason I have no idea what your point is, but I am going to point out one flaw in your post. In order people to start off with Marijuana and it lead them into other drugs it must be the first drug they take in their life.
I am going to guess and say that for the vast majority of people, soda or tea is the first drug they are exposed to. After that I am going to guess and say most drug addicts take alchohol before they take marijuana. Probably another one is tabacco before marijuana...lets say that .000000000000001% of people alive that have taken a drug started with cannabis...lol, and that is being nice to your side cause ill bet it's more like zero.
Jason I have no idea what your point is, but I am going to point out one flaw in your post. In order people to start off with Marijuana and it lead them into other drugs it must be the first drug they take in their life.
I am going to guess and say that for the vast majority of people, soda or tea is the first drug they are exposed to. After that I am going to guess and say most drug addicts take alchohol before they take marijuana. Probably another one is tabacco before marijuana...lets say that .000000000000001% of people alive that have taken a drug started with cannabis...lol, and that is being nice to your side cause ill bet it's more like zero.
ere one for ya, all those drugs you named are not illegal! Most kids that I now take 'weed' as their first illegal drug.
I find this thread hilarious -- almost cartoonish. It's initiated with a link to a video that attempts to tie (or put) pool and a controlled substance together. (As if pool's image doesn't suffer enough.) Then, some folks respond, saying they either don't get it, or else don't support the idea. Next, the thread originator responds to these folks, telling them how "they" are living in a different reality if they think that that the controlled substance is a drug (or otherwise "not" a blood-chemistry/mind-/mood-altering substance).
Sort of like a "let me change reality for you -- there is no spoon" thing.
I got an idea -- and it's really "innovative"! Let's make a video that ties pool and magic mushrooms (psilocybin)! Afterall, they can't be considered a drug, for they arguably aren't usually dangerous, occur naturally in nature and have a really cool effect when taken ("man connecting with mother Earth" thing). "Pool together with magic mushrooms, to 'bolster' the motion to make magic mushrooms legal! And if you think magic mushrooms are a drug, you're living in a different reality man!" Wouldn't that be a great message for pool? Wouldn't that be a great message for the kids growing up?
[...shakes head at this silliness...]
-Sean
Sort of like a "let me change reality for you -- there is no spoon" thing.
I got an idea -- and it's really "innovative"! Let's make a video that ties pool and magic mushrooms (psilocybin)! Afterall, they can't be considered a drug, for they arguably aren't usually dangerous, occur naturally in nature and have a really cool effect when taken ("man connecting with mother Earth" thing). "Pool together with magic mushrooms, to 'bolster' the motion to make magic mushrooms legal! And if you think magic mushrooms are a drug, you're living in a different reality man!" Wouldn't that be a great message for pool? Wouldn't that be a great message for the kids growing up?
[...shakes head at this silliness...]
-Sean
My response was to the hypocritical nature of the "all drugs are bad" post quoted in my post.
I couldn't care less what someones vice is, or if they choose to have no vice at all. My point was that you cannot legislate behavior out of existance. If you could drunk driving, speeding, and other "crimes" would be non existant.
Adults should have the right to make informed decisions and then live with the consequences (both positive and negative) of that decision.
I am not advocating coffee, alcohol, pot or any drug use.
Alcohol and tobacco are indeed illegal for minors in the USA. Ironically the drug that is illegal for everyone is the one that is most readily available to children,
Hemp does not contain enough THC to get anyone high...lol
Marijuana, and hemp are two different plants. Science proves there is no high that comes with hemp...lol I guess there is more to it than facts.
Most of the things you have been taught about cannabis in your life are lies. These lies are so that you keep using the oil that they are pumping...
If you cant see this...the down side is you are dense. The up side is you make the best employee. lol You can hold down a job.lol lol lol lol lol
Marijuana, and hemp are two different plants. Science proves there is no high that comes with hemp...lol I guess there is more to it than facts.
Most of the things you have been taught about cannabis in your life are lies. These lies are so that you keep using the oil that they are pumping...
If you cant see this...the down side is you are dense. The up side is you make the best employee. lol You can hold down a job.lol lol lol lol lol