greedy fvcker :hwsb2:souless wrote:speaking of pot (i got some anybody want) just kidding! i would never share my pot with any of you
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I'm not addicted to anything except oxygen and food :finga:
I smoked for awhile, then stopped when the price got too high (back in 98 and I forget how much it was a pack). Never went through withdrawls but I never smoked more than half a pack a day either.
I drink from time to time and I'll drink anything :drinkers: and depending on where I'm at and the company I'm with I might even smoke a couple. I do always have whiskey on hand though.
I'll smoke pot with every once in awhile.
Messed around with acid in high school for a couple of months....at least I think it was a couple of months
I smoked for awhile, then stopped when the price got too high (back in 98 and I forget how much it was a pack). Never went through withdrawls but I never smoked more than half a pack a day either.
I drink from time to time and I'll drink anything :drinkers: and depending on where I'm at and the company I'm with I might even smoke a couple. I do always have whiskey on hand though.
I'll smoke pot with every once in awhile.
Messed around with acid in high school for a couple of months....at least I think it was a couple of months
Here Zombie I have a drink for you... ZIIIIP!ZombieSlayer wrote:I drink from time to time and I'll drink anything :drinkers:
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shrink.
steroids or anything at all will not make one's rod shrink or smaller except the temporary affect from very cold temperatures and swimming, so you have no worries about that particular organ. steroids will cause the hormone producing cells of the testes to start shrnking because the special receptors in both the glands of the sac and and those in the brain to detect a higher than usual homeostatic level of testosterone from all that is ingested and circulating in the blood. so no testosterone is created by the body while the drug causes such high levels, and the glands responsible will shut down from churning out that hormone.
i have not read much on the chemophysiological response about marijuana to the body that even mentions it affecting any glands. what i have read about tetrahydrocannibol (THC, the intoxicating chemical in marijuana) that is interesting is that neurons of the body have receptors unque to binding to that chemical, and yet the body produces nothing like this chemical. similarly, endorphins and the like are naturally-created opiates of the body that are created to help dull the extreme stress and pain a body experiences, and thus, have receptors unique to them. thats why opiates such as morphine and heroine have such a pronounced effect on the body.
if any are interested in knowing the reason why drugs become physiologically addicting it is that the chemicals in them bind to receptors and create neural firing when used after so much time and this causes neural receptors at the synapse to gradually create more receptors for them. in the case of stimulants and painkillers, these receptors have been found to be created faster and in higher quantity. thats why then people have such a great need to keep using the drug, since their body's neural functional becomes accustomed to respojnding to the chemical. these receptors also have been found to be very long lasting and difficult to reduce in number over time. the receptors for THC do increase in number as well, but it seems limited. but this increase is what makes for the phenomenon where people who smoke often seem to find they can get higher faster and on less pot than those who haven't done if much or at all before. it is also why it is not known to be physiologically addicting like tobacco, painkiller, or other stimulants are.
alcohol doen't bind to receptors in the same precise manner as other chemicals, and has no special receptor to which it gets bound, but is does forms bonds with other cells of the body besides neurons temporarily, reducing their functioning to how much alcohol is present, and unbind rather quickly. it is simply a chemical that depresses bodily functions besides neural and often times competes with water molecules where they are used in normal physiological processing. the biggest effect alcohol has is similar to that of steroids..the liver tries to metabolize alcohol by creating more of the ethylase enzyme, and more and more of that enzyme over time tends to have deleterious effects on the organ that it creates.
i hate to admit it, but drinking is a bit more safe for the body than pot is , only because the effect on the lungs is quicker (still over a long period of time) from inhaling the byproducts of combustion reactions like carbon monoxide, tarry substances, and other oxidative reaction products. but anyone who drinks strongly can tell you that the psychological and perceptive alterations of alcohol are far worse on someone in that it can cause a lot of bad things to happen because of its dulling effect. it was used in the past as an anesthesia when nothing better was available.
i have not read much on the chemophysiological response about marijuana to the body that even mentions it affecting any glands. what i have read about tetrahydrocannibol (THC, the intoxicating chemical in marijuana) that is interesting is that neurons of the body have receptors unque to binding to that chemical, and yet the body produces nothing like this chemical. similarly, endorphins and the like are naturally-created opiates of the body that are created to help dull the extreme stress and pain a body experiences, and thus, have receptors unique to them. thats why opiates such as morphine and heroine have such a pronounced effect on the body.
if any are interested in knowing the reason why drugs become physiologically addicting it is that the chemicals in them bind to receptors and create neural firing when used after so much time and this causes neural receptors at the synapse to gradually create more receptors for them. in the case of stimulants and painkillers, these receptors have been found to be created faster and in higher quantity. thats why then people have such a great need to keep using the drug, since their body's neural functional becomes accustomed to respojnding to the chemical. these receptors also have been found to be very long lasting and difficult to reduce in number over time. the receptors for THC do increase in number as well, but it seems limited. but this increase is what makes for the phenomenon where people who smoke often seem to find they can get higher faster and on less pot than those who haven't done if much or at all before. it is also why it is not known to be physiologically addicting like tobacco, painkiller, or other stimulants are.
alcohol doen't bind to receptors in the same precise manner as other chemicals, and has no special receptor to which it gets bound, but is does forms bonds with other cells of the body besides neurons temporarily, reducing their functioning to how much alcohol is present, and unbind rather quickly. it is simply a chemical that depresses bodily functions besides neural and often times competes with water molecules where they are used in normal physiological processing. the biggest effect alcohol has is similar to that of steroids..the liver tries to metabolize alcohol by creating more of the ethylase enzyme, and more and more of that enzyme over time tends to have deleterious effects on the organ that it creates.
i hate to admit it, but drinking is a bit more safe for the body than pot is , only because the effect on the lungs is quicker (still over a long period of time) from inhaling the byproducts of combustion reactions like carbon monoxide, tarry substances, and other oxidative reaction products. but anyone who drinks strongly can tell you that the psychological and perceptive alterations of alcohol are far worse on someone in that it can cause a lot of bad things to happen because of its dulling effect. it was used in the past as an anesthesia when nothing better was available.
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