Slog - Comments on Fear the Reefer

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:46:17 -0800

"Self-reported" tells you everything you need to know about the validity of this study. I think some stoners are having a laugh at the government's expense.

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:50 -0800

Yeah, no shit. One time I smoked 5 joints in one day and I thought my lungs were going to fall off. Methinks the self-reported stoners pulled a fast one on the Man.

Comment by NaFun

NaFun — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:06:18 -0800

Yeah, 50 a day, that's 2.5 packs if we were talking cigarettes. No shit that's harmful. I bet they have arthritis from rolling Js so often, too.

Comment by sir jorge

sir jorge — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:11:06 -0800

78 a week? that's a ton.

Stupid, these tests suck.

How about a more realistic study?

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:22:17 -0800

A more realistic study will never happen, because in order to do that, the researchers would have to dispense the dope. Probably over a fairly long period of time.

Comment by Geni

Geni — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:26:12 -0800

The most hard-core stoner burnouts I know don't smoke "350 marijuana cigarettes" a week. You'd be fucking chain-smoking. Even total wastoids sometimes have to go out in public places where getting high is frowned upon.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:58:29 -0800

i was just walking down past the waterfront park on alaskan & someone was getting high by the statue of columbus.

it smelled nice.

Comment by Westside forever

Westside forever — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:07:37 -0800

Those study participants need a much better hook up if they are sucking down 5 jays a day. Thats some pretty crap weed.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:25:47 -0800

Another absurd government study designed to create fear and without ANY merit.

Comment by Michael Holden

Michael Holden — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:57:25 -0800

This makes the heaviest pot smokers I know look like a bunch of freakin' preschoolers.

I really wonder what would happen to me if I smoked 50 joints per day for a week. That'd be roughly 3/4 lbs of bud. I'd have to work hard at it...it takes about 2-3 minutes to roll a joint and about 5 minutes to smoke it. Assuming that I could stay conscious for 18 hours per day, I'd have to smoke about one giant fatty every 20 minutes for each and every one of those hours, leaving an average of just 12 minutes between joints to get snacks, queue up more psychedelic downtempo on the old MacBook and engage on a telepathic level with my chihuahua.

Would I be able to function? Could I actually get through more than, say, an hour at this pace before becoming so amotivational I'd just quit smoking pot all together? Would it be against the rules if the chihuahua helped me smoke it?

Jesus. What kind of idiots wrote this study? And who paid for it?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:17:01 -0800

My question is: where do people sign up?

Comment by Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:41:34 -0800

So at 3/4 lbs a week, that means you'd need to buy 3 pounds of bud a month to sustain a 50-joints-a-day habit.

So how much does that cost? What does a pound of weed go for? Someone here probably knows, but I'll have to do some math.

Let's see...I just spent $40 on an eighth of an ounce. So with a bulk discount, maybe I get an ounce for...$300? Let's be really conservative and say $250. There are 16 ounces in a pound, so that's roughly $4000 for a pound. Maybe you get another bulk deal there, and only pay $3000 for a pound.

So $3000 a pound, times 3 pounds a month, means these guys are laying out around 10 grand a month. That's 120K a year. And all they do is sit around rolling joints and getting inhumanly ripped all day long. They wouldn't even have time to grow or sell any...they're too busy toking up.

You'd have to be smoking 50 joints a day to think that scenario is remotely possible.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:53:25 -0800

If it's even physically possible to smoke 350 joints in a week, you're talking some spectacularly shitty skunky weed. You'd lose basic motor control after a fifth that much of even the crap I smoked in high school.

Comment by Colin

Colin — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:40:05 -0800

Maybe they're growing their pot themselves and that would cut down the cost but I don't believe for a second that anyone can consistently smoke 350 joints a week. I don't know too many people who could handle 350 cigarettes a week. You could smoke 350 joints of dried basil and it wouldn't be healthy for you. This is just stupid.