Truly the word of the century.
I needed a term for the urge I feel every time I read the news, and now I have it.
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- Reefer Madness
- You’ll turn gay after one joint
- They’re spraying the weed with rat poison
- It’ll make you scromit
- Your skin will melt off
These are all 100% exactly the same, in that they’re all propaganda
CHS is a real thing, just not as portrayed by the OP. And the US government absolutely sprayed fuckloads of weed with paraquat back in the day, we have declassified files about it, there were hospitalizations, lifelong issues like Parkinson's and even deaths from it.
Reefer is many times more potent than it was back in Cheech and Chong days. I can see where there would be more side effects.
People have been extracting and concentrating cannanaboids for a long time. If there were more serious side effects from strong weed we'd know.
CHS is 100% a real thing, my wife has it. If she smokes more than a bowl a week, she will scromit. She developed CHS about 18 months after she first started smoking with me. I've been smoking for about 40 years, and I've never developed CHS. We're not sure exactly why some people get it and some people don't, but it is a real phenomenon that can happen to some cannabis users.
I'm pro-weed, pro-legalization, and generally in favor of personal freedom. But pot is not for everyone. It makes my wife incredibly sick. My (adult) daughter gets panic attacks from smoking pot, so she abstains.
I get what you're trying to say. But the image OP displayed is actually propaganda. I get the feeling a lot of people don't know what propaganda means and think it's only something a government does to make you a gungho patriot.
If the argument, info, message, whatever form of communication being delivered to you, is designed to appeal to your emotions, or sway your opinion, even if it contains some mote of truth, it's propaganda. Smokey the Bear is propaganda. To guilt you into not starting forest fires. It's for a decent cause, but it's no less a mascot designed to alter the behaviour of the populace.
A bit of a low bar, as this comment itself is Propoganda... And I agree, everything is and should be treated like propoganda.
Smoking also produces a host of other chemicals, and like tobacco, plenty of harmful ones. It may not be a cannabinoid issue, rather a reaction with some combustion byproduct.
I'm not a doctor, so feel free to disregard any of that :)
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It makes me scrasterbate.
I get kicked out of every apartment I move into.
screxisting - screaming while existing
scronscious - screaming while conscious
scrasturbating - screaming while masturbating (personal favorite of mine)
Scritting - when the haemies flare up real good
Man I'll never think of scrum the same way again.
Is it possible to vomit without screaming? Am I just a drama queen?
It's entirely possible. I could vomit 3 feet away from you, and all you'd hear is the puke hitting the floor. I developed the ability to stealth vomit when I was a secret alcoholic and didn't want people to get suspicious.
I tend to sing Rigoletto when I baritomit, I assumed everyone was the same
I vomit ever few months (yay cyclical vomiting syndrome) and no screaming. I'll be angry but not screaming. And more like. "How dare you body. You can digest this you dumbass stomach". But the actual vomiting is just. Retching sounds?
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this opens so many new opportunities!
- scurinating - screaming while urinating
- scrawning - screaming while yawning
- screeping - screaming while sleeping
- scrapping - screaming while crapping
- screating - screaming while eating
- scrscreaming - screaming while screaming
scrscreaming
It's called throat singing
- scrying - screaming while crying
- scraying - screaming while praying
- scwerking - screaming while twerking
- screcreting - screaming while secreting
- screditating - screaming while meditating
- scroomscrolling - screaming while doomscrolling
scroomscrolling - screaming while doomscrolling
how did we miss scranking
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The quality of our drug war propaganda is going to shit along with everything else the US makes
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Wallace and Scromit
Reefer madness
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