Socially acceptable Christmas alcohol but weed is not ok?

Another trouble with edibles is that you don't actually know when they'll hit. The second time I used them it was almost 24 hrs before I felt the effects ~ don't know how it happened but it was awful. I wasn't in the safe space I'd arranged to be in.

I'm quite happy with neither, but the stench of weed really makes me feel ill.

When I socialised with people who smoked weed I used to get a contact high, which I found distressing. Second hand smoke from weed is potent to bystanders. And I utterly stank. I don't do it any more.

🤣🤣🤣 And a merry Christmas to you too!

I thought weed was supposed to make people chill out?

Yeah, the annoying weed culture "merry spliffmas 4:20 blaze it" is even more cringe and annoying than the smell. The smell is a useful excuse to avoid spending time with people whose most interesting personality trait is that they smoke weed.

Just because lots of things stink doesn't mean we have to be ok with an extra thing. There's something specific about weed - you don't have to be close to it to be affected like someone who hasn't showered / brushed their teeth, and you can't close a window to get away from it like a farmers field. It covers everything in sweaty arsecrack garlic smell in such a wide radius.

Who wants the stink of weed blown all over their turkey dinner?

Weed stinks and can affect some people’s mental health. My ex’s ex he had a daughter with had no mental health issues before. She started on the pot she was seeing a dealer who smoked it to fund his habit. She had psychotic episodes was in and out of the local mental health hospital. SD was constantly palmed off with anyone then end up staying with us for months. that would have her. She was paranoid would go and pick fights with people who had wronged her years before. She was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Nor should you drive when you've been doing drugs. I hope no one's been excusing that.

I had some cider the other night, (poured into a glass, I hate drinking out of a can or bottle.) And it had zero effect on me. If DS had needed me or in the case of an emergency I'd have been just fine to handle it.

I don't make excuses for drunk drivers. The cunt who was completely wasted, speeding and on the phone who crashed into a car and killed a baby and his aunt, is the kind of person I'd like to see locked up for life. (I don't drive.)

Hate the smell of weed and vaping it still stinks.

But cannabis cookies are ace. Every few months I’ll have an edible. I really struggle to relax and switch my mind off. Weed works. I’m not really bothered if it makes me boring, I don’t do it to be social.

And yes, it’s mad that alcohol is legal and weed isn’t. Legalising it would remove many concerns people have about crime.

The thing I hate most about weed - crime and exploitation aside - is weed culture. It’s lame as fuck. Seth Rogen… embarrassing.

@EarlofShrewsbury- my neighbour allegedly uses weed fir medical reasons. It didn’t smell any less rank. Thankfully he seems to have stopped recently but I was smelling in in our house through the windows. Not acceptable.

So is alcohol….but that’s legal so…

Weed is rank and fucking stinks whether you have one toke or the whole joint. Same as a cigarette imho.
Having a couple of drinks to be sociable - great. Getting plastered and violent - not good.

For full disclosure I used to smoke some weed in the 90s but it’s a different beast now. And I also don’t drink for health reasons, although I would if I could (was getting a more rare occurrence in meno times anyway.).

Where do you think OP is getting their drugs? It'll be a long supply chain with criminality, violence and many deaths at its core. Often those deaths are innocent bystanders including children in the UK.

All so OP and other similar types can have a bit of weed etc? Zero moral compass some people.

There is limited evidence of any benefit, which is why 99% of those prescriptions are private and not NHS. Heroin is legal for medical use. Doesn't mean I want my brother-in-law shooting up over the turkey.

But what about the effect on the drug/ Gun trade that cannabis is linked to.

My neighbour smokes weed, it smells fucking vile when I go in the garden, and in summer it would come in through my back bedroom window while I was laid in bed (currently using that bedroom as master is out of use for now). Utterly repulsive.

I think excessive drinking at Christmas has just become a cliche. It's something people say or suggest to seem 'in the spirit' - oh I'll have a Baileys with breakfast, oh it's wine o'clock, I'll have a tipple with this or that. Are they really drinking that much though? In my experience, most people drink largely the same on Christmas Day as they would on any other special occasion. Somebody who uses it as an excuse to drink morning, noon and night just has a problem and is probably like that all year around, it's just not 'acceptable' then.

I agree OP but judging by the ‘what’s in your fridge’ Christmas threads, we will be strongly outnumbered. I don’t drink at all, i hate the issues alcohol causes and how it changes people. I do however have the occasional smoke (probably not Xmas day though).

Mother of God. Classlessness? Scofflaw maybe, if you want to assign a category.
But championing cocaine is the mark of a very poor general analysis. Not only is it the drug I personally abhor above all others, which means nowt, but it’s the product and objective of humanity's most loathsome instincts and imperatives.
Its global trafficking network has made a Hell on Earth for millions of enslaved workers, when it isn’t carrying out turf war massacres and political assassinations.
Closer to home, it makes young men dream of being a cunt like well-known rapist and thug Conor McGregor. 🤬

This!!

my nephew had weed psychosis last year. He’s still in a terrible state.