Dentists: do we have any statistics for gum disease and consequent tooth loss in Charlottesville? Because, call me crazy, but I think a lot of people smoke a lot of pot here.
BBC News: “Heavy cannabis use ‘damages gums’”
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Oh yeah. Beware the zoom-in photo of rotting teeth in that article. Also, for the record, TOTALLY speculating about Charlottesville pot-smoking on this one.
Speculation . . . . yea, sure.
i don’t know about pot smoking, but i’ve heard that meth and crack SERIOUSLY damage the gums and teeth. and judging by the toothless wonder that hit me up for money on the Mall the last time, he fits right into this demographic.
So, I get a call one night from an unnamed c’villain…
ME: “Hey, man, what’s up?”
FRIEND: “Ummm….what are you doing right now?”
ME: “I just finished dinner at C&O. How about you?”
FRIEND: “Could you please bring me some guaze?”
Whenever a friend calls you and asks you to get them some guaze, I feel it is your duty to do so, as the consequences of not doing it seem potentially terrible. Turns out (ha) he had, despite the doctor’s orders not to, taken a bong hit after gum surgery. This, along with the blood thinning effect of his morning hangover, cause his face to explode. My wife and I brought him his guaze to his blood covered house, and took his blood covered ass to the dentist who was awesome enough to see him at 9:30 on a Friday night. I believe they calderized the wounds and he went on his way.
Let that be a lesson to the rest of ya.
you have some stupid friends.
where is the token “pot isn’t bad for you” comment?
(pun intended)
4: Hah.. dry sockets! Not that I’d have any firsthand experience here, but I hear it’s wiser to get a friend to pull/fill the bong for you after Wisdom Tooth surgery.
And yeah, I can only imagine that routinely applying any sort of smoke to living tissue is going to have a detrimental effect. I don’t know if the more noticeable toothlessness of meth/crack addicts is more due to the particular drug or general lack of self-upkeep that goes along with it.
I would like to think that meth/crack smoke contains more hazardous ingredients than pot.
And Thor,
You’re a towel.
no he’s not. he’s a big time book publisher who’s not interested in your stoney memoirs.
you’re a towel.
pot isn’t bad for you.
aaah meth mouth! *shudder*
Pot isn’t bad for you, if it’s a need because you can’t get your perscriptions because you can’t afford health insurance.
yeah, meth mouth is nasty. it was an interesting encounter, because this particular subject was displaying a necklace made of NA (like AA, but for the good stuff) “freshly sober” key chains. like he was admitting that he couldn’t even go 30 days. crazy. might as well have asked for money specifically for a fix, if he was going to broadcast it like that.
prescriptions
meth isn’t bad for you, either!
speaking of towels.
“Thats it! Thats the melody to funky crowns”
/do do di do doot do do di do doot.
I want a list of cities with average pot use. Boulder and Burlington are probably near the top, but at the same time, I am always surprised to find out who smokes a lot. Men in suits, often. For a drug, it’s interesting how it transcends age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
it’s not a drug, it’s a plant.
employ me!
pot is like a condiment. it’s like putting lettuce on a burger, except then you smoke the burger. meth, on the other hand, is like putting lettuce on a burger, and then the burger blows up.
lilith: i read one such study a few months ago, and i can’t find the actual paper, but here’s an article on it: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-07-sf-drugs_x.htm.
not a shock that san fran tops that list, or that seattle’s second. but i’m actually surprised that d.c. would be so low.
jools is actually high right now.
It’s so prevalent, that I think I’m more surprised to find out who doesn’t smoke a lot.
I’m also surprised when people (usually women) look down on people who smoke weed while they’re popping pills like Phentermine, Adderall, or Xanex.
it would be interesting to see the results of waste-water drug testing for cities across the country above a certain population level. comparing college towns against small, non-college towns of similar size would be interesting as well.
Surely, this research exists somewhere… if only I had time to look for it. Someone, SWIKI!
Lilith, i don’t know about C’ville, but here’s where i heard about the idea in the first place: http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/community-wide-drug-testing.html
I moved here from Richmond, and Long Island before that. I can tell you that there weren’t as many tokers in those places as I’ve found here. Or, maybe it’s that I have come across fewer non-tokers. Oh man, I have no idea what’s going on.
“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”
–Mitch Hedberg (PBUH)
Ha! Not to go off-subject too much, but I got a used TV iPod and I love Comedy Central presents for working out. Twenty minutes go by so fast. It was so much easier to watch it when it just appeared on the channel, but now I have to pick the episodes and pay $2 per. Can anyone help me out, here? My style for stand-up is dirty but not ear-bleeding dirty, really would rather keep out the race/sexuality/woman-beating material. And no Carlos “actually, my mom is Honduran and my dad is German, but I look like a Mexican so I can make fun of Mexicans!” Mencia. Dane Cook and Louie C.K. and Jamie Kennedy and Sarah Silverman are on my good list.
try bill hicks or george carlin…
Eddie Izzard, Todd Barry, Demetri Martin—all up your alley, lilith.
Oh, Brian Regan, too. And Jim Gaffigan.
Dane Cook? Shame on you!
“Because, call me crazy, but I think a lot of people smoke a lot of pot here.”
That is confirmed.
Also, regarding the city thing…I have spent time in both Boulder and Burlington and would say that while they both have the image of being a “stoner town,” that they probably don’t blow away a place like Charlottesville. You’d be surprised. There are all types of people in all types of places. No matter what your thing is, you can find it in almost any city of decent size. You just have to poke around.
Also, Lilith, you’re right. Quite a few people are surprised at the types of folks that puff, so it helps to never be too quick to judge…in the past year alone I have witnessed doctors (both MD’s and Ph.D’s), lawyers, businessmen, working professionals, and even an airplane pilot hit the green. Ages ranged from early 20’s to late 50’s/early 60’s.
I also can’t stand it when people judge others, and it’s also a shame that so many people don’t feel comfortable about their use and they have to hide it. The worst is when one spouse hides his or her use from the other spouse, but it happens all the time…too many misconceptions I guess…
dave, is there something I should know about Dane Cook? I think he’s funny, the rolling around on the ground from time to time is slightly less annoying than Gilbert Godfried’s voice but oh well. And comedians taking their shirts off isn’t news, I just mind it slightly less when he does. Does he kill kittens? What?
This is a pretty thorough Dane Cook take-down. There’s also something out there on the internet that lets you turn any text into a Dane Cook joke—it just turns the text into ALL CAPS. But I can’t find it.
Ahh. No wonder I like him AND Louie CK. Good link Stanley! The internet is so smart.
lilith, …..welcome.
Just don’t have too much, too fast.
icenine is my new favorite commenter on this website
Nah, sorry. I don’t have any legitimate Dane Cook beef. He just always struck me as something of a douchebag, what with Major League Baseball promos and the not-at-all-kidding emo rock single he put out.
But mostly I’m just playin’ the snob card.
Dane Cook thrives on the ‘you ever noticed how…’ or ‘wouldn’t it be great if…’ or ‘..you know whats weird’ jokes. Take those out of his repertoire and he’d have MAYBE a good 3 minutes. And still none of it would be funny and/or relevant. Can’t believe no one mentioned Patton Oswalt.
“A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fucking cross? It’s like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant.” - Bill Hicks
lilith, that’s classic. “not to go too off-topic here, but could I go completely the hell off topic of drug-related dental hygiene and ask for reco’s for funny stand-ups for my Ipod?”
Lisa Lampanelli
Margaret Cho
Bernie Mac
We need a separate topic on why there isn’t a comedy club in this town.
I’m glad you enjoyed the irony. Thank you for the recommendations!
Uva, yeah, I need an open mic night to prove once and for all that I have no future in stand-up, and we need Last Comic Standing to cast here, too. This is a funny city, right?