Sudder Street - Nightmare on Elm Street !

Maheswara_shishya · Mar 17th, 2007, 05:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by palerider

I have enough idiots smoking giggleweed in my home town

I'm not a pot smoker myself, but what pray tell makes them idiots? An idiot is a person with an IQ below 25, the lowest form of mental retardation, or a sensless person. Which one is it?

Someone who needs pot(or anything for that matter) can be classified as foolish, but someone who smokes it for recreational use?

Nick-H · Mar 17th, 2007, 14:09

I was pretty idiotic in the days that I used to smoke

cyberhippie · Mar 17th, 2007, 14:43

This equation of pot smokers = danger or unsavoriness makes me laugh, some of you want to get out more!

Have a look at what our legalized drugs are doing to town centers around the UK and to middle class India, then you can talk about danger!

cyberhippie · Mar 17th, 2007, 14:47

There's also a pattern I've noticed, that any time a tourist dies drugs are blamed Hmmm!

capt_mahajan · Mar 17th, 2007, 14:51

Pot smokers are not usually dangerous (or even unsavoury

)

But if anything is illegal, it attracts unsavoury elements.. pushers upwards. They are what makes some places unsavoury or even dangerous. Everywhere in the world.

skinnylatte · Mar 29th, 2007, 17:31

That was sadly my first impression of Sudder Street, before I ever lived there — before I ever gave it a chance. Now that I have the piece reads simply like journalistic sensationalism (as a journalist myself, this is atrocious).

Perhaps I can offer my own take on Sudder Street: http://popagandhi.com/465/sudder-street/

I like Sudder Street, but only after going there 3 or 4 times. It grows into you. And you can always say no to the ganja.

1066 · Mar 29th, 2007, 19:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by skinnylatte

That was sadly my first impression of Sudder Street, before I ever lived there — before I ever gave it a chance. Now that I have the piece reads simply like journalistic sensationalism (as a journalist myself, this is atrocious).

Perhaps I can offer my own take on Sudder Street: http://popagandhi.com/465/sudder-street/

I like Sudder Street, but only after going there 3 or 4 times. It grows into you. And you can always say no to the ganja.

Thanks for the link to the article, beautifully written - you obviously love the place, and paint a great picture of life there. I've yet to go to Calcutta but now it's reminded me of why I want to go!

And like any other city or toursit destination you can, as has been pointed, out say NO!

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cyberhippie Account Closed by User's Request Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 6,012	This equation of pot smokers = danger or unsavoriness makes me laugh, some of you want to get out more! Have a look at what our legalized drugs are doing to town centers around the UK and to middle class India, then you can talk about danger!

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skinnylatte kungfu fighting dhaba wallah Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Singapore Posts: 269	That was sadly my first impression of Sudder Street, before I ever lived there — before I ever gave it a chance. Now that I have the piece reads simply like journalistic sensationalism (as a journalist myself, this is atrocious). Perhaps I can offer my own take on Sudder Street: http://popagandhi.com/465/sudder-street/ I like Sudder Street, but only after going there 3 or 4 times. It grows into you. And you can always say no to the ganja.

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