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So, Massachusetts voted to legalize recreational weed this past November.
Conversationally I mentioned to some of my buddies and hockey teammates that I was looking forward to this since I was thinking about taking up smoking weed.
Most were surprised, some felt like "that's what was holding you back all these years? that it was illegal"? Others felt like it was just strange.
I told my wife the same thing and she just thought I was joking and then just thought I was insane (as usual).
But when I thought about it, if alcohol were illegal most of my life I'd probably not drink so much. I might occasionally have had a drink in private (illegally like people did during prohibition) but I probably wouldn't regularly drink alcohol. I don't think as a teenager I'd have been drinking as early and as often, and I am pretty sure my adult drinking habits would be different.
Why should weed be different?
I was never a big smoker growing up, tried it a few times, and whatever didn't appeal to me. and I lived with some 24/7 wake and bake hard core weed users during and after college - I was just never seriously interested, but I'm willing to give it another shot.
For some reason, chilling out on the back deck summer evenings with a high ball of bourbon or scotch or vodka whatever I'm in the mood for that night and smoking a joint or hitting a weed pen seems appealing.
Would anyone else change their habits based on the legal status?
I don't really do it socially anymore. I did when I was younger. The pens are awesome. They don't make everything smell, they're quick, and you can just puff them a couple times and feel good without being stereotypically stoned to the point where your eyes are popping out of your skull and you're eating everything in the house.
that image of sitting on the back deck with a drink and a puff at home is the image the Marijuana business needs to convey. The image of the 420 FOR LIFE BRO!!! shit needs to stop. I appreciate people like Tommy Chong for fighting for legalization, but the hippie stoner look just doesn't help the industry grow into the mainstream.
Weed is good for a great many people for a great many reasons. It's also not a wonder drug and it's just not for many other people.
I don't really do it socially anymore. I did when I was younger. The pens are awesome. They don't make everything smell, they're quick, and you can just puff them a couple times and feel good without being stereotypically stoned to the point where your eyes are popping out of your skull and you're eating everything in the house.
I like the pens too, I have it plugged in to the USB on my computer. A couple hits and I'm asleep in 30 minutes.
Guess they'll also have to build a large wall on the US Northern border (and we'll get Prime Minister Trudeau to pay for that wall, too.) or the wacky Canadians will be throwing marijuana seeds all over Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Minnesota, NY, Vermont, New Hamphire and Maine.
Can't wait to see the marijuana forests up north. "Oh Canada.....our stoned and native land......."
Not sure I understand this. Would you elaborate?
I really dont know. I dont drink much. Got that out of my system in high school and college. But part of that is I actually dont like the taste of alcohol. So maybe I'd smoke pot.
And you won't.
Any idiot that thinks they should be high at work and can perform at the highest level is just kidding themselves.
Treat recreational marijuana as what it is....recreational.....not for work.
Are you familiar with art, literature, movies, and television?
Would like the opportunity to grow without having to look over my shoulder
-not to sell, just for personal use
Are you familiar Milton? (not Milton Waddams.)
Bingo
I smoke concentrates and its like double the price here compared to places where its legal
god i hope that was sarcasm, that's like saying drinking a beer will lead to alcoholism. for some yes, most not. the same thing
Not even close.
Scheduled for 2018... hope it's true and we beat the locals to the punch and get the head start and tourist $$$$
I smoke concentrates. Shatter being my favorite.
I like bud too, I enjoy platinum bubba kush by night and sour diesel by day
No way, and that's even if we are talking joints. With vapes I can't see how its even a fraction as dangerous as cigs.
hiking, tennis, massages just terrific stoned. you can't enjoy that on alcohol.
don't get me wrong I enjoy a good Martini and bottle of good wine at dinner.
Happy Cinco De Mayo yahoo!
All I know is...I'd love to grow it in my basement as a side-gig and be a supplier of some sort. My wife thinks I'm insane, but she's yet to come up with a good reason why. Plus, the thought of (unsmoked) weed fumes wafting out into my gated community kind of cracks me up.
Lol, I'm in my 60s and smoke several times every day.
There are findings that support the exact opposite because it lowers the blood flow to the area of brain that actually increases ones vulnerability of Alzheimer's.
And then there is also the recent findings that link it to increased risk of schizophrenia
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I'm in my mid 30's and I'm going to do some drug high school & college kids do? Come on, now.
Lol, I'm in my 60s and smoke several times every day.
LOL. Sad.
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I'm in my mid 30's and I'm going to do some drug high school & college kids do? Come on, now.
Lol, I'm in my 60s and smoke several times every day.
LOL. Sad.
You think that's sad? Based on what? You don't know me. Don't be an asshole and put strangers down in the insult.
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in terms of smoking in general
Not even close.
ok so its perfectly safe to inhale this smoke? thats what i mean. nothing to do with weed itself but the smoking act.
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in terms of smoking in general
No way, and that's even if we are talking joints. With vapes I can't see how its even a fraction as dangerous as cigs.
ok so its perfectly safe to inhale this smoke? thats what i mean. nothing to do with weed itself but the smoking act.
arent you still inhaling smoke?
This is a pretty ignorant take.
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In comment 13461980 Dave in Hoboken said:
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I'm in my mid 30's and I'm going to do some drug high school & college kids do? Come on, now.
Lol, I'm in my 60s and smoke several times every day.
LOL. Sad.
You think that's sad? Based on what? You don't know me. Don't be an asshole and put strangers down in the insult.
Don't worry, if I'm doing that at that age (or even my current age), I'll call myself the same. Unless one is taking it for medicinal purposes; that's different.
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in terms of smoking in general
Not even close.
ok so its perfectly safe to inhale this smoke? thats what i mean. nothing to do with weed itself but the smoking act.
Cigarettes have all types of harmful ingredients in them that marijuana doesn't. It's not the vapor that is harmful as much as it's what it contains. There are all types of carcinogenic compounds in cigarettes as well as other chemicals.
Huge difference between the two.
Whatever age you are
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In comment 13461958 GMAN4LIFE said:
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in terms of smoking in general
No way, and that's even if we are talking joints. With vapes I can't see how its even a fraction as dangerous as cigs.
ok so its perfectly safe to inhale this smoke? thats what i mean. nothing to do with weed itself but the smoking act.
arent you still inhaling smoke?
weed is given to cancer patients to help with the pain and nausea effects of chemo treatments for their cancer, do you really think if someone has lung cancer they're going to give them weed if it's a carcinogen as well?
Plus, some studies have in fact shown the opposite, that weed has anti-cancer/protective qualities.
Lastly, there are multiple methods of weed ingestion that don't involve smoke.
I've never tried any, and they are the part of the legalization that makes me nervous mainly because kids could be the target or unintended recipient.
Fantastic, but they can be very, very strong.
A few years ago a few buddies and I made brownies with an ounce inside. I swear I was high for 3 days
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In comment 13461980 Dave in Hoboken said:
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I'm in my mid 30's and I'm going to do some drug high school & college kids do? Come on, now.
Lol, I'm in my 60s and smoke several times every day.
LOL. Sad.
You think it's sad that he does what he enjoys and relaxes in his home and doesn't hurt anybody doing it? Get off your high horse, guy. I wonder what your hobbies are.