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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?
Needless to say I was higher then I ever imagined humanly possible on earth.
Will I consume more marijuana? That's a very complicated question, but the short answer is "yes."
I am looking to try CBD for medicinal purposes. I have several chronic maladies endemic in middle-aged men like me. I would like to try hemp oil, which has been recommended to me by people who are already using it -- illegally, I guess -- for the same conditions.
I'm not much interested in THC or in getting stoned. I got a medical marijuana card a couple of years ago, tried an edible, which was probably the first time I'd been stoned in about 30 years. Meh, didn't care for the feeling then, don't care for it now. My wife and I were using a CBD tincture for a while, hard to know for sure how effective it was. Also hard to know the quality of the thing in a half-legal industry.
Hoping that changes and I can try again with more confidence.
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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.
This is a pretty ignorant take.
Isn't that the majority of his takes?
without a doubt.
Not sure if serious or joking.
no - because one harms another person while the other would only potentially harm me
Well, the idiot portion of your handle is certainly accurate...
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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.
This is a pretty ignorant take.
Isn't that the majority of his takes?
Yup!
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LOL, yeah.. a friend of mine is big on edibles. He and another one of our friends, who really doesn't smoke at all, went to a Knicks game a couple months ago. My friend who had the edibles convinced our other friend to try them before the game and about 10 minutes in, he started freaking out.
It was a funny story in retrospect but he was so paranoid. Which is exactly why I don't mess around with edibles. If I did, I'd eat like a crumb at a time.
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In comment 13462074 idiotsavant said:
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Exactly, just stay on my good side and you're fine, but once that legalized murder bill is passed if you're on my bad side, you should probably decline that visit invitation. Odds are I'm going to murder you and throw you into the pile in my neighbors hedges with the dead rodents and birds.
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careful with edibles (I don't mean like you might die careful) rather it's much harder to monitor your dosage (especially if you buy them vs. make your own). I've had some great experiences and some that were terrible (basically missed an entire Jack White concert because I was too out of it to stay). Made brownies once, went into the other room came back and saw my brother (back from the bar) downing 3-4 at once... needless to say he was wrecked after.
LOL, yeah.. a friend of mine is big on edibles. He and another one of our friends, who really doesn't smoke at all, went to a Knicks game a couple months ago. My friend who had the edibles convinced our other friend to try them before the game and about 10 minutes in, he started freaking out.
It was a funny story in retrospect but he was so paranoid. Which is exactly why I don't mess around with edibles. If I did, I'd eat like a crumb at a time.
Nick Swardson has a great bit on it. Can't find the video but the opening line is "just a public service announcement - if you're going to have a pot brownie, know how strong it is first"
Anyways my buddy and I drove to Hoboken took the path to msg and sat next to two cute girls our age. I was so damn high I didn't even say 1 word to them lol
''I mean, you'll be doin society a favor, the sunna bitches braver getting braver.
We gonna put his ass in the STIR.
We gonna pin this trip of MurDer, on him, who did the deed...in the old Nigerian Creed''
(Dylan quote within a quote within a quote)
You can control what goes in. The affect on the body is different than smoking. Edibles are great for pain management. As some have said it can hit harder but it is much different high than smoking. Hard to explain the feeling.
Dabs are the best.
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Yeah, Im already putting together a list.
When I was in Colorado this year I bought these low dose mints. I'd have one every so often while skiing, it was great. I'd take another one before bed and I'd sleep like a rock. I think I would use those on the reg.
You know, serious deviants.
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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.
Ok, you are a judgemental asshole who has an opinion on all kinds of things you have no clue about.
That's my take. As valid as yours.
I do believe that the drug test for marijuana will be reformed to be similar as checking for someone currently under the influence of alcohol. When that happens and my company changes their stance on it, I will be lighting up. Or I just have to wait for the day that I retire to do it. Can't risk losing my job over smoking weed. I have faith that we will move to this within the next 10 years though.
Just on this thread?
Whatever age you are
Relax; have a joint.
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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.
This is a pretty ignorant take.
Isn't that the majority of his takes?
The Stalker strikes!
idiotsavant with a strong double post move: sharing some of the lyrics from Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" (and apparently some of his own lyrics) and for asking, "if your state legalized murder would you kill people".
Really fucked up to read that someone had cancer but couldn't use medical Mary Jane because of a zero tolerance employer. Please tell me you no longer have cancer or that employer.
Haha. I haven't had many "bad" experiences - but many moons ago, when I was a freshman in college, I had a pretty rough one.
A good childhood friend of mine went to the same school as me, so I went over to his dorm to hang out one of the first days we got there and his roommate had this huge bong and some crazy "blueberry" pot. I took a massive hit and it was one of those "oh fuck that was too much" right away hits and I couldn't even stay there, I had to leave because I was super paranoid.
Anyway, I left their dorm and decided I needed to just go back to mine and let it wear off but I had literally just gotten to the campus about 2 days prior and really didn't know my way around yet. Compound that with the fact that it was night time and I was out of my fucking mind and I wound up wandering around like a lunatic for about an hour before I figured out where the hell I was.
It was terrible at the time but hilarious in retrospect.
I don't understand comments like this.
Cigarettes have cancer-causing carcinogens and chemicals in them. They're deadly. Marijuana is not. There's a HUGE difference.
And I have no idea what adultery has to do with smoking weed.
If you aren't interested in it, that's fine - it's not for everyone. But some of these comparisons are ridiculous and if you want to talk about irrelevance, well.. those comps fall right into that category.