Smoking Weed

[Victor]

i smoke blunts or joints or bowls every night while i 4 table.

[poker-penguin]

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This has to be the most educational thread ever on OOT. Lots of experiential learning and not one mention of sticking anything in a chicks pooper.
Indy

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420girls.com pretty marginal for work (nbut who realy reads a weed thread ayt work?) and yes, weed makes me horny, but so does beer, caffiene, sugar, nitrous oxide. Hell, plain old breathing gets me horny sometimes.

and yes, flying into Calgary would get you closer to Nelson.

The best is a mix of beer and weed - maybe a couple pitchers, then a joint o decent stuff.

Good times.

[bholdr]

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if you're neurotic enough to weigh the pros and cons of getting stoned, enjoy the paranoia

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i didn't even think of that. you're totally right. i've even been considering switching from a 'little bit each day' smoker to a 'on the weekend with certian freinds' smoker because of the paranoia . i'm gonna make a post about that...

still, go get high, it's not gonna kill you, and you just might like it.

[MoreWineII]

it's awesome.

[Al P]

I think it took me 3-4 times of smoking before I actually got my first buzz. You'll definitely know once it does happen though.

I smoked from 16-28 and haven't smoked in the past 3 years. I'd do it now if it was around but my current circle of friends are just into beer.

First off, I wouldn't recommend joints since you probably won't be able to roll and a J is way too much for a single person. Get a decent pipe and use as needed. Just be sure not to cough into the pipe and blow the cherry out of the bowl.

It's fun. You'll be suprised and see all walks of life that smoke (I've smoked with Doctors, Lawyers, Homeless Crack Bums, Engineers, Programmers, HBs, etc..).

Give a try a few times and see if you like it. Some do, some don't.

[Nick-Zack]

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I myself have never even thought about smoking the stuff.

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[ChipWrecked]

I'm not even sure if I should respond to this, but what the hey, the Interweb is anonymous and I'm as much an attention whore as anybody else. So here we go...

I am a COA (child of alcoholics), my old man's sour mash was my 'gateway' when I was about 12. I smoked weed for the first time at 13. I (my phrase for it) 'turned pro' at 17, summer after high school. Never looked back.

Went through college day and night stoned. I should point out, I'm 41, so this is the early-mid 80's that I'm in school. I connected with some ex-hippie/hillbillies who grew in the Ozark Mountains. 'Skunk' as we called it, and thought it was indica strain but I'm having my doubts now, was $40 a quarter and plentiful. It was pale green with bright red hair, the buds were small and round, the plants rarely over four feet tall. My point is, in a day when most people were cleaning the seed out of their crappy 'Columbian' on fold out LP covers with the flap of their Zig-Zag packets, we were puffing pretty good [censored].

I did graduate, with a mediocre GPA from University of Arkansas. Take that as you will. My motivation was never great, and I've suffered from depression most of my life. Which caused the other, IMHO is a chicken/egg question.

I moved to Atlanta to look for work. Found an OK retail job selling cameras and video equipment, connected with new friends who smoked.... and nothing. That was it for almost ten years. I was stoned day and night. I chewed gum at work so I could do a presentation without horrible cottonmouth. I didn't look for anything better in life, because I still didn't know what I wanted to do, other than smoke dope. I paid my bills, drifted from gf to gf, and really didn't do anything.

As the Pink Floyd song goes, "...and then one day you find, ten years has got behind you..." I realized I had to get off the dime. Flailed from sales job to sales job, finally started self-studying IT stuff because of the mad paychecks IT geeks were pulling, and what the hell, nothing else was doing it for me.

I got a decent job and before long moved to California in 2000. Through an old college friend, made a connection my first day here. Hell, I was in heaven, I had a decent job for the first time in my life and some dude would deliver Mendicino county homegrown right to my door! (That's when I discovered my love of casino gambling, also...)

Finally I met my wife, which is what really woke me up. Now I'm married and have a great little daughter, I've been through some treatment for my depression, and life is much, much better than I ever thought it could be. I'm a night poster because my job now is working night shift in a NOC for a regional HMO. I'm pretty happy with it, and I see an upward career path. I'm actually in control of my destiny now.

But, I still hanker to get stoned. My wife hates weed, and that's a good thing because I am most definitely an addict. I would still score a quarter every few months, but I can't smoke 'in the evening'. I treat the [censored] like an addict. I am stoned day and night until it's gone. I consider myself 'on the wagon' now. I just can't touch that [censored] anymore.

I did harder drugs here and there along the way, I've done acid in the neighborhood of 50 times, and of course a fair bit of coke. However, weed was always my mainstay. I do not agree that it's a 'gateway' drug. Rather, I believe weed introduces a person to the drug subculture and the folks who run in it. One will take it from there, how far one wants to go.

My old best friend from high school, my #1 weed-blazing buddy, was killed in the mid-80's while robbing a liquor store. He wiped out on meth, by that time I barely knew who this person was.

That's the end of my long, long-winded story. I think I'm writing it as something of a warning to the youngsters here, though I can see their eyes rolling right now. So be it.

If I had applied myself all those years, maybe I could be in something more of a position of Jake the Bake, who is roughly my age and seems to have his [censored] well together. As it is, I'm behind the 8-ball, but at least I'm living now.

Good luck.

-ChipWrecked

[Indiana]

Damn Chipwrecked, much respect for this post. Actually, I think you are in 1st place for the best weed post so far.

Enjoyed reading this,

Indy

[jackdaniels]

Very good post chipwrecked, I'm happy you have your stuff together now.

I especially like your view on how weed opens the doors to the drug subculture and may lead some astray (other drugs) - not because of some need for a "greater high", rather because it is more likely for those already engaged in this activity to be around people who do those other drugs.

All in all it sounds like weed wasn't the best thing that could have happened to you (and prolly not the worst by far). Good on you for taking control of your life and destiny.

[ChoicestHops]

Good post, Chipwrecked. Im glad to see your life is in order [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]