During the Great Depression, a lot of people survived mentally by doing hobby stuff at home, and others survived physically by baking and cooking at home, which was obviously cheaper than going out to eat (not to mention that most people outside big cities had vegetable gardens and such). After WW2 there was money around […]
Author: Old Hippie
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Old Hippie is a father of two boys and thankfully living in California where all this kind of thing is legal. He started smoking marijuana in 1967 in high school, experimented with mind-expanding drugs of all kinds, and then straightened out 15 or so years later to become an airplane pilot. After being diagnosed with depression in 2000, he lost his job and most of the following decade to prescription medications (such as antidepressants) which sapped his energy and will. Finally, a chance conversation with a friend led to a doctor’s recommendation for medical marijuana (MMJ). This changed his entire life, health, and outlook for the better.
BeyondChronic.com is his continuing story. It’s also his way to provide experienced advice on using medical marijuana effectively and responsibly, as well as advocacy, activism, and support for others. Old Hippie teaches about safe use of cannabis edibles, Canna Caps, vaporizers, dosing, and even microdosing.
Lavender and Me
This whole thing happened because some guy thought his vaporizer might overheat, so I had to try it out for him. If you read one of my replies to him, you’ll see I took two careful hits. Well…wow. On weekends I switch strains to develop less of a tolerance, and this weekend I picked Lavender. […]
An Apostrophe About Brain Chemistry
So there are these cannabinoid receptor thingies in your brain, and when you smoke enough, they get clogged or tired out (conceptually, anyway) and you start developing a tolerance. Now here’s the interesting part. Before I started using MMJ, I had an almost constant “fogginess” in my head (there’s really not much of a better […]
It Was Just…An Experiment
So…I’ve been mostly vaping Sour Diesel lately, and maybe once a day alternating with Lemon Larry/OG Kush. I’ve also been trying out some of that Purple/OG Kush. Well, today I got back from some time outside, so as an experiment I mixed some of all three of them together. Then I put the mixture in […]
The Wonderful Little MFLB
I may never smoke pot again. What, are you crazy, Old Hippie? You worked and worried all this time to be able to smoke pot legally, and now you’re going to quit?!?!? Well, no. Actually, I’m just going to quit smoking it, because as we all know from cigarettes, smoking is bad for you. Even […]
Then And Now
I can already see that there are some totally new meanings for some words and phrases that I thought I understood many years ago. Term Used to Mean Now Means This Bud’s For You Beer commercial Have some of this nice weed One-Hit Wonder A band that just had one good song Damn, that shit […]
Old Hippie’s Levels of Consciousness Scale
On /r/trees, there’s a “highness scale” that people use to indicate how high they are. I love all the Ents at /r/trees, and Im’a let you finish, but that scale is not quite the most useful scale of all time, because it’s relative. I realize none of this is completely scientific, and that everything is […]
Tripping Balls, Whee!
OK, it is possible to get to tripping status with cannabis. It’s even possible to do this by smoking it, although it’s quite difficult to smoke that much, in general. The way to do that is to eat it. Not raw marijuana itself, but cooked into something edible containing oil or fat (and preferably yummy) […]
The Two Weirdest Feelings Ever
1. Walking into a store, and buying pot legally. 2. Smoking said pot in the bathroom so that my kid wouldn’t catch me.
Today Is the First Day Of the Rest Of My Life
I’ve been pretty depressed for longer than I care to think about, and I’ve been through quite a litany of drugs that either made me more depressed or took so much of my energy that I was sleeping 16 hours a day, which is almost the same thing in effect. Then someone gave me the […]