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Q: What methods of smoking worked best for your depression? What caused you to turn to cannabis for help with your depression? Any tips? A: What got me to try cannabis was literally a throwaway remark from a friend of mine about how I lived in a MMJ state. That made me snort with derision because […]
This post is in response to a question put by the Ent xlamplighter in my /r/trees AMA, to wit: “Over your many years of smoking, can you describe the prevailing attitudes and culture surrounding cannabis and how you think they’ve changed over the decades? Also, lingo and phrases you might have heard over the years […]
Well, here’s the way I see it…and no disrespect to anyone who “just smokes to get high”…because there’s nothing wrong with that… If I was just smoking because it was fun or I liked to…it’s really no different than anything else you like to do (movies, drinking, concerts). If you can no longer afford it, […]
I was a freshman in high school. I had started hanging around with a “fast crowd”…the kind who listened to all the newest music, talked about forbidden things like sex, and had opinions that sounded like they really mattered. One day, the hippest kid in the school (the grandson of a famous radical political figure) […]
Q: Why does everyone say it’s more than just a high? A: You know how alcohol makes you feel buzzed, and then weed lets you feel totally different from that, seeing things from a different perspective, kind of like you were flying over things and watching them sometimes? LSD is being a god and amused at […]
Note to the Reader: after some more in-depth research, I’ve determined that I was wrong about this. I was assuming that there was a delay due to absorption through mucous membranes, but in fact, that absorption also occurs instantly. The delay is due to a yet-unknown (at least by me) ramp-up of THC blood levels […]
A very interesting post on /r/marijuana got over 100 thoughtful responses. Here was mine: …I think I might be relevant because I also have a 16-year-old at home (although I am a generation older than you…apparently I had kids late and you had them early). I also started smoking at 15 but hadn’t smoked for […]
Dear Old Hippie: My parents keep trying to convince me to stop smoking weed. Their latest tactic is to tell me that “weed shrinks your balls”, and they’re using our family doctor as backup. I personally think this is a lot of crap, but I need some more information when my balls are at stake! […]