Marijuana Thread

Maybe my attitude will change if someday I need or want it medicinally but the only the future knows that. Even if that comes to pass it will be edibles only. I will never smoke anything. Not gonna happen.

It's been legal in the Netherlands (where I work) for decades, but of late restrictive policies have appeared: mainly towards foreigners/tourists that can not behave properly and tourism pressures growing tired locals (but that's +/- global). It doesn't help that coffee shops have been also a façade for harder drugs since the mid-90's. Other neighbouring countries hace variable policies that can change from one decade to another. There isn't a European Union policy towards weed, so members statescan do whatever they wish. Right now is not good to be caught with small amounts weed in Belgium (for ex), whereas 10 years it was "forgotten" about.

I've started toking around 75/6 (age 13) and it helped me understanding much more of the music I was enjoying. FTM, I could almost make the shortcut: weed = prog. It didn't hinder my schooling much (IMHO), though I'm not sure some HS teachers might say the same. While going thru Uni, I even dealt it for a while to get my stuff free, but this was small scale stuff (buying quarter-pounds). We even toked during exam study bouts - as it can help you concentrate more. It never lead me to smoking tobacco, even if it was needed for those hashoils or hash bars. I've never experienced a dependency on it and it never lead me towards harder drugs.

Weed: I've got to taste some rare & exceptional stuff (Hawaiian Blue, for ex), but what was easily available was Thai weed, Ganja (lamb's bread) and Columbian gold. I liked weed, because it was always social & jumpy (dancing mood), but unfortunately I discovered that mixing weed & alcohol wasn't always a good experience. Sometimes, the mixing lead to "bad trips"".

Derivates: by the early 80's, oils were best stayed away from, because all too easily cut with crap.  Never a big fan of blond (moroccan) or red (lebanese) hash (or even that green turkish stuff), I always preferred the "black stuff" from central asia (I've even tried opium-laced stuff but didn't like it much).

Upon my crossing the Pond back to the Old World, while hardly abandoning it, I successfully managed to cut back on my toking, but this was partly because of the way Europeans toke: way too much tobacco, even in weed joints. If a normal cigarette's tobacco contents lasted me three or four doobies, in Europe, it's often 1.5 cigaterre going inside those rolling-paper assembly cones. Soooo, I mostly toked by myself in the 90's, whereas my 70/80's toking was always very social. We'd be looking for someone to share the doobie (hoping for a return favor in the future), even if we weren't planning on hanging around together in the following hours. I've grown my own plants for roughly a decade (seeds coming from world weeds), and had mixed results - because always outdoors and foreign weeds not always able to acclimatize.