Smoking weed

Yes, and I loved it. Lots of mellowness. I made hash cakes and cookies too.

It’s because your post consisted of an emoji silverlining. No, me neither …

Only once, when I was a student. Given to me by future dh! I didn’t really like it.

Easily shocked GNers pls read no further, but when my mother was 80 we took her, and dds (then early 20s ish) to Barbados. We’d been before and dds had become friendly with several of the beach boys, one of whom usually had some weed on him.

Previously dds had been winding my mother up (in a nice way) saying you have to try everything once, Granny, even a joint. And had evidently told Weed Boy.

One evening on the beach, when we’d all had a couple of rum cocktails, Weed Boy turned up with a teeny tiny spliff, saying, ‘That for the gran.’
My mother was pretty merry by then (rum) and she actually smoked it - took a few puffs anyway - while laughing her head off and saying, ‘I don’t know what my neighbours would say!’

Shortly after we returned home there was a family wedding where, ‘Granny smoked a spliff on the beach!’ went round like wildfire and caused much mirth all round.

I smoked some in the late sixties, then went to a Pink Floyd concert. The light show made me feel very weird, I was carried out, and never tried it again!

Loved it ! It was then part of my social scene along with all the other accroutments of the so called "permissive society" .
Then I grew up.

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I've seen too many of my best and most intelligent students having their minds destroyed by it - and it ruined their lives. Depression, schyzophrenia (sp?) and long term. life long damage.

Never smoked it in the 60s- and only tried once with DD1 and friends when visiting their digs for the week-end when she was at Uni. Didn't do anything for me ...

Not likely. And cannibas is much stronger these days because if the different regions its grown in. Once u have contact with drug dealers they offer other stuff. Also I read where an American nurse shared a spliff totally unaware it had heroine in it. She got hooked and that's all they want. Hook line and sinker. Stay well away is my advice. If medical people can get sucked in what chance do we have. Slippery slope. When I first started smoking I didn't think I'd end up addicted but I did.

Yes! Was bought a large blunt as a present for my 60th birthday party and got the giggles and the munchies. Ordered the cheeseboard twice, kissed all my friends and laughed at everything. I don’t smoke even cigarettes! I wouldn’t make a habit of it but it stopped all my bone in bone pain for a while. :-)

And I've got some ointment which is very limited in the help it gives, silverlining 48.
I wouldn't have any idea where to buy it either. I don't suppose Amazon or Ebay stock it!

Me too henetha but no idea where to find it. Do know it’s definitely not worth bothering with the biscuits ?

No, never and wouldn't..... although I have secretly wondered if it would help my back pain.

Chewbacca

Not until I reached my 50s (I was a late bloomer).

Same here. I used it rather than pain killers when RA stopped me sleeping. Little spliff, piece of toast worked a dream. I stopped when the RA was effectively and legally controlled.

Never did in the 60s, but like others have wondered so bought some cannabis biscuits in Amsterdam a couple of years ago.
Felt very daring and made sure we were sitting down ( in case we fell down) with a cup of tea and finished the pack? Waited and realised we had been had.
Nada, zilch, we were disappointed but it was worth paying silly money fir biscuits to see our AC reactions of disbelief, shock/horror. Made it all worth while.
If I had an opportunity I would probably have a try. It’s never too late. Is it? Probably prefer to eat something than smoke it though.

No definitely not. Never have and never will.

Yes in the 60’s. Wouldn’t mind doing it again. I’ll check that out.?‍?

Yes. It used to be good, back in the late 80s, with friends. We'd chill out after work, have a good laugh, keep out of trouble.
These days, yeesh it stinks to high hell and back!!!
I hate going into shops, especially food shops, and even more so with my grandchildren when we smell it as it just seems to overpower everything!!
It used to be that we'd pass pubs where people smoked it bug we wouldn't smell it until we were upon the pubs, and it would stay there as we walked past. Nowadays, I think they put something in it to make the smell stronger. And it really does REEK!!!

Yes she did, perhaps it was a go to staple in chemist!
Raspberry leaf tea is very good for period pain by the way.

Yes, feeling very mellow and content with the world when I had an occasional spliff, also on a few occasions to relieve dysmenorrhea.

Was cannabis not legal when Queen Victoria also used it for dysmenorrhea, or have I imagined I once read this?

Not until I reached my 50s (I was a late bloomer).

SueDonim

No, never. I grew up with parents who smoked tobacco, which I loathed, and had no interest in putting smoke into my lungs. I went on to work in pharmacy and that put me off even more!

Weed isn’t an ‘innocent’ drug, it’s often produced by young people who’ve been trafficked from less developed countries, and who live in hellish circumstances. I don’t want to be tainted by that connection.

I’d support legalising cannabis, though. That way, it could be regulated, making it safer, and taxed.

I wasnt so sure I was for it back when it was legalized here, though I voted for it. IMO, if people want to use it, they will find a way. Might as well be regulated and taxed!

Legalizing it is probably the best way forward IMO. Once it is regulated, it IS safer. It also has done wonders for small businesses here. The taxes it has raised has also benefitted children. Statewide it has helped build rural schools, one city near me has built 2 community centers for kids just from the income it has received.

Oh a spliff and a glass of wine. Heaven. Not had one for about 8 years now. (A spliff that is, not the wine!) There are times when I miss it, but the person I used to smoke it with isn't in my life anymore. Happy memories though. It helped me through some tough times.

V3ra
We bought it for many years for a friend with MS before she got the implant for her pain.

I went to high school in Portsmouth, a naval port. There were drugs at every teenage party. I don't know why but it never interested me and when a joint was being passed round people would say, "Oh you don't, do you?" and it would be passed to the next person. All quite innocent and no pressure.

I had a home care client who used to smoke it to alleviate her MS. Her son used to get it for her. We just turned a blind eye.