Marijuana use has been happening for how long already?

Even while it was illegal, it was still happening. Imagine that.

I've never tried it. And I don't care what other people do in their homes or yards.

Mixed feelings on this one. If the weed today wasn't so dang potent I would have zero reservations.
I am like 65% okay with it and 35% concerned with it. I use to toke a little and I mean a very little back in the 70's when weed would just get you high.

If it was put up to a public vote, I would not vote on it and let the chips fall wherever. As long as folks can get chit faced drunk, who's to say others can't get stoned stupid high on weed.
Also as long as it is illegal, it is not allowed in our house.

Weed is just a gateway drug to explore other drugs for many youths

Smoke a little weed, next try some blow, maybe some XTC or Acid, then get bored and snort some crank.

Then we have a drugged out looser

I have known countless guys I grew up with who never stopped smoking weed, it seems like it took their drive away for acheiving things in life.

I could give two chits what you do at home, but last time I was in Las Vegas I kept smelling skunk weed outside and that stuff make me sick to my stomach to even smell it.

Just a FYI recreational use of marijuana is still illegal.

https://guides.sll.texas.gov/cannabis/recreational-use

Well, you know Sneaky if everyone could be an adult about it and use at home away from children, pot smokers would rarely get caught even now, but the problem is they won't, and they will expose others to their vice through secondhand smoke. I guess we need the government to dictate to us when we aren't adult enough or smart enough to figure it out ourselves.

facts here...i find kids with weed im taking action in some form or fashion. Adults, dump it and go because you are probably already a lost cause if you are driving around smoking weed in your car. Too many kids try other things when weed doesn't do it anymore and then they end up with a felony and possibly prison. If i can prevent one of the kids from going down that road then i will.

When they do that, they infringe upon the rights of others. That is an actual crime. Making weed illegal because you don’t want to be around it makes no sense. Make the actual crime illegal. You don’t ban cars because people drive too fast. You ban speeding. This isn’t a difficult concept to grasp. You just want it illegal because you don’t like it. That’s not freedom. Thats tyranny.

And do you really still trust your government to make decisions for you? Hasn’t that backfired for you, recently?

Do you really believe that it will ever be legal without restrictions, alcoholic beverage has restrictions and taxes I might add, weed will also if ever made legal. The government is always going to have control like it or not.

This isn’t about that. Obviously our government will always be overreaching. This is about whether you agree with that overreach or not. Apparently, you do. I do not.

This mirrors my opinion, I've seen the "social" drinkers cause more problems the "social" pot smoker. Abuse happens on both sides. There's laws for that. We see alcohol DUIs all the time, but very few potheads busted for DUI.

How many of the alcohol based DUI's are both drunk and stoned at the same time? How does one test for blood THC level? There's probably a lot of people high that should not be driving that are driving.

This is something I don’t know anything about, weed being more potent than it use to be?
I know about it being laced with fentanyl, is that why it’s more potent? IDK.
My oldest grandson, has demonstrated good leadership so far, he doesn’t drink or use tobacco, he’s an athlete, and just because his buddies do it , if he doesn’t agree he will let them know.
I hope he never uses tobacco, alcohol or any drugs.

there is a science too it. lot's of cross breeding between the hundreds of strains. some give you a head high, some give you a body high etc. All pot isn't nessissarily more potent, there are all types out there. I just hate the stigma attached. I begged my mom to use it after she had cancer. she wouldn't eat anything and hurt all the time. shame.

The anti-pot sentiment always makes me laugh. The same people condemning weed end every evening with 3 shots and a xanax to take the edge off. Then take an ambien to go to sleep. Then take pain pills during the day to ease the pain caused by the pills and booze.

Weed is an aspirin compared to the alcohol and pharmaceuticals.

How do you really know your athlete grandson doesn't drink or use tobacco? You'd be shocked at the number of teens who insist they do not drink, use some form nicotine/vape, and have sex, yet tell their parents (and in this case grandparents) that their friends do it, but they don't.

Why can’t he just be proud until Grandson proves other wise

Pot back in the 70's for the most part were grown in large fields in Mexico all the way to S America. Most of it was what was called dirt weed, just grown in Mexico a big field sprayed with pesticides.
Pot you bought back then was full of trash, basically the whole plant except the roots, like stems and seeds. You could tell a pot smoker by smell or the burnt holes in their clothes from seeds exploding in the joint they were smoking

There was certain strains that were not as available, more expensive and more potent like Panama Gold, Maui Wowee, etc.
You could buy a small Match Box for $3.00 -$5.00 or a 3 finger lid, (which was a plastic sandwich bag that was 3 fingers tall from the bottom of the bag up) for $10-$15.00 that was the general pricing,
Like most commodities prices varied depending on supply and demand and the quality.

Back in the late 60's and 70's you could go to prison for 20 years for a very small amount of pot!

https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/that-strong-stuff-why-is-cannabis-now-so-diff

Why Is Cannabis Now So Different From 1970s Cannabis?

They came in kilo bricks. By boat, in trucks, and in cargo planes, pounds of dried-up flakes and pieces of cannabis plants worked their way up from Colombia to be distributed and sold in the United States. While cannabis has been a part of American culture since the country’s birth, cannabis today is certainly not what it used to be. Not only has the industry changed, but so have the plant’s potency and general appearance.


So, what exactly were those free-spirits smoking in the 1970s? Since cannabis was named a Schedule 1 drug in 1970, the Natural Center for Natural Projects Research (NCNPR) at the University of Mississippi has been testing marijuana samples confiscated in U.S. marijuana raids. In agreement with popular belief, today’s marijuana is 57-67% more potent when compared to samples from the ’70s. In this instance, potency is measured by the levels of psychoactive

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6312155/

The primary problem with the current available cannabis in dispensaries in Colorado is that the THC content is not like it used to be. Prior to the 1990s it was less than 2%. In the 1990s it grew to 4%, and between 1995 and 2015 there has been a 212% increase in THC content in the marijuana flower.
In 2017 the most popular strains found in dispensaries in Colorado had a range of THC content from 17–28% such as found in the popular strain named “Girl Scout Cookie.”2 Sadly these plants producing high levels of THC are incapable of producing much CBD, the protective component of the plant so these strains have minimal CBD. For example the Girl Scout Cookie strain has only 0.09–0.2% CBD.

Sure he can. Just know that teenagers are known to lie.

On another note.

Someone said that Marijuana is the gateway drug, they are right to a certain extent, alcohol which I readily enjoy is a gateway drug also.
How many people do you know that did not drink alcohol and started smoking pot first? Bet it was very and I mean very few!

I grew up around a whole bunch of all of it. Everyone I knew started drinking alcohol first, then went to pot and then harder drugs, so you could say Alcohol is the gateway drug or door opener to everything else..

Even if they make pot legal, I doubt seriously if I would ever take a toke unless it was just a unique situation.
I would still not allow anybody to smoke it in our house, outside if they needed to puff on one!

They could do dabs in your house and not have to go outside, dabs don't stink AND you can get it in THC levels from 80-100%

For one he tells me, I don’t think he would lie to me. But no one can be 100% sure, I understand that.
I have granddaughters older than him that I’m told do the vape thing, I found out one was using the stuff with THC in it, I never knew there was such a thing until here recently, and I do believe they do it, they have never used it in front of me.
As far as I know, my sons have never used drugs, they are anti drugs to this day, they did drink beer and one still does.
I don’t have anything against alcohol, unless it’s abused, and especially if you drink and drive.
I use to enjoy a cold beer when I got done with my work, Saturday only, I was a one night a week drinker.
I haven’t drank in so many years that it tastes terrible to me now, I believe a beer or two a day is good for the system.

No clue what a Dab is? But if it like a gummy where I do not see it or smell it, then so be it.

What!!! You've never watched Dabbing Granny on youtube? 68 and she's still kicking it.

In very proud of him, he loves to bow hunt, and he especially loves bass fishing, we’re planning a trip to O. H. Ivie at the end of the month. I have a ranch 30 minutes from there, we will be guided for two days, I don’t know if my back will hold up.