I’m usually surrounded by idiots now I’m going to be surrounded by high idiots. I guess we can’t get everything. Trump 2024.

How do you figure that? State your case.

Bring on the paranoia and anxiety

For Jimbo1

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/the-real-gateway-drug

Not hard to find. Pretty common knowledge.

But but, it's my Air Freshener

“1st substance used.” That’s just silliness. I didn’t read any more after I read that. What about nicotine?

You disagree that alcohol is by far the most common substance first used by youth?

Absolutely not. I disagree with the link to pot.

I took a puff once, at 18 yoa, and then remembered something my father had told me about. He had been an Army First Sgt. during some sort of mess in Central America. A Corporal came to him and told him that he needed to come see something. They were living in tents. They got there and a guy was, as Dad said, making mad, passionate, love to his pillow. He had been smoking MJ. I never forgot about that and kept the breweries working overtime.

That one puff was my only step into narcotics of any kind. Now 81 yoa and, for a long time, I kept the breweries and distillers working overtime. Now, don’t remember my last margarita and gave my grown grandsons a case of beer that had been around for a .one time. Just no longer any interest.

Just legalize it already.

But did you inhale ? Asking for a friend.

Why does it all smell like skunk these days?
I remember back in the day it had a distinct smell, almost sweet.
I couldn’t try any these days due to the smell.

321MBT compounds make it smell like skunk. It is in its highest concentrations in the last flowering stage. I assume growers have bred it into the plant because it is related to the THC level making it more potent. Modern weed isn’t the weed from 25 years ago. It’s very strong and now suddenly people are having paranoia psychosis issues with it. Imagine that.

4 oz is over 100 grams. That's 200 joints. You smoking 5 joints a day? That would undo me. 5 a year is enough for this old bird.

^^This. I had severe pain a few years back due to an injury that prevented me from sleeping for 4 days. Called the daughter up and said i know you used to know some people so reach out and get me something. Took 10 mg of percoset and smoked a joint after not having done that in 40+ years. Well pretty shortly thereafter i needed paramedics. It was a full on psychotic episode worse than any acid i ever did in high school.

I remember you posting about that and nearly pissed myself laughing (I knew you were alright because you posted the story)

4oz of weed is a lot of weed…most people buying 4oz at a time are not recreational users.

That is what I was thinking when I made the OP.....but I am not a connoisseur by any means.
When CO was the first state to legalize, it created an influx of derelict types. No plans for work, no skills, and an overall scumbag culture. I know this because that is a big reason my CO neighbors are here.
Just not sure why we want to make it easier for heads.
FWIW, IMO there is a difference between old school, functional heads, and those that wake and bake without contributing to society.

True but. Colorado has proven that people would rather buy it legally than off the streets.
Plus legal grown weed is a lot smoother and more potent.

I keep waiting for a city to pass a law that allows for automatic weapons without the federal permits, ghost guns, or whatever. I mean both are illegal under federal law and a city making then legal doesn't change things. The city making the guns legal would have lots of precedence of the Feds doing nothing.

TX tried doing that with suppressors and last I heard it was all sorts of nasty...the Feds definitely feel more threatened by a suppressor or auto than they do a pothead.

Certain things certainly trigger them - that is obvious from the border issues we've seen.

Sounds like a lot but after you take the bones out it's under 100 grams and joints normally have 1.5-2 grams in them so........

Several years ago in FW we would just write people tickets for under 7 grams so we wouldn't be spending time at the property room and jail for a simple user. I gave folks a lot of leeway with their cheap little scales and never had an issue with the citations. Anyone who tells you 4 ounces isn't a lot has some personal problems or sells it too.

I marvel at the fear some people have about legalizing marijuana. It's legal in half the country right now, and those states didn't suddenly fall into anarchy, yet, here in Texas, about half of the court dockets are filled with marijuana / THC cases.

It's pointless and stupid, and it's probably one of the single, largest waste of taxpayer's money and resources. I could share story-after-story of the waste and futility of it all, but THAT would be a waste of MY time.

EDIT: I've never been a user of the stuff, and I don't care for the smell, either, but I've recently tried a couple of gummies while traveling through other states.....and, you know what? It really wasn't that big of a deal. It actually made me feel relaxed more than anything else. In Texas, those gummies would've been a felony with prison time at stake.

What good would come out of making recreational use legal in Texas? I understand and support the benefit of medical use under the supervision of a physician.