I never partook growing up. Mostly I was too lazy to seek it out and I guess I wasn’t friends with anyone who had it. Over the last few years I started smoking it and then vaping to help me fall back asleep when I wake up in the middle of the night. It’s legal here and all the strains have to be documented. I like walking into a dispensary and saying, “Give me something that will knock me out when I need to sleep.” 💤
Yeah - I have MYNTS that are supposed to help me sleep. They are mostly CBD and sometimes they help, but the majority of the time they muddle up my brain in a way that increases my anxiety. I hate to say it, but over the counter sleeping pills have worked the best for me. I used to take melatonin but I end up with really dark, violent dreams when I do that.
And I have had some bizarre sleepwalking moments on Ambien in the past. Nothing I remember, but my wife sure does. Apparently I fell asleep and then suddenly got up and told her I was some sort of sex guru who had a big message to tell my followers. She played along until it got too weird for her and woke me up. I can't believe she didn't think to record a video of it!:)
Nice, Steve, even though I felt like I was reading a foreign language.....sorry...never imbibed! I'm only chiming in so I can be the outlier in what I'm guessing will be a serpentine line around the block of at least 420 4/20 celebrants! I can comment on the punnage, though! Fabulous use of "toke'n"...mad props!👏
I stand on no moral high ground (on anything, really...who we kidding?), to be clear....my reluctance to toke goes all the way back to my single-digits: My brother (less than a year older) and I were around 8-ish in 1963 or so, and with folks out for the night we had a babysitter.....male (apropos of nothing, really, just setting the scene....this also seems more like something a guy would do rather than a gal).
Anyway, he let us both smoke a cigarette! We've both said, since then, we kinda think he knew what he was doing: Rather than turning us on to THAT leaf, we, of course, both got sick, and never wanted to repeat the act that produced all that spewage! Did he know that would happen, and he wanted to make sure we wouldn't catch the habit?🤷♂️
And, for me, anyway, that same common sense (of avoiding the inhalation of anything that's not oxygen) transferred to reefers come 1970 when a joint was passed my way in the middle of my first concert (at 15): Led Zeppelin. My default concert reaction from then on was one of two: "No thanks, I've had enough already!" or just simply passing it along. I WAS known to occasionally fake a toke if I felt the peer pressure was insurmountable, but that was rare.
Just as well, as I've already celebrated half of 420....on 2/10, me and some buds celebrated penal code 210, "Extortion by posing as a kidnapper." If you think THAT's edgy, just wait til you see what we've got planned for TWICE 420....(on 8/40!) Hoo-wee!
Haha - I was hoping you would represent the straight edge contingent! I can't wait until August 40th to find out what you got planned! And thanks for acknowledging the "toke'n" pun. I was proud of that one myself!
I had a similar experience that turned me off cigarettes when I was 16. It was a girl I really liked who tried to get me to smoke a cigarette and I wanted her to like me, so I did. But all I knew how to do was inhale!:) I coughed up a lung and couldn't breathe right for 10 minutes after that. I was already a pot smoker but cigarettes were a whole nuther world. And my mom smoked and I hated the smell so I didn't see pot and cigarettes at all in the same universe.
Glad to be of service! My favourite lyric: ‘catch my second wind/and start on my next bag/the type a n** smoke/on the way to his rehab!’ You know (to quote Cypress Hill) THAT’S some BAD weed! 🤪😎
I never partook growing up. Mostly I was too lazy to seek it out and I guess I wasn’t friends with anyone who had it. Over the last few years I started smoking it and then vaping to help me fall back asleep when I wake up in the middle of the night. It’s legal here and all the strains have to be documented. I like walking into a dispensary and saying, “Give me something that will knock me out when I need to sleep.” 💤
Yeah - I have MYNTS that are supposed to help me sleep. They are mostly CBD and sometimes they help, but the majority of the time they muddle up my brain in a way that increases my anxiety. I hate to say it, but over the counter sleeping pills have worked the best for me. I used to take melatonin but I end up with really dark, violent dreams when I do that.
And I have had some bizarre sleepwalking moments on Ambien in the past. Nothing I remember, but my wife sure does. Apparently I fell asleep and then suddenly got up and told her I was some sort of sex guru who had a big message to tell my followers. She played along until it got too weird for her and woke me up. I can't believe she didn't think to record a video of it!:)
Nice, Steve, even though I felt like I was reading a foreign language.....sorry...never imbibed! I'm only chiming in so I can be the outlier in what I'm guessing will be a serpentine line around the block of at least 420 4/20 celebrants! I can comment on the punnage, though! Fabulous use of "toke'n"...mad props!👏
I stand on no moral high ground (on anything, really...who we kidding?), to be clear....my reluctance to toke goes all the way back to my single-digits: My brother (less than a year older) and I were around 8-ish in 1963 or so, and with folks out for the night we had a babysitter.....male (apropos of nothing, really, just setting the scene....this also seems more like something a guy would do rather than a gal).
Anyway, he let us both smoke a cigarette! We've both said, since then, we kinda think he knew what he was doing: Rather than turning us on to THAT leaf, we, of course, both got sick, and never wanted to repeat the act that produced all that spewage! Did he know that would happen, and he wanted to make sure we wouldn't catch the habit?🤷♂️
And, for me, anyway, that same common sense (of avoiding the inhalation of anything that's not oxygen) transferred to reefers come 1970 when a joint was passed my way in the middle of my first concert (at 15): Led Zeppelin. My default concert reaction from then on was one of two: "No thanks, I've had enough already!" or just simply passing it along. I WAS known to occasionally fake a toke if I felt the peer pressure was insurmountable, but that was rare.
Just as well, as I've already celebrated half of 420....on 2/10, me and some buds celebrated penal code 210, "Extortion by posing as a kidnapper." If you think THAT's edgy, just wait til you see what we've got planned for TWICE 420....(on 8/40!) Hoo-wee!
Haha - I was hoping you would represent the straight edge contingent! I can't wait until August 40th to find out what you got planned! And thanks for acknowledging the "toke'n" pun. I was proud of that one myself!
I had a similar experience that turned me off cigarettes when I was 16. It was a girl I really liked who tried to get me to smoke a cigarette and I wanted her to like me, so I did. But all I knew how to do was inhale!:) I coughed up a lung and couldn't breathe right for 10 minutes after that. I was already a pot smoker but cigarettes were a whole nuther world. And my mom smoked and I hated the smell so I didn't see pot and cigarettes at all in the same universe.
‘Hits from the Bong’ is GREAT - but my favourite Cypress Hill song is ‘High Times.’ But for me, Nelly’s ‘Wrap Sumden’ is the best!
Listening to 'Wrap Sumden' now - hadn't heard that one before! I dig the vibraphone loop. Thanks for the tip!
Glad to be of service! My favourite lyric: ‘catch my second wind/and start on my next bag/the type a n** smoke/on the way to his rehab!’ You know (to quote Cypress Hill) THAT’S some BAD weed! 🤪😎