Why not work long and hard, give them a bag of MONEY.
The high is so different when you eat it. I really donāt like it. Even CBD makes me feel weird. I do like CBD cream for a topical pain reliever and use it a lot.
Agree that a couple hits is all you need.
Still I donāt find smoking enjoyable. My body had become sensitive to drugs too. I canāt take a baby aspirin without getting dry heaves. My doctor finally took me off aspirin. Pain pills make me sick except for codeine. In my youth I could take anything. Oh well s few hits here and there is all Iām willing to do. I actually enjoy being clear minded. I feel best when I am. My main enjoyment what I really like to do is read. I enjoy fiction and biographies. Also working in the garden or around my house and cottage. Handy work to me is fun. Iām putting in a new well tank Thursday at my cottage. Checking the line for leaks too. I want to put in a watering system for my garden too.
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Makes good rope. The year Easy Rider came out I met a friend in Kentucky who was a native of suburban Lexington- he wanted to show off a genuine CA hippie to his friends and for me to help him harvest the local weed, which he would send in insulated and sealed coolers to CA to sell for $10 an ounce- same price as Mexican at the time, but his was crap.
He made a bundle though because of a crop failure year for Mexican reefer and people lowered their standards. The only way I could get high on the stuff was to make an oil out of it, but it wasnāt a pleasant high.
Fun hanging out with the redneck locals though. Even though Charlie Manson had pretty much destroyed the image of flower children, Steveās friends were very nice to me. One of them had access to a family farm where the stuff grew all over. Steve and I hid by lying down in the back seat when we drove in so no one would see our long hair and his friend and older brother who had short hair pretended to be going fishing.
We pulled many pounds of it and dried it out in a tobacco shed belonging to the guys father. The father didnāt mind- he figured it was the same deal as moonshine and heād benefitted from that economy.
My sister and brother in law went to KS around the same time to harvest pot. Long-hair, beards (him and his brother- not my sister), in a well used VW bus- somehow the locals got suspicious and they got busted. A good lawyer got them out and it also got my BIL out of the draft.
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Lol. Gardening economics, my good fellow. You pay taxes on the money you earn, then taxes when you spend it.
You donāt pay taxes on produce you grow. Iāve paid many a minor bill in fruit and homemade hot sauce and jams.
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Interesting article. Didnāt like this quote from the abstact:
There has been a recent and consistent worldwide increase in cannabis potency, with increasing associated health concerns. A number of epidemiological research projects have shown links between dose-related cannabis use and an increased risk of development of an enduring psychotic illness.
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Time is MONEY!!
It comes down to the old correlation and causation dilemma that makes many epidemiological studies highly suspect, but sometimes itās all we have. It is a specific form of psychosis that concerns some scientists- that is schizophrenia, which mostly strikes young men. The primary concern seems to be with adolescent users, so keep your medicine cabinet locked. No state has legalized use for those under 21. I donāt know if adult use increases the chance of psychosis- a lot of the studies seem to suggest earlier onset and not increased frequency associated with use, but Iām not really that fluid in science speak. The second link details all of this.
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Just to add anecdotal experience to this- my uncle was schizophrenic. He would become schizophrenic no matter what- that was obvious looking at his childhood. It was a matter of time until major symptoms occurred and it was diagnosed. This happened to occur after he had ready access to marijuana and many other drugs. His propensity use drugs and his development of schizophrenia were tied together. These studies focus on how -early- the psychosis starts, but it really means nothing in the scheme of things. It is going to happen.
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Used to eat Hash. TOTALLY different high. Much cleaner and just all in all more enjoyable
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a buddy of mine in high school got suspended for putting hash in a brownie recipe in home ec class. half the class including the nun teacher got stoned. 
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Marijuana/Hash is a culture thing. Iāve always hung around people that smoke.
Edit: or they HANG AROUND ME and I smoke it.
Dax
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I donāt smoke it but everyone pretty much does at least some, in my circles. itās legal here to grow and do anything with. thereās a dispensary a mile one way from me and a rec store a mile the other way.
itās reduced our ācrimeā rate because a lot of it was just small marijuana arrests. our drug problem here is mostly meth, or alcohol. people steal our get aggressive with those
weed just makes people calm and silly for the most part. I think we are about to legalize mushrooms here too or already have, they grow here on their own and are also pretty popular for cluster headache folks and explorers of various kinds
my uncle is schizophrenic, but would have been even without the 60s weed boom. my other uncles smoked likely even more back then and are fine. the law here is similar to alcohol, you need id and must be of age to buy or possess it
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And things that pass for normal on the farm are ātabooā to the masses in cities that donāt seem to have brains. Theyāre still using K-9 units to sniff out drugs in traffic stops around hereā¦so be careful if your state makes pot legal and you buy some and you drive through states that think differently.
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oh yes, people in Idaho are twenty miles away, I feel for them. I know the police there sit along the highway from here with speed traps watching for Washington plates
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kind of makes you wonder if wearing a t-shirt with a big donut on it vs. a tie-died shirt, which will make the officer more heavy and heated, lol.
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Do younger officers even know the significance of a tie-dyed shirt? Maybe just the picture of a donut has a calming affect, however. Tribes are partially distinguished by diet. It even gets mixed into politics. In NYC, you better know how to hold a pizza slice.
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I think youāll like this Alan. The first 5 minutes says most of it all.
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People donāt change & Iām of the opinion you canāt change people.
Thatās what I have to state, Dax.
I just ate some herb dust. Does that count? : )
Take care, everyone. Iāll (do the same here.)
: )))
Best Regards,
Dax
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