WELCOME Fellow Geriatric Stoners!

[plumberjohn420]

I've been wanting to start growing indoors but am pretty much clueless other than basic put the seed in soil.

just look around here. you'll find out all you need to know

 

[Guest]

ill be 40 in january. can i still hang with ya'll?

You most certainly can & it's good having you aboard.....

 

[Guest]

Hello all!!
Theres nothin worse than old stoners,they think they know it all!!So i figure i better get in here and set ya's straight,lol!!!! (42)

 

[plumberjohn420]

You most certainly can & it's good having you aboard.....

well thanks for the warm welcome. May your bowl be overflowing always!

 

[Guest]

This must be the place

This must be the place

ok here i am not tryin to win any ol fart contest. just joinin my peer group.hehe. glad to see you all here. ok first doob 1966. did quit for 5 yrs once. a very boring time. lost my first love at 15. always wondered what happened to her. well married another and that lasted 34 yrs. don't know how
exactly. i lived in the haze for long time. anyway around 51 i started askin myself if this was all there was to it. found out later she had a special friend. not mine. Fu----- cop prick. anyway divorced her and started looking for my first love. the one i could never forget. hate computors but they have given me new life. found her in new mexico, divorced. hehe. anyway hooked up with her. married in sept. 04. couldn't be happier. don't know how i survived without her for almost 40 years. anyway i'm sure we all new a long time ago the medicinal effects of the green. finally august 06 talked to my dr about the green. got my dr's rec. and have been cali med patient since august. couple a motorcycle accidents and a industrial accident have fu---- up my already fu--- up back. the smoke has got me thru the pain and agony of it for many years now. this will be my first grow though. Right on

 

[Guest]

Very cool story, sickboy. That must've been a real experience, hooking up with your 1st love from 40 yrs ago. Did the 2 of you feel like it was only yesterday that you were an item? Fell right into the same wave-length again? That's a beautiful thing, dude, I'm happy for the 2 of you.

I also lost my 1st love, back in 75. I was devastated!! I thought I'd never find a true love like that ever again. Even now, being married to another woman for 20+ yrs & I still think of my 1st love.
I'm just so glad I buried her in my crawlspace...so she can always be close to my heart [although her's was kinda tasty].

 

[Guest]

Right On Zoltron

Right On Zoltron

yea man i was 51 and on the run from a very bad experience. found her through the classmates site. couldn't believe it i almost fell outta my chair. thought i was havin a heart attack. had her come to cali and hooked up with her. man i was 51 goin on 15. the world was right again. just like when we were kids. loved her all my life. only God and i new this. never spoke of her to anyone. i ended up losing about a million and a half dollars in real estate plus everything i had collected for 30 years in the divorce. i guess that's where the depression came in. MAJOR! but freedom is not free and we must pay whatever price is needed. i originally looked for her cause i thought i was dying and wanted to see her one more time before i left this world. Man deppression is anyway married her in sept 2004 and ridin high. i can't explain the bliss
i feel when i'm with her. my other love is mj. i was glad to see so many young people at this site. i was afraid we were going to take our lifestyle with us when we left this world. right on grow on smoke on forever.
thanks for the post.

 

[Guest]

I'll bet that must be 1 of the greatest feelings...finding your long-lost soulmate after all those years. I love my wife, but she's not my soulmate. I lost mine 30+ yrs ago & it was definitely all my fault. I was a young 21 yr old, who was unfaithful & thought I was invincible!! Couldn't have been more wrong!!
It's funny how the older we get, the more we realize how our priorities in our 20s were so fucked-up [at least mine were]. The most important thing, imho, is family & friends. The chances I used to take in my 20s were so insane, I'm fortunate to still be alive & not incarcerated!!
But your story is a roller-coaster ride, if ever I read 1. You lost plenty materialistically, but gained so much inner-happiness, which can't even be put into $$$ worth. You sound better off now than you were with the millions of $$$.
Best of luck to both of you & much happiness for you also.

 

[Guest]

ain't it the truth

ain't it the truth

right on Zoltron, thanks, you understand completely. i'm soooooooo glad to have survived the 60's 70's 80's 90's and here we are in 2006. SHHHHHHit
time to medicate. i just remembered my age. ahhhhhh gotta hurry.
later Z

 

[UVrays]

Some sweet story's in here nice to read all the personal experiences

 

[plantagenet]

I found my old boyfriends location on the internet. Has a wife though and so I chose not to contact him. Might have a wife that don't understand....lol
Wish him only the best and hope he is happy now.
Forty years is a long time ago,but seems just like yesterday.

Recent widow after many years of marraige. Hard to get back into the single life after so many years.

 

[Patsheba]

My biggest problem, at almost 50, is that many of my old time stoner friends, up and died on me (they drank and/or other too) or many have had to "straighten up" for this new mandatory drug testing, which now detects pot and they don't want to lose their jobs and retirement.

But I was truly outraged at Van Halen in 2005. Now, I know that many concerts venues don't really get toking, but Van Halen fans? And then, I run into this chick in the ladys room complaining that somebody by her is smoking pot (I'm sure she meant us-cuz I was feeling the minority thing at the time and it wasn't cuz I'm older, it was the smoke) and how rude, don't they know that people get drug tests.... I walked out on her, but it was nerve wracking. I did wish her a pleasant contact high. Poor creature. Shit, just 5-10 years ago, everyone at a rock concert would be toking.

So I'm sad. The world is not going to pot, and that makes me sad.



I've been taking it seriously since Dylan first croned "Everyone must get stoned". 40 years ago I decided to be a potaholic instead of an alcholic (because drinking makes me throw up).

Happy to find a patch of proud-of-it stoners.

 

[Guest]

My biggest problem, at almost 50, is that many of my old time stoner friends, up and died on me (they drank and/or other too) or many have had to "straighten up" for this new mandatory drug testing, which now detects pot and they don't want to lose their jobs and retirement.

I hear you on so many of your observations, it also saddens me. I truly feel bad for the youngsters nowadays trying to find employment. I think just about every company drug-screens now.
Thank goodness I never worked at a place that drug-tested, but then again, when I did work [retired now], there was no such thing as 'drug-screening'. A lotta my old pals are in the same predicament, as they're still working, & are playing the executroid climbing corporate-ladders, kissing bosses' asses [was never my style] & are stuck there until age 65, so they can get that pension.

As for rock concerts....I haven't attended 1 since 1979 & that was George Thorogood at Red Rocks Auditorium outside Denver, CO. But the 10 yrs I DID go to concerts [1969-1979], they were like open drug markets.
I saw The Who in Chicago 1969 & is STILL the best, most energetic concert I've seen. We always caught Jethro Tull, as they put on good shows. Mountain with Leslie West was another great 1. But peeps would be all lined-up in the aisles asking you if you wanted some microdot, Dexedrine, Seconal, hash, weed, etc, etc....with NO cops around, no drug-dogs sniffing everything in sight. Now I think you have to walk thru metal-detectors, just to make sure you have no weapons. No weapons? We were the peaceful hippies. We didn't 'strap a gat'. Nobody wanted any violence.
I don't know what's happened to the long-lost "Peace, Love, Dope" mentality, but I'll take that anyday, over the state-of-mind there seems to be now.
[/OK, end of rant].

 

[Patsheba]

Chicago area? That's where we grew up. My or almost hubby probably saw that concert. One of my favorite Tshirts is George's "20 Years of Rockin My Life Away" altho it's several years old now, altho I'm taking care of it. And 20 years is low balling it.

We still go to concerts. Nothing like the old days tho. Sure miss those 3-5 day Dead getaways.

But yes, development of the THC test has really changed the scene.

Did you ever hear of the Burn Out Brigade?

 

[Guest]

Chicago area? That's where we grew up.

Did you ever hear of the Burn Out Brigade?

No, I sure haven't, Pat. But does Lyons Township HS [LTHS] ring a bell?

 

[Patsheba]

Sure, Wheeling High School here, hubby graduated from St. Joseph in St. Charles. He lived in Aurora. Got my braces in Oak Brook and have lots of relatives around there, part of Palos Heights was greatgranddad's farm.

Area sure has changed tho. It's all metro now. I don't even know all the expressways anymore.

You're in CO now? Lots of my classmates (we cancelled a reunion this year) relocated there also. Was it the skiing and the smoke?

We went for surf and smoke, CA.

Small world, heh?

 

[Guest]

Sure, Wheeling High School here, hubby graduated from St. Joseph in St. Charles. He lived in Aurora. Got my braces in Oak Brook and have lots of relatives around there, part of Palos Heights was greatgranddad's farm.

Area sure has changed tho. It's all metro now. I don't even know all the expressways anymore.

You're in CO now? Lots of my classmates (we cancelled a reunion this year) relocated there also. Was it the skiing and the smoke?

We went for surf and smoke, CA.

Small world, heh?

It certainly is a "Small World, after all..."....

Wheeling HS, eh? That's not far from La Grange at all. LTHS Class of 72 here.
After graduating in June 72, a buddy & I went on a 1.5 year cross-country [& Mexico] hitch-hiking adventure. He went back to Chi-town & I ended-up living in Tucson, AZ for awhile with a bunch of other LTHS transplants.
Then I moved to Denver, CO & lived there until July 84, when I moved again to NC to be closer to my aging folks, who retired down here. They have since passed away [pop in 93 & mom in 96] & I had already got married & started a family here. So after they died, my wife, son & I moved into their house on the golf course down here in NC.
My son will be 16 in January & time is just zooming by, as us Boomers start retiring....which I already have. Good investments in the 90s allowed me the opportunity to retire early. I feel sorry for the youngsters nowadays looking for employment, with just about every company piss-testing applicants. I feel that is such an invasion of privacy....I'm just thankful we didn't have that to concern ourselves with or 75% of our g-g-generation wouldn't be employable.

 

[Patsheba]

Hitchhiking, another great old memory! Ahhh The summer of '72 was the first I hitched up to Milwaukee Summerfest!

He graduated in 71 and left for Iowa, where he got married. I graduated in '76 and went to New Orleans for college, where I got married. In 84, we were both finalizing divorces and met up back in Elgin (I was living in Lake in the Hills, and my babysitter-whose name was Katrina- said she knew where I could get some pot). When I met him, I told him, I hated the cold and was going to move to California (my dream since my first visit to Disneyland in '66-shit my cousins had the best pot!). He said, he liked that idea, carpenters could work year round in CA. He didn't laugh and act like my idea that my company was going to me move me was amusing. Within a year, I got the promotion, and we've been hanging out here ever since. 22 years now.

Been to Myrtle Beach, Pirates Cove and shit, I forgot the islands name, but some famous island off one of the Carolinas. Several of my neighbors here who were professional divers moved to Carolinas, and our youngest son is in the Atlanta area right now (went to help out friends & relatives after Katrina and ended up there). If a grandkid appears there first, we may be out your way!

I haven't been back to area in almost 4 years. All this legalized gambling sure has changed a lot of country, and that area is certainly one affected!

 

[Guest]

The islands off NC that you're probably thinking of are the Outer Banks -- supposedly where Blackbeard has some treasure buried. Some of the towns are Kill Devil Hills, Manteo [where Andy Griffith is from], Kitty Hawk [Wright Bros], etc. It's beautiful country up there. I'm closer to the NC/SC border....about 2 hrs from Myrtle Beach.
Elgin ya say? LOL!! I've got a lotta pals from that area, even though I lived in La Grange. A bunch of Elgin peeps were living in Denver & I met them out there. Really cool people from that area. We may even know some of the same peeps.
I've been down South now since 84 & don't miss the snow at all. My wife is totally Southern & longs for a white Christmas...& our 16 yr old son hasn't experienced the pleasure of digging the car out from snowdrifts, shovelling the driveway, or trudging thru ice & slush. He's another 1 who would love to see some snow. And if I never see another snowflake [after 30 yrs of it], that'll be fine with me!!

 

[Patsheba]

We may, we both know several who have relocated to CO. A few are deadheads too!

Hehe, every year we had to take the kids to Big Bear to play in snow at least once. I'm for sit by fireplace with good book and hot toddie! The younger became a snowboarder for a few years, until he got hurt. But, he was driving then! I like watching it on TV. Is that getting old? Even now, I tbo'd (which if it is not the decline of western civilization, it is certainly the cause of mine), the Macy's fireworks this year, and like, I think I'm watching them next year and not bothering with going out! When I think of it now, I even like concerts on TV, and miss the old fashioned MTV from when it first came out. Shoot, I just ordered the new Doors anniversery DVD! ARGHHHH!

Now, is this a small world? Hey, you ever hang at Deer Grove?