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Well old stoners, how long have you been smoking and what got you started?
Thanks, Tony, and thanks to the new Old Farts around here for rummaging around in the attic. Your stories are appreciated.
ramblinman
Active member
Almost 50 years ago, age 13 a friend (older then myself) burnt a joint with me for my birthday. Been toking ever since.
Captain Red Eye
Active member
1972. A friend's dad was in the military and his family had to move to Panama in 1970. Upon his return, two years later he brought a baggie back. Boones Farm wine now had a new friend!
Lebanizer
Well-known member
Hash usually contains CBD while flowers don't and CBD is said to be good against anxiety and paranoia, so this makes a lot of sense.
CharlesU Farley
Well-known member
From the about section of my website:
"I was born in the same state as Owsley Stanley, went to the same junior high and high school as Hunter S. Thompson, and I'm a Fugitive From Injustice. I first used cannabis in 1967 with some neighborhood kids while listening to a new album called Surrealistic Pillow. I felt a calm, warming sense of peace and happiness wash over me. I remember all my friends had the same smile on their face I did. I felt so happy. This was the beginning of my association with cannabis."
Not quite as good or succinct as "...growing up, I always wanted to be a gangster...," but I'm a blow hard Boomer and not Martin Scorsese and Nick Pileggi.
"I was born in the same state as Owsley Stanley, went to the same junior high and high school as Hunter S. Thompson, and I'm a Fugitive From Injustice. I first used cannabis in 1967 with some neighborhood kids while listening to a new album called Surrealistic Pillow. I felt a calm, warming sense of peace and happiness wash over me. I remember all my friends had the same smile on their face I did. I felt so happy. This was the beginning of my association with cannabis."
Not quite as good or succinct as "...growing up, I always wanted to be a gangster...," but I'm a blow hard Boomer and not Martin Scorsese and Nick Pileggi.
In 1972 I was 12. Older cousin shared what he had, no papers so he used a motorcycle reciept to roll one up.
Shit was terrible harsh/gross, did not like it...got zero buzz.
Two years later we moved. At this new middle school I learned if you run faster than the teachers chasing you and you jumped the fence they stopped chasing you.
I kid you not on the other side was a graveyard with a guy on a harley sporster selling weed and about any other kind of drugs on the streets their was...qualudes, powder THC, blotter acid etc.
What a time...it was the early 70's...lotsa choices!
I tried quite a few, some were enjoyable others just made you ultra paranoid/weird feelings.(powder THC).
Thank God the truly addicting drugs were'nt in my circle of availability...I probably would have tried them.
Shit was terrible harsh/gross, did not like it...got zero buzz.
Two years later we moved. At this new middle school I learned if you run faster than the teachers chasing you and you jumped the fence they stopped chasing you.
I kid you not on the other side was a graveyard with a guy on a harley sporster selling weed and about any other kind of drugs on the streets their was...qualudes, powder THC, blotter acid etc.
What a time...it was the early 70's...lotsa choices!
I tried quite a few, some were enjoyable others just made you ultra paranoid/weird feelings.(powder THC).
Thank God the truly addicting drugs were'nt in my circle of availability...I probably would have tried them.
I was s stoner from 18-21. Then I had kids and a drug test job. At 45 diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Fast forward two years and I am allergic to all things to treat it. Doctor suggested Cannabis.
I couldn’t afford the money to get the card or the weed either. Fast forward again New Mexico legalizes and decriminalizes cannabis. I bought seeds in Jan 2021. I planted inside March 2021. On June 1 2021 them puppies went outside. I started with 12 ended up with 4. I thought I had done enough research but was very disappointed with my grow. Them beans were as expensive as F. Next year found Herbies. Got more seeds. Half the price and 2 times the beans. Second grow was better. Joined The passion at the end of Aug 2023. Then I came here in Dec 2023. Grows and Here we are. There are threads for all my grows since. The latest one sour vengeance that was primarily documented on X as they were testers from a grower on X. That weed is really really good. I am so glad I met all of you that have helped me become a better grower. This was my garden that year. Those were northern lights. This was what I just harvested what a big difference
.most of the sour vengeance buds were the size of my palm. The small buds were even big for me. Way bigger than the NL. I have 2 NL growing now. One is in a 30 gal pot and is getting huge. The other is in a 7 gal pot. I may be culling it it looks sickly and small.
Fast forward two years and I am allergic to all things to treat it. Doctor suggested Cannabis.
I couldn’t afford the money to get the card or the weed either. Fast forward again New Mexico legalizes and decriminalizes cannabis. I bought seeds in Jan 2021. I planted inside March 2021. On June 1 2021 them puppies went outside. I started with 12 ended up with 4. I thought I had done enough research but was very disappointed with my grow. Them beans were as expensive as F. Next year found Herbies. Got more seeds. Half the price and 2 times the beans. Second grow was better. Joined The passion at the end of Aug 2023. Then I came here in Dec 2023. Grows and Here we are. There are threads for all my grows since. The latest one sour vengeance that was primarily documented on X as they were testers from a grower on X. That weed is really really good. I am so glad I met all of you that have helped me become a better grower. This was my garden that year. Those were northern lights. This was what I just harvested what a big difference
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Tincandtoke
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40+ years
Started because it took the edge off of becoming a primary caretaker to an Alzheimer's patient at the age of 14
It was called advanced senile dementia back then
And dodging bullets and crack heads that came with the 80s
Started because it took the edge off of becoming a primary caretaker to an Alzheimer's patient at the age of 14
It was called advanced senile dementia back then
And dodging bullets and crack heads that came with the 80s
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I started smoking in 1981at my best friend’s graduation party. Quit when I got pregnant in 1983. Started again when it became legal in my state in June 2021. That is also when I started growing. Dr suggested weed in 2017 as we were medical state at the time. I couldn’t afford the 150 for the weed card. My state becoming legal was a blessing. I am actually getting really good at it too. I enjoy growing and gardening. My health has improved and I lost a lot of weight too. In 2017, I weighed 450. I started losing weight in 2021. I weigh 268 yesterday morning. I still gave a ways to go but weed has made my life so much better.
What got me started…a joint lol
Happy 4th
Happy 4th
Started in 1974 - 50 years this year. I was 13, and it was the 70's. Been smoking just about daily ever since, except for a few years here and there because of work, but now I'm retired. Dallas, TX, weed had just been taken off the felony list in TX, there were guys in prison doing 20 years for 2 seeds back then. Use to get joints for $0.50, ounces for $10, pounds for around $100 of seedy, stemmy, all shake, commercial Mexican weed and we loved it. Seeds popping in your face, hell it seems like there were seeds everywhere back then. The weed was probably 5% or less THC, but we got high as hell on it. Everyone I met that came from out of state, complained about the weed around Dallas, until the late 70's, about 1978, when we started getting Colombian Gold in town. $40 and ounce, $400 a lb was a hard sell at first, until you took one hit, and coughed your ass off, then was stoned, and you wanted all you could afford. Then came the 1980's and weed got really expensive.
