Hippies rock....but do they ALL smoke pot?

despite the bluster of other posts, i have not smoked more than a few hits of pot [it's so much stronger now than in the 70s] since unlimbering myself from the influence of certain more possessive drugs back in the 90s

i do not know if there is a gateway effect between marijuana and harder drugs, i do know though that if you live in a psychedelic culture you use psychedelic drugs

and if you move to new york, well . . .

now, like you i advocate the middle path - but youth will be served

and everyone has to learn for themselves, and make their own decisions, and make their own mistakes

i am alive while others are not, and i suppose we're all where we're supposed to be

anyways, i regret nothing i've done, and encourage everyone to be brave

[and stay out of law school]

 

nothing worse then that shit there... lmao...

 

This thread was about hippies smoking pot or at least asking about it. So I never intended to link the discussion to the harder drugs.
I have had plenty of friends try it and get on with their lives, a non-issue.

I used to work at a store that sold spray paint and remember the sad day I saw a teenage boy stagger to the counter with a can of red paint and a red paint mustache. He had been sniffing paint in the back of the store and came forward to pay for it and sniff some more in our parking lot.
I don't know what happened to him, but it is hard for me to predict a happy outcome if he continued on the path he was on.

So, there is a big difference between pot and other stuff.

No point in trying to muddy the water by discussing both substances in one setting.

It may be a gateway, but most of my friends did not take that gateway.

Coke, horse, THC, speed, acid, lots of stuff to do in NYC I am sure. Atlanta has plenty of chemical entertainment too. Not hard to find it. A few years ago I took in a boarder, a guy new to Atlanta who did coke on occasion. His first time in Atlanta he found all he wanted right away. But if you don't go looking for it, you won't see it.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Thanks for the advice! And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.

 

If you had a choice....
be a lawyer or a jiggallo...
which would you prefer?
Me, I'd be a jiggallo. It's still fucking people for their money, but at least I wouldn't be lying about it....

 

What is wrong with, as you put it "labels" ??

 

I agree. I used to smoke weed from when I woke up till I went to bed and it really did my heading in the end. That was 4 year's ago now and now proud to say I only smoke it at party's or festival's. Even though I do think weed does give you some kind of spiritual feeling I think we need to try and learn that for ourselfs which is what i'm lucky I have got!

 

Exactly I'd rather be labeled "Hippie" than "Asshole". But at the same time I'm probably labeled "Asshole Hippie".

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Speaking of labeling I have got called this month: Ginger hair, hippy tree lover! (I don't even have ginger hair). And a wannabe hippie.

 

trippy he hugger er hippy tree hugger all sounds good ;-)
peace
Delfynasa

 

when I started my journey I smoked more pot in high school then most people see in their life time or so it felt that way lol. I was never not stoned but at about 20 it just changes you have to work you have to maintain a home and bills blahblahblah. Now I'm not saying you can't do that and still smoke I'm sure many do and get along just fine but for me I had to quit. Am I still a hippie? Damn Right! The culture and teachings you learn never go away I think it made me a better person and opened my mind up to endless avenues of thought. To this day on special occasions I will take a hit or two if someone has some and offers good thing about not smoking is when you do it that way two hits is all you need. *LOVE*

 

I love meeting hippies like me who have given it up because I know alot of people just doing some kinda drugs or drink and many are not like me that don't do nothing.

 

I'm one...

 

I'm a complete sober hippie.

 

A lot of hippies that do do drugs that I know, seem to favor drugs the expand your conciousness or have the ablity to expand your mind. Like salvia for example, but alcohol has a way of changing some people. Alcohol is a depressent, alcohol is associated with supessing the mind suppressing feelings. I think most hippies choose substances that are mind expanding rather then suppressing.
But this only applies if they aren't addicts. You can drink and use drugs and not be an addict. If are able to take it or leave it alone, if they can moderate, and learn from experince with drugs, then they mostly don't have the disease of addiction, and mostly likely don't have the mentality of more and more drugs. Or that they need drugs to expand their mind, or be a hippie. I myself am a sober hippie. I used to smoke pot, and drink, but it nearly killed me the disease of addiction which is centered in the mind, almost killed me. I think I am more of a hippie sober because being sober has changed me, and I believe made me more of who I am supposed to be. Before I didn't have an understanding of uncondtional love and compassion while drinking and druging, now I do, I didn't understand freedom now I do. and I am able to see my part in things, and Iam free now.

 

I totally agree with you. Being sober from everything is great, feeling our true feelings.

 

I dont smoke I used to in my 20s, but after time, I loved myswlf more wirhout it. I am however on the journey now in my life no alchohol!!... And my journey continues! ~ love always~ love long~ love strong~

 

I'm on a journey of 21 trying to find out who I am and loving myself.

 

I smoke pot when I've got it and when it's offered to me (in the right situations), really only when it's convenient. I don't make too much of an effort to get a hold of it, and I only smoke at night when I don't have anywhere to be. My husband doesn't really smoke anymore, so its not really a priority to get more when I run out.

I love weed. But I'm the same person with or without it. I don't drink very often, and I'm trying to quit smoking cigarettes...the only other drug I let into my body is shrooms, when I can get them. (maybe once or twice a year at the most)

I guess to me, weed is like ice cream. I could take it or leave it, but damn is it tasty and satisfying when I have a bowl.

 

That's worth rep, but it makes me want a weed milkshake....

 

mmmm