do you think we're past pot?

i understand that smoking pot used to be a major part of the hippie experience- but now it's gone past being a hippie thing to being an everybody thing. that's cool and i dig it, i mean, family of man and all- but i'm wondering if pot is no longer a "hippie" thing? all labels aside, i consider myself hip and don't smoke pot, not because i have something against it or anything, but just because it reacts badly in me (i have a very low tolerance and will start hyperventilating and fall asleep almost immediately with any kind bud)

what do you think? i know a lot of people here smoke pot... do you consider it part of your groovy self, do you do it because you think you're supposed to or do you consider it an everybody thing?

i just think it's funny because sometimes i can't relate to threads because i'm not high :-o

 

I started when I was 12 because I was curious, that was way before I associated myself with any "scene" I liked it so I continued. I think it helps me connect with like minded people. To be fair though a lot of people who smoke pot are losers, but then gain they probably would be anyway.

 

Many hippies still smoke pot, many others don't, and many people who do smoke pot aren't what you'd call hippies.

 

i smoke the herb. its a beautiful thing to me. i dont do it because everyone else does it, but because i like it. im just glad marijuana is the most common drug, and not something more hardcore. i read somewhere that 75% of all people have smoked pot before. i think its because its natural.
the media blows marijuana out of proportion. i am not above the influence, nor below. dont let the media effect your opinion on pot.
now, to answer your question. no, we are not past weed. every hippie young and old that i kno still smokes green. just because hippies arent the only ones smoking doesnt mean we're past it.

 

I'm in High School right now. I'm seventeen. I have a good amount of friends, not super popular but enough to always have someone around. I only really have one friend my age who's a lot like I am. I dress like I'm from another decade, I listen to music from that decade, watch movies from that decade, I embrace a lot of the classic hippie culture into my every day. My friends deal with it and they love me for it and understand it's who I am and I'm not able to change that, because it's what I love.
I used to toke almost every day, if not more. But recently I've cut down and I hardly do anymore. I've always used it as a way to actually expand my thinking and test myself to see what I can handle and how far I can stretch my imagination. It's lovely and I've produced things I'm rather proud of with it's aid. It makes me understand other hippies and things along side the hippie cultuer. As I said, the clothes, the music ect.
So yes it does bother me when I see the gangster rapper kids at my school dealing, and having to buy from them. They use it to get fucked up, I use it to find out more about myself and my surroundings.

 

I smoke weed on occasion--I have cut back a lot by force. I don't chalk it up to being a hippie. I agree, it's an everybody thing now. But I dont' think that means hippies are 'past' it--it's still a part of the hippie culture, so to speak.... it's just a part of the (non-literal) love that we managed to spread.

 

i don't smoke at all but i am very into the hippie way. i think that a lot of people feel that they need pot to keep that chill frame of mind, but that people are definitely getting to the point where they realize they don't. I'm like you oshinn, i have very low tolerance, and i would have crazy/bad trips. but i wanted to do it because i thought that was the only way to be a true hippie. I'm not against weed at all. and what i think we are "getting past" is the fact that we don't need pot to be hippies. if that makes any sense at all...

 

GoodbyeblueKY
I agree with everything you say. I've found that with pot I'm indeed very chill, hahaha. But without it can be as well, I've found I can have an adventure with pot and then talk about it and not sound stupid when I'm off it. So I can defend my weed better when I'm not using it.

 

I was a 14-year-old loser when I started smoking pot. Now I'm an 18-year-old loser, but I'm at peace with myself.

And nobody needs to smoke pot to be a hippie nor does anybody need to pursue some hippie stereotype.

 

I started smoking pot because of my sister having it all the time- I tried it out of curiosity when I was 16. Because any type of person does it now. She's totally materialistic and not with the hippie state of mind at all, whereas I am more conscious of those things. I don't do it because of that though. I do it mostly because it just relaxes me, and anything that makes you relaxed that isn't extremely harmful to anyone- well, why not?

 

when i discovered it two years ago, my friends and I were kinda bonkers over it. we would ditch school like 3/5's of the week to hotbox in my car.
after highschool, everyone changed. I only hang with one of those peeps now and he's moving on to other things. The whole disperse made me think about things more and i realized that i actually don't really like weed like i thought i did. so when i get high now, i take few hits just to feel it. getting pretty high is just very uncomfortable and i get more socially awkward. i love the plant but not the high

 

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this 100% is what i would say except that i do it still because i like it.

 

my first time was with my cousin and a couple of his friends..it opened up my mind in a way that i couldnt and to this day cant even explain now. i love the herb and i think it can do wonders for people. with that said, i do understand its not for everyone and i dont think that everyone should do it. i dont think that hippies are "past" it. i just think that now that everyone and their mother smokes maybe its just not directly associated with us.

 

i started smokeing, sold it. made 8 grams a day. use to smoke about 4 joints, match all my coustamers which would be like 20-30 bowls a day, and me 2 friends sold, we kinda had a trio of sales. so if one person owned someone money it would be hard to get a bag. but when ur 2 friends and urself make baout 8grams of weed a day. you smoke alot of weed, i use to carry a cig pack of joints around with me for a while. you can make money or weed off of selling i choose to make weed. it was excellent. i loved it, but im done with it. i hit weed hard for about 3 years. smoked way to much weed fucking loved every minute of it. but im just past it now. im all about ritual use not habitual use. i dont like habits, like smoking, and coffee and such. i do it ritually once in a while. but honoslty weed is just a social thing, as is drinking. most hippies smoke so u can do it socially

 

I smoke pot because I enjoy the feeling. If you dont like it, you dont have to smoke it. Im sure you have plenty hip juices flowing, consuming a plant does not make one "hip"

 

I believe that pot is a valuable herb. I hardly every smoke it... but it really does help with my migraines when I have them. The only other thing that helps me is Exedrin, and I'd rather take a natural herb than that.

 

I remember the first time I smoked I was in 6th grade, so 11-12, and he was in high school, and he put on this record explaining Marijuana, and what the person could expect the first time.. Later on I remember staring at a clock for a few minutes trying to figure out what time it was...

but not only hippies smoke.. The Mexicans started doing it before the hippies!!

I'm starting to feel Im getting too old to smoke regularly anymore.. sucks but that's life

 

For the Rastafarians, Ganjah is a sacrament. It is used to cleanse body and mind, raise consciousness, soothe the soul, promote peace, and draw one closer to the presence of Jah... and it's fun. To the Rasta man, herb is literally the biblical "Tree Of Life."

Man has never been beyond pot and I'm sure we never will be.
Its use is as timeless as religion.

 

I recently discovered that I can enjoy sex without smoking herb! A nice discovery. But I still find I prefer to be stoned for sex and music, listening and playing.

One thing I like to do to keep the experience special is to light a candle and turn off the lights. Simple isn't it, but it takes me back to the feeling we had in the old days.

 

I haven't smoked grass since 1973. Got tired of waking up on the floor.

No, actually, it used to bring out my paranoia and I didn't like that - sitting outside my apartment to make sure no one was out ther conspiring to bust in. I think it was some impurity in grass itself, since hash didn't have the same effect.

Anyhow, I quit putting any smoke in my lungs (grass brownies were always nice tho).

I also quit taking acid trips. I guess the Hippie dried up and now look at me - short hair, sitting at a 9-5 office job working at a computer for the man.

So, you kids be sure to keep smokin MJ or you may end up an old used-to-be-Hippie.

Oh, BTW, thanx for the laughs guys.

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