DeadElvis666
Bluelighter
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- Dec 7, 2015
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I've always been surprised by the way smoking pot seems to still be treated like drug use or some kind of criminal behavior in other parts of the country/world. I live in northern California and pot is totally normal here. Me and my girlfriend smoke pot, everyone I know smokes pot. My parents smoke pot, her parents smoke pot. Most people in both our families grow pot. Even my grandma smokes pot. I've been smoking pot with my family since I was a kid. Used to roll up joints for my grandma since as far back as I can remember. It's pretty much legal here, and there's no social stigma attached. There are people smoking joints outside every bar in town. My boss at work is the only person I feel like I need to be secretive about regarding the whole pot thing. And I don't even know if my boss would care, but it just seems weird to talk about that stuff at work. But I also wouldn't discuss drinking, my sex life or anything else like that at work, so I guess that's pretty standard. It's just something that most people do, like having a glass of wine or smoking a cigarette. But there's not really so much of a "pot culture" surrounding it here because it's so common. Of course we have plenty of burn out kids with matted dreadlocks and tattered tie-dye shirts, dragging around some malnourished dog on a hemp leash, but most of those kids are on hard drugs, and pot is common in every demographic. My last girlfriend had dreadlocks down to her knees and nobody ever treated us any differently. She got a lot of compliments on her hair, but that was it, no discrimination or anything. My current girlfriend has tattoos all over her hands and chest, and she doesn't seem to get treated any differently either. I guess California is a pretty liberal place, but I find it odd when I hear people talking about pot on bluelight like it's some sort of drug. Here it's treated more like an herb or something, and it's not a big deal at all. What's it like where other people live? I went out to NY a couple years ago and brought a bunch of pot with me. It was crazy how much differently people were about pot in New York. I felt like a criminal every time I smoked a joint. It was strange. Everyone was very paranoid and judgmental about it. The potheads made a really big deal about it and treated me like some kind of bigshot because I had enough weed to get everyone high, which seemed really silly to me. Everyone has pot in California so it's not a big deal, but in Manhattan it seemed like everyone either judged me and made me feel paranoid as fuck, or wanted to be my best friend because I was the "cool guy with pot". Out here in California you see that sort of thing with people who have lots of cocaine, but not with pot. I noticed that the attitude about pot in Las Vegas and New Orleans was similar to New York, people make a really big deal about it. They seem to either demonize it or idolize it. Out here it's just another plant.
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