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When did you lose the pothead mentality?

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When i was younger (im still young) i was a real pothead. You know the rasta clothing, red eyes all the time, the person all the teachers and kids knew smoked weed. Then i realized it was stupid just because i like smoking weed doesnt mean i have to advertise it. I think it makes weed look bad when you build a culture around it. I still blaze all day tho hehe, when did you stop glorfying your marijuana use? I think its tacky.
 
I was going to say I never really try to either publicise or hide my smoking, but then I realised I own a pair of trainers with a damn green cannabis leaf stitched into the tongues.
 
I'm slowly losing my pothead mentality. I try to smoke on weekends only, don't advertise my smoking/other drug use to anyone including friends. it's a better way, voice your support for marijuana, but do it sober and in an intelligent manner.
 
I've never really had the stereotypical pothead mentality. I don't go absolutely out of my way to try to hide it, but I don't publicize it either --- the only cool Spencer's type of weed thing I have is a potlead shaped ashtray, which I bought specifically for tapping out the bowl on my bong (no cigs inside). Even when younger, going out of your way to let everyone know is a really stupid idea --- while you (and I) like getting high, not the rest of the world does, and people will judge you for it.
 
I'm still a pretty big pothead but I'm smart enough to know how to limit what I show off to everybody. I always avoid and frown upon people who just straight up tell others that they are stoners, I would rather have other stoners piece together the clues and figure it out...then smoke with me of course :D. But I love the culture weed has created. It unites people from all sorts of backgrounds through a substance we hold dear to our hearts :]
 
Pot culture is a beautiful thing, and not something you "grow out of".

If you wore rasta gear and bragged about blazing all day when your were younger just because you thought it was cool, then its something you grow out of. But if you wear the Bob Marley shirt just because you love Bob, and tell people you smoke when they ask just because you aren't ashamed of it, then you will hopefully never "grow out of it".

Bottomline is you should be yourself.. To some people that means being dressed up in "prep" clothing, and to others it may mean being decked out in "hippie" clothes. Pre judging someone for how they look is stupid, regardless of the "style".

There are always going to be certain people who dress or act a certain way in an attempt to be "cool" or fit in, but the idea that wearing the red/yellow/green to school somehow makes you immature is a foolish notion IMO.
 
At first I thought being a pot head would make me cool haha abit ashamed to say it but its true, I did flaunt it abit and ended up with the as name "stoner" in school. I toned it down pretty quickly after that as I never really liked being seen as a "stoner" after I had become one, people still call me it more as a joke and because I get defensive about it. But I have definately grown out of it, I smoke because I enjoy it not for the image it provides me with and I have definately cut down from smoking all day everyday as I have found moderation is very important to keep enjoying any drug that I want to use. I still use marijuana a lot more than any other drug but that "pothead" mentality is definately gone. Iv only been smoking for 2 - 3 years and only just gotten over the whole stoner attitude in the last year. I never have tried to hide my smoking habbit as I feel everyone has their habbit; drinking, cigerettes, cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine heroin. If your ashamed of what your doing you probably shouldnt do it.
 
I have not known a person who wears any sort of rastafarian clothing and smokes. Most people I know just be themselves when they smoke weed.

I did spend the first year smoking and thinking I was going to cause brain damage and end up a retard or something, but that never happened. everyone i came into contact with at school knew i was a stoner cos i used to smoke it down the street at lunchtime with friends, and im sure i smoked alot more than any of my school friends, hence i was labelled a silly stoner, but i was also alot smarter. i've still got the mentality of thinking that so many people miss out on smoking ganja just because its illegal and i think 'what a shame'.
 
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I think its natural to be enthusiastic about anything that gives you great pleasure - be it music, literature, sport or, in this case, a drug. It's normal to want to 'tell the world' about your new found muse - particularly when you're young.

What is sadder is that others feel the need to beat you down, make you feel ashamed and expect you to conform. Unfortunately pot and pot smokers are an exceptionally easy target.

To answer your question though, I never advertised my potheadedness - preferring to be a quiet achiever flying under the radar.
 
I don't know if I'll ever give it up, I think I was always a stoner at heart. Even before I smoked people would always think I was anyway because I dress kinda sloppy (That's not really the right word for it but I hope yous know what I mean) and I have this slow stoned way of talking. I'm also like a total pacifist, just kinda imagine the Dude but a teenager ha
 
I never really glorified it, but there certainly is a social status that comes with being a pot smoker. In high school and college, it's a positive thing to (most) peers.

I don't tell people I smoke weed right out, I only do if it comes up or if I find it appropriate. It's not something that everyone needs to know -- what I find more important is education about pot rather than glorification.
 
I have never really glorified my smoking, being in high school and all I usually try and hide it. If I bragged that I was a stoner I would probably get narced on and the law system up here would send me to detention for weeks. They think it's devil shit or something. Even if I do look like a total stoner (I wear tie-dye shirts, psychedelic band shirts, have a big ass coat that looks like i'm preparing for the Siberian winter, friends just call it the drug dealer coat because I look all suspicious in it haha :).)
 
I feel that i will always be a pothead at heart...

I see myself as one of those grandparents who will take a rip off the bong when im old.

Since i started college i kind of have to keep my head straight.... what i want to do with my life really depends on how i do at it...
 
i still love weed every bit as much, but at a certain point i realized that i didn't want it to define how others saw me.
 
I've always kept my usage on the DL. When I started smoking I was doing really well in school and dressed preppy and shit and nothings changed, so unless I befriend you you're probably not gonna assume I smoke weed, let alone all the other shit I do and I'm perfectly happy with it that way, but if you become my friend you will probably know in a very short while what some of my hobbies are ;) So while I don't really think I have a huge pothead type of mentality, the only way my current mentality will change is if I get sober.
 
it sucks to keep it on the DL. i've been doin it for years and recently just said fuck it. i don't hide my pipes from my landlord or at all in the car seat. a week ago i whipped out a joint and smoked it in the park after lunch with my older bro and his wife. they were not amused but i'm just so sick of acting like there's a reason to hide it. we talked about it for a while during and after and they realized that i was pretty serious about it.

the stigmatization has got to end somewhere.
 
^ You leave your pipes on your car seat on purpose?

Where I live, I would either be given a ticket with a court date or my car would be broken into for doing that.

I get your point, in that you should not have to hide ANYTHING from ANYONE, but the law is the law and people are always going to be stupid about shit.

Keep on blazin' my fellow stoners, yes you STONER!. Paranoid or not, it's not as bad as most people make it out to be.

I never lost my pothead mentality. I was born with it, and I will probably die with it.

Just keep it real. For real.
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I think a few people misunderstood me, i didnt say "when did you lose you love for weed" i still love weed and blaze everyday. I meant walking around with a shirt with a big pot leaf on it ect. I think its stupid because it makes us look bad and isnt helpful to promoting understand of marijuana.

Maryjane will always be my love
 
yea it sucks when you even mention weed and the people around you automatically assume you're a useless drug addict.

"me? noooo...i don't smoke...weeed. i'm better than that."

^that's such a dick mentality that seems to flourish everywhere i go.
 
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