Happy 420, most of our country is high on weed all day!
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This evening, you will observe a lot of people at the grocery store randomly buying bags of chips and other junk food. Their eyes will be bloodshot, and they might smell of a similar strange fragrance. To the normal person this might appear odd, but the rest of us know that today is a celebration for folks who smoke marijuana. April 20th is dubbed a marijuana holiday in our drug culture, where people get together and smoke cannabis. To summarize, there are a ton of people out there today who will be high. I didn’t realize the holiday had arrived, until I saw a group of my neighbors on their back porch last night firing up around 1am. Then it made sense, and I remembered the times when I would be one of those people getting high on 4/20. Yes, I have smoked weed in the past and have a strong preference for it. I was quite the pothead, smoking up to an estimated 5-6 times daily. I fondly remember 4/20 on my senior year of college, where my girlfriend at the time and I smoked 8 grams of hydro that day (marijuana grown in water, and highly potent).I don’t smoke marijuana anymore, but have been known to occasionally smoke it with a friend if it’s available. It has been around 8 months since I last got high, and I don’t really have any desire to smoke anymore. In my unstable condition, it can trigger a panic attack and I have been emitted to the hospital while high because I thought I was dying. That was one of the most embarrassing experiences I’ve ever had. Imagine calling your father, and telling him you’re high as shit and you need him to drive you to the hospital because your heart is going to explode. Lets just say, the disappointment on his face stayed for over a month. I try to stay away from the stuff, for I’ve had a total of 2 severe panic attacks while on marijuana. My feelings are that weed is a safe drug, that if used correctly can be relaxing. A lot of times, people become dependent on it as I did, to escape the real world on a consistent basis. Imagine looking back on your life, and not really remembering what you did over the last 6 months? The great thing is, in the moment it causes time to go slowly, so 3 hours could seem like a full day.
Do I think marijuana should be legalized? I sure do, but I feel there should be age restrictions as with alcohol. To legally smoke weed, you should be 21 years old and the government should regulate the sale and distribution. In our current drug environment, a lot of the pot is being laced with other drugs to make it more addictive so addicts will buy more from the dealers. Marijuana can be laced with ecstasy, pcp, or other harmful and addictive drugs. Weed itself is not that addictive, but combined with other narcotics can be like smoking crack. This is where legalization of marijuana can protect smokers, and focus our police forces on more severe narcotics such as heroin and cocaine. Besides, which is more harmful to the body, marijuana or alcohol in the long run? Being 420, please comment (anonymously if you prefer) this post with your marijuana stories and tales of today. I will leave you with a final thought, of a great saying I heard back in college. “God made pot and man made beer, who do you trust?”
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9 Responses to “Happy 420, most of our country is high on weed all day!”
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I had no idea today was an unofficial holiday, go fig. I have never done any non-prescribed drugs or drank alcohol. I always knew that I had way too much on my plate to be taking recreational drugs. I have been in treatment for my bipolar since I was about 14. Everybody else was talking about trying new drugs in high school, when I was already on them, but not the fun ones. I have a genetic background steeped in addiction and I am seriously an addict waiting to happen. It’s not a moral thing for me.
I do think medical marijuana is a good idea. If I was suffering, I’d want it, as long as it’s regulated and safe.
As for marijuana use for recreation, I don’t really have a position either way. I don’t know anything about the health effects. I have never researched the pros and cons of legalized use. I do have a strong Dutch background, maybe that will influence my decision
Yo yea im kinda high out of my mind right now, so hahaha. i dont do it often but 420s a holiday ya kno aha.
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Its funny because the day after 4/20 I had to debate in economics about the legalization of marijuana. I got stuck on the con side, and to figure , we lost the class vote because most of them ate all pro,. I’m very pro legalization, it was hard not to be biased lol
Hi there! I love this post. Very honest and up front. You totally summed up everything I feel about the legalization of pot. My boyfriend’s a pothead, and I only just started smoking with him. I have a moral dilemma with it though. I really am very anti-breaking laws, but it does help me take my mind off of things that are bothering me. However, it helps with procrastination. Well, anyway, my 420 story is this: I officially quit smoking pot on 4-20-08. I know it’s not good for my bipolar, or anxiety, or my short-term memory. Anyway, thanks for inviting me to read your blog!
Smoking weed really helps with my OCD tendancies and it helps me settle down when Im restless and cant sit down. But weed is not for everybody. There are some people who cant handle pot and they shouldnt smoke it if it causes them discomfort. Weed also helps me get to sleep (before I started smoking weed I never slept properly)and I would rather smoke weed than take sleeping pills because I dont want to be sedated. I just want to relax so I can get some rest.
Alcohol on the other hand messes with my head to no end so I just stay away from it. Even if I only have a few drinks I will have to pay the price for the next three or four days feeling depressed and guilty. Alcohol also makes my meds not work where pot seems to enhance my meds and help me relax a little. I would hate to get in trouble with the law for smoking weed when I do it for my mental health.
I used to smoke a lot of pot, do lots of psychadelic drugs, and drink myself into oblivion. That all stopped about ten years ago.
I live in California, where people can just walk into a “Farmacy,” say they have insomnia or whatever condition, and on the spot, be granted a “prescription.” Then they choose from a glass case of 3o-odd breeds of marijuana. Almost like being in Amsterdam.
I suffer from BP II disorder, OCD, anorexia, extreme anxiety and panic, and on and on. I can’t take SSRI’s because I experience rare but painful side effects. So I take an anticonvulsant and Xanax (my new addiction). I freak out if I smoke pot, which I try to explain to people who say, “Oh, you should just go get an Rx and smoke pot instead of popping all these pills. You won’t be so high-strung!”
But that’s not my reason for posting. My latest research on drugs involves a man named Dr. Daniel Amen. If you’re not familiar with his work, I highly recommend Googling him or buying his book, “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life.”
I hate self-help books. Hate them, hate them, hate them. But this is not a self-help book. This is not crap. He’s not trying to make anyone better just by giving them a book and saying, “You can do this on your own with a little self-help.” No, he acknowledges that Rx drugs are often necessary, while also giving other tips for people who suffer from depression, anxiety, anger, rage, panic, ADD (his specialty area), OCD, ODD, etc. His advice is amazing. And his research is heavily based upon BRAIN IMAGING.
So just a caveat: Smoking pot severely damages the brain, almost as much as heroin, if used on a regular basis. Again, you can see these images and read about all the parts of the brain that are over-active or under-active based upon one’s “condition” or addiction. A normal brain looks like a solid mass (though the texture of our brains is somewhere between egg whiles and Jell-O), and a brain exposed to chemicals and drugs looks a lot like Swiss cheese.
VERY INTERESTING. And motivating…
i’m sorry, but when people cite the dangers of smoking illegal weed as a reason for making it legal i have to shake my head. it is the same sort of argument as saying let’s legalize drink driving so that when drunks run someone over or get in to an accident they’re less likely to flee the scene.
there is a reason that marijuana is illegal and it is this: it has been proven to cause schizophrenia. While that occurs more readily and more randomly in those with a pre-disposition towards schizophrenia (and of course these people are more likely to use the drug as a self-medication anyway), it also happens to people with no such pre-disposition.
that fact alone should ensure marijuana remains illegal.
Leeeeegalize it. The reason our government has to build more and bigger prisons is to house all the people involved in the pot industry who have mandatory minimum sentences. The war on drugs was proven ineffective during the Dad Bush administration yet they keep it limping along. If the DEA was not prosecuting pot dealers and smokers they would have the resources to go after cocaine and meth manufacturers and dealers — an actual drug problem in our country and especially here in the Midwest. Meth has permanently messed up two of my relatives. Legalizing pot would not have helped them but going after the big dealers with full manpower might have.