“PUFF PUFF PASS” some regard this as a formality, others as international rule for smoking weed and why not I say. It encourages people to share their weed & SPREAD THE LOVE around the room awesome – NIRVANA!! Aren’t we all just friends now! but then…. day 2 people are still acting polite, however it’s day 4, 5 in the big brother house, people start top loading, and the tactics begin of weed re-appropriation! For isn’t there alway just one tight fisted individual who just will despite being asked will refuse to contribute to communal weed being smoked. Alas lets look at the different type of tactic one could use be they need to wanna smoke for free!
The Causal / Heavy Weed Smoker
Most commonly spotted at parties and social gathering where you’d find them perched on the sofa. This individual when offered the spliff from a passer will always gladly relieve while also be reliably present at every new spliff offering. Though they’ll claim they “don’t usually smoke Ganja” this won’t be true, instead they’ll merely excersing the rule of “new newby smokes random joint from established stoner, this DUBE must be free of charge!”. This rule and whole bunch of other rules exist in the un-spoken realm of free loving weed smoking, which this particular is well aware of. In doing so, one manages to dodge ever having to pay a penny!
The One Way Street
It’s 10PM, your dealer went either went to bed or whatever HE’s NOT ANSWERING THE DAMN PHONE! Panic,No weed !! Realisation sinks in….. “Call your buddy Mike!!! You helped him out a week ago, when he was running low!” “He came over midnight and you smoke a spliff with him and gave him some for later!” OF COURSE you did, and that the thing this is eventually something you’ll regret! Cos in ONE WAY STREET, this means calling Mike as you’ve found many times comes to no avail. He either doesn’t pick up the call and texts back the next day or simple pretends to be in the same situation “sorry dude, i’m low too!” YOU LYING BITCH!!! that’s all I say right now. In fact the digraceful thing about this, that it doesn’t matter how many times you play Mother Terasa and “HELP A BROTHER OUT!!” he WILL NEVER RETURN THE FAVOUR!!! This could be the case for many reasons:
- They are a TIGHT ASS BITCH;
- He’s A SUPER JUNKIE ASS DRUGGIE
In which case after 2 separate occasions if you haven’t realised this you’re completely at fault and primarily to blame for your stupid generosity. For on the 3rd time Mike calls, as you look at your big stash of weed, be direct be straight when you tell him “sorry bro, i ain’t GOT ANY EITHER!?” Rest assure he’ll also know that you’re lying but he’ll understand that he’s reached the credit limit with you.
The film is a brilliant study of one of those “What If” situations. The poor bastard who has to eat all that junk food in the middle of the movie starts to throw up all the high calorie junk food he’s eating day in day out. I felt really sorry for this dude, because at the end of it we’ve all at some point lived on fast food and probably even Mcdonald’s and have experienced how messed up our body gets the longer he keep doing it. As a stoner in university, at the beginning I pretty much eat Fast Food all year round, and that ended up me becaming a spotty fat ass motherfucka!! With that said, I didn’t do what this guy did and actually “live” on McDonalds 3 times a day!! I don’t think anyone possible can, i.e. as we see him actually phyically vommitting that shit out!! The experiment was brave and well quite evidentially life threatening.
“No that’s trying to show, if him not/smoking effects him on stage!” you cry out. BULLSHIT I say!! it’s exactly what it is, him on stage doing his routine for about a third of the movie. Sure there’s the mention of what he’s doing etc but it doesn’t add relevant content to the “documentary”. Now I’m not gonna say Doug isn’t funny, but I didn’t really laugh. Dave Chapelle on the other oh hell yeah!!! However with all due respect to Doug I watched this movie being sold that it was a documentary, an “experiment” a “study” about weed, so I really wasn’t sure what the stand up comedy was doing in there? Super Size Me on contrast was a much better documentary showing us something we’ve not seen, while I found the point to Super High Me lost somewhere in the movie. I think he was trying to show that he was the same stoned as he was sober, which is a contradiction in terms….
So I finished watching this and I started googling what other people thought of the film! It seems the critics and just anybody who spoke bad of this “documentary” all got abuse from mainly stoners, almost like as if they were trying to protect their holy grail. I totally get this, the film showed people themselves i.e. its him smoking weed around the clock, getting high wayyy too much like we all do and generally doing alright in life. It totally pandered to the people out there who over smoke to the point where there’s even a scene where he talks about paying his mum’s bills for a glasses – wooooow, what a perfect example to society! [at that point you hear Nate Dogg singing ‘SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY!’] For ultimately isn’t this what every person who habours regrets about over smoking wants to hear – it’s the feel good movie for Stoner. Cos lets be honest EVERYWHERE else they’re being bombarded with images of “SMOKING WEED WILL KILL YOU MOTHERFUCKA!”
What a great place to start, and well inevitably these people always will love you for you understand them and they understand you!! That moment a fellow weed smokers indentifies a fellow smoker there’s a kind of “we should have a spliff to celebrate this moment” that unofficially happens. The commonalities of weed smokers means that you’ll always get on with each other and thus the mutual respect is always there!!
Assuming they’re non-weed smokers, they wont see the big attraction to it all. Of course they had a joint passed to them at some point at party somewhere but for whatever reason it did nothing to them. Not like drinking 10 pints!! They don’t see the big deal, or really understand how a person could truly be addicted to smoking the weed. Do they respect you? Yes & No… but swiftly reminded that they have the same problem involving a substance of their own they pipe down start being more respectful.
To them you’re the at the bottom of the drug tree!!! effectively it’s more or less smoking a cigarette in their eyes, for you haven’t tried smack, cocaine or heroine yet! Do they respect you, probably more so than the alcoholic for they once were where you are starting with weed, and will have stronger commonality to you. However weed not really being a drug to these guys, cos they’re crack whores and desperate as FUCK to get anything into their system, it doesn’t really matter. You can easily sit down and consume any drug on the table!
Remember this individual has lots and lots of money & his eighth cost him £400 just for the evening, now on reflection with your measly £20 spent for the equivalent weight the judging begins there. Do they respect you? Did you really need to ask? This type of individual wouldn’t respect you even if you didn’t smoke weed, and the fact that you do make you dirty, a lesser human! Lets not stereotype investment bankers, as I’m sure MANY of them smoke weed however the reputation lives strong among this trade for being a coke driven industry.
Ironically addicts both from the smoking hierarchy family tree you’d assume that the respect would be in amplitude! Think again…. Cigarette smokers will try their hardest to disassociate themselves from their weed smoking counterparts as just to avoid the stigma attached to potheads. Secretly however many cigarette smokers given the opportunity have indulged themselves in smoking a FAT DUBEE, but only later reveal this only when the time right! As for the respect, FORGET IT! Their efforts to distance themselves from the STONER REPUTATION means they’ll speak ill of you even at your funeral!
Lets be honest many people have weed smoking as their guilty secret. It’s not secret the stigma and reputation that is associated to smoking weed! This is again evident when you look at Holland’s effort to ban the drug. The evidence collected over the last 30 years suggests that the dutch authorities have controlled the illegal market of growing weed and have a fantastic system for regulating it, keep it clean and green! Stats also show the only 15% of their population are regular weed smokers, and subsequently not high enough to be a concern. Amsterdam alone brings in 400 Million Euros a year in profit revenues for the sale of weed. SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?? Why are they trying to ban it from their country after all this time? A great question…. one that doesn’t have an official answer, or not one that makes sense anyway. The real speculation surrounds the political and diplomatic relations Holland has with it’s neighbours and …. drum roll…… THE STIGMA (Ridicule) TO RELAXED WEED POLICIES IN THE COUNTRY. So in other words, the Dutch don’t feel like people are taking them seriously as a nation due to them being the only country selling weed so openly to everybody. There you have it, spoken from the horses mouth… for some reason which i’ll have to examine for real reasons later Weed smoking is just heavily looked down upon and the efforts of Harold and Kumar and the likes to, lift the sinking reputation isn’t really effective.
Have you been buying drugs on a tick / credit? But got no money to pay the debt back? & When money comes in you buy more drugs rather that payback the debt? Have you been become soo desperate that you’re skanking weed of your friends, going in halves with them when buying and hoping that they forget that you owe them? or even worse when the times comes to paying back they outright deny the debt. If this is you or somebody you know … YOU or SOMEBODY YOU KNOW needs to quit immediately or at least take a break to sort your head out and your finances out. Ultimately being broke, and a druggie just isn’t a good combination and it’s doomed somewhere along the line to fuck up royally with your smoking pals mass revolting or just avoid you because you don’t pay your way. We all know people that have suffered from this problem of the drugs warping their realities to somehow making it feasible to dodge paying people back. Drugs and money work fine just as long as you’re not on the drugs, but that’s the problem as soon as you become a heavy user you’re bound to fuck it up sooner or later.
It’s a common thing for people nowadays to have credit when buying weed from their trusted dealers. For back in the day of weed scarecity getting hold on some would be tough so you’d try and appese the dealer best you could, for he controlled the magic!! However in this day and age, there seems to be more dealers than the weed itself. Being a dealer is a saturated cut throat market, where being even a gram off from what was promised will result in that dealer not getting any repeat business FOR EVER!! So dealers going that extra mile to do business OFFER CREDIT and some DELIVER to your door!!
So you’ve been choking all sorts of bullshit outta your throat? & now you’re fucked!! So lets review, your throat feels like you’ve abusing it, and you’re came to the conclusion along time ago that you’re addicted and must smoke every night! I see the problem here, many could paraphrase this, but i’ll keep it simple.. FUCK! Cos you wanna keep on smoking, but if you do you’re throat will feel like a pencil that’s been sharpened to infinity. Well the solution is simple, and being that this is how i quit . com, we’re gonna look at this. It really does happen to everybody, too much smoking will eventually land you a smokers cough where even when you’re not smoking you’re wheezing like a bitch. Why, ultimately because……
Look there’s no point in being in denial here or arguing otherwise. I know it does suck, but regular weed smokers users are reported to generally have a higher chance to develop breathing problems including chronic coughing and wheezing. Now here’s where people start going crazy, “THIS ISN’t TRUE!!!” “Smoking weed, is healthier than eating fruit” they all say! Look pal, I smoke too okay, but I’m not a fool I appreciate that what I’m doing isn’t good for me. Anybody that’s under a geese that this isn’t the case, you might as well stop reading here. Regardless of the strain, weed generally contains similar carcinogens as tobacco. It makes sense if you think about it the amount of tar and the level of carbon monoxide inhaled and absorbed by smoking a spliff ignoring the THC content is reported to be 5 times greater than just smoking a cigarette (I just pulled this stat from a health blog, i’ll hyperlink it below) You gotta remember that you’re smoking that spliff (half tobacco & weed) completely unfiltered and pure i.e. as to get the whole T.H.C content but you’re also taking in all the tar and carbon monoxide. I APOLOGISE you don’t need another one of those cigarette advertisements style speech saying don’t smoke, especially not from me right? Well maybe you do, maybe I do, maybe we all do… I dunno cos after a while, it all becomes negated, and we all get desensitised to everything which isn’t good, as I love smoking weed too don’t get me wrong but it’s not good to forget it ain’t good for you.
Your boys will tell you that smoking through a bong is fine, it’s actually good for you. This unfortunately isn’t true 🙁 it’s a whole lot better than smoking unfiltered sure, but sadly not 100% health approved as water pipes do not filter out the toxins. The main chemicals in weed causing cancer is tar and benzopyrene and none of these dissolve in water. However a vaporiser on the other hand is definitely the way to go if health concerns are your thing. If you’ve got bad flu/cold or chest infection and you wanna keep on getting high cos that’s what you do then i’d really say do your lungs a favour and stop the smoking and switch to vapour or consuming weed in edible form. It’s a bad situation to be in but if you persist to smoke on while you’re coughing your lungs out, and I feel for you I really do. It’s a circular problem unfortunately for if you continue to smoke your throat most likely take longer to get better and in this case switching to alternative methods of consumption is your best bet.
You “Under the influence” of the drug can be argued both ways that this person does truly represent you’re character accurately. NO NO but it is you they all shout out and reply!! yes I Agree, TECHNICALLY if you done it, then it is a personna of yourself coming out in some means. What I argue is however , IS THIS A FAIR MEANS? For ultimately this drugs in some way change your natural metabolic state dramatically from one to another, hense I argue that could be said to be fair if you blind folded a man with a chain saw and forced him to walk onto a business train platform that if he did injury or even kill somebody that the circumstances from derived from him being inpaired in some way. Following our example and the logic derived thus that “under the unfluence” is equivelent to being impaired i.e. for the desired effect augmented. So while your states have been modified for this augmention via impairement a person with no eyes doesn’t represent the same person of the drugs when he can see again!
So after many many days of not smoking weed, being completely free of the substance with no withdrawals or any real desire to smoke – I planned a well deserved session to smoke some of the good shit. So the time came when it was for us to smoke and yeah it was pretty good i gotta say. I really enjoyed the session it was filled with lots of spliffs being passed around – I was messed up!! So I left and on the walk home my mind was filled with inspiring thought one after another, my brain was alive with activity, and my mind was chilled… now this mix is the reason I started smoking the Green in the first place, because it was a cocktail of magic! Ok sometimes when I over did it, i got paranoid and bad thoughts would rumble through my brain, but on the whole when I did things in moderation it usually worked out well, a healthy mix! This session was no different to that, I focused my mind on problems I had been facing for a while, but in my stoned haze i attempted to reexamine these problems with great results!! i was inspired again!! The Genius Drug!! It totally deserves that title cos totally that..
Now the payback for this ore inspiring evening – the god damn munchies!!! for fuck sake it actually pisses me off how EVIL the munchies is… The munchies at times defies logic, and physics and this was no exception tonight!! I become like a vacuum of food!!! or in simpletons I EAT LIKE A BITCH!!! How does a bitch eat? I hear you ask… ALOT…sorry.. A FUCK LOAD, of food.. enough calories to power an articulated lorry from London to Belgium!! Who is to blame, FUCKING MACCY’s!! ok me!! but after you blame me, then you gotta have a go those wankers, cos they know what they’re doing when they’re packing those burgers with all those arificle colourings and bullshit that makes that shit soo tasty and have energy values equal to the sun. ok fine… blame me..
Okay so what do I say that you probably don’t want to hear! STOP STOP!! Forgive me, I’ve hanging around too many damn stoners who just argue with me and claim that this is all bullshit and “arghhh when i didn’t smoke weed for 6 months i was exactly the same as I when i did it all the time, ok.. SO FUCK OFF SAYING ALL THIS SHIT YEAHHH, I’m FED UP OF IT!! JUST LET ME FUCKING GET HIGH and FORGET THE DAMN WORLD, with it’s FUCKING PROBLEM AND MINE TOO!!” This later lead into a full blown arguement as i further enquired, “hold on, we’ve been smoking NON-stop for the past ten years when did you have this 6 months break exactly?” to which on failing to reply, shouting proceeded. Hey I’m not trying to be a dick, but if you’re gonna say something then fucking don’t make shit up and then go even further by basing conclusions on this made up bullshit. So he then redefining his meaning when he says quit.. to be just smoke less, or “remember that time we couldn’t get hold on any good stuff??” “yes, didn’t we just smoke thai weed instead??” I asked.. MAYWEATHER PART 2, in came the flurry.. ALRIGHT ALRIGHT! whateverr you sayyy mate. It’s not his fault, he genuinely in believes what he’s saying but the sad truth is his memory files are completely corrupted for he’s chosen to remember things this way. Denial is a powerful creature and can really fuck with people.
Unlike him i’m in a better position to talk about this, as ultimately if you’ve read my blog that’s what this experience has been about. I quit on the 5th March 2012, and it’s been 6 days more than the last time I packed in weed smoking for a while. The simple answer is yes! In every way times 1000 … those who deny it are talking utter bullshit and merely want to extend their drug addiction further in peace while they slowly degrade their brains and rott away. Last time made it to this mark i remember feeling completely free of it’s grasp and completely no longer needing to get high anymore!! i just completely removed the urges and the compulsions to wanna getting high, and I DID!! & I don’t get those Nagging feelings for a spliff anymore!! I’m CLEAN MOTHERFUCKA!! AND YES TIMES A BILLION TRILLION! WHile i’ve been CLEAAN LIKE A BITCH, i’ve been no longer wasting time every night to find somebody to pick up from / with and get high with.
NO LONGER, wasting cash on that shit!! but more importantly, i’ve been able to focus unlike before!! i’m not tied down to any bad habbits taking me away from work, i’m FREE!! to be productive and ultimately the more productive I am, the happier I am!! I spring out of bed EASSSILY in the morning with no T.H.C floating around my system, making me feel sluggish.. and don’t tell me that doesn’t exist, i have over 10 years of experience telling me otherwise! While i’ve been clean, i’ve been eating better no MUNCHING, sleeping better, no bullshit, life has just been better.. or maybe life has just been normal!! i’m so used to this spasticated way of life of doping myself up to the point i couldn’t think and then somehow expecting the next day to be fruit full and 199% productive!!
…it’s that day you’ve been waiting for ALL FUCKING YEAR!!! April 20, or “4/20” more commonly known however not so commonly to people outside of the U.S.A or Canada. So lets begin.
Why these marijuana advocates congregate each year on April 20 is a bit of a mystery steeped in the hazy lore of the American pot culture. Some have said it refers to the number of active chemicals in marijuana. Another theory holds that 420 is a nod to Bob Dylan and his 1966 song “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” which contains the lyric, “Everybody must get stoned.” Multiply 12 by 35 and you get 420. Conrad said the leading theory traces the beginning of 420 to the early 1970s when a group of students at San Rafael High School in California would meet at 4:20 each afternoon to smoke marijuana. “It was the time between when classes were over and their parents came home,” he said. “The number 420 signifies that somebody is smoking marijuana right now and it becomes a clarion call for others to join.”
Probably not. 420 also refers to Section 420 of the Indian/Pakistan/Bangladesh Penal Code covering offences relating to cheating, dishonestly and general fraudulent behaviour. Being charged under Section 420 could lead to severe punishments of fines or jail terms of up to 7 years. The code is historical from the penal codes of these countries inherit from the Indian Penal Code of 1860 instituted by the colonial government of British India. So I guess mama’s not a JUNKIE ASS BITCH after all !
So yeah it’s almost been as long as last time’s hiatus of not smoking… and so I got the call. “We’re all getting high!, errrr you probably wont want to hear this” “Tell ME!” I ask, waiting patiently… “….i really don’t want to tempt you as I know you’re trying to quit etc, but ….. well it’s that really GOOD SHIT we got this time!! We’re rolling up right now as we speak – you know you’re totally welcome right?” I love you dude.. that’s smoker bro love right there.. Anyway you have no idea how fucking perfect that time was, just to go over there and well GET HIGH!! just to get FUCKED OFF MY TITTIES!! I really was feeling it, like I WANTED TO GO, but something inside stopped me. I said “no i’m alright”. Now the thing is, I realised at that minute that i wasn’t just affected by an addiction to pot, I’d never said no to that kinda session before!! ever..