“Ohh you smoke weed, right I see… no that’s fine”, she said as she grinned awkwardly.
First you have to ask by whom, are the stoners being respected or disrespected by. So lets break this down:
Fellow Stoners
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!!
RESPECT LEVEL OUT OF 10 = 10
Alcoholics
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.
RESPECT LEVEL OUT OF 10 = 4
A Class Drug users : TYPE CRACK WHORE!
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!
RESPECT LEVEL OUT OF 10 = 8
A Class Drug users : TYPE INVESTMENT BANKER
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.RESPECT LEVEL OUT OF 10 = 2
Cigarette Smokers
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!
RESPECT LEVEL OUT OF 10 = 3
Everybody Else.
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.
RESPECT LEVEL OUT OF 10 = 2
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!!
Yeap that’s right people I openly confess to you all now, that this whole “
as humans travel the worlds to enrich our minds with deep experiences but ultimately isn’t it all just chemistry & electricity inside our brains! Hence I ask what’s the difference between finding pure harmony onlooking a beautiful waterfall or taking a few toaks from a spliff passed to you by your buddy on a gloomy afternoon on quiet street corner? Quite simply, one of them would wow your friends & family on Facebook while the other option tends to lead to introvertedness and ultimately walk the plank or path of slow death. Too extreme? Now at this point I must make a distinction and clarify that I don’t believe that smoking weed is a problem, it’s the fucking addiction part that’s the problem!
back to first principles, after all what’s the need to step into the Delorean accelerate to 88 MPH to go back in time, are the answers really there? By going back there will I learn anything useful that would help me quit this addiction bringing myself in line with everyone else? Maybe…. we’ll see…