Hippies rock....but do they ALL smoke pot?

All hippies only do one thing.... Get referred to as hippies...

 

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They sound like buzzkills

 

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The ones that don't seem to be more about actually doing something

but I smoke and I care about doing something, so yaknow everyone's different

 

??? Why's that???

 

The rainbow family attracts a large number of people that dress like hippies but practice their own forum of southern baptist intolerance;

 

The pot was recommended for people who needed a little help breaking out of the self-imposed prison they live in. Once you are free, you can still smoke it, but you probably don't need to. Some people are born free. They just need to eat granola once a week in order to remain a hippie.

 

What kind of life is that? Just living to get stoned? Life ain't a movie. Maybe Cheech and Chong could do some crazy stuff, or even the new-age hippy-style movies that I don't remember the names of. But man, you have to have a life. A career. It sucks, but ya gotta eat & have a roof over your head.

 

Or you could live in a van down by the river

 

Right here..Iv never experimented with any drugs and they are not a requirement to be a Hippie.

 

haha atfirst i was like... +rep soo funny.

but then i noticed the username.. ahahah

 

I will agree a person needs an income of some kind, but those three things you just said are all only as related to having a 'career' as you let them be.

 

Ok no matter what your background there is a saying a time for everything. I got dusted with PCP when I was about 18 so I quit smoking pot for about 12 years. I've got good connections so I know my weed isn't adulterated.

That said generally speaking people who smoke dope all the time usually bug the living shit out of me. I have friends who are functioning pot heads. They are stoned 24/7 but still keep a job and lead a functional life. They aren't so bad. Then I've known people who I've had this conversation with:

"So what you do today?"
"Smoked a couple of joints."
"No I mean what did you do today?"
"I smoked a couple of joints."
"Did you do anything else?"
"I rolled them."

Usually by the end of this conversation I'm fighting the overwhelming urge to slap the everloving shit out of them.

I am not the stereotypical hippie though. I wake up in the morning have my coffee while fucking around on line. I go to work come home have a couple of tokes and a beer and watch a movie.

During the time I didn't smoke I did the same thing minus the pot.

Being a hippie means being free. If you want to smoke pot you are free to do so. If you don't want to smoke pot you are free to do so and you don't have to hand in your Hippie Card.

I've known Hippies who were in the Program so they didn't smoke. I've also known Hippies who were involved with different spiritual traditions so they didn't smoke. I've also known Hippies who tried pot and didn't like it. But none of these people judged the people around them who smoked. The question that started this thread has an undercurrent of judgement in it. How very un-Hippie.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

I agree, there definitely was an undercurrent of judgment there...

 

All those that call themselves hippies should experience a pot buzz at least once before passing judgment.
In my experience, folks who's primary drug is alcohol don't handle weed buzz well.
usually they have had a few drinks before they got the courage to try it and they end up with a blotto, head-spinny buzz that wastes them. Now they think they know what a pot buzz is so when they see a guy like me smoke a fat one before work say "holy fuck dude how can you work so wasted?" I just laugh.

I don't generally call myself a hippie, but I do hold most hippie values and morals...

To corrupt a Zappa quote...

"Cannabis is my favorite vegetable"

ZW

 

^ I like to combine a tallboy of a good microbrew with my weed buzz. It kind of works together pretty well.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

Yeah, I used to enjoy a good stout and a doob occasionally in my younger days...But I think the booze part was just a reaction to pressures at work...
I was a pissed-off lad most of the time about my work situation.:biker:

My heavy drinking phase happened well before I was old enough to drink legally, by the time I was 21 I had cut down considerably, mostly because I just wasn't enjoying getting drunk anymore.

I lived and worked in Phoenix during the big coke boom of the 80s.
There was a point there when getting pot was extremely difficult for me. Everyone seemed to have cocaine, almost no one knew where to get any pot. I would get off work and hit the bars to hang out and hopefully at least meet someone with weed that would throw a buzz...when It did happen usually it was at an after hours party and I already had too many beers, that combined with a low weed tolerance, just a couple of hits would leave me practically comatose! Not enjoyable at all...

Freewheelin' Franklin said it best...
Smokin' grass an' drinkin' beer together is like pissin' in the wind!


ZW