A question that must be answered by the knowledgeable old hippies

Dear old hippie(s)

i am a young hippie (15) and have been for about a year now. earlier in this year i got turned on to marijuana. me and my best friend tried it together for the first time and it was a great experience. we never had to buy it, so we didn't really get tied into the whole drug dealer bussiness or spend any of our money, which i consider a good thing. we were able to get it because both our parents smoked it, and we knew where my friends parents kept it. i enjoyed smoking with him and a few other close friends every weekend for about three months. the previous summer i had gone to NGW (national guitar (summer) workshop) and had met an awesome girl there. she is really adverse to smoking, and we both really care about each other, so i decided to quit. i was wondering first off if you thought this was a good decision, and secondly if smoking weed or doing other drugs is a necessary part of being a hippie. she says it would really hurt out relationship if i continued to smoke, and i care about her a lot, so i just wanted to know what your knowledgeable self thought about all this.

Peace and Love

--pW--

 

and I am the best friend he smoked with that he is referring to in that post

 

I'm not an old hippy....but i'll throw in my 2 cents. if you really care for her you'd respect what she belives, drugs have nothing to do with being a hippy. Its what you belive, not what you smoke .

 

i like that answer man.
thanks

 

no problem just hope it helps.

 

Very true

 

Smoking pot,or doing other drugs does not make anybody a hippie.It's all in your heart and soul.Always has been.Same with drinking,it don't do a thing for your head,or you heart.It's much better to explore life with clear eyes and mind.Later in life maybe,you might want to,but right now there are more important things for you to do.Peace little bro.

 

the drugs are just a label put on us by society dont get me wrong alot of the counterculture/hippies are users but they did expierence the beauty of the earth and people first

for sure stick with the workshop and your girl get some expierence then decide what to do you'll know the right anwser!

peace and all my blessing!

 

I'm not an old hippie, but I have been in this situation a few times before at your age. I admire you in that you respect her feelings and are willing to stop smoking if that's what she really wants. I wasn't anything like that at 15, and even now I'd have a hard time quitting just becuase someone didn't like it. If I really cared about them, though..I'd quit for them. I wouldn't like it a damn bit, but I'd quit.. Now when I was 15, on the other hand..it wouldn't have happened. I was hell bent on smoking weed, and that's just the way it was gonna be. Narrowing your mind in that way will limit you as a person. Leave your mind and heart open for anything, as you will definately miss out on some beautiful things in life if you don't. Who knows, maybe if the relationship works, then later on maybe she'll change her mind about weed. You're both young, and have all the time in the world.

 

I AM an "Old Hippy". Here's MY advice. Being Hippy is NOT about what drugs you do, or don't do. It's about how you feel about the WORLD in general.
Can you make this big blue marble a BETTER place becuase of how you treat your fellow humans? Are you Unhappy about how your Government treats its citezens? YOU included? If so, you're probably a Hippy.
Another thing. You're only 15. I'm 43. Sex and relationships are only fleeting. They come and the go. If she can't like you for who you ARE, tough shit! She'll get over it, and so will you.

 

She doesn't love you!

Do you think a girl who's truely in love is going to change her heart because of cannabis?
If you let her wrap you around her little finger, she'll dispise you for the spineless weakling you are.
She's instinctively testing you; are you going to stand-up, or bend-over?

You don't have to smoke cannabis to be a hippie.
But we were all raised in a culture of repressed alienation.
We are all raised to be alienated from the magic of nature's existential reality.

Cannabis is psycho-active, and breaks through our collective repressed alienation.
This is why the mesmerized masses of mainstream culture are afraid of cannabis.
They're afraid of waking up from our collective psychosis.

 

thanks to all of you. i got some good opinions from both sides, but i think i'm done with weed, at least for now. i'm really happy all of you had good imput.

Peace and Love

--pW--

 

I would be sadden to think that all we oldersters were remembered for was for using drugs openly. It was much deeper then that. As for being a hippie, we didn't set out to be hippies, that's just who we were. That's what made us unique, we were just being what we were. That was just a lable to seperate us for the rest. We grew up under the Beats who in my oppinoin started the Movement in the frist place. They were the ones that began the portests. They were too few. When the youngers( first hippies) evolved from the beats there were many of us, born out of post war not liking comformity or the way the gov ran things. That sill holds true today, we still fight injustic and poverty we still protest the wars.
Being called a hippie is just being labeled as different. Being hip is knowing what's happening around you, being awear of yourself and how you precive the world around you. It's al in your mind. It's a calling for higher levels of thinking.
If your going to stop doing anything, stop for yourself and not for others. You are who you are. Be you. The way I see it I am who I am, take me or leave me, but dont try to change me. My changes will come from within and not how someone else thinks I should be. Be true to yourself.
If we are to make a difference we must stick to our guns and play it to the end. Stand by your convictions and stand tall. If we are to run or be who we are not, we have no place to grow. I stand on princible. I stand on my right to be free and make my own choices. What suits me may not suit all, but it works for me so don't try to fix it. It's not broken.
Life is comprimise and if you plan to have a mate their considerations must also be addressed. But to love someone you except who they are. Isn't that why you love them, cuz their who they are. When you start changing someone that turn out to be, not who they are but who you want them to be. Then you don't like them cuz they aren't real, but someone you invented and not ture to their nature. Just be youself and love and you will be fine.

 

Walk your own sacred path in this life. Only you can make the guidelines you choose to live by. Personally, I've always preferred to see clearly and think clearly and feel clearly. Anything that clouds your vision will get in the way. Try practicing compassion meditation generating a feeling of loving kindness toward all beings instead. Proven to produce lasting, positive changes in the brain, based on studies of Buddhist monks. They were shown to have higher levels of gamma waves increasing attention, memory and learning. They also had more brain activity in areas associated with positive emotions, such as happiness. The benefits accumulate over time. Pot is okay to party with sometimes, but I wouldn't choose it as a healthful lifestyle choice. Love, nightwind

 

~*Homebudz summed it up nicely. It really has nothing at all to do with drugs and alotta people I know that society would consider hippies don't do any...some I know make up for their lack too, hehe. But the whole drug thing is not a requirement.*~

 

don't change for anybody.If you want to smoke,smoke.If you want to quit,quit.If you do it just because of her,you'll end up going back,pissing her off in the end.Be true to yourself and fair to her.Do what you feel and find a girl that feels likewise....and like I tell my kid,buy your own shit.peace

 

why would you quit smoking just because she doesnt like it? cigarettes I understand, but weed? id be like fuck that im not quitting just because you dont like it.

 

Several of the people in the crowd I hung out with in the 60's had figured by that time that they'd done enough dope already. They were a trip to be around, and nobody gave it a second thought. The just fit right in.