Soo my dad saw me down in the bushes earlier today messing with my plant from the window, and he got really like emotional and worried for me lol. He gave me a "talk", and said i really hope you are not trying to grow and sell, that would really be moving your life in the wrong direction, and just went on and on he was like you know you may get away with it 8 or 9 times but the tenth time you are gonna get caught, and get butt raped in jail. Hes like you are gonna think thats easy so then what will happen is you are gonna move on to selling heroin and meth lol. Just the whole time listening to his banter i was just thinking to myself over and over again "god what ignorance lol" so i just made him happy and sat there and listened to it, and agreed to him that i would not sell it ever. But if i have a lot of weed and my friend wants to buy a dime from this plant im not gonna hesitate. My dads a serious tripper. Anyone else hear bs advice from their parents??
my parents have a history of good advice, and usually share the anecdote that backs it up. i have the best parents ever.
Your dad's advice seems decently solid to me, if exaggerated. But yeah; I remember when I was 3 mum said "don't let the bedbugs bite" and had the worst nightmare of my life; that's pretty bad advice, I reckon.
You're going to get butt-raped in jail. Just looking at your drug use patterns, and your propensity for drinking/drugs/driving, it'd be pretty easy for you to be in an intoxicated crash, while having a large sack or several smaller ones, and get time for a combination of DWI and/or intoxication manslaughter/property damage charges, possession, and intent to distribute. And depending on your locality, everything from tax evasion to conspiracy charges. Using a telephone to plan a crime? (the friend asking for bud) The possibilities are endless, and your dad's right. This thing was SO badly hidden that your dad saw your playing with it in the shrubbery. Seriously.
as a fellow cannabis consumer I say to you; If you shit in your own back yard, eventually your going to step on it. to be honost, the one thing that the government dos not like you doing is making money behind their back. just dont sell, keep all that weed and smoke it in moderation for yourself. in a sense you will be making money by not having to spend money on weed. theres always a difference between having customers and having just friends and people you know that you hook up. also be conscious of your local state laws. most the time you wont go to jail the first time for selling marijuana inless its in large quality's. selling an oz of weed can generally make you about 7grams free. green is green man. i use to sell and just make 7g an oz. sell an oz a day. 7grams a day, that adds up man. but then getting put on probation i stopped all that type of behavior. you really gotta just be sensable about your actions and ask your self 'is it worth my freedom?' because trust me. probation sucks. dont loose your freedom man. hold onto that shit. ahaha your dad seems pretty chill. i know some people who would be kicked outta the house or sent to rehab. your dad handled the situation really cool if you ask me. did he do anything about your plants lol, your bowl or weed. because i mean if he really dident take any further action then a talk about leading your life in a positive direction. thats cool. be grateful for a good father like that.
Yeah thanks for your advice and your perspective on it, very good post. My dad does seem chill now that i think about it, i asked him if he was gonna tell my step mom, and he was like no i wont if u just listen to what i say and all that. No hes not gonna do shit with the plants he says my step mom already knows about the plant LOL he thinks she knows everything or some shit. Anyways yeah im moving these plants up to some cut throat spot up my mountain, so no worries about that anymore
Considering how he COULD have reacted I'd say this last bit is a step toward rational. Seems like your dad is concerned about your well being here- and considering some of the adventures you've proudly related I'd wager that his concern is very well founded. He knows you better than any of us... and I think he showed some respect while effectively communicating concern for someone who he cares for but is probably afraid is a train wreck waiting to happen.
I read a news piece literally yesterday about a man who just got life in prison for his 4th marijuana conviction. Happens to people all the time. He's just looking out.
It's good that he's chill. After you harvest, smoke a fat joint with him instead of selling. And hook your friends up free-selling drugs is bad to neutral karma, depending on the price. Giving drugs is always awesome karma, and it makes you feel good. Also, be CAREFUL moving plants, I've heard many horror stories about plans to move peoples grows after they became compromised, from their movers taking off with whole grow-houses worth of plants (obviously, not your situation) to just a traffic stop. Don't speed with drugs, of course. If you get caught with a plant it's often a lot worse than buds, it's all sorts of "intent to conspire to manufacture terrorist plants to subvert youth to al-queda" or something like that. Or they just weigh the whole thing, dirt and roots and all, and round UP, using their scale that works in 1lb increments I guess I missed the planting boat.... Got a few dank seeds I've been saving, that I pulled out of lucky grams... Probly won't be good next season, either. Maybe I'll see if I can get em to grow anyway, and just be a bit late.
I don't see Mother Nature being put on trial. Nancy Reagan: ''There is no middle ground. We must be as adamant about the casual user as we are about the addict.'' “The former police chief of Los Angeles, Daryl Gates, testified before the United States Senate that casual drug users should be taken out and shot. He justified these claims to the Los Angeles Times by saying, “We're in a war.” - Officer Joseph D. McNamara
That's what the government would tell you, but no, we're targets. The war on drugs was never about the ideals of the silly puritans who support it, it was always, and still is, about social control and racism, not to mention the most powerful drug known to man: power. The "save the kids" guys think it's about them and those kids, but it's only about locking up ghetto kids. They want everyone to think we're just caught in the crossfire, and that the crossfire exists to protect the kids, but that's not true, those caught most heavily ARE the kids who are purportedly being saved. I mean, who ELSE are they shooting at? "we" includes me, you, the "kids", and anyone else who might smoke pot, or even want the RIGHT to smoke pot, should they ever decide to try a puff. We're caught in the crossfire between them.... and us.... and the rules of engagement don't even let us shoot back. Those in it for power-related reasons are gunning for us. Those in it for ideological reasons are cheering them on, because their god said so. (despite the fact that he didn't REALLY, and in fact had to have created weed for it to exist, and said to use it multiple times in his special book) I took the shooting metaphor annoyingly far, didn't I
I'm always astounded by the utter lack of recognition of any political dichotomy in proposed theories on this site. Racism, seriously? So the government is running compulsory affirmative action programs on one hand, and then on the other started the war on drugs so they can clear the streets of black people? I'm talking about legislation here, not Brooklyn's finest. Legalization will occur, the politics just need to play out. It's a process of progression that has been making positive strides and gaining relatively large amounts of not only social acceptance, but actual support. In the meantime, stay out of no-man's land and don't become a news piece written up by some liberal journalist so that other people might become enraged. That's what I mean by stay out of the cross fire, FreshDacre isn't a target, but he'll be swept up in the flurry if he's dumb enough to actually become a target. I think you have it backwards. Those in it for ideological reasons are the ones gunning for the small-time end user and distributor, because they want it all to cease and desist for moral reasons. Those in it for power-related reasons probably couldn't give a shit if FreshDacre gets a year of probation and a $500 fine for getting caught with some weed. Drop in the bucket compared to the money they could be making. Like I said, it's just a matter of time, the politics will play out eventually.
Thankfully what you just described is where LOTS of the people in charge are shifting. But the fellows who started the war on drugs KNEW (and said as much) it was a war on ghettos. It wasn't to clear the streets of black people, it was to put them in their place. Viet nam made the power of heroin, and of giving it to your own people, with your own intelligence agency moving it for you, and at the same time taking HUGE amounts of money from the people they were turning into criminals, all too obvious. But there's still lots of very racist politicians, elected in very dirty ways, and lots of ignorant or indifferent politicians, and lots of power hungry politicians, and LOTS of people who's salaries are paid by the war on drugs, including a good many...... politicians.... (the drug czar, for an obvious one) And of course, there's the whole stupid "tough on crime" thing, running from the local PD and judges all the way up to congress, the supreme court, and the white house. This stupid idea that by making things that shouldn't be crimes crimes, we can put people "in their place", and that by controlling things that are not the governments business, "for the greater good" or whatever, we will make things better. Honest, just lock him up for a few months with all the other really bad guys, and he'll come out a better person! Or at least, all the prison officials and prison building companies will like it.... (It's true, he won't smoke pot when he gets out, he'll be too busy making meth with his newfound jailhouse wisdom ) I live in the second biggest state in the union, by head count, and we have VERY ass-backwards politicians, police, judges, and landed elite, it's very corrupt and runs on the good ol' boy system, and the "tough on crime" vote. So maybe I'm a bit jaded, but, it IS the second biggest state, so it's gotta mean SOMETHING about the rest. JUST obama saying med raids would end more than two years ago, and never even answering to that now, shows how far up this indifference goes. And the drug czar obama appointed (who has NOT done anything about med raids, either, even though that's his JOB, according to obama's promise) claims he already ended the war on drugs. Maybe he re-branded it, took a little hint from the american auto industry, as they just bought the whole damn thing, and they're selling the war under a new marquee. But it's business as usual, nothing has changed on the ground even if he doesn't like the term "war on drugs". Anti drug spending is increasing, and has been since the start. Arrests are increasing, everything is constantly being stepped up, it's the ultimate pork barrel because the more you throw at it, the more it grows in response.
