Sensible Erection | It's 4/20 ALL DAY LONG, man!

Friday, 20 April 2012

quote [ Weed (AKA: Marijuana, Cannabis, Pot, Kush, 420, Hash, Mary Jane and Skunk) was invented simultaneously by every religion's God at least 100 years ago in 1969 on the planet Mexico and legalized Last Thursday in 1982 when Hitler lost the Cold War. ]

Myself, I haven't partaken since 1996 or so. Sometimes I miss the way Led Zeppelin was cooler to listen to while high, but I figure having a job and not smelling like a hippie is a worthwhile tradeoff.

Huffington Post: The True Story of How April 20 became "Weed Day":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/420-meaning-the-true-stor_n_543854.html

Since my job has random drug testing, April 20 is just Hitler's birthday to me.

Hipster Hitler: giving us a new way to despise history's most despised man.
http://hipsterhitler.com/

And the obligatory definitive ED article:
http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Hitler

[by GordonGuano@1:30pmGMT] [+3]

Comments

GordonGuano said @ 1:34pm GMT on 20th Apr
The Buttplugs are a local band I would like to see sometime.

GordonGuano said @ 1:35pm GMT on 20th Apr
And of course, it wouldn't be complete without:

MrZeroPing said @ 1:40pm GMT on 20th Apr
This past week I've had 2 very vivid dreams about smoking and being absolutely completely high in my dream.

But I also very clearly remember being terrified to death about having smoked since Japan has zero tolerance laws for pot possession (although interestingly enough thc USE is not a crime) and the stress of possibly getting fired from my current job if they found out.

I think this anxiety stems from the fact that I want to share a pot smoking experience with my wife but also terrified of getting fired from my job if I do.

But I'll say this, even though it was a dream, it was still really nice to "get high" again.

soulecho said @ 1:51pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
Best song to listen to stoned EVAR.

soulecho said @ 1:51pm GMT on 20th Apr
Well, that and DSotM, but then DSotM isn't a song.

pleaides said @ 2:11pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
Ooooooh I raise you;

soulecho said @ 2:25pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:1 Good]
Well then, take this!

mrcucumber said @ 4:20pm GMT on 20th Apr
Oh Yeah?

KingPellinore said @ 2:26pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:3 Underrated]

granitewitch said @ 3:05pm GMT on 20th Apr
Very possibly my favorite song of all time, one of the few I go back to consistently and get chills from.

KingPellinore said @ 3:11pm GMT on 20th Apr

Cakkafracle said @ 4:42pm GMT on 20th Apr
Phantom of the Opera the musical was from 1986?? I had assumed at that time that it was OLD and just making a resurgence...
Fucking Webber, pirating music before the internet!

KingPellinore said @ 7:48pm GMT on 20th Apr
Yep. I remember it coming out when I was a kid, as my father had been in Europe at the time on business and came back with two soundtracks of these two musicals he had seen while overseas that hadn't come to the States yet.

One was Phantom. The other was Les Miserables. Turns out my dad had excellent taste in theater.

radioelectric said @ 10:53pm GMT on 20th Apr
First musical version was 1976 apparently. Echoes is from 1971.

pleaides said @ 2:34pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
For the young;

And this was ever my favourite, showing my age a bit here;

KingPellinore said @ 2:09pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:2]
Here's some of my 4/20 playlist:

pleaides said @ 2:17pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:2]
I lost a very promising academic career and 10 years of my life to the green. Quitting was hard. Occasionally I miss it, but very seldom. Mainly it's when I'm playing guitar, when I feel like there's never the same connection between myself and the music. I used to love playing when I was stoned.

KingPellinore said @ 2:21pm GMT on 20th Apr
Good on you for getting something that was harming you out of your life.

I rarely partake anymore, but I had some good times in my early 20's.

spite48 said @ 2:57pm GMT on 20th Apr
What about it caused you lose the career and 10 years? Was it the effect of the marijuana on you, or a result of a failed drug test?

mrcucumber said @ 4:17pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
I'm guessing he was stoned everyday for 10 years, ignoring the possibility of that academic career.

KingPellinore said @ 5:58pm GMT on 20th Apr
He was gonna go to class, but he got high.

sanepride said @ 9:55pm GMT on 20th Apr
When I was in college I did both...and still managed to graduate.

blibblob said @ 11:28pm GMT on 20th Apr
Yeah, but since you're SE's Grumpy Old Man, your shit was weak back then.

Yo.

sanepride said @ 11:40pm GMT on 20th Apr
It was strong enough...we just smoked more.
But I gotta admit I got pretty baked from a joint I shared with the Mrs. in an Amsterdam coffee shop recently.

sanepride said @ 11:43pm GMT on 20th Apr
...and even if the weed was weaker, believe me the strength of the acid more than made up for it.

KingPellinore said @ 12:32am GMT on 21st Apr
Nah, you're thinking of Sacrelicious...

Starjump said @ 9:03am GMT on 21st Apr
same here, from the age of 17 to 25 I smoked pot every day... Didnt have a job, learnt to skateboard very well and play the guitar but that was it... Hung out with unsavoury characters, done some shady stuff.

It put a constructive contributing life on hold, made me shallow and self focussed. Quitting suddenly woke up drive and ambition to do something... Its only when youre on the outside you can look back and say - That was lame...

I spent a summer in my room... maybe 2.... I cant rememeber...

Time for the self obsessed responses in which readers justify their own addiction and reliance on pot... but.... Its time to go outside...

Like everything when it goes from being "occasional recreational" to "habitual" its time to give yourself some distance... hindsight.

pleaides said @ 2:05am GMT on 21st Apr [Score:1 Informative]
The former.

zenviper said @ 2:32pm GMT on 20th Apr

dreamingzephyr said @ 3:18pm GMT on 20th Apr
Happy 4/20, the most magical of all holidays! How is it more magical than Christmas, you ask? Because substance-induced magic is REAL!

I love this holiday! I wish I could get super blazed all day, but then I'd barely have any left.

mego said @ 3:25pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:2]

wottan said @ 3:44pm GMT on 20th Apr
Clearly I have been away from Vancouver too long, completely forgot 420. Last year was in the middle of thousands of people infront of the Vancouver Art Gallery and it was pretty awesome.

This is a pic from the top of a nearby building, with the cloud of smoke clearly visible

PS holy shit I havent used my photobucket account in a loong time, just looking through it is like a trip down memory lane

lilmookieesquire said @ 4:56pm GMT on 20th Apr
Ya, I just walked by there. It's filling up already.

graham said @ 3:38pm GMT on 21st Apr
get a job!

(unless you didn't break in to the TD towers, in which case, can you help me with investments pls)

arrowhen said @ 4:01pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:2 Interesting]
I stopped smoking pot 6 or 7 years ago when I moved away from my tedious pothead acquaintances and couldn't be bothered to make new ones.

If the stuff was legal, and I could somehow GUARANTEE that I'd only ever get "giggle at bad TV, forget how boring Reggae actually is, eat the hell out of a bag of popcorn, and enjoy a really good nights' sleep" high and not the "oh look, I can no longer experience time as a linear flow of events instead of this flood of terrifyingly disjointed individual moments who each seem to last approximately forever; additionally, I'm also unable to engage in simple conversation, as halfway through one sentence my mind has already raced through dozens of tangentally related thoughts to the point where I can't remember what I was trying to say in the first place. All in all, this seems like a good time for a two hour panic attack" high that I ended up getting about half the time, I'd probably smoke it every day.

blibblob said @ 6:35pm GMT on 20th Apr
I kind of enjoy that latter kind of high. Then again I don't really see smoking pot as as much of a social activity that some people do. One hit with a group of people, sure, but having a dozen people passing around bowl after bowl? What's the point?

Everyone will become gurgling messes other than that one burnt out pothead who uses that as an opportunity to rant to a group of mostly unresponsive paranoids about how the government is poisoning the tap water supply to keep us in line, so only drink bottled water. Yes, exactly the kind of scene you expect to see in a stoner comedy.

But sitting around with maybe one or two other people, reaching that level of high can become an interesting introspective experience. Especially when music is involved, when one can with ease simultaneously concentrate on the nuances of the music as well as run a deeply analytical perspective of oneself. Time comes to a standstill as every musical line and note creates its own web of thought. It becomes easy to lose oneself, but then simply turn up the volume and sink into the ocean of patterned noise.

Mostly unrelated, but having not smoked at all in over a month and very very little the past 6 or so I've started noticing music and contexts that bring back the exact mental state of being stoned. I mean, exact, with no canabinoids involved. My Bloody Valentine while driving on the interstate seems to work every time.

theRed said @ 10:09pm GMT on 21st Apr
"unable to engage in simple conversation, as halfway through one sentence my mind has already raced through dozens of tangentally related thoughts to the point where I can't remember what I was trying to say in the first place"

This...

snowfox said @ 2:32am GMT on 26th Apr
How were you getting that high?? I have never been able to achieve that. Not even with hallucinogens. Not even with a LOT of hallucinogens.

Naruki said @ 3:22am GMT on 26th Apr
Perhaps this can shed some light.

snowfox said @ 4:18am GMT on 26th Apr
It's interesting, but it does not explain why some people are so strongly affected by the same sample of weed while others are not.

I suspect that it is more due to variations in individual chemical sensitivities and the specific types of cannabinoids involved than to the THC levels. The reason I think this is because of the reactions people have been having to the synthetic products. Clearly not all cannabinoids are equal just as not all opiates are equal.

iosef said @ 7:17am GMT on 26th Apr [Score:1 Informative]
Alcohol or nicotine can potentiate the effects. I have particularly low tolerance to nicotine and I find it can contribute to the racing thoughts, altered perception, introspective high that originally changed me from non-cannabis-user to occasional-cannabis-user. of course i can also get that from weed alone, and mixing drugs is an inherently risky proposition.

serotonin syndrom <-- many recreational and prescription drugs, and pretty much anything that makes you feel good, can lead to serotonin syndrome.

hepatotoxicity <-- most drugs (including ibuprofen and tylenol) are hepatotoxins, some moreso than others. in general you should never mix any two drugs (legal, illegal, otc, Rx) without being sure that it's safe.

Bodnoirbabe said @ 4:52pm GMT on 20th Apr
I miss smoking, although I'd not do it again as much as I did in my early twenties. I'd just like to be able to maybe occasionally partake on the weekend or at a party. Like social drinking. Alas, the random drug testing at work keeps me from it. Some day.

IBM said @ 6:59pm GMT on 20th Apr

KingPellinore said @ 7:06pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
Sensimilian Erection

kitten said @ 7:23pm GMT on 20th Apr
My bf smokes several times per day but you wouldn't know it. Never had a nicer bf in my life so I'm not complaining. I can't smoke it tho, makes me vomit and comatose. Have fun everyone! :)

KingPellinore said @ 7:45pm GMT on 20th Apr
I only smoke anymore if I'm preparing for an epic bout of sex. I suffer from dificulty reaching orgasm and marijuana help me relax enough to immerse myself in the sensation of sex. It also makes me horny as hell, so smoking when sex isn't on the menu is frustrating.

sanepride said @ 8:42pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:2]
This might be of interest:

(NSFW!)

kichijoii said @ 5:21am GMT on 21st Apr
"His whole body tasted like sugar. My head was swimming in sexy calories!"

spite48 said @ 11:57pm GMT on 20th Apr
I've recently started vaporizing before sex. I like it.

mechanical contrivance said @ 1:48am GMT on 21st Apr [Score:1 Funny]
Non corporeal sex? Interesting...

Cakkafracle said @ 8:02pm GMT on 20th Apr
I've been smoking for 25 years... omg.

I barely ever get high anymore, so, like... I don't know why I bother. Mostly b/c it's there.

pleaides said @ 2:09am GMT on 21st Apr
That's why I stopped.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:13pm GMT on 20th Apr
Lovely article:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2012/04/19/lets-be-blunt-its-time-to-end-the-drug-war/

KingPellinore said @ 8:20pm GMT on 20th Apr
heh heh..."blunt"...heh heh

yogi said @ 10:50pm GMT on 20th Apr
I'm an assistant coach at San Rafael High for the varsity football team--this year I'll handle the tight ends and the defensive ends. I'm going over to school in a short bit to see what happens. Yes, there'll be guys in the weight room, and I'll help supervise, as I usually do.

There are lots of stories I could tell about some of the students. We're 65% Latino, but on the football team the percentage is higher, like 80%, with a couple white guys. Two years ago we were undefeated and one of the best football teams in the Bay Area. We were small but had great talent. Last year, though, we had even better talent--it's just that our line was not good, and we did not do as well. And every year we have guys who've played football for only 2 or 3 years, going up against high schools where kids have played Pop Warner since childhood.

I love the sport, like working with the guys.

And it's almost 4:20...

sanepride said @ 11:07pm GMT on 20th Apr
Aren't the Grateful Dead originally from San Rafael?

(My wife too, btw)

yogi said @ 1:11am GMT on 21st Apr
No, the Dead were from San Francisco. A lot of them moved to Marin, though.

And by the way, no one showed.

It was funny--at 4:10 I got to the area on the campus and ran into the principal and two vice principals leaving for the day, purposely to avoid 420....

sanepride said @ 1:22am GMT on 22nd Apr
OK, I just read this informative article on the origin of 420 and San Rafael High. The wife went to private school but her sister and brother went there.
Sorry to hear no one showed. Young people these days have so little respect for tradition.

mrcucumber said @ 3:51pm GMT on 22nd Apr
Tradition is overrated.

sanepride said @ 5:04pm GMT on 22nd Apr
Broad generalization is overrated.

mrcucumber said @ 5:53pm GMT on 22nd Apr [Score:-2 Overrated]
Stupid inaccurate responses are overrated.

sanepride said @ 12:15am GMT on 23rd Apr
Can't argue with that.

yogi said @ 8:02pm GMT on 22nd Apr
Actually, I found it humorous. Shortly after I had a brief talk with the athletic director on another issue and he whispered that the weight room was empty of football players due to 420, with a smile of chagrin on his face.

Like I said, there are some sad stories to relate, related to marijuana consumption. A while ago there was a VERY gifted athlete--a D-I possibility--who smoked his senior year away. Another got into theft and violated his probation. A third was sent away for gang activity. Others are very well getting snagged into gangs. And grades go up and down like a yo-yo.

The striking reality is that school sports are a gang intervention.

bbqkink said @ 11:58pm GMT on 20th Apr [Score:2 Funny]

blibblob said @ 12:13am GMT on 21st Apr
Phew! Just enough time to chug detox drinks!

Misanthrope said @ 6:10pm GMT on 23rd Apr
I've never really smoked more than once every week or two. This is probably because I've only actually bought my own once. Usually I just compensate with drinks.