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Reefer Madness Has Begun!

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  • Started 6 months ago by sunhillmama
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    sunhillmama

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    Perhaps it was a celebration or perhaps it was the new normal, but today in sweet old Ballard on a block where the median age is 70+ at 4pm I looked out my bedroom window to see what clearly was 3 "youths"

    (I'm a terrible judge of age, especially in the teenage/college/fresh out of college age group)

    passing a joint, on the sidewalk, in the broad light of day, right in front of my elderly neighbor's house.

    There are potheads Statewide celebrating I'm sure.

    And I can't remember that time of day that stoners created that was supposedly light-em-up-time, if they're even still doing that or remembering to do that or recalling that they ever did that, but if its 4pm or thereabouts, perhaps it was that too

    But In Broad Friggin DayLight, really?

    Would you be tossing back beers in the middle of the street on a Wednesday?

    I could hear kids playing in that neighbor's neighbor's yard, for pete's sakes.

    Hey Stoners, smokem if you gottem, but keep it classy, eh?

    Go "hot box" in your car like they did back in the day

    But then lock it and call a cab later... keep it safe out there.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  2. PaytonKemp-AlleyOop

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    4:20 is the time you are thinking of.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  3. Walt

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    I do get reefer crankiness, which the new law may alleviate.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  4. BooRadley

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    (•_•)

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    Oh yeah.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  5. VeganBiker

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    sunhillmama - even thought the initiative has passed, smoking marijuana in public will still be illegal just like drinking alcohol in public is. So whatever was happening outside your "bedroom window" is probably just some happy people celebrating something that is way over due.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  6. Corvus

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    "Would you be tossing back beers in the middle of the street on a Wednesday?"

    Without a doubt. Beer isn't just for breakfast any more.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  7. pixlpete

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    Actually I think Reefer Madness may be over, finally. When you have Rick Steves on your side, you know the time has come. What we have been doing is not working and costing us a lot of money and wrecking people’s lives over something so small as weed.

    The save the children, the sky is falling crowd, don’t get it that most kids get their drugs at home, from the liquor and/or medicine cabinet. Weed is a relatively benign way for young people to get their Ya Ya's out. Like the other stuff we all do in our youth, it gets forgotten as people grow up. If adults want to do it, so what? No worse than liquor or tabaco, that is for sure.

    I never felt like I needed to chew somebodies face off after smoking weed. It takes a royal troll on an internet discussion board to do that to me now.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  8. pennygirl

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    Your avatar makes so much more sense now pixl :-)

    Posted 6 months ago #
  9. pixlpete

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    It’s actually a temporary homage to 1der and his love of animals (one of his redeeming qualities). Speaking of avatars, and check out what 1der is sporting today! Is that really a giant Rorschach inkblot penis image on that wiener dog’s back?!? There must be a deeper meaning.

    Posted 6 months ago #
  10. angeline

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    I hope your elderly neighbor survived the experience! Horrors!

    Srsly, I will take 3 youths passing a joint amongst themselves out on the sidewalk any day over 3 meth dealers waiting on the parking strip for their driveby handoff. Which is normal for the Fremont street I just moved away from that is populated by elderly folks and young families. The meth dealers are sketchy looking or even sometimes a little scary. The high schoolers I've seen who are probably smoking pot do not alarm me, though I'm sure they could use their time more wisely.

    Posted 6 months ago #

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