Post 2593
- 10 years and 26 days since I started this blog -
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| January, 2019: Boy Blues Bar, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
I smoked pot for the first time early in my senior year in high school. I was fifteen years old at the time (it was October, 1965). My friend Steve had been trying to get me high since the previous year. I had no idea what it was actually like. I'd had a bit of experience with alcohol (drunk more than a few times, sick only a few less times). I didn't understand anything about the culture. Not too long before this, a classmate called someone a pothead and I had no clue - I knew the name marijuana, but at that point didn't know it was also called 'pot' and users were 'heads'.
So much innocence.
For the most part, I smoked weed from that point forward. A few times, for work reasons (drug-testing), I stopped, sometimes for many months. One time, in my twenties, I stopped for a few months out of concerns that it was a morally bad choice. That passed. And when it did, I never had doubts about where I stood with it: I liked it and had no qualms about smoking it from then on.
I think cannabis is a beneficial plant, and there is historical and scientific evidence to support that. It is one, if not the, most useful plants known to man. There is almost nothing it isn't good for, industry, food, medicine.
For the most part, I smoked weed from that point forward. A few times, for work reasons (drug-testing), I stopped, sometimes for many months. One time, in my twenties, I stopped for a few months out of concerns that it was a morally bad choice. That passed. And when it did, I never had doubts about where I stood with it: I liked it and had no qualms about smoking it from then on.
I think cannabis is a beneficial plant, and there is historical and scientific evidence to support that. It is one, if not the, most useful plants known to man. There is almost nothing it isn't good for, industry, food, medicine.
The big problem with pot is and has always been political. The act that made it illegal (via a tax you could be jailed for paying, or not paying) was based in racism, not public health, and was passed with no debate, at the last minute before a congressional recess.
Later, it was made a class-1 controlled drug, meaning it had no medical value, even though it had documented medical uses (including a US government-held patent for its use). Cannabis history as medicine is thousands of years old.
Later, it was made a class-1 controlled drug, meaning it had no medical value, even though it had documented medical uses (including a US government-held patent for its use). Cannabis history as medicine is thousands of years old.
Every evil I have personally experienced connected with cannabis had to do not with the properties of the plant itself, but from its legal status. When the move to legalize started, first with medical uses, it was proven that there were medical benefits.
So, I have almost never been troubled by my own use. If it isn't bad, why, other than legal paranoia, would using it be bad. Experientially, it has never been a negative in my life.
I like it.
So, I have almost never been troubled by my own use. If it isn't bad, why, other than legal paranoia, would using it be bad. Experientially, it has never been a negative in my life.
I like it.
I'm grateful for my good luck, that has allowed me to get high for more than fifty-five years without suffering any negative consequences.
Previous Weight (1/25/21): 203.5 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.2 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
1:40pm: LEO: (lox - smoked salmon - eggs and onions) and brussels sprouts with olive oil and shaved parmesan cheese. Also, after a pause, a Quest bar.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
10:05pm:
1:40pm: LEO: (lox - smoked salmon - eggs and onions) and brussels sprouts with olive oil and shaved parmesan cheese. Also, after a pause, a Quest bar.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
10:05pm:
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| Salmon burger with homemade seasoned mayonnaise on black mung bean spaghetti with olive oil and herbs. not shown: Salad (Spring Mix, cabbage, baby spinach, balsamic vinaigrette) and a Quest bar with peanut butter. |
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 2; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 74+ oz.;
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