Do you have friends that smoke pot? Most of mine do.

[trumad]

I'm a 49 year old dude with friends that range between 35 to 50. Almost all of them smoke weed. Me and my wife almost feel left out because we don't smoke--- but these professional business people love to toke. It's kind of weird--- this underground suburbia.

I can't smoke the stuff anymore because it makes me all paranoid about the silliest shit... "OH SHIT---MY POWER BILL IS DUE!!!--that type of shit.

But I admit that I kind of envy my friends when they smoke... they're definitely mellow.

[Horse with no Name]

1. I have friends that do

I don't because I have expectations of random drug testing at work.

[MuseRider]

2. Can't say most but many of mine

do. I am 53 and most of my friends are about the same age range as yours, some higher but yes, most of them do and many quite regularly.

[trumad]

3. Like I said

this underground suburbia of folks breaking the law on a regular basis. Don't get me wrong--- there shouldn't be a law in mho.

[MuseRider]

32. I am pretty certain

that at least half of those that make this law continue probably smoke it as well.

[youthere]

4. "OH SHIT---MY POWER BILL IS DUE!!!...

I'm sorry but that made me laugh out loud.
I don't have any close friends that I KNOW smoke pot. I have a couple I suspect may, but for whatever reason they aren't forthcoming about it.They have their reasons, and I don't pry. My husband and I don't smoke it, but we both feel it should be legalized and regulated (like cigarettes and alcohol).
I tried it a few times in school (and I inhaled) and I liked how it made me feel, but for some reason it just wasn't something I got into.

[trumad]

6. God if they ever made it legal---

I suspect quite a few people would come out of the woodwork.

[TahitiNut]

5. Well, what else would anyone do with it other than put it in brownies and chili?

:shrug:

[trumad]

9. I smoked Pot throughout the seventies and early eighites...

lots of it... and it wasn't till recently that I had my first brownie loaded with weed.

Knocked the shit out of me.... I immediately paid my power bill.

[Jonathan50]

12. Ummm ... Suppositories?

:)

Bicycle racers used to use coffee suppositories to increase endurance.

[MuseRider]

27. Chili!!!

I never heard of that. Interesting. Now the brownies are good but try chocolate chip cookies. A friend of mine made some a long time ago and we all shared them in the middle of a popular restaurant, no one was even curious. I had no idea how strong they were, and I do like chocolate chip cookies, hell I would have paid everyone's bills that night.

[GliderGuider]

7. I was born in North America in 1950

One is free to draw any inference they wish from that fact.

On other words, "Well, duh!"

[maine_raptor]

8. Oh Yea, like I'm going to answer this one!

"Attention Agent Mike, hey over here, check this one out". :sarcasm:

Now what we're we discussing, I forgot. Anyone got any Oreos?

[trumad]

11. Man the stuff they got now....

One little pinch is all it takes .... in the old days, we could sit on the beach and smoke a whole ounce of Columbian Gold.

[maine_raptor]

15. Maybe you could, but I was a poor College student back then.

Actually as to your original question:

Being in our upper 50's my friends and I are a bit more health aware then we were back in those days, so pot smoking is a just a memory, like sleeping through the night and not waking up to piss.

:rofl:

[trumad]

21. LOL

That's funny.

[roody]

10. It certainly is habit forming!

[qwlauren35]

13. No.

I used to have a "friend" who did. Made me pretty uncomfortable. To me, its flouting a law, and that's not something I can respect (although i do drive over the speed limit.)

I have often had neighbors in apartment buildings who smoked marijuana. It was infuriating - it stinks, and people can make assumptions about someone just because they got near it and their clothes smell.

Frankly, if it becomes legal, I will be truly disgusted, unless there are extremely strict ventilation laws, and restrictions on where it can be used.

[Jonathan50]

24. Speed limits have a far more reasonable justification than do anti cannabis laws.

"No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. He simply follows the eleventh commandment."

-Robert A Heinlein

The 11th commandment according to Heinlein: Don't get yourself caught!

[Occulus]

30. You'd rather pay the taxes to keep 'em locked up?

And more taxes to find them?

Rather than, of course, getting tax money from people legally buying it...

never mind. I already know pretty much every word you have to say on the subject.

[RB TexLa]

14. No idea, can't think of how it could come up in a conversation

[mondo joe]

20. Well, you might be sitting around and they'd say "mind if I light up?" or something.

I have a harder time imagining how it would never come up, among friends.

[RebelOne]

16. I know plenty who smoke it.

But I don't because it is too fattening. It gives you the munchies.

[lonestarnot]

17. wtf. Why do you hang wit criminals? hmmmf.

:rofl: Birds of a feather flock together.

[Loge23]

18. Yes - many

I'm in basically the same age demo as the OP. I know of many similar demo people - professionals and business owners across several fields - who still enjoy the herb. Personally, I'm kind of like the power bill guy!
I am still steadfast in my belief that the prohibition is nuts.

[annabanana]

19. Used to. .

I am now in the category of "too much to lose". I really wish they would let this weird, anti-weed obsession go already..

[trumad]

23. I'm amazed that so many smoke

and it's still illegal.

[mondo joe]

22. Friends, no. But family...

[madokie]

25. its prolly 75 to 25 percent for me that are tokers

even the one who don't used to or like you for some reason can't anymore

[verse18]

26. Yep, and we're all professionals

Me and one of my college friends still do, but that's because we're still single w/o children. The others quit once they started families.

[Atman]

28. I'm a child of the 70's. It seems even the most unlikely people still smoke

I'm amazed at the number of people my age, in all walks of life, still smoke (or smoke again). People I've assumed for years must be "straight" suddenly stepping into the circle at a party. Remember, we grew up in an era when the hit mainstream movies and music were by Cheech & Chong and the like. Head shops were legal. It's was just so much a part of the culture, and a lot of old geezers (I'm 48 in two weeks) never really let it go, even if they retired their freak flags long ago.

.

[LiberalEsto]

29. Not for years...

I was never that fond of it, because I didn't like paranoia and lethargy and sinus infections. I doubt that anyone I know still bothers with it.

[azurnoir]

31. It's kinda like White Castle burgers

Most people like em' and occasionally or more eat'em, but no one admits it. Could be the greatest national secret of our times

[acmavm]

33. Considering it is now the number one cash crop in the US, I

think we all might know people who do. I think it should be legalized, why cost the American taxpayer so much in enforcing the pot laws when you would be better off legalizing and taxing the stuff?

[tinfoilinfor2005]

34. Yes, and many that truly surprised me, because we are in our sixties

and I'm talking about friends, a few of them, quite a bit older and very much established-own-their-own-business-have-flock-of-grandkids types.

Hubby never has, I did in my college years. But I would eat my way through every local supermarket so I don't think a bong is in my future.

[Broadslidin]

35. Personally, I believe the garden variety Strengthens Relationships...!!

:pals:

Unlike the depressing,
fat accumulating affects of alcohol laced sugar drinks
or the hideously addictive death drug, nicotine.

[shadowknows69]

36. OH SHIT

My power bill is due too! Thanks Tru. Bong Hit?