Have you ever tried pot?

[Duppers]

In any of its forms, at any age?

Asking due to news that Biden administration is firing new hires who have used marijuana. And not just current users, which would be prudent, but *past* users too!

Story here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use

I have a few friends and a hubby who have never tried it.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Every which way.

Joint
Bong
Brownies
Shotgun
Potato

[Duppers]

3. Uh, potato?

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😁

Except for potato (?), I've tried them all too. MJ saved my sanity at a dark time in my life.

Kids, we can never work in the Biden WH, even as staffers.

[Lochloosa]

11. Makes a great pipe in a pinch.

[PJMcK]

2. While I chose "yes"...

... it's really no one's business but my own.

[femmedem]

4. It's the only thing I've found that keeps my migraines at bay. n/t

[Duppers]

5. That's a common cure, I've heard.

Well, more of a medication fix, than cure.

60 Minutes & other news programs have covered multiple medical uses for MJ.

I strongly disagree with Biden's policy here.

[femmedem]

27. Me, too.

I am a much better employee for anyone with a small amount of edibles (I never liked smoking anything) about an hour before bedtime. I can sleep, I'm not losing a day a week to a fourteen-hour migraine/puke fest. I would barely be employable without it, and I don't wake up impaired.

[Duppers]

32. Excellent!

Another case of the weed making life liveable, as is the case with those epileptic children. It has multiple uses, contrary to some opinions here.

[Omnipresent]

6. I'm guessing he wants sober minded people working for him.

[marble falls]

19. So they can't drink, either.

[Omnipresent]

24. He doesn't want them stoned or intoxicated

Which makes sense.

[Treefrog]

40. A person is much less likely to have any sort of "hangover" or residual effect from cannabis.

Alcohol is very very different.

[elleng]

38. as does every employer;

RECREATIONAL use of alcohol and marijuana should be OK.

[5X]

7. Massive quantities, daily.

[Duppers]

16. 😁

[Tommy Carcetti]

8. Nope. Never. No desire to whatsoever.

I mean, if that's your thing, that's fine. But it's just something that has no appeal to me.

I just find it gross, personally. Smells awful in smoking form. I absolutely can't stand that bong sound. If I were to have it in any form, I guess edibles would be the way I'd do it; but even then, I'd just be eating a brownie or cookie that I assume tastes more dry than regular brownies and cookies and I just can't get all that excited about it.

Even with it becoming more legal and accepted, I still haven't had any burning (pardon the pun) desire to try it.

Haven't bothered with any recreational drugs besides caffeine and alcohol, both of which I will admit I partake of on a regular (the former) to semi-regular (the latter) basis.

Probably the only recreational drug that actually interests me are hallucinogenics. Something that actually alters my state of consciousness and reality. I've always had a weird obsession about datura in particular, which I heard is rather harsh, but the accounts I've read are just fascinating. But it just seems like a pain in the ass in obtaining any of those sorts of drugs and then there are the potential after effects, so I really haven't felt the need to act on that desire.

So maybe I'm weird in that I have no desire to try pot. But whatever.

[Lochloosa]

12. Mushrooms. My favorite hallucinogenic.

You can mirodose...taking small doses over a long period if time or jump into the deep end and do a heavy dose.

[Kali]

43. datura is a weed that grows around here but it can be dangerous I don't recommend it,

there are better alternatives health and chemical-wise.

the pot on the market now will alter your consciousness, trust me. some of the concentrates and edibles are REALLY strong. it ain't your mamma's dirt weed no more

[GumboYaYa]

9. It is a legal substance where I live.

The Biden admin is stuck in the 1980s with this policy.

[Duppers]

15. That the truth!

He's being overly cautious & conservative.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Many years ago, and I was like Bill Clinton about it.

I just didn't like it very much, even when my young friends kept sharing other types of weed with me... like it was sooo important to them that I smoke it too!

Edit: LSD was my only pleasant drug experience, tbh. Some of those young friends got their hands on that too. My pupils were HUGE after I did it, making me look like an alien with all-black eyes or something. The other guys thought it was amazing and so hilarious. Anyway, I was probably lucky and had a very good "trip". It was one of the happiest feelings in my entire life.

[pansypoo53219]

13. not directly. by choice. smells awful. boss + man i was traveling w/ in addition to others.

i tried to avoid it, certainly felt nothing.

[Croney]

14. Three times in my 30's, and on each occasion, I puked.

I wanted to like it, but it did not like me. I might try a small edible if it is offered but I can't see that ever happening.

[padfun]

17. For 49 years now,

Next years summer will be 50 years of cannabis use for me.

[bluedigger]

18. That's bs.

Not only have I smoked it, I've admitted it and passed Federal security clearances.

[marble falls]

22. Admitting it helps. My wife joined CIA in the late 60's, when she was asked if she ...

... "had ever used drugs" said, "No." The interviewer turned off the polygraph and said, "you're in college, there are drugs everywhere - if you used them, be truthful." And she said, "I have never used drugs, drank alcohol, or smoked tobacco."

She became a C-11 while with CIA. Her only bad habit was me. She still has never used drugs or used tobacco. She learned social drinking in CIA. But, I've never seen her past a mild buzz in all our years.

I've smoked pot since high school and I got my 'secret' clearance in the NAVY, never was poly'd or pee tested in my life. She has no problem with my pot use - it is the best pain reliever ever for me. I've used verrrry little of the opiates I've been prescribed. I hate opiates.

Her attitude really changed when our son came back from Iraq with PTSD and had a very rough two years after he got out (four year hitch with an additional year in on "Stop Loss&quot .

He was anti-pot but drinking large with subsequent bad interactions with the local constabulary. When he finally got into VA, a tough haul, one of his councillors rec'd pot.

The difference was night and day and immediate. And now more than eight years later he's doing great.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. tried it , dont care for it.

[Submariner]

21. Many Federal jobs require drug tests

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires nuclear power plant operators to pass a drug test. Most of those operators come from the nuclear Navy where they are used to drug tests.

If employees in the ranks of the military, NRC, EPA, NOAA, etc. are supervised by Executive Branch decree, then it looks more logical to prevent the White House staff from indulging, when their "employees" have to abstain to keep their jobs.

I believe until the weed is removed from the Schedule 1 narcotics list, this kind of firing or not hiring has a basis for justification.

[Duppers]

26. I understand that they must not be current users.

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But Biden is firing former users!

Why should a legal drug (in some states) used a few yrs ago be held against them now? Or even if their pot use was illegal many yrs ago, why use that as a criteria to fire them? It does not affect their current skills.


We can name a few U.S. Presidents who have smoked pot.
Fun fact: Jimmy Carter's son smoked weed with Willie Nelson in the WH!

[Leith]

23. Yes, I've tried it

Succeeded, too.

[ms liberty]

25. It is very effective for migraines and chronic insomnia

I used it for years for those issues. I had to quit due to affordability and access issues. Then a few years later I went into early menopause due to chemotherapy for breast cancer. Horrible hot flashes and brain fog, as well as all the other menopausal symptoms. A friend visited and shared some with me, and while we were hanging out after I realized my hot flashes had stopped and I was a normal temperature again. And my brain was firing on all cylinders, although I was a bit silly. I was surprised but really thrilled, because I had tried medications and they either didn't help or I had reactions. Since the oncologists had told me I could conceivably have these symptoms for the rest of my life, I began using it. I still have terrible hot flashes. It still works, and now I have a routine that keeps enough of it in my system so that I can not have all these debilitating symptoms.
I saw a comment from someone very recently who called cannabis use a need to "deny reality." Obviously that person has never smoked or used cannabis, because that's not what it does. And someone above intimated that Biden wanted "sober people " but that's another bullshit trope...I could smoke/ingest cannabis all night tonite without a hangover in the morning, and go to work without any issue or chance of still being high. That is a key advantage cannabis has over alcohol. I don't like alcohol or the effects on me.

[Duppers]

30. Marijuana is a wonder drug in so many ways!

Glad you found a supplier & can now feel normal. And I like your "deny reality" comment - you're exactly right. I've had more true insights high than when I wasn't smoking.

I like both pot & alcohol, although I much prefer pot over any alcohol as a mood elevator & insomnia relief, I love the flavor of some wines & most beers. My only substance mood-elevator now is tequila but I have to drown it in OJ just to tolerate the taste.

The problem is my hubby is so old school, like Biden I suppose, that he objects to any pot even being in the house. Grrr. When I was a working girl in my 20s & he was still in grad school, I ignored his protests. I'll be glad when it's sold in shops without even needing a prescription.

[ms liberty]

33. Yea, that is the problem with my state

It's decriminalized but not legal, so you get what you can get, and at an extortionate price. I want to live long enough to be able to walk into a shop and buy the strain I need rather than what is available.

[hlthe2b]

28. Honestly, I find it very difficult to believe most who deny trying it--over a certain age...

especially if they went to college. Just like trying cigarettes or various types of alcohol or speeding, it hardly predicts repeated and certainly not long-term usage or behaviors.

[Duppers]

31. My DH refuses to try it.

He's so old school, like Biden. And he doesn't speed & claims my fast driving gives him heart attacks.

[ms liberty]

34. Lol. My fast driving causes my hubby

To complain about tires and tire wear!

[brewens]

29. I'll have a couple hits after breakfast and go out and walk about three miles pretty much

every day. Nice start to the morning.

[ironflange]

35. Nope, never done it

I've never had the desire, which is a little odd, because my sister was a bit of a pothead.

[IcyPeas]

36. never smoked, but recently tried some vegan gummies. not bad. (expensive)

(legal to buy in SoCal)

[Mr. Scorpio]

37. Nope, never

Never could stand the smell.

[frogmarch]

39. The first and only

time I ever smoked a joint was on my birthday in 1977. My friend Peggy took me for a car ride and gave me my present - the joint. I smoked it and didn't experience anything from it. However, an hour later, I won the door prize at the December PTA meeting at my 6-year-old son's school, and I was so out of it, I fell down the auditorium stage steps with the door prize, which was a 3 lb. frozen turkey. At least I didn't get hurt.

[JuJuChen]

41. smoking it as I reply to this thread

[beaglelover]

42. Yes, I was pretty much a daily pot smoker the first 2 years after college.

Didn't start smoking pot until towards the end of my last semester in college. After college, moved to Hoboken and worked in NYC and my lover at the time had a sales job with no benefits other than the boss gave everyone an ounce of pot every Friday. Our apartment was definitely the most popular place on Friday nights!

I don't remember now why I stopped smoking it. I tried it again about 10 years ago and enjoyed it, but have never really had an inkling to take it up again even though it's legal now in CA. Maybe after I retire.......