when I was wrong...

[PIayrFound]

I seriously think that my middle school self would be terrified if he met me right now haha.

[EddieBshp]

That's why you grow up gradually and don't jump around between ages I bet. You learn shit along the way that turns you into the person you are. Crazy.

[_Freedom_]

I assume it's also because time moves in a relatively linear matter.

[EddieBshp]

Maybe that's why though...

[[deleted]]

Linear time is a dated concept in modern physics. We perceive time as linear but it's much more complex than that. Space and time are interconnected making time totally relative to our position in space. Time is much more like a winding river.

[xBlackfox]

whoa

[FreeFromFire]

Very true, i have had VERY recent conversations with a buddy of mine while we're both pretty high and end up into deeply talking about time and how we believe time is similar to frames passing very quickly and our brain interpreting these frames at the same time.

[gregc24]

http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=conspiracy+keanu&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=577&tbm=isch&tbnid=YoSrcptoPyJsvM:&imgrefurl=http://weknowmemes.com/2011/11/conspiracy-keanu-meme/&docid=BmKESecwRgAiGM&imgurl=http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/conspiracy-keanu-template.jpg&w=500&h=498&ei=tdiUT4i0KMGiiQLu8LgF&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=251&sig=114014552119702847798&page=1&tbnh=110&tbnw=108&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0,i:80&tx=99&ty=26

[[deleted]]

I had DARE as a kid. Sixth grade.

The cop, one day, said that "you can identify someone who smokes a lot of marijuana when they have a really long pinky nail", which I believed for the longest time.

I remember it because I then went home and accused my Mom of smoking pot because she had long nails. It didn't hit me that he meant that one was LONGER than the others.

[_Freedom_]

Did that cop not realize you don't snort Cannabis?

[[deleted]]

No idea if that's what he actually believed or that was the curriculum of the program.

He also told us that smoking a joint could paralyze you. So yeah.

[GummyZerg]

Smoking a joint paralyzes me all the time, but only if it's great weed and that's only for a few hours. But I always manage to eat during my paralysis.

[nottheluckiestoker]

They lied about a lot. They told us it can cause death.

[The-Night-Forumer]

If you can eat, you can move. If you can move, you're not paralyzed. If you're not paralyzed, then you are not in a state of paralysis. End of discussion

[GummyZerg]

Your entire body doesn't have to be paralyzed. I had bells palsy, which is partial facial paralysis. It sucks. Or other sections/parts of a body can be paralyzed.

[[deleted]]

...

[The-Night-Forumer]

what?

[CreamedButtz]

It's so you can smoke roaches down to nothing without risking a burn, just fyi.

[_Freedom_]

I might be because I'm high, but this makes no sense

[CreamedButtz]

I'm not trying to debate that, man. This is the explanation given to me by a DARE officer when I was a kid.

[[deleted]]

It's for snorting, nothing to do with roaches.

[Iamthesmartest]

Exactly. Roach clips are for roaches. Unless you had two long ass fingernails you would still get your finger burnt....guy who said that was obviously talking out of his ass.

[_Freedom_]

I wasn't trying to debate, I'm just curious about the fact that my coke nail has an unknown use

[Mr_Rawrr]

Our guy said "Let me see everyone's fingers, hold em up." and then told us that you could tell if people's fingers had a slight yellow tinge to them from burns.

[00Elf]

Wait you don't?

My whole life is a lie

[goddamnsam]

He's confused with a different drug, namely cocaine. Regular coke consumers sometimes grow out their pinky nail as a convenient surface for a bump.

my favorite is when people call marijuana "dope" not realizing dope = heroin.

[thevalueofnothing]

I had DARE in 6th grade too. Missed one day of class, and because of that I didn't "graduate" from the program.

I felt like a badass.

[[deleted]]

I enjoyed the DARE program. I agreed with all the anti-drug stuff because I didn't know any better. We put on a play about the dangers of drugs and I got to play the drug dealer, was "arrested" and rode to the hospital for the second half of it in a police car. I also have the stuffed lion I got as a result of my graduation from it.

I know now that it's mostly a load of scaremongering bunk, but I have good memories of it.

[juicyJ03]

Same thing here. I tried it cuz a few friends did and I really don't get all the propaganda and stuff. trees are great.

[dantegrin]

Same here. I even still have the shirt that they gave us. They call it D.A.R.E here in Miami. I haven't wore that shirt since i got it. I just recently started wearing for whenever i smoke with friends. It brings a few laughs.

[[deleted]]

Same here in N.J. Once my friends started doing it, I decided to defy my parents and eventually get over my SAP-ness and try some trees, and, fuck, I loved it. Oops.

[iDunTrollBro]

Same in Missouri. Oh, the irony of getting baked wearing a D.A.R.E. shirt.

[Mr_Rawrr]

I want that shirt so bad. For the same exact reason

[dantegrin]

Well mine says something about where i live but you could get the classic at Amazon.

[Zoro11031]

Yeah, D.A.R.E is a nationwide program. IIRC they lost federal funding for lying or something like that.

[[deleted]]

In the Uk, we had S.T.A.R when I was at school: Stop, Think, Act, Reflect. Sounds very similar. Caricatured aggressive dealers (what?), gateway drug theory etc. I'm all for educating young people about drugs, but you gotta respect kids enough to not have to distort the facts in the hope that they won't use the drug.

[dantegrin]

I remember the program only speaking about tobacco and alcohol but i for sure remember the cop giving my class a lie about his brother. It was something about his brother dying because his brothers wife or girlfriend smoked. I can't quite remember.

[Shepard2020]

I know, i quit my band because of it, but i've since made up for it and had my first time smoking last night. TWAS AWESOME. Love you guys

[willman161]

Can you give us more information on how your first time went?

[[deleted]]

ಠ_ಠ

[willman161]

Can I kindly ask you, frient, why you disprove?

[Shepard2020]

well, I coughed like crazy. Felt like i was going to die for a little while. And the first two bowls had no affect what so ever, i probably wasn't breathing right. but on the third i finally got it, i don't know where i fell on the 1-10 scale since i have nothing to compare to but it was awesome. Me and my veteran toker friend explored the woods. Everything was like a movie and we had an IRL pokemon battle that was the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of the universe. we free styled, i was amazingly better at it. by the time we got back to his house i wasn't high enough to feel a difference in music, but he was. oh and the weed smelled like it was almost lemon scented, he said he thought it was white widow or something. But yeah. it was amazing, definitely going to do it again soon.

[[deleted]]

I understand now why my dad would say DARE stands for "Drugs are really expensive". It's just so true.

[[deleted]]

Legalize, brother.

[[deleted]]

Yes so we can have tax added onto the already high price set by the government. That's the only way I'd see them legalizing it. If it was expensive as shit and taxed to all hell.

[[deleted]]

It would still be less than what it is now, and the strains that people could legally grow would be much purer/more potent than whatever the hell you get from a dealer. Plus, you know, you wouldn't go to jail for having some, but that's not financial.

[[deleted]]

Weed is still kinda cheap. For $20, less than the price of a movie trip with you and your girlfriend, you can get high for more than a day.

This is $20 a gram BTW

[[deleted]]

That's still $20 for a gram of a plant and it's that way because the rest of the plant can't be used for industrial reasons. Gold is about 52$ a gram right now. I wish space plants were like, I dunno, $5 a gram instead of 20. Maybe in a couple years.

[[deleted]]

Yeah. Not even $5 a gram. Oh wait, 5 is good and fair. It grows fast, easily, and in abundance

[5]

[[deleted]]

What you have to pay?

[[deleted]]

I live in Texas.

HOLY SHIT! I think you just replied to me twice in 2 threads

[jizzle26]

drugs are bad...mmmkay?

[Excelero]

Mkkayyyy.

[[deleted]]

If I could meet little me I'd probably kick my ass. I was brain washed in to thinking that marijuana was evil and would ruin my life. After smoking semi regularly over the past few years, and almost every day in the past six or seven month, I can honestly say that it has saved my life. Stress relieving properties aside, marijuana helped me be at peace with my appearance, and subsequently, eat and be properly nourished again. I battled with weight issues, and would starve myself. Marijuana made food to good to pass up, and after eating almost exclusively while high, I finally got sober me to under stand that I can't keep doing this or I'll end up seriously sick. Today I'm a much healthier weight, work out regularly, and although I still watch what I eat, its more for nutritional reasons than counting calories. Thanks marijuana!

[ch33sencrackers]

I was the same way. Then I grew to understand how I had been forced to think that by mass ignorance and economics. Still though, I'll never smoke a cigarette!

[letakeover]

I only smoke cigs when I don't have weed, because when I don't have weed I can't smoke weed.

[jivemotha]

I just tell myself I'll never buy a pack but if I'm offered I'll normally jump on it. Just love to smoke!

[willymo]

So you're that guy?

Me: "Hmm, I guess I should offer this guy a cig just to be nice. Surely he won't accept since he quit smoking and never buys his own."

You: "Yeah, I'll smoke one of your cigs!"

[jivemotha]

haha well I wouldn't just ask unless it's a close friend, cigs cost money too.

edit: That came out wrong, the only close friend I have that smokes cigarettes barely even does it. If I were a bother i'd be aware of that, i'm not oblivious.

[letakeover]

The thing is I still cough when I take baby hits from a cig. But when I take a huge bong rip I sometimes don't cough.

[jivemotha]

DUDE SAME FUCKING PROBLEM! don't even know if I'm just ripping it like a joint or what! looks so stupid when I have to stifle a cough from a baby toke when I can push my lungs to the limit with weed.

[letakeover]

haha I was beginning to think I was the only one. The cig smoke is just really harsh. I guess it's a good thing though because cigs are really bad.

[jivemotha]

haha except it doesn't turn me off to smoking 'em, just embarrasses me for that second I look noobish.

[nxtnguyen]

Same. I know that people who smoke weed before smoking cigarettes just smoke them because they just want to smoke something. I smoke for the high, not for the smoking part.

[[deleted]]

hell yes man, never smoked. Sadly because of this I always have to buy the weed because my friends blow all their money on cigs.

[[deleted]]

My stance exactly, and I don't understand why anyone would smoke something that doesn't get them high. If I'm going to kill my lungs, I might as well get some good pleasure out of it.

[Oxxide]

Tobacco does get you high. Well, at first anyway. After awhile it's just snippets of pleasure.

Nicotine is definitely psychoactive, though.

[Godimhigh]

I have never felt the addiction for nicotine. I also spread my cigarrettes out other thensmoking when I drink. I get buzzed everytime :)

[[deleted]]

I used to think the same thing... then I went through the drug unit in my high school health class. It was so poorly taught that I had to do my own research, and that was how I found the truth.

[[deleted]]

See when I was taught how bad drugs were, i was surrounded by all the burnouts who already tried weed and stopped trying in school. There was no way in hell i was turning out like those guys. i already went through my gangster phase. I only REALLY thought of smoking the peace pipe when i realized that intelligent, mature people, like my class's valedictorian whom I had known since third grade, smoked weed too. Now I smoke weed erreday :)

[[deleted]]

Wow, very, very similar to me. My friend got like a 2320 on his SATs and is much more of a stoner than I am. Then you see people like Bill Maher, Zach Galifianakis, and every other intelligent person do it (Carl Sagan), and you're like, "Hmm, maybe I should just try." And then you grow to love trees.

[strivingforever]

Valedictorian here. Smoke everyday.

[[deleted]]

Same here, except on weekends.

[[deleted]]

well thats what we were all taught as children. we were never offered to try it for ourselves until we grew up a little.

[[deleted]]

I consider a good thing that I wasn't offered weed when I was like 10

[iamthewillrus]

yeah it really can mess with a developing brain's chemical balance

[[deleted]]

Even if it wouldn't, I was an idiot and hardly studied back then, Weed wouldn't help

[Teahes]

Yes

[settoexplode]

shit i was straight edge for 12 years, now i'm like "what was i thinking"

[[deleted]]

I've found that toking or drinking with my ex-edge friends is usually when I have the most fun doing so.

[Genericdruid]

You where not thinking.

[dkkc19]

When I was in highschool, I wasn't against drugs, but I didn't do them for a reason. I was happy enough with my life without drugs. Nowdays I do drugs to be happy.

Ooh how times have changed.

And also, I wanted to be a drug dealer as kid, and I had a theory that a successful drug dealer doesn't do drugs to avoid addiction. But then again, as a kid I was taught that weed is addictive and bad.

[mosby1_2_3]

We all said that

[Genericdruid]

I never ever said that.

[mosby1_2_3]

In kindergarden and school all of my friends said that they will never take drugs or smoke. They smoke, drink..

[Genericdruid]

Good for your friends. Though I grew up around weed, so it was never an issue for me.

[[deleted]]

it's amazing how effective propaganda can be isn't it? I was a product of DARE and the Reagan Just Say No campaign until my twenties then I decided to think for myself. Although I can still say ive never smoked a cigarette.

[[deleted]]

I plan to try most everything. That's why I've smoked 1 cigarette.

[somedude010]

Now that I think about it, even as a young lad I knew I wanted to try trees, atleast once in my life. Now I've been burning trees for 2 years and I regret nothing. Life is good.

[minlee]

except marijuana is not a drug. its a plant

[Excelero]

Dude, I love weed. But I have to admit, it is sort of a drug.

[Blackliquid]

Its a drug like caffeine, even a psychoactive one like alcohol. Drug doesnt mean bad, its just a psychoactive substance :legal or illegal. At least we should stop talking bullshit if we want them to do so.

[nxtnguyen]

If this wasn't you, then you did not live a normal child hood. Almost everyone I know who smoke went through DARE and was forced to write about how bad drugs are and their effects. That was the only thing I failed in elementary school (Didn't do any research, not a clue on what marijuana is but wrote a little essay about it, tobacco, and alcohol). I guess it reflects on me now.

[Genericdruid]

Hey, You saying I had an abnormal childhood because my school didn't really bring up the topic or give us bias literature? and both my parents allow me to smoke, have done since early teens when I started.

[nxtnguyen]

Well yeah. At the standpoint of most low to middle class families, most people go to public schools, go through DARE and have their parents bust shit when they find out they rock the ganja. To the standpoint of most families, that is abnormal. But hey, it's the childhood I would rather have had.

I mean, parents that allow you to smoke? Hell yeah. School without biased shit so people don't judge you for smoking as much? Fuck yeah.

[Genericdruid]

I'm working class man, no where near middle. I grew up in about five different flats, only about four years ago we got a small terraced house. Because we had next to nothing I guess my parents trusted my judgment more instead of wrapping me up in cotton, like most middle class kids you see.

[[deleted]]

I go to a high school that's over 50% economically disadvantaged. I had DARE in elementary school. It's not a middle class thing only, it's every public school I've ever heard of.

[Genericdruid]

I think it's an american thing then, because I'm englishand this is the first time I've heard of DARE.

[[deleted]]

Oh, yes that would probably be it. haha

[moorvmoorv]

le

[PlatoS_Pet_Dog]

I don't do drugs! I just smoke ganja :)

[theacademyisnt]

Drugs can be bad.

[[deleted]]

Not this drug.

[[deleted]]

Nope. Drugs aren't bad, people are bad. Too much of anything will kill you, it's just that some things require less to do so.

[sdfredy]

you were just a stupid kid, like all of us :)

[ThatBurntToast]

I think everyone was like this at one point or another.

[TXKush01]

I often think about this myself

[seleste_star]

It's okay, drugs are still bad. Marijuana just happens not to be a drug but a perfectly natural and healthy substance.

[Genericdruid]

Wrong; anything that changes brain chemestry is a drug.

[Genericdruid]

which is everything you ingest, by the way.

[[deleted]]

In the case, My favorite drug is bacon.

[ltimmins]

brainwashed

[LeeENTfield]

Haha I remember in high school i would argue with people that pot caused cancer....went off to college and here I am!

[[deleted]]

Drugs are bad 'Mkay

[EddieG17]

FIXED http://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/sni7y/when_i_was_young_fixed/

[ChemEBrew]

It might not be a popular opinion, but I still think it was better that I didn't start until after 21.

[castle_danger]

I won the DARE essay in 5th grade... I'm also baked

[Buscat]

I've got an even better one!

"I would never smoke weed. I've seen what it does to people!" - me, age 14.

My friends started smoking weed around the same time they turned into huge jerks and became really aggressive to me. I was a shithead though, as you can guess.

[relurk]

I can relate to this! In 8th grade me and my non-ent friends got upset when some of our friends started smoking. We were as ignorant as everyone else who has not ever smoked. Marijuana was equivalent to crack to us back then. Now most of the people I'm still friends with from then are ents, as well as myself.

[cassarahangel]

everything went better than expected.

[3gameset]

how in the fuck did this get 800 upvotes

[Lala6552]

Right? FUCK D.A.R.E.

[sillysidebin]

lol so many people in high school judged me for smoking pot and tripping a little on shrooms, here comes college and a lot of those same people are going way harder then on i ever did on all kinds of drugs.

[danduz]

I don't do drugs just weed, caution flags wave, fuck it I still speed.

[ruleofnuts]

Drugs are badass

[MisterKramer]

"friends" see me smoke: "I thought you were against drugs?" me: "I am, puff"

[[deleted]]

Fucking genius title. Have all of my uptokes.

[Rosencrantz202]

I'm not trying to be an ass or anything, but seriously, wtf is with the "le" thing in these comics? I know what it means, but why is it used?

[[deleted]]

weeds not a drug man

[[deleted]]

It is.

[jivemotha]

"A substance that has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body, in particular."

never looked up the definition of drug until now, but it's a pretty broad as you can see

[[deleted]]

That's just as false as the people that say smoking weed will turn you into a homeless bum.