What got you into the wonderful world of cannabis? - Women's Forum - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums

mscorpsey · 01-22-2010, 03:16 AM

I love marijuana and everything it provides, but I wasn't always this way and neither are most of the other women of the world (according to polls).

Can you remember what made you gal pals with mary jane?

hippie_lettuce · 01-22-2010, 03:20 AM

Hm, my first serious boyfriend turned me on to cannabis. It wasn't a memorable experience at first, and I think I gradually became accustomed to it. I wasn't even interested in growing until a year ago. Now I'm more crazy about growing than about smoking!

mscorpsey · 01-22-2010, 03:57 AM

Same with me, hippie! The first time I smoked was with my first serious boyfriend and a group of friends (on a hookah) and I tape recorded the whole thing because I had no idea what to expect, haha.

But you are right, once you grow it, that's it, you're in love forever.

bish · 01-25-2010, 12:16 AM

1) Hepatitis C and Washington State voters.

8>)

2) Sick friends

3) I love hydrooooooooooooooh oh oh

B. Friendly · 01-25-2010, 12:21 AM

11 car accidents later one head on with a semi-truck that i walked away from after our vehicle was sent 50 feet in the opposite direction we were heading.
I developed fibroymalgia, huge blessing disguise. Now I can legally grow here in Canada. Setting up a Dispensary in May, no I will not be charging outrageous prices!!
So thank you Health Canada, do not worry America your fed's will fold soon.
Barack Obama you da man

daydreamer · 01-27-2010, 08:04 PM

started smoking as college freshman back in mid 60's. that's right, I'm an aging hippie. I had already eaten peyote in high school, and peyote was actually legal then. I guess my inclination is that I want to experience stuff for myself. forbidden fruit is very enticing :8

Open Eyes · 01-27-2010, 08:19 PM

I started smoking when i was 16 years old in High School in the middle 80's. I was a foreigner and cannabis was not widely used in my former culture. Alcohol and Tobacco on the other hand were readily available and i saw what that will did to people and had no will to go down that road.

One thing about education rather than prohibition of a substance is that it works when it is embraced. I still remember seeing a documentary in school when i was 8 or 9 of somebody going through the different stages of alcoholism from start to finish and this put me off of drinking for a long time. I do not think that american schools would show anything like that but i think it would do them some good.

01-27-2010, 08:45 PM

3 strokes and MS diagnosis...@age 22

muA

ToughGirl · 01-27-2010, 09:03 PM

I smoked and grew quite a bit when I was in HS, but was more fond of growing and selling back then to pay bills (moved out of my parents house at 15). Then I was in the military for quite a few years and couldn't smoke, which ended after I was in a bad car accident and sustained a serious spinal injury and left the service. Afterward I was paralyzed from the waist down for about a year and a half or so. I started smoking again basically just to sleep, pills and injectable pain killers made me sick to my stomach. Anyway, I got very bored just staring at the ceiling for so long, seasons started passing me by. I would watch the sun come up and go down, day after day, month after month. My once extremely athletic body started to atrophy and I started to give up on life and just wanted to die.

I started thinking, 'what can I do that doesn't involve major labor?' just to keep myself occupied. I had a ton of fluorescent lights and a huge empty room, plus pots and nutrients (having been a plant enthusiast for many years). I figured 'what the hell?' and threw a few seeds in some small pots. My first crop was a success on so many levels, it gave me hope and purpose. I crawled to my growroom several times a day, and eventually started walking again. I pushed and pushed myself to do better and grow more, even though I had 10x more than I could smoke. It was the only escape I had from either laying on my back, or physical therapy. My old commanding officer is one of my best friends to this day, he bought me my first HPS lamp for my birthday.

Eventually I started installing shelves and better lights, timers, water reservoirs, etc. I became legal the minute I asked my doctor about it (well not the minute, but the paperwork started rolling that day), since he was concerned that vomiting from pain killers wasn't helping my back very much. All that was years ago, I then enrolled in a community college and started taking horticulture classes at night, which eventually led to me opening a business working with plants full time.

In short, growing MJ saved my life in a way. Without it I would've blown my head off, no question about it. So many people view mj as negative, but those people have never met me. I am a prime example of when MMJ and cultivation can be a positive.

01-27-2010, 09:55 PM

Wow, tough girl very inspiring story. You should write a book. Seriously, I'm not trying to be a smart ass.

I started smoking when I was 12. I was already a black out alcoholic at that point. (Had some childhood trauma I'm still trying to forget.) The first time I smoked I didn't feel anything. So the second time I smoke I got wasted cus I thought I could smoke all I want. I knew at that moment that I would never need to drink again. I've always seemed to be in weed since then, through boyfriends or friends.
My husband and I love to smoke. It started getting too expensive to buy it so we started growing. I can honestly say that my husband grows better weed than I have ever gotten before.
When I started smoking I said I would smoke til I die, and now that we grow I can honestly say I will grow til I die.

01-22-2010, 03:16 AM	#1
mscorpsey New Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 23	What got you into the wonderful world of cannabis? I love marijuana and everything it provides, but I wasn't always this way and neither are most of the other women of the world (according to polls). Can you remember what made you gal pals with mary jane?
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01-22-2010, 03:20 AM	#2
hippie_lettuce Garden Nymph Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,746	Hm, my first serious boyfriend turned me on to cannabis. It wasn't a memorable experience at first, and I think I gradually became accustomed to it. I wasn't even interested in growing until a year ago. Now I'm more crazy about growing than about smoking! __________________ Categorizing Cannabis Smoke/Effects Peat's Sour Rhino
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01-22-2010, 03:57 AM	#3
mscorpsey New Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 23	Same with me, hippie! The first time I smoked was with my first serious boyfriend and a group of friends (on a hookah) and I tape recorded the whole thing because I had no idea what to expect, haha. But you are right, once you grow it, that's it, you're in love forever.
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01-25-2010, 12:16 AM	#4
bish Newbie Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 7	1) Hepatitis C and Washington State voters. 8>) 2) Sick friends 3) I love hydrooooooooooooooh oh oh
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B. Friendly "IBIUBU" Sayeith the Dude Join Date: May 2009 Location: dudeism.com Posts: 3,848	11 car accidents later one head on with a semi-truck that i walked away from after our vehicle was sent 50 feet in the opposite direction we were heading. I developed fibroymalgia, huge blessing disguise. Now I can legally grow here in Canada. Setting up a Dispensary in May, no I will not be charging outrageous prices!! So thank you Health Canada, do not worry America your fed's will fold soon. Barack Obama you da man __________________ Puff and "B.Friendly" "It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under" When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. Thomas Clarkson "The world runs on the initiative of about 5% of the people; the rest need orders. The consensus of the other 95% on the subject of one's relatonship with: government-banks-tax agencies-courts and corporations (all separate realms) is defective in that such inert abstractions have been accorded superiority over living beings. Governments are transitory mental contrivances set up by the clever few for the purpose of living off the efforts of the trusting many - a generalization, yes, but also the TRUTH." Cracking the Code, 3rd edition
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01-27-2010, 08:04 PM	#6
daydreamer Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: planet earth Posts: 143	started smoking as college freshman back in mid 60's. that's right, I'm an aging hippie. I had already eaten peyote in high school, and peyote was actually legal then. I guess my inclination is that I want to experience stuff for myself. forbidden fruit is very enticing :8 __________________ Be Here Now!
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01-27-2010, 08:19 PM	#7
Open Eyes Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 225	I started smoking when i was 16 years old in High School in the middle 80's. I was a foreigner and cannabis was not widely used in my former culture. Alcohol and Tobacco on the other hand were readily available and i saw what that will did to people and had no will to go down that road. One thing about education rather than prohibition of a substance is that it works when it is embraced. I still remember seeing a documentary in school when i was 8 or 9 of somebody going through the different stages of alcoholism from start to finish and this put me off of drinking for a long time. I do not think that american schools would show anything like that but i think it would do them some good.
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01-27-2010, 08:45 PM	#8
medi-useA Guest Posts: n/a	3 strokes and MS diagnosis...@age 22 muA
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01-27-2010, 09:03 PM	#9
ToughGirl Playing with fire... Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: zz9 plural z Alpha, Terra MW. Posts: 399	I smoked and grew quite a bit when I was in HS, but was more fond of growing and selling back then to pay bills (moved out of my parents house at 15). Then I was in the military for quite a few years and couldn't smoke, which ended after I was in a bad car accident and sustained a serious spinal injury and left the service. Afterward I was paralyzed from the waist down for about a year and a half or so. I started smoking again basically just to sleep, pills and injectable pain killers made me sick to my stomach. Anyway, I got very bored just staring at the ceiling for so long, seasons started passing me by. I would watch the sun come up and go down, day after day, month after month. My once extremely athletic body started to atrophy and I started to give up on life and just wanted to die. I started thinking, 'what can I do that doesn't involve major labor?' just to keep myself occupied. I had a ton of fluorescent lights and a huge empty room, plus pots and nutrients (having been a plant enthusiast for many years). I figured 'what the hell?' and threw a few seeds in some small pots. My first crop was a success on so many levels, it gave me hope and purpose. I crawled to my growroom several times a day, and eventually started walking again. I pushed and pushed myself to do better and grow more, even though I had 10x more than I could smoke. It was the only escape I had from either laying on my back, or physical therapy. My old commanding officer is one of my best friends to this day, he bought me my first HPS lamp for my birthday. Eventually I started installing shelves and better lights, timers, water reservoirs, etc. I became legal the minute I asked my doctor about it (well not the minute, but the paperwork started rolling that day), since he was concerned that vomiting from pain killers wasn't helping my back very much. All that was years ago, I then enrolled in a community college and started taking horticulture classes at night, which eventually led to me opening a business working with plants full time. In short, growing MJ saved my life in a way. Without it I would've blown my head off, no question about it. So many people view mj as negative, but those people have never met me. I am a prime example of when MMJ and cultivation can be a positive.
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01-27-2010, 09:55 PM	#10
MrsGuest Guest Posts: n/a	Wow, tough girl very inspiring story. You should write a book. Seriously, I'm not trying to be a smart ass. I started smoking when I was 12. I was already a black out alcoholic at that point. (Had some childhood trauma I'm still trying to forget.) The first time I smoked I didn't feel anything. So the second time I smoke I got wasted cus I thought I could smoke all I want. I knew at that moment that I would never need to drink again. I've always seemed to be in weed since then, through boyfriends or friends. My husband and I love to smoke. It started getting too expensive to buy it so we started growing. I can honestly say that my husband grows better weed than I have ever gotten before. When I started smoking I said I would smoke til I die, and now that we grow I can honestly say I will grow til I die.
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