Weed Code

[Pigment]

I'm the type of guy who likes to make rules to govern my own life, moral codes and how to do things right. I always feel like a tool when I try to explain to other people and new smokers how smoking weed idealy should follow some no-nonsense rules. I feel like a tool primarily because my rules may not be true to others in the longrun, and that they are MY rules and shouldn't govern others in the same way.

I'll break down my code, the one I tell new smokers and those who insists people smoking pot are all stoners likely to fail at life. These seem obvious, but you'd be suprised how most people break them:

1 - Weed is never more important the Family, Friends, Jobs, and your education. When it becomes more important then any of these, your life is likely to suffer. Weed doesn't love you like a family, smoking isn't as fun without friends, you can't afford weed without a job, and you can't better your smoking situation without an education.

2 - Don't smoke when there is important shit to be done. This is similar to #2, but deserves a rule of its own to magnify the point. I know quite a few people who smoke during school, before work, and are high during other important shit. I don't deny smoking is great, but how is it better when shit is expected of you? Ideally when your getting high you don't want people on your back about stuff, you want to be in a relaxed enviroment sutiable for smoking.

3 - Never, ever buy weed over essentials. Essentials are bills that need to be payed, debts, and simple things like groceries. If you don't have the money to pay these things, you don't have the money to buy smoke.

4 - Weed is not an essential part of your life. When you seek to define yourself by ANY object you are controlled by it, to lesser extents you could call this addiction. I don't define myself by my car, and I certainly don't NEED it, but it is useful to many things in my life. Thats how weed should be, useful. The moment you NEED pot is the moment your addicted.

5 - Don't be a fucking fool, if your going to defend pot to people research what your talking about. Don't say "Pot is good/bad" unless you can defend it with factual evidence. If you can't argue your side you give the cause a bad name.

6 - Stay in shape and exercise. Weed smoke doesn't affect us to the degree tobacco does (you smoke more tobacco then weed usually), but it still gives us problems. Those problems are some of the core subjects to anti-MJ arguement. If we can collectively stay in great shape AND smoke weed we can feel better physically, but also we can give less of a sharp edge to anti-MJ sentiments.


7 - This rule is a summation of all of them. Don't be the stereotypical stoner every anti-MJ makes us out to be. Progress your life while smoking, or stop smoking. If you want MJ legalized you need to show people it is usuable in a funtionable life. Go to school and ace tests, do your job so well that your bosses recognize your skills. How can anyone down pot if they see you doing better then those who don't use?



So how are these? I don't want people to think this is the only way, just what works for me. I can't help but tell others though, but I recognize it could be wrong, so thats where you guys come in. Feedback.

[igotammo]

its 2 early 2 read all of it but i agree that weed should be used as a reward for doing good.."weed should be in your life..not your life"

[tea.mochi]

Thats lovely! When I get my own house I'm gonna print that off and make a nice cool scroll of it and post it in our chill room.
Tho I'm curious, what does this mean for growers exactly? I mean your list seems to cover smokers, but what does it mean for growers? I'm not a grower tho so I have NO idea how the life of one is, so I don't know uh.... fuck its too early for this. XP

[tea.mochi]

I'm wondering if theres a way to shorten the rules? Like, you know how theres the 10 commandments and theres the long and short versions of each commandment? (At least thats how it seems.)
That would be cool, "The Stoner's 10 Commandments"... they probably have that already.

[Cali Ounces]

about your rule number two. . .


i understand they are your rules, so you have your own reasons for them.

yet ive been to my current job high about 80 percent of the time, and ive gotten moved up two positions in about 5 weeks.

doesnt mean i always go to work high, but in my case having to deal with customers all day being stoned helps me remain collected

[Pigment]

Originally Posted by teamochi

Thats lovely! When I get my own house I'm gonna print that off and make a nice cool scroll of it and post it in our chill room.
Tho I'm curious, what does this mean for growers exactly? I mean your list seems to cover smokers, but what does it mean for growers? I'm not a grower tho so I have NO idea how the life of one is, so I don't know uh.... fuck its too early for this. XP

I can't justify growing to anybody. I'm starting to grow myself though, so it's somewhat hypocritical. Growing weed can't be classified under recreational use simple because most people grow to sell and when your growing any amount it usually means you've gone beyond a recreational level.

I can't justify growing because it multiplies the chance of you getting charged by quite a bit. If your charged on pocession of a smokable amount of pot, your not going to get the sentence as say...a person with 7 mason jars full and a hydo farm taking up two rooms. The difference is whether you keep your kids or not.

Growing on a hidable scale is ok I guess, large farming should be left to those who understand the consequences of them getting caught.

[beamish]

great list.

[SD_rOLLIN]

i live by this one also --

1 - Weed is never more important the Family, Friends, Jobs, and your education. When it becomes more important then any of these, your life is likely to suffer. Weed doesn't love you like a family, smoking isn't as fun without friends, you can't afford weed without a job, and you can't better your smoking situation without an education.

[Pigment]

Originally Posted by Cali Ounces

about your rule number two. . .


i understand they are your rules, so you have your own reasons for them.

yet ive been to my current job high about 80 percent of the time, and ive gotten moved up two positions in about 5 weeks.

doesnt mean i always go to work high, but in my case having to deal with customers all day being stoned helps me remain collected

I understand, and i'm glad it's working out for you, your a good example of an exception to the rule. Rules are usually very broad so they never cover all instances, just most.

Reason, logic, and examples gives enough evidence to say you and a few others (espeacially in a weed forum) are an exception. I've seen to many lives, jobs and educations flushed down the toilet from over use of pot. However, these people are seperate people, and had many other things in their life that could of aided this downfall.

What these rules seek to do is to guide, they aren't concrete rules. If you can follow them reasonable then I believe you can better yourself. If rule #2 doesn't apply to you thats fine, but its something that should be kept in the mind of less-moderate new smokers.

[rssnstyle89]

NO offence, but do you have OCD? I like to live my life in the present moment, and i make decisions within seven breaths. I dont look to any code for reference.

But i DO agree that when people make these things a habit, they are setting themselves up for trouble in one way or another.

This might be sticky worthy, there are a lot of stoners who .... i would hate to say dumb... so i wont... what i meant is uneducated, therefore unpragmatic. And i believe pragmatism is a virtue.

Great list, but not for me, I keep my life in check anyway.

propz tho

[Pigment]

All rules used to be 'seven breathes', until they are brought to a majority of people.

I too live my life by the moment, but I can't deny that I live them without method. For instance, getting into my car and starting it up, with out being taught or learning through trail/error (a method itself) the steps to doing this, I'd be lost. Everything is learned through reference, what you learned to say in your reply was learned through similiar methods.

Most people are lost, espeacially those new smokers prone to immoderation to the point of stupidity. These rules are broad ideas that can help any smoker develop their own, even if its just a simple thought to keep yourself in check.

[GanjaSmokinKing]

By these rules I guess I'm a full blown weed addict. Sweet.

[Calismoker14]

I break like every one of these rules...

[tea.mochi]

Originally Posted by Pigment

I can't justify growing to anybody. I'm starting to grow myself though, so it's somewhat hypocritical. Growing weed can't be classified under recreational use simple because most people grow to sell and when your growing any amount it usually means you've gone beyond a recreational level.

I can't justify growing because it multiplies the chance of you getting charged by quite a bit. If your charged on pocession of a smokable amount of pot, your not going to get the sentence as say...a person with 7 mason jars full and a hydo farm taking up two rooms. The difference is whether you keep your kids or not.

Growing on a hidable scale is ok I guess, large farming should be left to those who understand the consequences of them getting caught.

Makes sense.
Yeah I don't grow myself, but I want to real bad, I figure it can wait until I have all the supplies and a good place to grow it (like a basement or an attic). OR if I just get an awesome apartment and my growbox has that filter to take away the smell and theres practically no risk of them finding out cause they wouldn't go into the room its in. (they refers to anyone I don't want to know.)

But yeah, I hear what you're saying. (just realized that if I clear out the clutter in our storage room and set up a growbox in there with a filter....)

[coolrunnings]

I really liked this list. Basically the rules i live by, with the exception of going to one class high. It just worked out better and its hard to explain but i would go to this class high and take notes like it was my last day on earth. Aced the final and wrote an excellent final paper (sober). Thats the only exception though. Great write!