How surprised would the 12 year old you be discover that the adult you "loves the pretty flowers"?

The young me back in 1986 would never have guessed that the adult me would get so much joy from growing cannabis so I could harvest its beautiful flowers.

 

I was very into baseball and other sports when I was 12 and had just quit playing with toys and had recently developed an interest in the ladies. When my mother forced me to help her in the garden I hated every minute of it. Now I love gardening and I grow other fruits and vegetables in my greenhouse, other than the "pretty flowers", I would honestly say I am the proudest of my tomatoes as in my experience growing perfect tomatoes is more difficult than growing and curing amazing weed, especially indoors.

 

How old are you guys? I was born in 74 so I grew up in the 70's and 80's and I grew up in Iowa were weed is still not legal and the majority of Iowans are still opposed to legalization to this day, but while most Iowans are opposed to weed being legal have never really seemed to give two shits about who smokes it since I started smoking it in the mid-90's. The police never seemed interested in busting anyone for weed back in the 90's they had billboards saying "We don't meth around" as the Midwest was plagued with meth labs at the time, and still is till this day. That is why I thought cannabis would have been legalized by now in the Midwest. I am shocked that not one state in the Midwest has legalized as of now, though Illinois is moving in that direction and I'm sure when IL pulls the trigger Iowa, WI, and MN won't be far behind.

 

So you were born between January 3rd 1959 when Alaska became a state and August 20th 1959 when Hawaii became a state I take it.

 

My mom was born in 1953 and my dad was born in 1949. The funny thing is I was just talking to my mom on the phone and she said the same thing that there were 49 states when she was born. I'm sure they made a big to-do about adding the states on t.v. and radio at the time but at just 2 in your case and age 6 in my mom's case, I doubt either of you gave two shits at the young age. That would be like expecting me to remember Elvis dying on the shitter in 1977. About all, I remember from the 1970's is watching Scooby Doo. LOL

 

You are old enough to buy weed and booze. That is all that really matters IMO.

 

I didn't have internet access until 1995 when I was 20 years but since I've been using it for around 24 years now I am quite dependant on it to the point it teeters on being an addiction. The 2 days I had to wait to have internet hooked up here when I moved here in April was hell for. My folks just moved so they will be without high-speed internet for 3 more days and I just asked my mom if she missed it and she said: "no, not really" but they just got high-speed internet around ten years ago so while she uses at all the time too the fact that she lived 55 years of her life without means she is much less dependant on it. It is even harder on most of the kids born in the 1990's to go without internet as they've had it for all of their lives.
What really blows my mind is thinking about how in 15 years or so the first kids will grow up in Colorado and Washington will have lived their entire lives where cannabis was legal. To them, it will seem as weird that weed was once outlawed as thinking about how alcohol was illegal during prohibition seems weird to us.

 

My dad used to smoke the weed his dad grew in his basement and watch Scooby Doo with us when he was good and stoned.