“Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff.” My dad used to say that to me all the time, whenever I got upset by something stupid. I know he stole the quote, but I don’t know from where so I always attribute it to him. As I got older I tried to remember […]
This country has a health care problem, and I mean that in the conceptual way. I mean that the way we think about health care is messed up, and the entire system is falling apart because of it. Let’s take a look at the word “medicinal” for a moment, and analyze what it means in […]
I am in a wistful frame of mind right now, so I wanted to share some of my most beloved memories involving pot. Thanks to COVID I lost my last job, which was a really great one. The company went out of business, so I had to find something new. Wouldn’t you know it, I […]
We have a few rules for movie night, something we do every other weekend. There are a group of 12 of us, and we all take turns hosting, but there are a few common rules that we all abide by. First, we only watched comedies or horror movies, no exceptions. Second, whoever hosts has to […]
The first time I tried my hand at growing weed was a total disaster. I think that has happened to many of us at one time, am I right? The only way to learn something is to try it, fail at it, and then try again. Repeat the process as often as you have to […]
Here is the main thing that the COVID crisis taught me — stress doesn’t go away, but you can learn to live with it. I think a lot of people are experiencing that right now. For years I stressed about money and bills every month, no matter how hard I worked. Then COVID closed my […]
Do you know how to do knife hits? Listen up and listen good, party people, because I want to teach you the single best way to get stoned. First of all, you need a pair of butter knives that you don’t mind getting ruined. After you smoke weed with them once, you won’t be able […]
Since it is called “weed” I assumed that it would be easy to grow. I put a few seeds into a bucket of dirt and stashed it in the attic, watering it every day and waiting for pot plants to burst forth and shower me with buds. Of course, none of those seeds sprouted at […]
You have seen this before in movies and TV time and again, it is one of the most commonly recognized cliches — a couple of idiot potheads watching stupid things on TV and laughing. Millions of people think that potheads are like Beavis and Butthead, and this drives me crazy! I am a highly driven […]
Of course, that means no one can ever bring their kids along, because it is wrong to smoke marijuana around children The success or failure of a movie night may not seem like a big deal, but to my friend group it is. We started our weekly movie night during the pandemic, because it was […]