A question for the *older* smokers...

[treehugger]

My situation is a bit strange, well to me it seems strange. Like many of the people here, I smoked weed in my late teens (well, 18) to my early 20s. BUT.....

Then I got into an apprenticeship training program and was very, very susceptible to drug testing. I'd have been thrown out of the program if I ever had any in my system...they were THAT strict.

So...here I am, 15 years later (gawd has it been that long already?) and just started smoking weed again because I'm no longer subject to drug testing... (what a loooong haul THAT was)... and of course I live in a different community now and no longer know the people I USED to smoke with...

Problem? I'm 37 and how the HECK do I find somebody to smoke with? Right now smoking is a strictly "alone" thing for me as I don't know anybody else as a good friend, who smokes. But, you know, smoking ganja is sort of a social thing.

I'm 37 and most of the people I know are my age or older. It's a little hard to just throw in a conversation..."hey do you smoke weed?"... I'm sure I'd get a bunch of looks, like, "damn, girl, haven't you grown up YET?"

But I wanna have some smoke buddies!!

How do you broach the subject as an *older* person?

[delta9]

Hahaha, I feel you. I'm similarily far from all my smoke buddies (and best friends) and I haven't smoked with anyone here that I enjoy smoking with, nor met all that many people ANYWAY. But it's all good. I have good friends that I can talk to on the phone :D

[toman]

I've always enjoyed smoking by myself as much or more than in social settings; but I hear you. I'm not even very old, and allready I don't kow many people who smoke anymore, especially the way I do. If anything it's an 'on the weekend' kind of thing, you know? The toughest thing for me is finding good herb to buy anymore; I don't have the 'connections' it seems like, even though I know it's all over the place around here I'm just not around the types of people who sell it these days. If anybody has a suggestion, pm me... I think we all know I'm not a narc by now... :)

[nappydread]

..hehehe...
yes i entirely agree with you guys... its seems as the older we grow, the connections get fewer and fewer, and the smoking buddies disperse to different places.... I dunno if its good or bad but people always judge me by the way i look so all the non-smokers follow this metality...
... "damn, ... haven't you grown up YET?"
...while all the smokers kinda introduce themselves to me and we make a social thing out of it. What is great though, is that smokers come in all shapes and sizes, different looks, different personalities, different ages. This is whats good about the social aspect of it.:)
As far as meeting people, i live in the city so many smokers can be found in the parks, some inner-city drum circles or at the local headshop.
I usually perfer to smoke alone though:)

peace

[PEACE FROG]

I still have a few years to go, till I can absolulely do what I want. I'm presently raising a child, and can't afford to be a slacker. I smoked for over 20 years and enjoyed it very much. I'm surprised you can still find such a thing after so long treehugger. I do go to places though where I can smell it on people my age, maybe someday I will just say"Hey wanna burn one?" :)