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In reply to the discussion: On Smoking Weed in the Late 60s and 70s [View all]Runningdawg
(4,488 posts)3. I knew plenty of people who were busted in OK
One couple picked up a dude who had wrecked his boat and was drowning in the middle of a lake. Lake patrol discovered he had a couple OZs on him. They arrested everyone. They took my friends car, truck, boat, house and seized all their bank accounts. Sure they were eventually cleared, after paying $$$$$ but by then the storage prices for their stuff was over a million dollars. And they never even got high....
I gotta tell you. I'm nearly 60 and just got my card. I usually carry a piece of candy in my purse for panic attacks and my asshole STILL puckers every time I see a cop.
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hubby and i went there 10 yrs straight to chse storms. now i wont put plug nickle into their economy
samnsara
May 2019
#17
Paperwork hating Peace Officers then Cash Cow SWAT/DEA with Canine backup now.
IADEMO2004
May 2019
#8
im almost as old as you are ( not quite but almost)..i still smoke it....its legal here..
samnsara
May 2019
#16
That matches the experience of places where it's been legal/decriminalised long ago
Ron Obvious
May 2019
#18
hmmmm... my 60's and 70's had lots of people getting busted and tossed in jail
Voltaire2
May 2019
#21
Until sometime in the 70s, a single seed in Texas could in theory get you life
struggle4progress
May 2019
#23
Yeah, I thought $10 an ounce for cheap mexican was fine; but $100 an ounce seemed ridiculous
struggle4progress
May 2019
#22
Your story kind of echoes mine. I kept smoking though until '78 when I moved from...
brush
May 2019
#27
I smoked pot in college in the late '60s, along with almost everyone else,
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2019
#30