If any of you are familiar with the PBS travel show host, Rick Steves... (Reply #25)

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Mon May 13, 2019, 04:55 PM

llmart (8,689 posts)

25. If any of you are familiar with the PBS travel show host, Rick Steves...

He is a huge proponent of marijuana. He has traveled all over the world and been in countries where it's legal and used as regularly as Americans use alcohol. I believe it was in a NY Times magazine where I read an interview with him that just blew me away. I think he uses quite regularly. He has such a squeaky clean reputation and appearance which makes it all the more delightful to know that he's a toker.

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47 replies	Author	Time	Post
On Smoking Weed in the Late 60s and 70s [View all]	MineralMan	May 2019	OP
White privilege	Cartoonist	May 2019	#1
Never smoked in the car.	MineralMan	May 2019	#2
Well I was a criminal defense attorney attorney	Solomon	May 2019	#41
My best friend's brother was white.	cwydro	May 2019	#13
white privilidge was my first thought about this memory too.	TeamPooka	May 2019	#38
I knew plenty of people who were busted in OK	Runningdawg	May 2019	#3
I wasn't in OK. I don't think I would have smoked it there.	MineralMan	May 2019	#4
Having lived there a few years as a kid	Codeine	May 2019	#6
hubby and i went there 10 yrs straight to chse storms. now i wont put plug nickle into their economy	samnsara	May 2019	#17
I tried it a few time.	MicaelS	May 2019	#5
Some good friends of mine grew it	FakeNoose	May 2019	#7
Once, my then wife and I visited her brother and sister-in-law	MineralMan	May 2019	#10
Great story - you lucked out	FakeNoose	May 2019	#15
ROFL	malaise	May 2019	#24
Paperwork hating Peace Officers then Cash Cow SWAT/DEA with Canine backup now.	IADEMO2004	May 2019	#8
I am 75. I started smoking hashish in 1965 in Turkey.	Cold War Spook	May 2019	#9
Yes, indeed. I was in Turkey in 1967-68.	MineralMan	May 2019	#11
I know where you were.	Cold War Spook	May 2019	#14
Don't recognize that.	MineralMan	May 2019	#29
Army Security Base, you can look it up there.	Cold War Spook	May 2019	#35
That 1970s movie Midnight Express made it look like hashish use	Submariner	May 2019	#28
Not in 67/68, unless you tried taking it out of the country.	MineralMan	May 2019	#31
No problem if you know a girl there about 16	Cold War Spook	May 2019	#37
Mr Lake got busted in 1972 for aiding and abetting.	LakeArenal	May 2019	#12
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
We got high to Raise Our Consciousness then.	Basic LA	May 2019	#19
I still smoke when I can get it.	leftyladyfrommo	May 2019	#20
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
If any of you are familiar with the PBS travel show host, Rick Steves...	llmart	May 2019	#25
He is a huge -- and very vocal -- lefttie!	obamanut2012	May 2019	#32
I never have found a drug that makes me "happy."	hunter	May 2019	#26
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
What are you trying to say here, MM?	ms liberty	May 2019	#33
Just what I said.	MineralMan	May 2019	#36
What you said was this:	Voltaire2	May 2019	#39
"Why would you want to do that? "	melman	May 2019	#42
Indeed. But perhaps the op could make that clear.	Voltaire2	May 2019	#44
Yes that would be nice	melman	May 2019	#47
I wish Texas would legalize weed. What's wrong with our Gooberment?	walkingman	May 2019	#34
I felt like I should like it, but didn't. It made me either paranoid or sleepy.	kwassa	May 2019	#40
"nobody I knew ever got busted for it"	melman	May 2019	#43
"Daily thoughts from Mineral Man"	maxsolomon	May 2019	#45
I never ate shrooms, but now they are legal	ProudLib72	May 2019	#46

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