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25. If any of you are familiar with the PBS travel show host, Rick Steves...
Mon May 13, 2019, 05:55 PM
May 2019

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.

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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