just act normal: smoking in public

i am the very last person who wants to get caught and busted with weed... but part of the thrill of smoking, for me, is doing something im definitely not supposed to do.

that being said, i love to find ways to smoke right in public.

and i've found that it's almost easier to smoke in public than to smoke in hiding. when you're hiding, you're conspicuous, suspicious, bound to be cornered.

but in public, you're surrounded by people who instinctively have their own comfort-bubble (you know ppl these days, they like to act like nobody else exists). places like public parking lots are perfect, especially in cold weather because you can keep your car running and it won't look weird. just someone warming up their car.

my best friend back home and i always used to park directly in the middle of a big-chain grocery parking lot. now at college, one of the places i go to is this Municipal parking right across from a popular strip - has the coffee house, the movie theatre, movie rental, everthing...

parking in that parking lot, as long as nobody is in any of the cars surrounding you, is perfect-because there's all night parking (i used to hav to park there when i lived in an apartment building across the street) so it's literally almost always active, but not active enough to cause paranoia.

if a cop ever rolled by my parked car with the engine running, especially now in the winter, assuming there's no visible way to see me, it just gets passed off. hundreds of things cause people to hunker down in parking lots - a busted tire, bad battery, etc...

then there's the magic of "cell phone arguments". sitting in any parking lot, talking "aggressively" on your phone is just one of many ways to "trick" people into thinking you have an actual reason for sitting there. especially with driving cell-phone laws in my state these days, you're almost FORCED to sit in your car and chat. Having a phone up to your ear and appearing to be in a full-throttle conversation can make the difference between someone glancing at you, and someone wondering why you're sitting idly in a parking lot...

I DUNNO! :hippy:

By George.... I think you've got it!!:thumbsup:

ya sometimes i give up on being secritive, like my freinds and I will just smoke on a busy street in broad daylight, or just walk in a park with people around. No one is really going to call the cops, and if you smoke a joint or a blunt and they arent close enough to smell it they wont even notice.

I love living in B.C. Me and my friends walk down the street in any city, mixed in with the general public, passing and puffing a joint between us. Nobody cares, not even the cops.

I almost have faith in your belief that it is less of a risk smoking in the public. If someone even thinks your standing out in the middle of this busy area smoking weed, they will most likely instinctively kill that reaction because they'd assume you weren't that stupid. I do it a lot with this small metal pipe I got and this dug out. But I mean only if its necessary.

yea sometimes it is necessary... not only do i live in a dorm room, but i'm an RA (Resident Assistant) which means I'm the one who's supposed to catch OTHERS smoking in their room lol

iv never busted anyone tho, b/c as a faithful stoner-boy, I've smoked in all 5 dorm rooms I've ever lived in - Including this one! (but that was low key hehe)

When i'm not going to my boyfriends, or to another friends house, or if I'm smoking with another dorm-liver, I'll prefer parking somewhere to driving. I mean I've done countless burn cruises, but the paranoia of getting caught sometimes is just too much...

Those "bad feelings" you get before a burn cruise should never be ignored lol, i follow those feelings to a PARKING spot every time :rasta:

its useful info, but i sort of realized this before, i just am more comfortable when i have no chance of seeing people that are just out, ill smoke right infront of someone in a building, but if they are in the same area as me ill freak out, its just that i feel that there is a reason why they would be so close, but i will eventually start doing this when it becomes warm enough to spend any time outside

Smoking in your car is just plain stupid.

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Originally Posted by TheChameleon

Smoking in your car is just plain stupid.

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Yea it definitel can lead to undesireable consequences, but for the stoner on the go, it really is just a given.

I hav a 4 hour drive home from school, so there are times I'll back a bowl and just nurse it for the whole ride. Don't need to become couchlocked (cuz im not moving from my carseat anyway lol).

But yea, none of this was at all in an attempt to try and glorfiy driving and smoking, it's not only a good way to get caught by PoPo, but it can be dangerous. However, it happens.

I know how that is. I no longer have a car so i have to hoof it all over. I will often listen to my ipod, roll a blunt or joint, and then walk through the neighborhood before I walk to class. People do drive by and come out of their houses but no one is going to do anything because it just looks like i am smoking a cigarette. By the time that they would call the cops, I would be at class and the joint would be long gone. Its almost more relaxing than when I had a car because I know im not going to get"pulled over" if I have my weed and music and I'm getting somewhere, then I'm happy!

Uh... i dont really make that big a deal out of it, cops around here dont really care about just smokin weed they are more about the dealers. that said dont blow weed smoke in a cops face but as long as you are minding your own business it is usually ok to sit in your car and smoke a pipe. they wont fuck with you. just make sure to have your windows up and the recirc/defrost on so its not smellin out there, cuz that can put up a red flag.

Good plan. Fake cell phone arguement eh? Sounds great, but i'm always wary of smoking in cars because of the smell.

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Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue

Good plan. Fake cell phone arguement eh? Sounds great, but i'm always wary of smoking in cars because of the smell.

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Yea totally. I kind of stop caring about that, tho, b/c A. my car is old, and it's gotten to the point where I don't mind dinging it/smelling up the inside lol, and B. i've found that if you're smoking in a car w/ all the windows up, if you're blasting the heat (i guess this only works in winter) not only will the smoke molecules be moving faster due to the heat (and therefor will be gone quicker) but the vent is sucking old air in, and pumping new air out.

It works for me, and then of course there's the old fashion "window down" when it's warm. i fuckin love summer.

ps, lol i know the fake cell phone argument sounds super cheesy, i sensed a bit of mockery in your "eh?" lol, i for one know how silly that sounds, and i don't want ppl to think i sit there in my car for an hour pretending to scream at my phone.

what i really was suggesting, and i guess i could hav made this more clear, that if one is ever feeling paranoid about sitting idly, just putting your phone up to your ear and looking as though you are listening will pretty much take care of how you appear.

Then again, you really just COULD call somebody lol, I've had long-distance "smoke dates" with my boyfriend, where we'll both go park somewhere, like a playground or something, put our phones on speaker, and toke up.

It's cute :D

I pack cigaretts with bud for the mall, hitter for driving around town, joints at the beach. Just act like your doing nothing wrong at all

if you're sketched out, people will be sketched out by you

if you're chill, people will be chilled out

i live in a small town of prob 300 people now(our town is being shut down because of hi lead levels,chat piles,cave in's and mine shafts) so we dont have any cops any more so we do what ever we want when ever it kick ass :stoned:

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Originally Posted by HiAllTheTime10

i live in a small town of prob 300 people now(our town is being shut down because of hi lead levels,chat piles,cave in's and mine shafts) so we dont have any cops any more so we do what ever we want when ever it kick ass :stoned:

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what town is that? please say broken bow

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Originally Posted by HiAllTheTime10

i live in a small town of prob 300 people now(our town is being shut down because of hi lead levels,chat piles,cave in's and mine shafts) so we dont have any cops any more so we do what ever we want when ever it kick ass :stoned:

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LOL yeah, I too am interested in the name of this town. Perhaps I can make it 301.

Hmm, interesting. At the moment, since my college career would be put at stake if I were caught, I just smoke in my room, but I could see myself rolling a joint and then smoking it on my way to class....



Lol, also, I was recently in Broken Bow for a camping trip.... funny that that was brought up.

the town is picher it's an old mining town got undermined and is starting to cave so the U.S government came in and is buying every one out o ya number 2 most naturally polluted place in america so im natural hi from all the metals plus pot im good to go lol

^ lol so that's why you're "Hi All The Time"

People always talk about how to covert smoke in cars. Untill they get caught and become an anti vehickal smoker like me. The truth is even If you dont waste your high away by worrying in the back of your head if your going to make a simple traffic mistake and get pulled over, Somebody could hit you and cause an accident then YOUR THE REALLY FUCKED ONE. Exspeacialy if someone pulls out in front of you and you kill them while dui. Then its neglagant homicidein stead of a simple accident. Anyways its never worth it All it takes is one time to get caught and here are the consequences. Usally anywhere in the usa its 6 months licence suspension automaticaly for dui, Dui tickets are about 300. 6 points off your licence, Higher car insurance, Getting your car outta the impound 250, (Possesion 600, Paraphenalia 600 If you have this with you), and never try to eat or dispose if it when the cops can possibly see you doing so unless you want a FELONY. The only way people ever learn is the hard way.

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I've smoked in all 5 dorm rooms I've ever lived in - Including this one! (but that was low key hehe)

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You could even be my RA lol. I know my RA smokes, but how could I ask him to smoke with me?

When I was an RA I decided to quit smoking, but one of the other RA's got fired for smoking with some people from her hall... That sucked... Anyway It's always good to keep cool wherever you are smoking! keep:cool: and stay:stoned:

yea ive been pretty paranoid lately with cops deciding to patrol a few of the places i usually take walks to so ive had to try new places and have started to roll joints. me and a friend yesterday just smoked like in the courtyard of our dorm with everyones windows facing us on a bench with a joint but we played it cool. two people walked by but thats it. just finished it and walked back inside and chilled out.:jointsmile: i find that joints are less suspicious than a piece so if you just act like youre smokin a cig then people usually arent that suspicious. i mean who the fucks gonna walk up to you and be like ARE YOU SMOKING WEED OUT HERE !?!? if someone does aproach you just ditch it :smokin:

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You could even be my RA lol. I know my RA smokes, but how could I ask him to smoke with me?

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Haha I could be. I've smoked with a couple of my residents over the year, and they were some okay times. One of them was really chill, didn't really smoke much, but we had some really awesome conversation. The other kid just sat in the back and got rrrreal quiet lol, I think he might hav been sketched.

Either way, I'm honestly not sure what to tell you about how to approach your RA about smoking. I think if you ran into him at a party and asked if he wanted to smoke w/ you would be a subtle way of doing it. Also, just getting to know him and befriending him on a proper level first will set a nice foundation upon which you can further explore how your RA deals with smoking.

Lol jesus what am i doing, just don't smoke in your building with your RA, because that could get you AND him into a shit ton of trouble.

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yea ive been pretty paranoid lately with cops deciding to patrol a few of the places i usually take walks to so ive had to try new places and have started to roll joints. me and a friend yesterday just smoked like in the courtyard of our dorm with everyones windows facing us on a bench with a joint but we played it cool. two people walked by but thats it. just finished it and walked back inside and chilled out.:jointsmile: i find that joints are less suspicious than a piece so if you just act like youre smokin a cig then people usually arent that suspicious. i mean who the fucks gonna walk up to you and be like ARE YOU SMOKING WEED OUT HERE !?!? if someone does aproach you just ditch it :smokin:

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SkyHigh, now that you mention doing that, in my freshman year I remember doing some Really stupid things that I'd never do today lol. As it was, my freshman year of college was my first year smoking weed ever, and I guess I just wasn't aware of all the social (and legal) idiosyncracies. But we would just stand in the parking lot smoking a blunt, or go stand under some trees and smoke a blunt lol, duuuummmbbb shit.....

And there was another post up there about "all it takes is one time to get caught" and I totally TOTALLY agree with that. Even re-reading my post makes me slightly ashamed that I've risked exposure, injury, jail-time, or worse, killing myself or someone else.

I do plan on thinking twice before embarking on any driving/smoking experiences in the future... but as far as smoking publicly WITHOUT a car, well... nobody ever died from getting bumped into by a stoner on the sidewalk :hippy:

i like to drive out in the middle of know where where im by myself just me and my pot and get really baked by myself sometimes it's nice:stoned:

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Originally Posted by HiAllTheTime10

the town is picher it's an old mining town got undermined and is starting to cave so the U.S government came in and is buying every one out o ya number 2 most naturally polluted place in america so im natural hi from all the metals plus pot im good to go lol

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The lead and zinc have also seeped into groundwater, ponds, and lakes, many of which still have children swimming in them.

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I hope they're right about the whole, "Pot boosting immunity", thing.

Me to cause in the summer we get all kinds of fucked up and go swimmin in mine shafts i know of 4 diffrent trucks in the bottem of these mine shafts it's crazy

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Me to cause in the summer we get all kinds of fucked up and go swimmin in mine shafts i know of 4 diffrent trucks in the bottem of these mine shafts it's crazy

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I met a girl from Burns Flat, who had a pig named Oreo. Something's fishy about that story, now.

yeah, im trying to pick up an o here in the next few days, and i plan on buying a joint rolling machine since i cant roll joints, and blunts can be a little big for one person, plus, while i like a blunt every so often, im not big on the smoking of tobacco, but im cool everyonce in a while, but i dont like to smoke them too often, really only when i get a craving for one will i, but somehow i can roll blunts, but not joints, i think it has to do with the blunt already being round.

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after getting my o and a rolling machine and a grinder too, i plan on making many a trip into the farmland of my county with really chill music just smoking and jamming and cruising, but i really cant wait for the weather to warm up and do it with the windows down.

ive smoked completely out in the open many times. once i was having a bad day at work, and i couldnt light my bowl outside after work was done, so i went into a all glass bus shelter right off one of the busiest streets in downtown toronto, pulled out my bong and started hitting. others include just stopping somewhere and smoking randomly, smoking on the curb in broad daylight, in the middle of a park on a bench at dusk... those were some of my best smokes come to think of it hahaha.

Yea dudes, i can't waaaiiit for the weather to warm up so I can just smoke a blunt on the front porch of my boyfriends house.

Talk about public intoxication, ppl walk by all the time, cops roll thru, and nobody does shit b/c we're just midnin our business on the porch w/ our feet up on the rail.

Yes. Yes yes yes.

i have found on sunny days while wearing sunglasses you can walk around with a huge perma-smile and no one can see your eyes only you know your high ,well makes you see the world different.give it a whirl sometime,you might like it!farmgirl

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i have found on sunny days while wearing sunglasses you can walk around with a huge perma-smile and no one can see your eyes only you know your high ,well makes you see the world different.give it a whirl sometime,you might like it!farmgirl

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Haha yea, and it's pretty fuckin trippy when you hav shades that are tinted a color, like blue or red, b/c then the world literally becomes a different color.... but the trippiest part is taking them OFF and seeing the world in HiDef :cool:

shit i cant wait till its warm, im so pissed, its supposed to be in the mid 50's today, and the warmest its been in 3 weeks, and i dont pick up my O till after it goes back below 40, im pissed, but what can i do, im still happy im getting the O

I like the cell phone tip... I've used it on many occasion. Nobody wants to come up and ask what you are doing parked there when you are obviously aggrevated and yelling at a small electronic device. Haha. I was also a big fan of the "huge overnight parking lot" system, while in high school. With cameras nowadays though, that is tricky. I have moved on from smoking in vehicles, and after reading a few replies before this, I am done for sure. Didn't think about if someone hit you, or you honestly accidentally hit someone, it is D.U.I. and a greater charge. Yikes! I was a stupid kid. Especially now that I have my own place, it is a no brainer. As for smoking in public, in cities it is really easy. Just as long as you don't have 10 people in a circle all coughing their brains out. One or two people on a bench, looking as though sharing a cigarette works... but I find it impossible to not feel like "I'm doing something wrong and THEY are watching me." Haha Paranoid? I am planning an experiment in my small town. I want to get a (new) multiple hose hookah and sit outside of a local coffeeshop smoking tobacco with a few people and videotape to see how long before we got arrested. Honestly, in my town... we WOULD be arrested, questioned... then they would probably think to test the bowl and see that it's legal smokables, and let us go. Damn... I forgot what the question I'm responding to was.... :rasta:

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I like the cell phone tip... I've used it on many occasion. Nobody wants to come up and ask what you are doing parked there when you are obviously aggrevated and yelling at a small electronic device. Haha. I was also a big fan of the "huge overnight parking lot" system, while in high school. With cameras nowadays though, that is tricky. I have moved on from smoking in vehicles, and after reading a few replies before this, I am done for sure. Didn't think about if someone hit you, or you honestly accidentally hit someone, it is D.U.I. and a greater charge. Yikes! I was a stupid kid. Especially now that I have my own place, it is a no brainer. As for smoking in public, in cities it is really easy. Just as long as you don't have 10 people in a circle all coughing their brains out. One or two people on a bench, looking as though sharing a cigarette works... but I find it impossible to not feel like "I'm doing something wrong and THEY are watching me." Haha Paranoid? I am planning an experiment in my small town. I want to get a (new) multiple hose hookah and sit outside of a local coffeeshop smoking tobacco with a few people and videotape to see how long before we got arrested. Honestly, in my town... we WOULD be arrested, questioned... then they would probably think to test the bowl and see that it's legal smokables, and let us go. Damn... I forgot what the question I'm responding to was.... :rasta:

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Yea dude, I generally don't burn-cruise if I can avoid it these days. I've been fortunate enough not to run into police/accidents so far, so statistics say it's only a matter of time.

I've always been a very conscious driver, I atribute that to my mom always telling me "It doesn't matter how good of a driver you are, you always have to look out for the other guy". That being said, I still have no excuse for burn cruising (well, except that I live in the dorms... but still)

And on your thing about the Hookah outside a coffeeshop, I wonder where you live that you think you'd get arrested. I know on my college campus, every once in a while (in the warmer weather) a bunch of dredlocked and droopy-eyed kids would sit in the quad with a Hookah, and of course someone with authority would approach them thinking it was weed, sometimes the police. But I don't know of any instance where they were arrested/questioned before looking at substance in the device.

I think one time they got away w/ actual weed in there tho, because so many times they'd been approached for only having tobacco lol, pick your battles people

Where I live you would deffinately get caught if u were smoking in public because we have these people called "peace police" who roam around the small village all day. There are always about 6 of them walking around and always sheriffs driving around and down the backstreets... We have a bunch of designated places where we toke in the woods and stuff and we have never really had any problems. Except for this one time lol.... We were walking to one of our usual spots on the back streets and 2 cops in a sheriff car started to follow us so instead of sketching out we just walked into the woods as we normally would and they just followed us to the trail at the dead end of the woods and watched us walk into the woods. Once out of sight we ran and hid far away from the trail in a pile of logs and toked up and took an alternate route out to make it look like we took a short cut to another kids house and then walked back to the village.

I have to add a cautionary note here.

I work in a mall, and one day a customer came into my store (it's right inside the entrance) and told me to call mall security b/c "some kids [were] smoking marijuana in the parking lot!!!"

I, of course, had to suppress the urge to say, "Good for them!"

Instead, I told her I would call. She waited for me to make the call, like right in front of her, but I just kept stalling like, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it. Okay. Thanks for reporting it."

She left. I waited like ten minutes and then called, cause I felt kinda obligated to do so. I figured if they hadn't finished up by then, they deserved whatever they got for being stupid enough to sit in the middle of a mall parking lot in broad daylight smoking.

Soooo just wanna say a busy parking lot isn't necessarily the best thing either. Not a bad choice but I'd seek privacy if it were me.