The Times, They Are a' Changin'

Hey everyone. Well, Bob Dylan said it best, "the times they are a' chagin'.

I'm here today, to note the changes that ive been able to pinpoint in the cannabis society.

Some have been to woodstock, some have seen the grateful dead, jimi hendrix, and many others. Clad in tye dye, long, free hair, and a joint in mouth, along with perhaps a sugar cube, or blotter resting under tongues.

It seems that until the ball dropped to mark the new millenium, (2000) the above stated "asthetic" was the pretty much status quo for the average marijuana user.

I'm going to take a break to actually let you in on my inexperience of... well experience.. and knowledge. But this is a generalization I'm making from what I comprehend. So stay a while wont you?

I'm 19 years old, almost 20, and experienced marijuana at the age of 14, but didn't start using regularily until 16. In that happy, somewhat blurry, and, above all, euphoric time of my life (continuing by the way) I've enjoyed my share of joints, classic rock, and vinyl. Using the combo, sometimes alternating, to take me away to a place familiar, and never ending. my mind.



But the times have changed

I'm suddenly surrounded by blunts, mp3 players with bass boost all the way up, rattling the walls with rhyming lyrics and beats to get anyone on their feet. The long, flowing hair, is now a rarity, as it seems everyone has gone to the ways of lookin clean, ... or "pimp"

I'm not about to gripe at the switch of the generation asthetic, but i'm wondering..

where are the ones that still have the roots

Though as I'm thinking deeper on it, where you're from can have alot to do with it.
But it's a flat out scary thought that the flower generation is going to one day be extinct. left to a world of something theyve probably never quite grasped.

So the next time you hit your blunt, bowl, bong, joint, .. what have you.. take the first hit in the name of those before us. those who have had just as many amazing experiences as our lives will present to us.

blow it high. and exhale with a smile.


peace.

I prefer a nice bong hit with my phonograph playing over blunts, bass, and tricked out cars anyday.

:)

I couldn't agree more.

Whatever happened to the culture of cannabis consumers who were kind, thoughtful, open-minded, and peaceful?

Yeah, blunts are like, the new thing. EVERYONE smokes them, its ridiculous. And know what? I don't care for blunts! I won't go into detail why, I just don't, I got my reasons. I'll smoke 'em no doubt, but they are almost my least favorite method.

I'm only 16, and I smoked when I was 12, but I notice some changes. Then again, I moved so it could just be a different culture of smokers. Seems like a lot more "gangsta" types are smokin' weed, its no longer for the "hippy" type. I think weed is becoming more diverse, its really hard to accurately associate with any one type of person. Sure you can say "those damn pot smoking hippies" but thats really not that accurate. You'll find more "preps" or "gangstas" or even "nerds" smoking the ganj than you would expect.

Right on man. I went to a Skynyrd concert over the summer, first concert with a band that I really love. It was easily the single best expirience of my life so far. Hangin out with people you don't know, smokin with random people, everybody just nice to eachother and sharing, one kid was handing out djarums. We were all just groovin and there are a ton of great memories and stories that came out of that one night of great classic rock and some reefer. The other three kids that I went with and myself are all guitarists, I think being a musician has something to do with it. People who know about music and play music themselves hear rap & hip hop for what it is; a drum machine, a synth track, and some less-than-well educated jackass shooting his mouth off. The only thing more rediculous than rap is U.K. rap. It is the single most laughable thing to ever happen to music, if you can call it that. I love how everyone has to try to be so hard and extreme (X-TREME) now. I'm not 18 for a couple months yet and I couldn't be less interested in the shit i see everyday on tv and the way the kids at my school act.
That was unorganized and rambling...high and listenin to the allmans, if this isn't fun I don't know what is.
Peace

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Originally Posted by NMTBxxHTSP

People who know about music and play music themselves hear rap & hip hop for what it is; a drum machine, a synth track, and some less-than-well educated jackass shooting his mouth off.

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Amen. I stopped listening to rap and started appreciating music more. I love how guitars sound, and how you KNOW that at certain parts, the person playing is GOOD and deserves appreciation for their hours and hours of practice and expanding their knowledge of music to learn how to read and write it as well as play it.

Not to diss all rap, yeah I hate it, but whatever you wanna listen to. There is a difference between well thought out and well-played music and "rap".

We all get old man, there will never be another generation like the one that gave us Woodstock, John Lennon, and Abbie Hoffman.

Those generations were Gods to me, when I was in Jr. High they were the college and high school kids. Out having adventures and changing society. But everybody grew up, the establishment was marginally disrupted at best.

Fucking 1980’s ruined everything.

I hope this post makes sense in the morning.

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Originally Posted by LuckyNiner

Whatever happened to the culture of cannabis consumers who were kind, thoughtful, open-minded, and peaceful?

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we get taken advantage of.

they still exist.. just not in numbers like before.. met many of them @ the Rainbow Gathering in Ocala, Fl this year..


I agree on the 80's, but I think it was mid 70's.. it was about LOOK then...
the late 60's was just "the thing that had to be done."


Off-topic: but I swear to god that psychedelia is coming back mainstream..

that damn i-pod commercial with the trails, all those commercials with the fractals (pringles, M&Ms, etc) seeing more tie-dye shirts on the racks at the store, etc

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Originally Posted by halosin8r

we get taken advantage of.

they still exist.. just not in numbers like before.. met many of them @ the Rainbow Gathering in Ocala, Fl this year..


I agree on the 80's, but I think it was mid 70's.. it was about LOOK then...
the late 60's was just "the thing that had to be done."


Off-topic: but I swear to god that psychedelia is coming back mainstream..

that damn i-pod commercial with the trails, all those commercials with the fractals (pringles, M&Ms, etc) seeing more tie-dye shirts on the racks at the store, etc

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I'd have to agree with the psychedelia coming back. I notice it more everyday. There was even a car commercial that was trippy as HELL, and the last image was all shrooms and stuff. They know what' they're doing. Good thing about all this, with psychedelics, comes weed, and with both, enlightenment and peace on earth. Gotta love it. :)

I have long hair i smoke and i ware tie-dyed shirts i am what people would call a neo-hippy

I was the same person before i started smoking and I'm still the same person. I started smoking when i was 14 or 15. I'm 20 now and will be 21 in a few months. I have long hair, I'm a musician. I was born a hippie/stoner and I accepted that a long time ago.

It's all marketing - the whole "gangsta" image is being processed, pushed, glamourised (sp?) and rammed wholesale into the brains of kids across the UK. Those impressionable enough to not see the commercial underpinning that is...

I don't agree with it, I think it is somewhat immoral.

"How many Africans died for the baguettes on your Rolex" - food for thought methinks.

a-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c.

how silly of me..

i agree but think about it...changes are always happening and sometime for the best sometimes the worst... its part of this rollercoaster of a life...

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Originally Posted by halosin8r

we get taken advantage of.

they still exist.. just not in numbers like before.. met many of them @ the Rainbow Gathering in Ocala, Fl this year..

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FUCK, it happened this year already? I LIVE in ocala, and I would've liked to go, but I don't really know any info. One of my friends said theres gonna be one in like january or somethin' though. He wen't one year before and said it was cool (tripped on mesc, one of my dreams)

who ever said uk rap is not music can suck a dick

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Originally Posted by funfubarman

I have long hair i smoke and i ware tie-dyed shirts i am what people would call a neo-hippy

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the term around here is a "Nu-Waver".

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Originally Posted by Frivolous248

FUCK, it happened this year already? I LIVE in ocala, and I would've liked to go, but I don't really know any info. One of my friends said theres gonna be one in like january or somethin' though. He wen't one year before and said it was cool (tripped on mesc, one of my dreams)

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Im in the Daytona area myself. :)

yeah, it was this year, Feb.
comes again this next year to.

when it comes around, I'll hit yeah up and maybe we can meet at one of the camps? A-Camp, Main-Camp, G-Funk (my fav camp), Trading circle, or one of the others.

If I'm still here, I'm movin' to cali sometimes, whenever our house sells. But its one of those things ya' know where I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up staying the whole year here.

But if it works out i'll def hit you up and we can share a bowl. I don't know much 'bout the camps though but when it gets to that time I'm sure you can fill me in on how it works.