:thumbsup:

"Different rules for different times" that's what I get misty-eyed for -- those small tastes of personal freedom.

35 years ago I think the BAC where I'm from was .18. Now its .08. They've removed the grey area called "subjective discretion" from the police officers.

I guess I miss being shook down for my stash of a couple joints by a pot head cop. Nowadays the police bust you automatically-- no discretion. By the Book.

I miss the fat "christmas sacks" my dealer would ladle out to loyal customers at the holidays in the late seventies. A dime bag was a quarter. A "Christmas Sack" was real close to a half ounce for a dime.

I miss watching the old Emerson B&W TV with the coat hanger antenna and the sound turned down while listening to Montrose and UFO and early (Lonesome Crow era) Scorpions records on the scratchy turntable LP sound system I had. Ma would start banging on the pipes if I raised the volume over 4, so to be nice, I would play at about 2 1/2 - 3. Hunched over doing bongs out of a homemade setup using construction tubes and epoxy.
I was probably getting higher off the toxic chemicals the bong was made from than any pot I had. (Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk)

I always had a soft spot for those drag strip radio ads, too.

"Sunday, Sunday SUNDAY!
Nitro Fueled Funny Cars!

SEE! Big Daddy Don Garlits!
SEE! Shirley "Cha-Cha" Muldowney!
Be There Be There Be There!

The radio would play those ads all week, and well, it was probably the most exciting thing going anyway, so we'd pile in the car, stop off for a nickel bag of gold, and smoke up. We'd stand around smirking amongst ourselves, thinking we were too cool, the whole time feeling a full body tingle when a huge block engine would open up.

Pot had its place in its own underground culture, for sure, and there was little room for overlap. I remember greasers starting fisticuffs with some pot smokers. The greasers insinuated the hippies were less than men because they smoked pot instead of guzzling prodigious amounts of clear whiskey.

thanx for the memory trigger

Cogzilla