r/mildlyinteresting • u/Iitaps_Missiciv • 6h ago

Care facility residents smoking weed instead of cigarettes

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u/2ndgme 6h ago

Probably helps a lot with the pain too

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u/ForgottenCaveRaider 6h ago

When I'm an old ass man in a home like that, you're sure to find me out front enjoying whatever cosmic chronic space age ganja exists by then!

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u/JonasAvory 5h ago

If you don’t think you live for more than a few years, why not pump some mild drugs?

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u/MajorLazy 5h ago

I’d hate to have a bad acid trip as a geriatric in a care facility

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u/iThinkiStartedATrend 5h ago

Then we, sir, have different ideas of a good time

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u/Ag3ntSecr3t 5h ago

No, I think your eyes just haven't been opened to what a bad time is. I pray you get to stay in this bliss.

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u/3720-to-1 5h ago

Yeah... Having a bad trip in that situation would make it 100x worse.

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u/FloridaF4 5h ago

I dunno about that, every bad trip I've had or seen the tripper just wants to go to the hospital... Which in this case they'd already be there basically and there's plenty of pharmaceutical drugs on hand to help you chill.

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u/CaptMakesKidsKill 4h ago

When I was 17 my grandmother was being hospitalized overnight. I’d just taken two hits of Vision Thing blotter when my sister showed up to tell me we were going to sit with her all night.

I crept around that hospital all night like it was silent hill. Good time.

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u/QuestionItThrice 4h ago

A core memory of mine is getting stoned as shit as a teenager and then having a surprise visit to see my dying grandmother and a bunch of other relatives I hadn't met before

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u/Mabosaha 2h ago

Holy shit that sounds horrifying, not jealous lol

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u/AssumptionFederal663 1h ago

I would love to hear this with all the trippy details

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u/3720-to-1 4h ago

Oh... I have never... Ever.... Wanted to go to the hospital. One time I was taken by paramedics and was on a stretcher awaiting to see if I could be cleared or had to be taken in. My flashes of memory of that night are me being given water, me starting to panic that they were going to take me to a hospital, asking for more water, dumping it out and asking for more. When the medic left, I stood up and found me way out of the hall I was in and somehow convinced the doorman to let me back into the show.

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u/Reta-Journal 3h ago

I was having a rough come up once and thought I needed to go to the hospital for a moment. Then I thought about all the florescent lights and quickly changed my mind. I was having a great time 20 minutes later.

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u/MajorityofMinority 5h ago

I don’t touch psychedelics anymore because of bad trips. They can fuck with your psyche a lot, and actually distort your idea of reality which can result in you doing something crazy. Nobody wants a bad trip and if they do then they haven’t actually experienced one.

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u/TowJamnEarl 5h ago

Never had a bad one but been with someone that has.

When you're off ya tits at a festival calming them down is no easy task.

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u/Ice_Burn 5h ago

Yeah, try being in the middle of the desert alone for a few hours. It's terrifying but I managed to get him back together. He went on to get his MD at Duke and now he's a psychiatrist. Then there was my (at the time) wife at Disneyland. I've personally had nothing but good times though.

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u/Alternative_Ear5542 4h ago

Never had a bad one but been with someone that has.

But have you ever had to knock on wood?

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u/Awkward_Basis7533 1h ago

Never had to knock on wood. And I’m glad I haven’t yet. Because I’m sure it isn’t good. That’s the impression that I get.

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u/ShadowDragon6660 5h ago

Yeah… this is the reason I stopped tripping. Used to do shrooms plenty but honestly, the bad trips just made it not really worth it for me at the time. Something is probably to be said about wrong time and setting but I gave all the rest of my stash to a buddy and called it a day. I had lots of fun and enlightening moments with them, but the absolute horror of a true bad trip can kinda ruin the magic, it certainly did for me. I’m sure in maybe a 5-10 years in a good setting with some good friends I’ll give them a shot again, but that shit can be lowkey traumatizing at times, especially if you don’t respect it.

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u/elalmohada26 4h ago

A while back I overdid it on mushrooms and became concerned I was dying.

I figured I should go to the hospital emergency department but not check myself in, just sit there, and if it turned out I was actually dying then I was in the right place.

It was a Friday night and packed to the rafters with assorted grizzly injuries and unsavoury characters.

I sat there for about two hours tripping hard and watching it all before I decided I wasn’t dying and went home.

Overall I’d give the experience a 2/10.

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u/MyDickIs3cm 4h ago

High you makes pretty good decisions. I cannot find a single flaw in the logic other than now you'd probably get the cops called cause you're being weird.

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u/finnishinsider 5h ago

I can't feel my legs! Sir, you're a paraplegic....

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u/Happythoughtsgalore 5h ago edited 4h ago

Thankfully that's dose dependent, and by the time I'm in an old folks home that will be in a gummy like with x mg of the active ingredient.

*Edit also mindset/setting dependant. But mostly dose dependent.

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u/poseidondieson 5h ago

Team take the whole bag in one sitting

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u/EVE_Link0n 5h ago

Grandpa! That was a whole week supply!!

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u/piercejay 3h ago

Had a long-standing joke in my life that if I hit 95 years old, im mainlining heroin and skydiving without a parachute lol

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u/CatLogin_ThisMy 5h ago edited 4h ago

Me too! I am already an old man, and yes the dispensary weed is amazing but I was recently talking to someone about only getting hybrid from dispensaries, and even when you got "indica" or "sativa" it was really hybrid to a large extent (EDIT-- because I prefer the slow rolling body high, it's much better for the pain than being on a head trip while also in pain...). And they were like-- oh, man, let's drop by my place, and they went down in their storage and seed stock cellar and grabbed some home-grown seed-stock-grown lamb's bread, in a big old mason jar, which is the landrace strain (non hybrid) that Marley preferred-- and I saw some stashed Acapulco Gold in another of their mason jars, which I haven't had since probably MIT in the '80s, and I was like, can we smoke some of that too, please, and there was no comparison to the high.

Keep in mind I smoke every day, but--

a) That stuff got me so high I had my first genuine cheech and chong moment in 20 years, where it was slightly raining, and got dark, and I called an Uber, and I went outside and couldn't find it, and it was one house away facing me with the headlights on, and instead of walking around to the side to see the plate, I started walking toward the light, to check the plate, to see if that was my uber-- and it was blinding me, and the rain was coming down, and I squatted down and started inching toward the front license plate through the blinding white light, brushing away the rain from my eyes, squatting-step by squatting step, through the intense storm, thinking, what if this guy isn't my uber, is he going to run me over or something, step, step, the storm was growing in intensity, nothhing was visible any more except the giant white beams, and the asphalt, and I couldn't see anything in any direction any more, and my friend came over and started squatting and inching forward with me through the blinding white light, on, and on, and on, and finally I got to the plate and it was the one and I felt like I had endured a true hurricane or something and saved the world, or it was like an extended scene from an alien movie out in the desert, or both, and, no, dispensary weed does not do that to me. hahahaha

b) I had a RIDICULOUS weed hangover as soon as I came down a bit, which I haven't had in so long, I forgot they were a thing!! Believe me, I remember the flavor of that headache like I remember the banana candy they don't sell any more that I used to eat at little league games. Then I passed out on my home office sofa.

So yeah "our weed is so strong now there's no comparison"-- pshaw. pffff I say. Young people these days.

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u/Stuffs_And_Thingies 5h ago

Lol I aint had nothing like that in 25-30 years lol. Id love if I could get silly high again.

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u/Fjallamadur 5h ago

That was such a fun read! You're awesome, dude!

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u/Th3_Mast3ry 5h ago

Commercially available weed has been grown fast, probably not given time to fully mature before cutting, machine trimmed, and dried and cured the minimum amount of time to make it smokable. There is no comparison to fresh weed that has been treated correctly.

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u/CatLogin_ThisMy 4h ago

So true but I have grown to think the weed headaches have also been engineered away, over the years. I think weed is evolving uncontrollably like bananas and apples have. I am reorganizing my life to get access to landrace strains when I retire.

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u/Alexwonder999 4h ago

As an oldER guy, Id say the middle ground (or mid as the kids say) weed has come way up, but there was always some really good stuff available. I think theres a lot of people my age or younger who used to get dimes and eigths of "decent" weed and the equivalent these days is way better, but we just never used to buy the really good stuff that was around because it was so comparatively expensive. They think its gotten stronger but the mid ground has come way up and the compressed dirt weed just doesnt even exist anymore. I imagine it might have been like during prohibition when the bootleggers were watering down most of the booze and then when they started to be able to buy uncut stuff they thought it got stronger, but it was more that the better stuff got cheaper and the regular stuff wasnt as shitty.

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u/HotelOne 5h ago

I’m old too and I agree that modern dispensary weed is much milder than ‘70’s weed was, and I also agree that it all seems like generic hybrids with almost no different effects for me between “strains”. Goldang whipper-snappers!

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u/Ice_Burn 4h ago

I'm 62 and I can't tell the difference between indica and sativa. It all does the job. I miss Mexican red hair and picking out the seeds.

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u/9706uzim 5h ago

TIL people use ganja in English sentences. One of the only times I've seen South Asian influence on English.

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u/Tonka_Tuff 4h ago

It used to be used more commonly, I rarely hear it called ganja anymore.

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u/Ice_Burn 4h ago

Bungalow, jungle, guru off the top of my head.

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u/Gamer_Grease 3h ago

My aunt harps on my 85 year-old grandparents about eating fast food all the time. They’re 85! They’re going to die soon enough no matter what they eat.

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u/Svihelen 5h ago

My girlfriends mom, is profoundly handicapped due to a myriad of physical ailments. Including but not limited to, ligament and muscle issues in her shoulders, a blown out knee, and a bad hip.

She will sit there and be constantly aware of how much pain she is in.

Her pain is so bad and so persistent she has prescription morphine to essentially use as emergency pain relief.

She is the biggest pothead I have ever met.

The way she has described what the weed does for her is, it gives her this gentle euphoria. It helps her enter a headspace where unless she does something to aggravate her pain, it just slips out of her perception.

So like if she overextends her shoulder she's going to feel every ounce of pain she is in even when she's high. But if she isn't high, she is sitting there constantly aware of had bad the pain she is in is, when she's high though, she can completely forget about the pain even if it's just for a few minutes until she moves.

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u/keepcalmdude 5h ago

I’ve heard it described as; cannabis isn’t a painkiller is a pain distraction

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u/Dorkamundo 4h ago

Yep, while it DOES have some true analgesic effects, it seems to do more to make you forget that you're in pain.

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u/WheelerDan 3h ago

It's more complicated than that. I have cerebral palsy. A feature of that is everyone spine is constantly sends signals to your brain says lets test this muscle lets test this muscle, all day long. Your brain says shut up spine that's too many tests, stop. My brain doesn't know how. CBD suppresses that signal in a way my brain can't. I didn't experience stillness till I tried CBD.

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u/TheSilverNoble 4h ago

Yeah I've heard the same, though I think this story helps me understand what they exactly means

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u/thejoeface 4h ago

That’s how I coped with my turbo cramps from my endometriosis for years until I found the right BC to skip my periods entirely.

I had a prescription for percocet but didn’t like taking them because they made me feel woozy and nauseous and gross. 

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u/Ed_Harris_is_God 4h ago

I also suffer from chronic pain, and this is very similar to my experience with weed. I rarely take enough to get really high, but frequently maintain a low level that helps a lot.

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u/Ali-Saurus 5h ago

Multiple Sclerosis patient checking in: it sure does

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u/bastardoperator 5h ago

A lot of places would be anti-cannabis, but I think harm reduction is the better approach. If someone can go from opioids to cannabis, that's a big win in my book, not perfect, but a lot less risk.

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u/FiveDozenWhales 6h ago

And it improves cognitive function and brain structure, too (only when used by middle-aged and older adults)

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u/MagePages 5h ago edited 5h ago

As long as I've known him, my gramps has been a smart, creative, funny guy, with diverse hobbies and interests and pretty progressive views in most places, but with a terrible anger problem. Tiny bit of frustration and he flips right to seeing red. He started to smoke weed and he's become so much more affable. I can't say how much more sociable he is, I'm not around too much, but he doesn't flip his top like he used to, and that has to be good for him and the people closest to him.

He certainly seems happier. I can't imagine how it felt to be angry like he was angry. And he was never proud of it either. 

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u/fatbob42 4h ago

That study just shows an association. They even point out in the article that there are a ton of confounding factors.

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u/TheMadManiac 3h ago

Put down the doobie and read it again. That study shows an association. It doesn't say anything about weed improving anything.

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u/Nandor-De_Laurentiis 2h ago

I wish that was true for me.

One of the benefits of using it was that it slowed my mind down, but I ended up quitting recently because it also made it more difficult to have conversations with other people.

My mind feels sharper and more clear without it.

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u/CautionarySnail 5h ago

And also mood. Those places are tough to handle mentally. I can’t begrudge them a little relief.

And it’s far better than the typical situation with a resident smuggling in booze and causing issues for other residents. I’ve not heard of folks getting as agitated/violent on weed as they do alcohol.

I just hope proper munchies are available.

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u/DrKenMoy 4h ago

Pain, inflammation, mood, etc. when the silver tsunami hits it’ll be followed by a green cloud

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u/ComprehensiveApple14 4h ago

My mother got a terminal cancer a decade back, she did really well for the first round of it but the second really got her. Alongside all the medical treatment she tried everything: Turmeric and apple "smoothies" (more like yellow grit) cocoa nibs for some reason. Even crystals. I'm not a big personal believer in alternative therapy but they say the big thing about any kind of treatment is if you believe it works and have an optimistic outlook that'll help just fine so I was fine with it.

Anyway onto the actual thing: the hospice she went to had an amazing weed connection. Some of the most potent stuff I've ever seen and she'd have the oil. This stuff had the consistency of marmite and adhesion of superglue and I'd help mix it into her food as her coordination was gone at this point. She swore by it.

I also swore by it, at it, when I accidentally forgot I'd not washed my hands and made my own food. Twenty minutes later I didn't go on a trip I went on a fucking pilgrimage. I didn't get high I left orbit. Six hours of feeling like I had to manually breathe or I'd die and my vision so blurry it felt like I'd set motion blur to max. My ego didn't die it evaporated on the spot.

So if these guys are getting that stuff I'd swap it for cigarettes too. Jesus christ.

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u/These_Background7471 5h ago

Weed has only ever made me more aware of my various aches and pains 🙃

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u/Numerous_Worker_1941 4h ago

I’m only 35 but it does great for hip pain I get

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u/Several-Squash9871 4h ago

My thoughts too. Also, why the hell not let them? Fuck it!

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u/QuincyPeck 6h ago edited 1h ago

There are worse ways to spend the end of your life. Hanging out and smoking weed with some buds? Hell yeah.

Edit: thanks for the award, kind stranger.

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u/JDM_enjoyer 6h ago

smoking bud with some buds*

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u/Rocknlikeahurricane 5h ago

Smoking bud with some weeds?

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u/tehbantho 5h ago

Budding weeds with some smoke

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u/Arminius_Fiddywinks 5h ago

Weeding some with smoke buds.

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u/ParsnipInevitable994 5h ago

Smoking with some weed buds

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u/xSypRo 5h ago

Yea, looking at it really made me smile. They seemed relaxed, no work to wake up to tomorrow, have fun and enjoy retirement

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u/McButtsButtbag 4h ago

You think people in care facilities are enjoying retirement?

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u/xSypRo 4h ago

I know these ones are enjoying it more than the average guy in care facilities for sure.

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u/SoylentVerdigris 2h ago edited 2h ago

I hold a "care" facility directly responsible for causing my mom to die months, if not years earlier than she would have otherwise, so believe me when I say I'm not defending them in general, but a few are genuinely good places for people who need full time care.

Edit to add so people don't get the wrong idea: I got her out the day I found out how bad it was. She had been hiding how bad she was being treated so we wouldn't worry until she couldn't stand it anymore. They actually tried barring us from leaving without signing waivers absolving them of any wrongdoing.

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u/dumb_answers_only 5h ago

Imagine the video game parties you could have too.

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u/aggresivehandjob 3h ago

Thats me in 25 years honestly. Prolly buying off one of the nurses. Im ok with it…as ling as the prices good.

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u/Strikereleven 5h ago

I returned a guy who escaped from his nursing home to buy smokes. His wheelchair battery died on the corner of the gas station. We loaded him up and he sent me in to buy his cartons of Marlboros, which he then smuggled back into the nursing home in his sweatpants. He's probably long dead by now, but Grady Grisham you were a fucking legend.

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u/TannedCroissant 4h ago edited 4h ago

This guy did the Marlboro Run in 12 grandpasex

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u/LaComtesseGonflable 1h ago

I had a patient once who was mad as hell because his sister, who had power of attorney, wouldn't give the facility permission to let her brother smoke. I struck a deal with the fella that I would buy his choice of cigarettes on my break as soon as his sister gave permission. 

Two packs of Marlboro Gold 100s are the only cigarettes I've ever bought.

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u/lifeintraining 1h ago

Why do they need to smuggle anything in to begin with? These are adults facing the end of their lives. Avoiding cigarettes isn’t going to cure a terminal illness, let them live how they want. Grady Grisham is balling hard in spirit, guaranteed.

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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 6h ago

I delivered groceries to a care facility last night and just found it interesting that everyone outside was smoking weed having a good time, as opposed to similar deliveries I had done to places like this in the past they would all be outside smoking cigarettes. Nice change

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u/DinosaurAlive 5h ago

When my grandma was in long term care facility I’d go hang out with her while she smoked outside. Several of the residents (many different ages) would smoke weed and jam out to music. One time that one song “Because I got high” came on and they all sang it all happy. It was fun!

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u/canonlycountoo4 5h ago

I promise you that this will be us when its our turn. Non-stop LAN parties as well.

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u/YouKilledApollo 3h ago

That was my first thought too! Someone better setup a switch or router so we can all hook up to each other, and we'll have a DC++ server running in every residence home. It'll be like being young all over again!

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u/Jill-Of-Trades 4h ago

I was gonna go to work, but then I got high.

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u/garnier_west 4h ago

Is this Portland? Not just because of the weed, but because it looks exactly like where my mom used to work.

But, also because of the weed

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u/whinenaught 3h ago

Something about the 50s/60s era brick building looks very Portland

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u/lumoslomas 4h ago

I used to work in cancer/palliative care.

We may or may not have turned blind eye if someone brought weed for a patient, because that shit works miracles.

I remember one palliative patient was on the maximum dose of hydromorphone (the one that's stronger than morphine) and was STILL in pain, despite being so groggy she could barely open her eyes. Her sister brought in something that absolutely was NOT weed, and next minute this patient's pain is manageable enough for her to sit up and talk to her family.

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u/Apprehensive_Tip520 4h ago

Funnily enough I deliver weed to people in retirement homes! I mean not just retirement homes, but you'd be surprised how many customers we have in similar situations.

I do love when I show up to any delivery at the same time as the Uber eats or pizza delivery. It's like yeah... that's a good night.

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 6h ago

I bet they still have a two prong plug.

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u/Pinepark 4h ago

I love fairly close to a care facility and I see this (and smell it!) often. Thankfully Florida has medical MJ. I mean it’s ridiculous it’s not fully legal but it’s also stupid easy to get a medical card.

It’s a very nice change!

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u/TwoAlfa 5h ago

I want in on that session.

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u/Snape_Grass 6h ago

Would love to be a fly on the wall and listen to their stories during the sesh

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u/ino4x4 6h ago

I’d probably sit down for a chat. A bunch of stoned senior citizens might help me learn something worthwhile.

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u/ClinkyDink 5h ago

There’s an episode of Poker Face where the main character takes a job at a nursing home and befriends some ex hippie types. Over a blazing session she finds out they committed some light terrorism back in the day.

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u/JPorter5999 4h ago

I’ve always wanted to learn how I can advance my light terrorism skills.

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u/JackBinimbul 3h ago

Minnesota could use your services.

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u/HurryAccurate9942 5h ago

They probably have some wild stories from before everything was recorded on smartphones.

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u/LaMalintzin 4h ago

One of the first times I got high with my dad (in his 70s at the time) he spent about 30 minutes explaining the plot of the pilot of The Good Doctor. YMMV

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u/HenryKushinger 5h ago

I want to get baked with a bunch of chill old people now

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u/Serious-Maximum-1049 5h ago

Oh man, I absolutely love listening to stories Seniors have to tell! I tried to get down as much as I could before my Grandmother passed away. I had no idea until the last months of her life about the amazing things she did during her lifetime❣️

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u/Particular-Crew5978 5h ago

This is the stage of life where people should be able to take what they please. If they're in a nursing home, a lot of those folks are palliative.

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u/skibidi_shingles 5h ago

Anyone should be able to smoke weed.

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u/detailsubset 5h ago edited 4h ago

Anyone* should be allowed to take anything at any point in their lives provided they aren't harming others by doing so.

*Of legal majority. (incase you're feeling pedantic...)

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u/Demonokuma 2h ago

I started smoking in highschool when I was hella suicidal, literally nothing to lose. Prolly the one thing that saved me, because 1. I would go hang out with people with smoke, or if i bought. 2. Actually gave me an appetite. I went thru most of highschool 1 meal a day.

Weed is the one thing ill recommend people. I think most people could actually further themselves, if they weren't worried about the tiny nuances of life.

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u/Particular-Crew5978 2h ago

You don't have to sell it to me. I'm already buying it ;)

Seriously though, I don't sleep if I don't have gummies

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u/Nir117vash 5h ago

It's happening.....the elder pot heads are communing

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u/mkstot 2h ago

It’s an entmoot

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u/steve_mahanahan 5h ago

When my grandmothers depression was bad and her dementia was starting to set in, I smoked her out. She took a big puff (muscle memory from back in the day, I’m sure), let out an adorable giggle, and said “oh, that feels nice!

I miss her.

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u/instant_chai 6h ago

I used to work nights at a care facility. Smoking of any kind wasn’t allowed.

It was understood that, as long as it didn’t become my problem, I didn’t see or smell anything.

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u/tippiedog 3h ago

It was understood that, as long as it didn’t become my problem, I didn’t see or smell anything.

That's what I was thinking. In most cases, weed probably makes residents more compliant and/or less likely to complain, but I imagine in some cases, it could interfere with other meds or cause other problems that I can't think of off hand. In that latter case, it becomes your problem possibly.

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u/instant_chai 3h ago

I see what you’re saying but look at it this way: they’re not leaving the nursing home alive. They know it, we know it. They’re usually non complaint with diet, meds and PT. They live there because of medical issues they and their families can’t handle on their own. They have very little control as it is on their day to day living.

It’s a matter of quality of life at that point. The weed helps make their end of life more tolerable.

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u/tippiedog 3h ago

Oh, I wasn't arguing with you at all and, in fact, I agree 100% (and I speak from some experience; I've been primary caretaker for two relatives who were in nursing homes; they're awful places even in the best cases). I was just thinking about the "as long as it didn't become my problem" statement and trying to think of situations where it might actually be a problem for a resident to smoke.

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u/instant_chai 3h ago

I know you weren’t!

Basically my meaning was, as long as they weren’t bothering the other residents, risking fire or drawing attention to themselves or me, I let it slide.

While I know rules are rules, I was also having to deal with techs not doing their job, making sure my sundowners were safe, passing meds, tube feeds, and wound cares. In the grand scheme of things, it was low on my list of concerns as long as they were smart about it. It was usually one or two that smoked anyway.

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u/the_jowo 3h ago

One of the funniest emails I've read from our DNS was we're not allowed to assist a resident in going outside to partake in cannabis or PROVIDE them with lighters to do so

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u/Houdinii1984 5h ago

I had a close friend whose pain management left him wanting. I told him that pot could probably take the edge off, but he was a straight-edge person his entire life. So I offered to do it with him. I didn't personally smoke. I was a heavy, problematic drinker instead, but I've done it as a teen and survived and thought WTH?

Not only did it help with the pain to some degree, it was also exciting and that's something he didn't experience much any more. On my side, I literally just stopped drinking with zero friction whatsoever. I'd tried so many times to quit, and within a couple weeks was sober, and have been for (*so long I gotta check) 11 years this October.

It doesn't work for everyone and it's not without it's own set of dangers. It needs peer reviewed testing and understanding of the mechanisms, even. But for those that it helps, it's a godsend. I'm glad to see it coming out from underground

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u/lazybusinessman 6h ago

There is an assisted living residency down the street from my house. Anytime I drive by there I see a group of residents smoking weed at various spots. Usually on the corner by the street but they have also moved across the street to the bus stop. Always give them a thumbs up.

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u/exqqme 6h ago

Thought that was The Grinch for a second.

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u/PCGonzo 5h ago

Sharing his nasty wasty skunk?

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u/specifichero101 5h ago

My uncle is in a facility like this at a relatively young age and my mom feels bad for him so she does a lot for him and brought him in some weed. He then got caught smoking weed in his room and had to go in for a meeting with management and it made me laugh like she’s going In to meet with the principal because her delinquent teen is smoking weed

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u/Sensitive_Quarter375 5h ago

heck yeah. Hope they are having a blast, giggling about some dumb stuff

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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 5h ago

My delivery instructions were to leave at the front door, one of the residents said "she better hurry up, there's about to be a lot of hungry people out here" while lighting a fresh J (implying they were jokingly going to get munchies and eat food)

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u/TheDreadGazeebo 5h ago

Good for them.

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u/SchnozSchnizzle 5h ago

Honestly, good for them lol

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u/Wide_Breadfruit_2217 6h ago

I worked as a cook in a care facility until 2024. I was noticing the generational change from WW2 gen to boomers. Suddenly the food requests changed to more hippy etc. I bet the smoking is related.

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u/upuranus66 6h ago

If I ever have to go into a care facility, that's the one.

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u/PUMPEDnPLUMP 6h ago

Hell yeah

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 5h ago

Damn that looks great. Pain management, what they are smoking is likely better than cigarettes and they are all chilling together

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u/Howl112 4h ago

Totally understand this, my brothers friends mum was diagnosed with a extreme case of cancer, she got to a state that she would rather pee in the bed than try to get up and move, the only solace she had was she was given weed that she kept just under her top lip and keeping the pain at bay.

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u/SoilEducational59 5h ago

Good for them !!!

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u/Peregrine-Falconer 5h ago

They’ve unlocked the achievement: Do whatever the heck I want. Remember to puff, puff, pass.

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u/GorillaTortila 5h ago

Lmao the "Sir, you're a paraplegic" comment got me. But honestly yeah, homegrown stuff hits different, the dispensary hybrids are all kinda the same these days. That landrace strain story sounds insane tho, bet that was a whole experience

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u/fellindeep23 5h ago

Hell yeah. Good for them. Gonna be me.

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u/weedtrek 5h ago

I used to sell to a few patients at a facility. My sister was a nurse there and had some friends who were clients. One guy she had to light it for. But smoking was allowed in that building as it was apartments and almost 20 years ago.

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u/nacho17 4h ago

Good

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u/Shadowpriest 4h ago

Helps with the pain and get a well rested sleep? Why not?

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u/FlyByPC 4h ago

It's healthier for them, plus it's a pain reliever.

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u/raypell 4h ago

I’m 74 retired construction, at the end of a good day,(a day where I don’t hurt myself doing chores) I like to hit one up and enjoy my accomplishments of not being dead yet. I live in Michigan where weed is actually really good. I’m part of that generation that could have been arrested for a gram or two. Feels good knowing you can just relax in your own setting and feel worry free. God bless those people. They are doing everything right

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u/therealpablown 6h ago

Bro I love this. This is the most these ppl probably get to live now a days.

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u/babydoeyes 4h ago

this is so cute they deserve some peace hehe

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u/Substantial_Role_894 4h ago

Legendary blunt rotations

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u/CryptographerFar3407 4h ago

i would be joining in

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u/CaptKydd 3h ago

I worked 25 years in a Nursing Home, just do it. Should have given gummies to the violent dementia Residents.

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u/toripersons 2h ago

Honestly good for them. I honestly miss watching the friend groups in the nursing homes when I worked there. It was so cute

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u/ThatWasTheJawn 1h ago

I hope I live long enough to do this with the homies.

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u/meepsofmunch 6h ago

I used to work at a long term care facility in a place where weed is legal. Seniors were always outside getting high lol, good for them

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u/THEDIALIZER 6h ago

Move along nothing to see here

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u/Inglorious186 5h ago

Helps their glaucoma

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u/smokeajoint 5h ago

I love this

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u/SeaLab5959 5h ago

Hell yeah. Dream blunt rotation.

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u/PrometheusMMIV 5h ago

It's funny there's a picture, as if we could somehow tell from just looking at it. It's not like we can smell it.

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u/aperturebomb 5h ago

I support this

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u/Ok_Book6135 5h ago

This pic goes insanely hard.

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u/chpbnvic 5h ago

That’s awesome, good for them

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u/ranchspidey 5h ago

We tried to suggest that great grandma try weed to help her pain and anxiety before she passed, but unfortunately she wasn’t into it. I’m glad other elders are grooving with it!

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u/mightymoprhinmorph 4h ago

Honestly probably better weed than cigarettes.

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u/Powerful_Concert9474 4h ago

Sounds like a FUN bingo night!

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u/AdamHasAutism 4h ago

That's so fuckin awesome I love that for them

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u/Nonpartialbigot 4h ago

It’s better than alcohol night, right?

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 4h ago

ive worked with nursing homes and most of them will let you smoke weed assuming 1. they allow smoking on the premises and 2. you have a medical prescription or need for it. pot heads do show up at nursing homes too, the only time theres a problem is when the resident tries to smoke inside their rooms, which also happens, someone had to be kicked out of one i know because she kept sparking up in her room when she was like 2 doors down from someone on oxygen, not very safe. nursing homes will usually not let residents have their own lighters, usually the nurse staff will hold them and light them for the residents. that was my job at one point, spending 15 minutes outside with the smokers lighting their cigarettes

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u/Ill_Clue1068 3h ago

TIME TO LEGALIZE! This is insanity. Would any citizen of America consider these senior citizens criminals? And if you would get fucked.

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u/Clowndick 3h ago

I work in assisted living. Since we didn't have a cannabis policy when weed became legal and State Dept of Health doesn't have a reg against it, our residents are allowed to toke up 420 blaze it

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u/PobBrobert 3h ago

As a former cigarette smoker, I genuinely miss the community and camaraderie that came along with smoking.

One of the dorm buildings at my school had a bench in an alcove where everyone went to smoke, and we called it Cancer Corner. There was almost always at least one person out there between the hours of 7 am and 2 am. I met a lot of cool people and had a lot of laughs rippin’ darts out there.

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u/actuallybiotchno 3h ago

Glad to hear it! Tincture THC for those who don’t smoke it. This makes happy. Cannabis is medicine never left anyone tell you otherwise.

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u/Ton_in_the_Sun 3h ago

I can’t wait to be old and retire and just get high all fucking day

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u/Affectionate_Dot5547 3h ago

Progress, to some extent at least.

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u/horimoka 3h ago

progressive care facility finally catching up to the times

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u/Equivalent-Forest 3h ago

Good for fucking them.

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u/noveltytie 3h ago

I am a wheelchair user, and people frequently take photos of me without my consent. Many other disabled friends of mine experience the same invasion of privacy. Which is to say - next time you are about to take a creepshot of disabled people, I suggest you think twice.

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u/Appropriate_Fold_349 2h ago

I would be part of that rotation. I bet you'd hear some weird shit.

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u/DaKrazie1 2h ago

Someone needs to let granny in the circle 😢

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u/JBM_GIZ 2h ago

As a nurse, helps w nausea, pain, appetite, fluid intake, anxiety, tremors…

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u/EntertainerAlone1300 2h ago

This pic gave me FOMO💔

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u/MammothFront2774 1h ago

Jealous. Job doesn't let me. One day

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u/hopelesscaribou 1h ago

When weed was legalized in Canada, the only demographic that saw an increase in consumption was the 55+ crowd.

Power to them, no harm and some pain relief. Social gatherings outside are a bonus.

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u/xoxo__honey 1h ago

in alot of states it’s legal ANDDDDDDD it helps manage pain and so much more you should rly be more open minded 🙂

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u/nekbelly 6h ago

Honestly so much better than them chain smoking cigarettes

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u/el_d0g 5h ago

Every supplier I’ve ever had always has a bunch of older/elderly customers. It’s a huge green flag for me and has never failed as a litmus test.

It was kinda crazy waiting for one of my old guys, seeing all these boomers standing around and starting to panic (I am not exactly inconspicuous and the meet point was a corner shop so always people around) only for him to pull up and every single one was a customer lmao. My current guy sells to some pensioners that live in my village and has basically become my homie.

While I would never encourage anyone to take up any kind of substance abuse I have to say cannabis has been the best in terms of socialising and making friends. I’m not really a “stoner” anymore (mostly smoke a j before bed bc I’ve had chronic insomnia since infancy) but I have maintained so many friendships with people that started because of just smoking together. Many of them no longer smoke at all.

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u/Certain-Anxiety-6786 5h ago

posting this is kinda creepy

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u/Impossible_Spell5053 4h ago

Yeah this is a weird ass post

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u/W1ldy0uth 6h ago

Good for them

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u/SuckAdickInk 6h ago

I will join them

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u/Musicfan637 6h ago

I will joint them as well.

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u/giveahoot420 5h ago

That's awesome! It helps with countless things. I'm smoking it right now as I type this out.

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u/giveahoot420 5h ago

I just noticed they're in a smoking circle

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u/Munrowo 5h ago

i read this as "medical residents" and was like ???

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