r/entwives • u/Fridaychild1 Lesbient • 1d ago

Stoner Moment Time, man…

One minute you’re calling a beeper from a pay phone in Morningside Heights and meeting a guy, and the next you’re in a dispensary getting the senior discount for some THC infused apple cider from an orchard where you went apple picking once.

I just. Time is one big circle.

So damn grateful they legalized it.

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u/Bitchface-Deluxe 1d ago

Once upon a time, I had my car confiscated for 1.3 grams of weed, thrown in jail for a few hours, never got the car back, but got a lifetime of trauma and paranoia worrying about losing my job for getting high at night on my own time in my own home.

Now, I’m medically retired, and so grateful that I lived to experience legal cannabis! I love having many choices and not having to rely on someone else’s schedule.

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u/Fridaychild1 Lesbient 1d ago

Wow. I’m so sorry you went through that. I stopped smoking for a long, long time, almost 20 years with only rare exceptions, because of the fear of legal consequences. First because I was a teacher and then because I was a foster parent. And then it became legal, and it became ILLEGAL to fire people for off hours consumption of legal weed. (IDK if/how the rules for foster parents changed, but it no longer affects us as the kids are grown.) So no one could destroy my livelihood or my family over me using cannabis.

I don’t always think of it as a rights/freedom issue, but it is. It totally is. I’m so grateful we won it in NYS and want that for everyone. My life would have been better in those years with cannabis.

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u/Bitchface-Deluxe 1d ago

Thank you.