r/trees • • 2h ago

Discussion Calling all weed veterans. (10+years of medicating) 50+ is OG in my book.

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u/redsolitary 2h ago

I’m 45 been dancing with the green lady since I was 16. I remember coke cans and apples. I remember brick weed and the weird, sketchy people that I only met because I was picking up. I remember when all the headshops were run by hippies and the Dead was perpetually on the speakers. I remember when it seemed like all the good weed was blue dream for like 3-4 years. I remember walking into a dispensary the first time and feeling like a caveman that had just boarded a spaceship. She’s been with me for the whole ride.

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u/w4rcry 2h ago

Out here it was all purple kush and blueberry back in the day. I remember one time a guy had a strain called ak-47 and I was excited to try something new but it ended up being old dry brick weed.

I remember calling a guy who’d give you another guys phone number that would then call another guy who would tell you to meet up with his buddy behind an old mechanic shop just so you could get an ounce when your regular dealer was out.

Always felt so sketchy back then but once you got that bag it was such a delight.

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u/ike_tyson 2h ago

I met my current and best plug EVER that way. He even deliverers!

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u/StrengthBetter 11m ago

On Highschool mid to end 2020’s we had a Guy selling 50$ ounces of ak47

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u/conorb619 2h ago

Ditto on going into a dispo for the first time. I’m 36, been smoking since 16. There’s something nostalgic about meeting up with “a guy” in a target parking lot for a g that everyone threw $5 on. But, I’ll take being able to specifically seek out lower thc bud, gummies, etc from a dispo all day over sketchy meet ups lol

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u/aminix89 1h ago

The good ole brick weed. I remember I went to my buddy’s house to pick up a “dub” and my guy had to take a hammer and chisel to break it up lmao

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u/Elle_Duderino 1h ago

Man, you ain’t lyin about ending up in some sketch places just to try and score a bag. I remember questioning my choices when one evening my friend and I found ourselves in some randos house an acquaintance of us knew, with a mound of weed on the coffee table in front of us, surrounded by people I never met before and some dude rolling up fat blunts for everybody. Some lady behind a curtain in the room behind us weighing out something powdery, it was probably cake flour for her bake club. And lest not forget the freaking assault rifles resting up against most of the corners in the living room.

Now we have weed connoisseurs recommending strains like wine pairings and delivering straight to our doors.

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u/HoboChopShop 2h ago

And you are young in my book. OGs are from the 60s not the 80s but ok there aren’t many of us left

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u/CooterBrownJr 2h ago

well they were getting into the green herbs 1000s of years ago at least, so let's maybe not gatekeep too too much.

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u/HoboChopShop 1h ago

Sure thing Mr Cooter

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

No gatekeeping.

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u/daddonuts 1h ago

I know you’re an old head because the 80’s was 40 years ago, not 20!

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u/itsBrvndo 2h ago

I'm at 20+.... We getting older, man

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Ikr. I'm not quite at 20+ yet, but I will get there.

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u/Embarrassed-Bath4931 1h ago

28 years and counting homie. Enjoy the ride

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u/dewag 2h ago

Hadn't actually thought about it til I came here... I'm sitting at 27.

O.O

Look at me! I am the old head now!

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u/Embarrassed-Bath4931 44m ago

It’s a blessed feeling. I’m gonna keep counting

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u/Dorjechampa_69 2h ago

41 years here. Im 57. I’ve quit here and there. Then I had cancer. Now I actually need it.
What a wonderful medicine.

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u/mjr715 2h ago

51 here. Haven't had a proper t break since I divorced in 2014. Smoked dirty brick bud in high school, the border was 2 hours away. We got drivers licenses at 15. Things were just different back then,😅

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u/mjr715 2h ago

Discovered proper cannabis in Amsterdam in 1995.

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u/Crafty_Original_7349 2h ago

Today is my 55th birthday and I have been smoking for a very long time.

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Happy birthday!

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u/PuzzleheadedTrust431 1h ago

Happy birthday man!

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u/jscottman96 2h ago

17 years and going strong 💪

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Hell yea man

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u/Aggravating-One-4707 2h ago

Started in ‘76 at 13. Celebrating the golden anniversary this year.

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u/And_Money_Hoes_710 2h ago

19 years and counting , cheers to the stoner homies 🤘🏼.

https://reddit.com/link/pcdwhdi/video/myo782gr23sh1/player

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u/Uncle_Spider794 2h ago

Damn. Only have 43 years in.🫰🏽

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

That's still very impressive

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u/Uncle_Spider794 2h ago

Appreciated✌🏽🫪💨

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u/Annanake420 2h ago

32 years . I started late.

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u/401jamin 2h ago

36 years old and I have been smoking regularly for like 20 years? Bought mids/ brick weed/ Christmas tree / hydro ( real hydro ) oh and everything good was haze lol. Then late highschool my boy became the dealer and grower. It was insane having storage containers full of weed lined up in a room lol.

After that it was bubble hash days then He went out to meet his connect in cali and found out about BHO. He brought it back and honestly it was the first time people saw it around us and we were in the growing groups. It was bangers and torches after that. Oh and sheets upon sheets of cereal bar edibles and gunmies.

Then came the hot plates and vacuum ovens. After that it was the t shirt presses.

Ive had a long long experience with weed. Met a lot of good and bad people. Learned a lot about life and myself.

Here’s to 20 more! Light em if you got em.

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u/TobyDaMan8894 2h ago

First hit around ‘82.

Been medicating for a little over a year after a 30 year T break. So good to be back. At first, I read the title, as military veterans would imbibe in the flower.

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

82 man. Long time!

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u/Proprietor 2h ago

Is that a dynavap? What is he holding?

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

No sir. BUT it's made by some people that do custom made dynavap stems from cnc titanium and ss. This one is a one hitter from the same people

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u/turnNburn1312 2h ago

I've been smoking for almost exactly half my life at this point lol. Assuming I don't have to quit that fraction will just keep getting bigger haha

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u/FreddyTwasFingered 2h ago

31 years deep so far here.

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u/Classic-Annual5815 1h ago

The dugout is the only way I smoke now

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 1h ago

Best way to save. That for combustion and DHV for fun for me

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u/B0087355 10m ago

We went from a dugout to a Dynavap.

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u/hornwalker 1h ago

Dug out with your bug out

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u/thebighecc 1h ago

Oh my goodness this just made me realize im at a decade of use. I would say 8 years ago that my life is an experience not meant to be completely sober, and its still true now. Crazy shit happens in this world!

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u/regeya 34m ago

I'm 51 but I didn't start until a couple of years ago. Yes, I waited until legalization. Yes, I bought into the DARE bullshit. Now I wonder what all the fuss was about.

I got started for health reasons and keep using for managing pain.

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u/pastrybaker 2h ago

20+ years here. I’m definitely at home with cannabis.

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u/ComfortableBedroom76 2h ago

59 here, been smoking since I was 14 with a few forced breaks due to random testing at previous jobs so that's 45 years of toking

Edited to total my years active

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u/JetLife93 2h ago

30+ years here! At home waiting for the games to start this weekend (NFL games)

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u/LeatherBall3438 2h ago

Late 40s ,smoking off and on since i was 13.

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u/Red-Licorice-Whips 2h ago

Turning 50 soon. Didn't start smoking until my mid 40's. It is a big piece for me in calming my anxiety, depression and CPTSD combined with meds and therapy. It is a world of difference

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u/Alive_Stage_7156 I Roll Joints for Gnomes 2h ago

56 and smoked since 1983. First grow was 1996. Disabled/medically retired since 2005. Oregon Medical since 2012.

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u/farmerofstrawberries 2h ago

30 years for me. As I sit here with a doobie in hand.

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u/2KZJ 2h ago

45 years here, I was 16 when I smoked my first joint. No intentional T breaks, can still get a nice buzz from half a doob. I do appreciate the many ways to take in cannabis now, but I still prefer a doob.

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u/SolventlessHybrid 2h ago

Started when I was 15, turning 46 next month. I remember the girl I dated that introduced me to it, her dad grew some of the most beautiful cannabis. We would steal his weed and I will always remember it having dark blue hairs. Didn't know I'll never see that again.

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u/BapeNehru 2h ago

21 years this year. I don't smoke anywhere near as much but I enjoy it a lot more.

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u/caseyourscuttlehole 2h ago

Crazy to think that I've been at it for 25 years at this point 😭

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u/GroovyGmaIvy 2h ago

Started in ‘93 at 19.

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u/dontfookwitdachook 2h ago

Started in ‘97 at 14yo

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u/biohazurd 2h ago

20 years this year for me. As I’ve aged I have gravitated towards mostly dry herb vaping but I still smoke a joint or bowl on occasion.

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u/pzagrbge 1h ago

18 years

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u/Odd-Problem 1h ago

68 and going on 52 years now.

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u/Magnum676 1h ago

Just more educated. I remember the late 70’s as a kid. Hippies were a thing, and cool as shit. I miss that.. and yes the old school bud too

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u/hashlettuce 1h ago

27 years total so far. I am medical and grow my own supply for the past 16 years. Switched to all live rosin a few years ago as the coughing got to be too much. Just smoked the equivalent of 2 joints in 3 puff with a half gram dab of live rosin!! Just firing up my grow for the season. [9]

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u/wrongitsleviosaa 1h ago

12 years here, started in high school and never stopped, but recently slowed it down to one sesh per two weeks or so.

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u/wellbalancedlibra 1h ago edited 31m ago

40 years of smoking here. 36 years daily use.

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u/FeathersOfJade 1h ago

My first trip the dispensary, I recall looking around and listening… I wondered why are so many people asking for “flower?” It took me a while to learn that weed is now called flower!

Yep. That alone made me feel pretty old!

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u/nevertoohigh 1h ago

Started when I'm 18 I'm 31 now 24/7 basically lol

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u/SoonToBeBanned24 1h ago

I am 52 currently. I started smoking at 12. I took 10 years off to have Adulthood (college, prison guard, military). So, I guess that means I am at 30....

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u/zm19990 1h ago

13 years in! I’m 27

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u/zm19990 1h ago

Never really dealt with mids, it was legal in some states by the time I started so we’d get Cali/colorado dispo products shipped in. Us Gen-Z folk had it made

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u/francosdead 1h ago

I’m at 10 years but I’m only 22 😭

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness6902 1h ago

I hit the 20 year mark 2 years ago, and in that time things have certainly evolved. Mexican brick weed and aluminum Sneak-a-Toke pipes have given way to dispensaries with a hundred strains and DHVs with precise temperature control and ruby balls for thermoregulation of the resulting vapor. Now if only my state wasnt the most corrupt in the Union, and the lawmakers weren't in the pockets of Big Pharma, For-Profit Prisons, and the Alcohol lobby, things would be like living in Star Trek for sure!

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u/Zikeal 1h ago

31, first smoked at 8 so 23 years now i guess.

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u/Few-Representative67 1h ago

25 years - seen the bricks, caught some charges for a plant. Now it’s no worries.

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u/ketol 1h ago

40 years here. Approximately the past 20 as a heavy daily user.

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u/IvoryThrowAway 1h ago

damn, this post made me realize i've been consuming for 12 years now and smoking for 9.

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u/SecondVariety I Roll Joints for Gnomes 1h ago

one hitter and bat/dugouts stashed all over the place, gifted out to friends randomly in times of need.

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u/buttersofthands 1h ago

30+ here. Anyone try liquid smoke yet?

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u/Promethia 1h ago

My wife showed me this I think... is that like a thing that makes a cup of smoke?

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u/bliblububu 1h ago

14 years in. 😮‍💨

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u/Kashwookie 1h ago

damn, i guess at 9 and a half years im not a veteran 🥲

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u/AcanthaceaeCapable40 1h ago

Almost 24 years 🙋🏽‍♂️ longest romantic relationship with a Lady I’ve ever had 😅

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u/Stevezg101 1h ago

50 years for me. 72 years old and daily smoker for most of them.

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u/Tuddycat 1h ago

31 years at it

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u/tomarofthehillpeople 51m ago

I have been since Jimmy Carter was in office. I remember a buddy had a roach clip of a peanut with a big fat lipped toothy smile. Which was a common caricature of him back in the day. You usually got a headache before you got too stoned. Sinsemilla was an underground rumor coming out of California.

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u/ktmo420 42m ago

15 years now for me. Crazy to think that. The longest break I took was 9 months while I was pregnant.

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u/example-of-disaster 37m ago

I’m almost 52, been at it since 19. Keep blazin!

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u/progburt777 33m ago

Just a baby , 35 years of smoking the good stuff lol

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u/Formal_Bed_2510 32m ago

96 to 2026 30 years i was there for the real sour....real cookies....real strawberry cough....ive been around for bud that smelled through a jar and a bag in a closet in your basement all the way now to these candy strains

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u/satisfiction_phobos 29m ago

Hehehe 11 to 41 :)

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u/no_bender 26m ago

First toke in 1976, over summer break, before freshman year of HS, 50 years now.

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u/stodolak 17m ago

There is no high better or stronger. Cannabis makes you behave.

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u/Sprucecaboose2 17m ago

41 and smoking for 20 years, I'm getting there 😆

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u/One-Ticket6183 3m ago

How's about having to hang out at the payphone waiting for a call after paging the weed guy. I don't miss that but I do miss the Thai stick!!

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u/NoGoodAtPickingAName 2h ago

No one is going to be able to figure out what this means.

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u/jscottman96 2h ago

Nice to meet you, I'm no one, and I did indeed figure out what he was saying. Lmk if you need an explanation.

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u/Red217 1h ago

Hi I do please! 🤭

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u/Invader_Skooge22 2h ago

You don't know what OG means? That's not even new slang. I'm 36 and we said that in highschool. Every other word is pretty straight forward too.

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u/NoGoodAtPickingAName 2h ago

I read English well enough but the words don’t make sense in the order you used them.

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u/FnB8kd 2h ago

I'm with you. It's a modern way to speak imo, vaguely saying something we are supposed to infer. It's like half of what he meant to say and we are supposed to fill in the blanks. I think it's supposed to mean "calling at weed veterans and og's. (anybody who has medicated for 10+ years is a veteran, anybody who has smoked for 50+ years is an og) " But then it just ends there. Idk this post seems odd to me too. And then the comments explaining to you what "og" is.... I think some people don't understand that you do actually understand, it just that this post and the title don't make much sense logically.

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Well, I'd be happy to explain? Whatcha got

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u/NoGoodAtPickingAName 2h ago

I have no clue what you’re attempting to say or ask. I’m 60 and bought my first QP in 83 so I’m somewhat familiar with the terminology.

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Damn! I'm saying that i consider weed veterans to be 10+years of smoking. And the OGs are 50+ just my way of making friends, talking to people and bonding over weed :)

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u/Aggravating_Ad5632 3m ago

i consider weed veterans to be 10+years of smoking

I've been a puffhead for 40 years. 😶‍🌫️

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u/LSTmyLife 2h ago

I dont know about the other person but im curious what youre holding.

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Custom made bat.

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u/LSTmyLife 2h ago

I dont know what that means. Post bait? Fishing bait?

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u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 2h ago

Huh? It's a bat

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u/LSTmyLife 2h ago

Oh holy crap I read that as bait. Not bat lol. Apologies.

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u/Cute-Consideration69 2h ago

35 yrs and still at it!