Smoking weed in playground and no one cares

Subject: Re: Weed

daver wrote: [quote=BoogieKnight]Inform me, please. I think some Amazonian aboriginal tribes may chew on a narcotic leaf of some sort. Are you talking about a culture like that, but with weed? I'd love to know.

Well, you have the whole American Indian peyote thing. But they don't do it down at the schoolyard with their kids. *shrug*

interestingly, almost everyone in rural south america, especially in the mountains, drinks coca tea. and chews coca leaves. granted, the properties of the leaves are quite weak and serve mostly to open up the blood vessels and settle your stomach. (I drank tons when was in salta and jujuy: altitude + afn = bleh) but you can buy the stuff on the street and everyone indulges. and yeah. if you cook down about a kilo of leaves and separate the pure solids from the gloop, you get cocaine. in any case, not advocating for or against doing drugs in front of kids, just sayin' sometimes it's not possible to avoid it. (especially when you're hunched over on the side of the road in the andes puking your guts up because you can't handle the altitude + the meal you ate and someone tells you "just chew this and you'll feel better")

Anonymous wrote: Why is boogie knight lumping being gay with other "attempts to set yourself apart from societal norms" like getting a tattoo and liking hip hop? - did that irk anyone else

can you quote the bit your critiquing? thx.

Anonymous wrote: Why is boogie knight lumping being gay with other "attempts to set yourself apart from societal norms" like getting a tattoo and liking hip hop? - did that irk anyone else

No need for irk-ing, perhaps just poorly phrased on my half.

My exact quote was "I think because there is clear line between being oneself and setting yourself apart from societal norms (potentially a huge list of behaviors ranging from tattoos, clothing, being gay, liking hip-hop, unicycling...) and telling the world around you to fuck off.

What I was trying to get across was that what constitutes being part of the social norm varies wildly from place to place - so e.g. being an out gay teen in parts of NYC or San Fran or other parts, not that shocking (yes I know, depends where). Being an out gay teen in Bumfuck USA may be shocking. (Please do no take offense if you're from Bumfuck anywhere, I'm grasping for examples here). In some parts everybody dresses preppy and has neat hair - so a punked out kid with mohawks and safety pins and the works is gonna stick out.

In both those cases those kids who are being true to themselves aren't hurting anyone by their mere presence as out gay teen or punk. If you have issues with them for what they are, its your problem. In most civilized places in this country they're breaking no laws by being gay or having green hair.

Unlike smoking pot in broad daylight in a playground - which reads as such a brazen display of upfront "outlawerishness" and illegality that it understandbly and predictably sends out signals that may be perceived as threatening to others in their vicinity. In short if you so don't give a fuck about kids and cops and whoever else may see you smoking a joint in a playground in broad daylight - what the fuck else do you not give a fuck about? Who wants that level of bad-assery around kids?

I hope that clears it up a bit. I don't believe being gay is some fashionable trend that all gays and lesbians follow just to piss off squares or however you interpreted my original post to read.

But unicycling is

maybe there needs to be signs like the "no ball playing" posted on the side of buildings. my dad put a picture of a joint with an x trough it on our canoe growing up. although i guess it wasn't overly effective.

Subject: Smoking Pot on our Playgrounds

I live in a very small town in Delaware and can relate to the stories posted here. My 2-year old grandson and I were visiting the playground in his middle-class neighborhood late Holloween afternoon. He was playing with another little boy whose teenage sister and her friends were smoking pot on the nearby benches. I tucked my grandson under my arm and left the playground. I suspect this is a common occurrence everywhere nowadays.

That park has been the hang out for all the kids in the neighborhood those guys never bother anyone and they are more respectful than you know. All of them work and there is a precient across the street and if those cops feel they have better things to do like catch murders and rapist than bother someone sitting with there friends having a drink. also just so everyone knows if it were for those guys there would be no swing, slide or jungle gym there if it were for them. they are the ones that did fundraisers(block parties) to raise the money to buy them.