In Celebration of 4/20!

[lbpesq]

Some appropriate tunes for 4/20!

Enjoy,

Bill, tgo

John Prine: 

NRPS with Jerry: 

Little Feat:   

Neil Young:   

Tom Petty:   

Me & My Further sitting in with the band at Hunter Thompson's :   

   

[pauldo]

:-D


My wife surprised us (me) with a Firefly 2+.  And this years seed trays are aligned with that last song, along with our typical brassicas, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc. etc..   Crossing our fingers as there come from some vintage stock.

Happy day to you Bill and thank you for the work that you do.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Lucille Bogan                                               

John Hartford                                               

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen   

Fraternity Of Man                                         

Kasey Musgraves                                         

Peter (who thoroughly enjoyed both your song, and the stuff that inspired it, Farmer Bill)

[lbpesq]

And some more:

Cab Calloway:   

Fats Waller:   

Harlem Hamfats Weed Smoker's Dream:     

The Devil's Flower:   

The Toyes Smoke Two Joints:   

Hey Uncle Sam:   

Monster Hash:     

Toby, Willie & Scott:   

Merle & Willie:   

Bill, tgo

[xlrogue6]

I think this year the Holy Modal Rounders would probably be singing "Please Bogart That Joint, My Friend".

[pauldo]

Yonder Mountain String Band - Two Hits and the Joint Turns Brown.

[elwoodblue]

Hendrix, Rainy Day Dream Away
 

[edwardofhuncote]

I have the strangest craving for brownies this morning... and... what is all this smoke in here?!     

~Gregory  (who spent enough time in green rooms to know better)

[peoplechipper]

I know this is whining from B.C. the home of some crazy weed, but I miss getting actual imported weed; some was crap but some was great and terroir is a thing that we're kinda missing in the hybridized under lights world...

[adriaan]

4/20 - making life stink a little more than it already does.

[pauldo]

Tony, until Wisconsin becomes legal I can’t fully respect your statement.

From a distance I understand the ‘same old same old’ being a redundancy.  We started some from seeds this year, maybe I can send you some Ditch Witch if we have any females.   

Isn’t there still a black market for weed now that it is legal and more expensive?
Truth be told, even in the “underground” there is a lot of cloning...

[lbpesq]

Big black market here in California and most other places too.  Of course this was inevitable when the founding principals of “legalization” were:

1.  Let’s make all that drug dealer money, and then some!, and

2.  Let’s hire someone who knows nothing about cannabis or criminal law to draft regulations for the entire industry.  And the only direction we will give them is to treat it like it’s plutonium laced with cyanide!

So what do you get?   An incredibly over-regulated, over-taxed industry with pricing significantly higher than the previous black market pricing.    And now people are surprised that the black market is thriving?  What did you expect?   Whoever heard of a repeal of prohibition resulting in higher prices?

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

My kids are always telling me "the new stuff is so much better than what you had back then!"
To which I answer, "Oh?  Well, I had the stuff we had back then, and you're full of it."


And sure, this new high-tech weed is great and all - but I really miss opening up Live/Dead and cleaning out the seeds and stems on the non-glossy inside paper they so thoughtfully provided (caught the good parts better than slick paper, while letting the debris roll down to the spine; the Dead were always thinking about their fans........).


And - recalling how outraged we all were when an ounce of "Lumbo went up to $15, I must say Bill makes some excellent points.


Peter

[lbpesq]

“This isn’t your father’s pot” is an oft-repeated refrain from prohibitionists.  Has been for years.  And, to a great extent, it’s true.   But, as I often point out, that doesn’t mean people are getting more stoned.  Rather, it means that people smoke less to get the same effect.   It’s similar to alcohol.  When I was in high school, we used to chug a 12 ounce can of warm beer.  Now I’m more likely to have a scotch or a martini.   Much higher alcohol content than the beer I chugged in High School.  Guess what?  I don’t chug 12 ounces of scotch or gin.

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

And while I have pretty much moved away from distilled spirits, the beer I drink now tends to higher alcohol than the swill of my youth - but I rarely drink a third one (as opposed to the 10-20 that was once my norm; I'm now much more interested in savoring the subtleties of the brew-master's art than in getting knee-walkin').

Peter (whose bedtime routine is also no longer to roll one, and smoke it while rolling 2 more for the bedside table; one for going to the john in the middle of the night, and one for before getting up in the AM)