semi OT - what is going to happen to Hash bash?

Please tell me you roped yourself together BEFORE boarding the bus to Central Campus.   Because that would make the story even cooler.

I was there in ‘84 and was Bursley 7th Doug.  Agree HB was nearly dead then, mostly rumors of days past... gathering downwind of the City’s incinerator flush with the spoils of the $5 tickets.  We all understood...

So Spartans. 

Wasn't there a recruit who visited on the same day as hash bash and we ended up getting dropped because of it?

I’m M88, MLaw91 and pro legalization.  During my A2 days HB was a much smaller deal than in recent years — at least as I can tell from the Left Coast in photo coverage of HB.

During my day MJ was not nearly as prominent as today, so the smaller HB was appreciated for the dialogue it fostered by questioning the legitimacy of prohibition.

I’m now several years into Oregon’s legalization (and three teen daughters), and am incredibly surprised to say that the results here are mixed.  

First, disclosure, I use MJ regularly, but not daily.  The quality is outstanding and the cost VERY low.  Negative effects seem to be less than ETOH overall.  

Here’s my experience in Oregon:

1. MJ is everywhere.  Hard to walk down the street and not see dispensaries incessantly and smell use going on EVERYWHERE.  Maybe we got it wrong and made it TOO available.  Taxes are TOO low for sure.

2. There are too many deniers about the harmful effects. Yes, much, much, much less than virtually every other drug out there, but there is a legion of HEAVY users that are checked out of life.  Maybe that’s a good thing, I don’t think it is.  I’m a criminal defense lawyer.  I rarely, even before legalization, saw straight MJ cases except for grows and major importers.  Now I see less, way less.  That’s a good thing. Instead I see clients who are HEAVY users and make bad choices, no jobs, WAY too much screen time, sitting around becoming disfunctional people. Immature.  Socially delayed.  Often sexually disfunctional.  Good thing, I don’t think it is.

3. It’s a lot harder raising kids after legalization.  I shoot straight w/mine, tell them they have choices, and the best choice is to wait until your (mid) 20s when your brain has a reasonable chance of maturing (I didn’t, but there was a lot less pot back then so I was a rare user in HS and only occasional at M).  

4. The science is pot, in an immature brain, does contribute to social deficits and delays maturation.  Many never catch up.  

Science also is that for the rare person who is predisposed to schizophrenia, pot can usher the onset.  That’s straight from a published researcher at a respected university who incidentally I used to occasionally smoke pot with in law school.  It’s rare, but happens. 

I’m still very pro legalization, but not entirely thrilled w/the Oregon experiment.  Frankly, I’m tired of hearing about it on the news and smelling it all day.  

I’d rather just take an occasional pull off my pen, chill.  Pay higher taxes on pot to fund education.

Hope it goes better in M.

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