The last time I remember really smoking pot was in '86 or '87 when I was in my 20s. At some party, I smoked not that much (or what I thought was not that much!), and then tried to drive home by myself. The party house wasn't even that far from my apartment, maybe a couple of miles. But it took EVERY SINGLE OUNCE of concentration to get home. And once I arrived in the parking lot... It took even more concentration to get from my car, up the stairs, and through my doorway. I remember actually CRAWLING into my apartment once I'd managed to unlock the door. (This weird amount of pure concentration/will remains interesting to me---I seriously was not able to actually drive or see the road or even figure out how to get up the stairs and into my apartment through normal channels. I remember, to this day, the pure FOCUS that was required for me to make it home.)
(I did smoke a few more times after that thru the '90s, but only very rarely, and just a puff or two whenever someone might have passed it around. The paranoia and the memory of that '80s literal trip home almost completely put me off of it.)
Today I heard from some federal agency on a cable news show that the potency of today's pot supply is about 30% compared to the 5% potency of the supply 30 years ago. (!!!) If what I smoked over 30 years ago at 5% made it nearly impossible to drive or to navigate stairs or my own doorway, then what in the hell are people trying to function with today at 30%---and legally!
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