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Teenage Weed Culture and Growing Up in the Suburbs
from Fat Wins · #51
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2 minTim describes his teenage years smoking weed and cyphers on Long Island, roving with friends with nowhere to go, and argues that adolescence is the ideal time to experiment with drugs before adult responsibilities set in.
- 9:09Tim notes the wine cost at least $4, framing his drinking patterns as wasteful rather than measured.
- 9:31Most people he knows smoke all the time, multiple times a day, not occasionally.
- 9:56Tim says he never regrets not having a relationship with drugs now, but thinks young people should smoke a lot of pot when they're 17 with no obligations.
- 10:19That 15-to-21 window—or earlier with a fake ID—is when you should be able to drink and smoke without restrictions.
- 10:36Teen life meant roving bands of kids smoking behind stores, at the beach, or in somebody's car because there was nowhere else to go.
- 10:55Kids would stand outside liquor stores asking adults to buy them bottles, or he'd leave home just to sit in a parking lot at a bookstore to escape being inside.