[Mb-hair] Re: weed - it's good for the brain!

James Pappaconstantine georgeberger69 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 16 16:35:40 PDT 2005


Yeah.. Ia m not sure that Pot led me to other drugs or circumstance as you said.. But.. Coming from a life where no drugs were around me.. going to a house where they were all around me.. I felt, I smoked Pot.. It didn't kill me, it didn't seem as bad as I had heard.. so why not try hash.. and then some other jungle vine.. Point is for me.. I felt the need to try it all, after I had started.. 
 
And totally agreed.. Everyone has  a closet story... Mine was only written for the underlining story of how I started and what it led to in the whole drug scene... I'm not ashamed of my upbringing nor am I proud of it.. It's just something that happened on my way to here. I have always tried keeping things in perspective..  I always think about people who are less fortunate than me.. I live just above that poverty level but.. I have a home, food, clothes, and family.. there are many people out there who do not..  
 
I'm a happy free spirited hippy.. Born late 62.. JIM

Robin McNamara <olhippie at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
The children are the most important on earth, I have a 37 year old son who 
couldn't make me any prouder & has given me 3 beautiful grand children. If 
you think about it everybody has a "closet" & a story to tell. Jim I really 
do not believe that marijuana made you move to "harder stuff." I tend to 
believe it was 'circumstance's' possibly in your life & who really knows & 
who really cares the bottom line is that you want to teach "the children 
well." Never lose that wonderful mind brother :)

Love forever
Robin





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" 
To: "HAIR List" 
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: weed - it's good for the brain!


> So cool, nothing more important than the kids.
> Peace and Love, Michael
>
>> Thanks Barbara..
>> There were four of us.. I am the oldest and We all walked away from that
>> experience knowing that Our lives were not going to mirror our 
>> childhoods.
>> That's what kills me about people who blame their lives today on 
>> happenings of
>> their childhoods.. I know everyone is different... but how can a person 
>> who
>> was beaten as a child grow up to beat their child? I think you've got to 
>> look
>> at circumstances and realize how distructive they are and vow that things 
>> will
>> be different.. better.. for your child.
>> Parenting is extremely important to me,, So much so that for the last 10 
>> years
>> my kids have lived with me. (My wife and I split 10 years ago) Though we 
>> are
>> still good friends, She wanted her freedom and I wanted to be a good 
>> father.
>> I guess it's all in prioritizing.
>>
>> Anyway.. Thanks for the nice pat on the back.. JIM
>>
>> Barbara Siomos wrote:
>> Wow Jim..... Thank you for sharing, I know you did not do it for this 
>> reason
>> but hell you had a crazy child/teen hood and turned out to be an awesome
>> strong Guy who worries about his children as we all do. I am so sorry 
>> about
>> your Dad and your Grand pop, they were dealt a poor poor hand in life... 
>> your
>> Male role models had it tough which in turn gave you strength
>>
>> You have to take control as a parent... They do not need us as friends 
>> they
>> need guidance from a parent, we can be both and should be both.... Hope 
>> that
>> makes sense.
>>
>> peace and love... I am proud to know you.
>>
>> barbara
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Pappaconstantine
>> Sent: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:51:21 -0700
>> To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
>> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: weed - it's good for the brain!
>>
>>
>> My weed story... a brief background of JIM
>>
>>
>>
>> It's long.. it's crazy... it's sad... but it all turns out well in the 
>> end..
>>
>>
>>
>> Growing up, My father had MS. It began to take its toll when I was maybe 
>> 5 or
>> 6, and quickly over powered the man who used to stand tall as my Dad My 
>> Mom
>> divorced him when I was maybe 8 or 9 and he was sent to City Hospital to 
>> live
>> the rest of his days. (City Hospital was an awful place, the smells of
>> industrial cleanser reeked in the hallways.) We would go visit my Dad, 
>> every
>> week for the first few years.. then every month... till I was about 15 or 
>> 16,
>> then friends and other stuff became more important.. least I thought so 
>> then.
>> (And I guess in all fairness to myself.. I used to leave there in tears, 
>> as he
>> would look at me with these vacant eyes, and was basically a vegetable.
>> drooling, unable to move.. It was more than a kid of 15, hell more than I
>> could take today..) Anyway.. when my Mom divorced him.. I was pissed 
>> off... I
>> grew up believing the better or worst, richer or poorer, sickness and in
>> health.. (Looking at it from an adults perspective.. My Mom was all of 22 
>> and
>> had
>> four kids and a terribly sick husband..I'm not angry with her anymore. My 
>> Dad
>> was just dealt a shitty hand.. hell, my family was.) Anyway.. After the
>> divorce my Mom started bringing guys home from her work and from 
>> wherever..
>> and there were parties and dates and all that stuff.. This really 
>> bothered me,
>> so I moved out and in with my grandparents.. (Mom's side.) From 1974 
>> through
>> sometime in 1976, I lived with them.. My grandmother died in 1975 of a
>> misdiagnosed case of Tuberculosis (Sorry bout the spellings) My 
>> grandfather
>> followed her a year later.. Alcohol induced heart attack.. brought on 
>> from a
>> broken heart. I had to move back home.. My Mom had since married.. Gene, 
>> was a
>> biker, drug dealer and mean drunk, but my Mom saw something in him.. Many
>> nights I would come home to the house upturned from one of his drunken 
>> rages..
>> Many a night I would listen to him hit my Mom.. It wasn't a good place to 
>> be.
>> My younger brother smoked.. All of our friends smoked.. but I who was und
>> er the
>> shelter of my Grandparents for the past few years was not tainted... YET 
>> I got
>> my first Job at 15, it was a summer job and I can remember having more 
>> money
>> than GOD, or so I thought.. After my first check came in, more great 
>> news..
>> Alice Cooper was coming to town.. and my brother and I had been long time
>> fans. So I bought us tickets in June of 77. That day I came home all 
>> excited
>> and went to the fort we had in the neighbors garage..All of the gang 
>> would
>> hang there and roll and smoke pot.. I never smoked, just helped roll, as 
>> I was
>> really good at it, and then pass it by.. the gang would always try to 
>> talk me
>> into it, and that day.. I was just so happy, I said.. fuck it.. and took 
>> the
>> joint.. I remember I didn't even get stoned the first time I smoked.. 
>> Anyway..
>> Mom was smoking, Step Dad was smoking, little brother was smoking.. why 
>> not..
>> My Mom found a little bowl and smoking kit in a jacket pocket maybe a 
>> week
>> after I started.. She told me, She wasn't happy about it and as
>> ked how
>> long I had been smoking.. I replied.. Years. That kinda opened the door. 
>> I
>> then started smoking in the house with my Mom and step father.. We'd have 
>> huge
>> parties pretty much every week.. I mean crazy parties. Like up front at a
>> concert only through the whole house.. I got kicked out of High School 
>> the
>> following year for fighting with the Vise Principal, who dared me to hit 
>> him..
>> (Little man with the Napoleon Complex) So.. I sat home and smoked with my 
>> step
>> father.. playing cribbage and spades, hearts and chess as the revolving 
>> door
>> of clients came by to smoke and buy many flavors of weed.. It got to the 
>> point
>> where I was smoking nearly a half an ounce of dope a day. (that's no
>> exaggeration.) Pot led to Cocaine, and Qualudes, and Crystal Meth and
>> Mushrooms, Hash, Angel Dust, Speed, Acid, THC, PCP... you name it, I did 
>> it..
>> Except I never used needles. I smoked and did anything that was put under 
>> my
>> nose from 1977 til 1983 or 84. I had then joined a rock band and was 
>> learning
>> Bass, I
>> would get stoned and totally not remember the parts just taught to me 
>> moments
>> earlier.. I was so flighty.. So.. The thing that draws many people to 
>> drugs
>> was the thing that pulled me away from drugs.. Rock n roll. I decided 
>> that
>> music meant more to me than drugs and I quit cold turkey.. Not doing 
>> anything
>> for the next 15 years or so.. Now.. maybe once a year if I am around 
>> friends
>> smoking.. I might take two tokes, just to get a slight buzz.. but can't 
>> ever
>> see myself doing it like I used to.. I know many people have no problems 
>> with
>> it.. Looks like the tide is turning with this new research too.. but it 
>> didn't
>> help my memory any.. And.. I would really hate my kids to start that 
>> habit.. I
>> don't think my son would as his asthma is terrible.. but I do worry about 
>> my
>> daughter sometimes.. but she is a good kid and though I am sure she has 
>> tried
>> it.. I don't think it is her scene.. Anyway.. thought I'd share my drug 
>> days..
>> JIM
>>
>> Sean Courtney wrote:
>> On 10/15/2005, Robin McNamara wrote:
>>
>>> There are many things that marijuana is good for both physical &
>>> mental. Our government refuses to study it properly & spreads garbage
>>> propaganda of how bad it is for you. Carl Sagen, said that marijuana
>>> gave him intellectual insight.
>>
>> I don't blame the government, and I'll tell ya why: ours is by far not 
>> the
>> only government to outlaw it. Very few countries allow it.
>>
>> My overall thoughts:
>>
>> 1) Whether it be pot, tobacco, or hickory, putting ANY smoke in your 
>> lungs
>> ain't safe -- that's why the fire department tells you to get as close to
>> the ground as you can, so you don't breathe it in! And that's why your 
>> lungs
>> force it out.
>>
>> 2) The stuff stinks...literally! Either that or the stuff I got a whiff 
>> of
>> at the McCartney concerts (and the one Brian Wilson show I went to where
>> someone lit up a blunt -- I'm sorry, but 1) you shouldn't light up when
>> you're ten feet away from a recovering drug addict, and 2) of all the 
>> songs
>> in the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys catalog to turn on to, "Sloop John B" is 
>> NOT
>> a good one to do that to!!!!) I've been to was rancid....seriously, that
>> stuff smelled like....well, sadly, what my feet smell like right now.
>>
>> 3) However, I wouldn't step in the way of legalizing it. In fact...here 
>> in
>> NJ there's this guy known as "NJ Weed Man" who's been arrested several 
>> times
>> for possessing the stuff. He's RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR!!! and promises to
>> legalize the ganja here in the state. I'm seriously
>> thinking of voting for the dude -- he's much more qualified than the two
>> bozos in the democratic and republican parties who are running. I'm not
>> bashing republicans and democrats or anything, but the candidates for NJ
>> governor just don't give me a good feeling.
>>
>> 4) It really would be in the government's best interest to legalize it, 
>> what
>> with the taxes they could put on it, medicinal qualities, etc.
>>
>> 5) Uhhh...nothing else, really...I just wanted a fifth point. :)
>>
>> --
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