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Question: “Dear Mr. askapothead,

I had a freind for like 6 years, we were kind of -off and -on but I just found out 2 months ago that she slept with my ex while he and I were together (he told me when I ran into him at safeway) this was 3 years ago, I have a new guy and have moved on but I feel betrayed. I have found out alot of stuff recently like she has also lied to me about alot of stupid and some important stuff like her REAL age( she is 4 years younger than the age she told me and currently under 18), whos the father of her children, what other freinds have done to her, and a whole lot of small stuff- you get the picture. Everytime we would go out she would pick fights with people her being the crazy drunk and me being the stoned calm one I could care less but I would always get drug into and sucked into it. Especially when she would ditch me places when I was drinking to go meet guys. ( she gets around) Normally I would smoke a bowl and say” oh, well” but I decided to call her out and told everyone the truth about her and get rid of her, but she is hell bent on making my life hell and turning mutual freinds against me, she has been making up lies and starting all sorts of drama. Im so glad I got out when I did but Im really pissed and I want to shut her up once and for all what should I do?”

Answer: You sound really spiteful for a pothead. My real advice would be to completely up and move. Get the hell away from all the drama of a place where 17 year-olds can pull off masquarading as 21 year-olds without anyone callin’ ‘em on it. Find some smarter friends with higher standards and let her keep all the old friends… Of course you won’t do that, so the back-up advice is to try to quietly avoid her… all discussion of her including shit-talking and everything. Just pretend she doesn’t exist.

Or you could come up with an elaborate plan to kill her using a 9-iron, a clothes iron, or some multi-vitamins with lots of iron…

Seriously, you know you thrive on the drama… You’ll always have to keep some crazy bitch in your life to keep the chaos going… why even bother?

The bad kind of green: Envy and Jealousy

Posted by Chronic on April 4th, 2006

“Dear Mr. Pothead,

I have this problem. I have been dating this guy for around two months now and he has started to act strange. He gets jealous easily, he claims that I am flirting with my exes, he seems to be trying to make me jealous(and I don’t get jealous very easy), and he claims that I am overly possessive when I joke around about things being “mine”. I don’t know what to do. We have had a good relationship up until now. But ever since one of my exes has come into my life, he has been acting this way. Now, I am not saying that I don’t have my exes in my life, I do, and try to keep them as friends so as not to cause problems where we hang out. But he has just become very upset about this and about me supposedly being possessive and insanely jealous of girls that talk to him. To be honest, I could care less. I have always known there were girls in his life, and because of that have no right to be pissy about it now. But he has always known that I have guys in mine and I don’t see why now he is upset. By the way, he is acting this way towards the guys in my life, but acted weird when it was my ex- girlfriend that I ran into. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle him or why he might be acting this way?

Sincerely,

Confused in KC”

Answer: Almost all men are jealous. It’s just how we work. If you care about this guy, let him know that he’s the most important guy in your life and commit to him. Let him know he’s the only one you’re sleeping with, and the only one you care to be with. If this isn’t the case, break up with him. Leading people on is just shitty.

As far as the ex girlfriend goes, that may be even more threatening to him than another man… It’s tough for a man to compete with a woman sexually.

I think you need to figure yourself out before you go trying to figure out others…

My Roommate Jerks Off ALL Day

Posted by Chronic on April 3rd, 2006

Question: “Oh wise and wonderous pothead,

I need your help. I’m a freshman in college and I share a dorm room with a friend from high school who wacks off all the time like at least 3 times a day. He doesn’t ever lock the door, and I actually brought a girl over the other night and when we walked into my room, my roommate was sitting naked at the computer beating it to internet porn. I feel like I can’t even hang out in my own dorm room.

Help me!

Sick of picking up tissues”

Answer: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! That’s fuckin’ funny right there, I don’t care who you are! Ask Larry!

Your roommate doesn’t like you much does he? I mean you don’t make it to 18 and not learn about flogging the dolphin in front of people. Has it occurred to you that maybe he’s trying to embarrass you or freak you out?

Does he have a big dick he’s trying to show off? I mean there are all kinds of explanations for the behavior… when I was 18, 3 times a day was a slow day… I’d work out 7-8 if I had time. He may just have realy really bad timing…

My advice would be to lay some simple ground-rules. Tell him to lock the door (sounds like you’ve already done that, but reiterate it), give him a copy of your schedule… encourage him to rub one out while you’re in chem lab. Try finding him a girl… or 3.

If none of that works, there’s gotta be some sort of way to change roommates. Talk to the live-in adminstrative types. Someone can get you set up with a different roommate. Just remember that you’re probably trading the chronic masturbator for the kid who saves all his toenails and fingernails in a jar, or the guy who gets drunk and pees all over everything…. Mr Monkey-in-his-hand doesn’t sound so bad now, eh?

Does “legal bud” Work?

Posted by Chronic on March 26th, 2006

Question: “Mr pothead,
I just moved to a new city and have no connections here. I am missing my green and have turned to the internet to attempt to get some. I ordered from the herbal smoke shop which claims to have 100% legal bud, whatever the hell that means. I am just wondering if they are for real or if I just got ripped off. Also, could I get busted for buying over the internet. It seemed kinda risky but I’m desparate. Please give me some words of wisdom. Thanks.

weedo69″

Answer: While the highs are varied and usually differ significantly from that of marijuana, some of the “legal buds” can be fun. I had a high school buddy who had an older brother that regularly ordered weird legal buds from ads in High Times. I smoked a few different varieties, and this was a decade ago so I couldn’t tell you what any of these different smokes were called, but some of ‘em seemed to produce a high. Usually they included instructions to hold the hit in for so long that even without a high, you’d get a head-rush from the lack of oxygen to the brain. Your chances of being ripped off are about 50/50. Some of the stuff works, some of it doesn’t. Some of it makes you trip, some of it puts you to sleep… As far as your chances of getting busted go, that’s probably unlikely. The only chance of that is if the particular plant you’re buying is legal in some states but not yours, and most of these plants are so obscure that there aren’t any laws against them in any state.

What part of the country did you move to? I’m pretty sure that even in the smallest redneck town, there’s a circle of potheads somewhere. Have you tried to make contact? You need to put up a smoke signal. Do you look like a pothead? You should start there. Without actually coming out and saying it, let the world know you’re a pothead. Show ‘em your long hair and sport those concert t-shirts from 10-15 years ago. Talk about conspiracy theories and video games… Let ‘em know what you are. You’ll find a hook up. Find a dive bar near your pad and show up an hour before last call on a tuesday or wednesday when there’s only a few people there. Strike up a conversation with the drunk long-hairs. There’s pot everywhere, you’ve just gotta look for it.

Pretty Nugs, Ugly Nugs, Skinny nugs, Fat Nugs

Posted by Chronic on March 24th, 2006

Question: “Dear mr. almighty pothead,

This is kind of a stupid question but maybe you can help me. Ok I just started smoking marijuana about 6 monthes ago and i usually only smoke “mids”. But anyway my friend went into sellin and he was tellin me that he had some “dro”. Me sense i just started i couldnt tell if it was really “dro” or not. He was only sellin to people that dont smoke long which led me to believe that it really wasnt dro. But i was wondering is their anyway possible without having it infront of you or even having it infront of you, you can tell if it’s “dro” or just mids. Thanks!

p.s. I love the site man keep up the good work!”

Answer: The term “dro” is short for “hydro” which is short for hydroponic. Hydroponics is the growing of plants without soil. Usually hydroponic marijuana is grown in a water-solution that’s rich in plant nutrients. Hydroponically grown pot isn’t necessarily better pot depending on what part of the country you’re in. “Mids” as you call them are usually kind bud plants that went hermaphroditic and fertilized themselves or had a male plant hiding amongst the females. The quality of the pot usually doesn’t suffer much, you just have to deal with seeds. There are also what I call schwag-mids that are really really good schwag buds that were never bricked up.

As far as being able to tell what’s what, generally I’d say look for the crystals, but there are so many other factors… I think being able to tell the difference just comes with experience. I have a buddy who recently showed me some of the ugliest nug I’ve ever seen. It was a dark green with a brown tint to it. There were minimal crystals on it. It was super sticky though, and tasted amazing. I’ve also know a kid who grew some stuff back in the 90s and it looked like the prettiest nug you’ve ever seen in high times, and it smelled incredible, but it took several bong rips to catch even a slight buzz off this stuff.

Unfortunately since weed’s illegal, you’re kind of at the mercy of the the dealers in your neighborhood. My only real advice is to befriend these people and try to make your relationship one of friends who happen to do business instead of one of pure business. It also helps to talk to other potheads whenever you have the chance. Different circles and cliques have different dealers. You can compare products and prices to get a feel for “the norm”.

There’s a definite difference in the smell of real “kind” and “kind-of”. I couldn’t describe this to you, but you’ll learn it if you smoke a little longer.

The biggest thing though, like I said before, is to make sure you’re only buying from people who know what they’re doing and whom you trust.

So… uh… I sorta killed my girlfriend’s cat

Posted by Chronic on March 23rd, 2006

Question: “Hey man,

recently i got super stoned on the finest bud i have ever smoked and proceeded to mow my front lawn. I live out in the country so natraly i have a big yard…Riding lawn mower bitches! Un fortunatly, i fell asleep on it only to wake up to a horrible screeching sound and opened my eyes just in time to see my girlfriends cat being spit into the clippings bag. Two questions:

1- where should i dispose of the pieces?
2- should i buy a new one that looks the same?
3- should i tell her?

Please give me some suggestions or at least something to make me laugh, and possibly use in the conversation about her muttilated cat.

TexanBud”

Answer: First off, I have to call bullshit on this story/question, but I’ll respond anyway. You have a few different options as I see it. You could:

A.) Leave the cat pieces in with the grass clippings and pretend to be clueless about the entire incident.

B.) Start putting up “lost cat” posters around town.

C.) Casually mention to her that you saw some coyotes near the property

D.) You could start killing other cats in the neighborhood and make your girlfriend think there’s a crazed cat-killer on the loose.(be careful about hiding evidence if you choose this option)

E.) Tell your girl that a Korean family has moved in a mile away, and you heard pets have been coming up missing.

F.) Act really paranoid about bird flu. Share news articles about cats that have been infected.

G.) Tell her you accidentally killed her cat, take her out to dinner, buy her a whole bunch of shit, and deal with the fact that every time she gets mad at you from this day forth that you’ll be reminded that you’re a cat-killer.

If this is a real story, you’re fucked, bro. You have to tell her if you care about her… hell you have to tell her even if you don’t care about her… but if you don’t care about her, it’d be wise to break up with her right after you tell her, because as i said before, for the rest of eternity whenever this woman is upset with you she’ll bring up the damn cat.

The Marijuana Diet

Posted by Chronic on March 7th, 2006

This poster responded to the previous question titled: “Pot makes me paranoid, Does this weed make my ass look fat?”

Question: “hey, i have a question about that. I used to smoke every day be high all day.. all my friends wud get “the munchies” and i would never be hungry at all. I would actually forget if i had eaten that day or not.. and being high made me feel like i wasnt hungry.. i have a fast metabalism does that have enthing to do with it. i actually lost weight.. and to start out i only weighed at least 105lbs. Im 17 and when i smoked i lost 15lbs is that normal. I am a girl so naturally i dont eat alot to begin with and i am very self conscience about my weight. weed actually helped me to stay in shape and when i wasnt high i ate little amounts… i think marijuana is very healthy. lol, atleast on my part.”

Answer: I get the feeling you only wrote me to frustrate me with your poor grammar and brag to the female readers about how thin you are. The only explanation I can come up with is that it’s all part of your eating disorder, and since you’re so concerned about your weight you blocked out the munchies. In doing so, you learned how to further suppress your appetite.

Your fear of getting fat from too many munchies led you to abstain from eating even healthy ammounts when you were high. The more often you were got high, the more often you found yourself denying yourself little munchies.

I’m talking out my ass. This is the best answer you’re gonna get from a pothead. Maybe you should try a doctor.

Question: “Actually i have 2 questions.Question #1. ok so heres my story…i used to be a really big stoner, and then i got arrested for it acouple of years back, and quit for 6 months. ever since then every time i smoke, i get all like “anti-social” compared to like getting all giggly, and be able to conversate with other people. i was wondering, if maybe you knew why? and for Question #2. why are stoners not fat…about 95% of people i know who smoke on a day to day basis are not fat, yet they eat like they have never been fed food before? just kinda always wondered that…?”
Dan

Answer: In response to Question #1, you’re dealing with “newbie” syndrome. The first high’s gonna make your paranoid. You’ve been hiding this behavior and repressing it for months on end in order to avoid legal consequences. The paranoia was already there, it was just intensified by the weed. That’s what weed does, it intensifies your mood. If you go into it happy and expect positive results, you’ll get positive results. If you’re upset, it’s just going to intensify that mood.

As for Question #2, I don’t know what’s up with this. I know stoners of all shapes and sizes. It may all be metabolic… I’m only hypothesizing here, but the faster one’s metabolism, the less fat is available to store THC, consequently the THC level drops more rapidly in these individuals prompting them to increase dosage accordingly… and it’s only the skinny stoners that have to smoke all the time to maintain the proper amount of THC in their system.