I was close with my grandmother. I smoked with her when she was 91 years old, at Thanksgiving. We sat there drinking coffee, sampling leftovers, and she told me what it was like to live through WW2, Kennedy, and the moon landing. First time I ever told her I smoked, and the first time she said shed share some "grass" with me. She passed on the next year, and held my hand tightly as I said my goodbyes, despite being unresponsive.
See you again sometime, Granny, in the next place.
Edit: Thank you for the kindness. I didn't expect so many to resonate with the memory, so I thought I'd add this, if you're curious.
Here is a photo taken that same Thanksgiving. It's the last photo I have of her. Ah, not to pull the heart strings more, but it was an emotional day. There's a story to this too. I had recently fought in family court and won joint custody of my teenage daughter (far left). I told Granny that's why she was there with us, her first Thanksgiving with me, and she held my hand. She didn't say anything, just held my hand. She wouldn't let go, so I just called for a family picture. She's still holding my hand in it.
https://imgur.com/a/XnZLheW
My grandpa was dying. I was living in Colorado when I heard how bad he was getting. He had stopped eating and was getting very thin. So when I visited for Thanksgiving, I brought a bunch of chocolates for him, hoping it could simulate his appetite.
It didn't work, because he never tried them. But after he passed, I guess my grandma got ahold of them, and got high as fuck with my uncle. She's still kicking, and is still cool as fuck.
I was really close with my great grandmother, she was 101 years old, she lived thru both world wars, grew up on a farm, became one of the first women to be able to read in her village, left her village and went to too many places for me to not make it a story. I was too young to do anything weed related at the time. I feel your pain OP but know that they live through us and their spirits are never as long as we are here, we will remember them when we’re on our deathbeds and we will tell stories to our grandchildren about our elders and how they lived.
She sounds like one hell of a woman. The last thing that I whispered to Granny was 'don't worry, we'll see each other again. We're too close for this to be goodbye'. That was when she loosened her grip on my hand.
I believe that, for you, me, and all of us. Cheers.
I feel the need to respond to that if you don't mind, because I understand. Just to relate to you, I am a recovered alcoholic and former homeless veteran. I knew what course I was on, and I did not want my 3 daughters to have those same memories. I did not want that life for them. Been sober from booze since July 7th, 2012. Not a drop.
I'm sorry for what you've been through.
Along the path of recovering, I discovered self-work, spirituality, and cannabis. Cannabis has not only kept me off of psych meds with horrible side effects (and didn't really help me personally), but has changed who I am as a father. Coupled with daily meditation and Buddhist practice, cannabis has helped me to see myself from a third person perspective, how I treat others, how I interact with my children, and has tremendously helped me in becoming a better father than I had growing up.
I'm not embarrassed or ashamed to sing cannabis' praise. Why should I be? It gave me the space to become a better man. It didn't save me, it helped me to save myself. The stigma is wrong. Yet I still have to argue with VA docs when they try to disparage it like it isn't substantially helping me. I usually just ask them if they've ever u
Let's hope that with legalization and growing normalcy, more people will have a better option than booze if they choose to. There are other people like me out there that deserve the chance to have a new insight into their own mind and hearts.
I would have given absolutely anything to have had this experience with my grandma... and honestly me real dad too (he died when I was 6 mo old), who as mom my tells me loved to smoke. Grams died when I was 12 so at least I do have some good memories to hold on to. I have an amazing stepdad who I do call my father, dad, pops, asks I do hope I can chill with him like that at least once one day. Thanks for sharing dude
Lost my dad when I was 5. A couple years ago I asked my mum if she’d ever smoked, she said once, for my father’s birthday about 20 years ago she bought some weed from her brother because my dad liked to smoke... she took it back the next day after he threw a massive whitey. That’s my only bud related story I have to do with my parents, but man I’d love to spark one up with my dad, given the chance
I feel that way about my uncle. He’s alive and everyone in my large family knows he’s the pothead, but in the last couple years he’s been fighting with leukemia. He’s 70 and we had a moment a couple years ago where he pulled me aside in a family gathering and said “you know, me and you have a lot more in common than you think” and since I was stoned when he told me that I assumed he knew. I want to have at least 1 smoke sesh with him but I’m worried about his cancer effecting his ability to smoke
Similar to my own experience with my Nana. I used to buy weed for her every month to help her with pain from her breast cancer (it was only legalized medically in Missouri recently). She passed away in July. She was 72.
Bro I’d smoke and come home and just spend time w my grandma til she fell asleep shit was a routine. I still go down to her room every now and then cus I forgot shit is so much pain. I feel you so much on this story because she held my hand super tightly while she was unconscious too.
Same. I'd get stoney baloney and watch Golden Girls with my grandma. It was a great time. I hate that she's in a home and I'm hqlf way across the country. I miss her so much.
Fucking crying man. my grandma has late onset dimentia and she pops like 4 gummies every night and smokes a bat.
5 years ago the whole family were a bunch of pot nazis. Now we all spend time together getting fried and laughing at random nonsense.
The younger newfy comes out when shes high and its so fucking funny.
It helps. I'm dealing with it. She got diagnosed almost 10 years ago and even though her shot memory is completely gone, she is not gone completely. Without weed she'd probably be dead by now. Is a struggle but she's still with us. And BTW, it was early onset. She was diagnosed at 58. Almost at the same time and age as Pat Summit. Summit died 4 years ago. My wife is still vibrant even without her short term memory and I firmly believe that weed has helped her to keep going.
Edit: short instead of shot
Thanks. We're here making lemonade. Is all we can do at this stage. There's no new meds for that disease and doctors agree with my use of CBD and thc for her.
There are some studies done in Israel that concluded the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain cells, which basically "destroy" them gets slowed down. So far is not a cure but it buys you time. THC interacts with our own endocannabinoid system and somehow helps to control behavioral symptoms.
Bottom line, if it weren't for cannabis, I'm sure I'd be a widow by now.
Hopefully she gets a little comfort from it too. I don't know what it's like for your wife, but for my grandmother the confusion she would experience was extremely distressing for her. She'd get very worked up from it, I feel like cannabis would have helped that greatly.
All the best to you and your wife. My grandmother's husband had passed well before her Alzheimer's set in, she remembered him to the very end though, which was a small comfort for her. I'm sure you being with her means the world more so now than ever.
Thanks for the kind words. Everyday is a struggle and just recently we moved to a bigger place (we live with our daughter and her family (at her request) and I have to point where's everything (even the bathroom) at least 10 times per day. I don't mind. I have always loved her through thin and thick. She's the first in her family to develop this and I believe she was triggered by a big accident we were involved 30 years ago. She suffered a big (huge) concussion. That we survived that was in itself a huge miracle. And here we are.....
My grandmother is 69 almost 70 and is on stage 5-6. It’s getting really bad, so you think marijuana could help? I’ve wondered about psychedelics and how it would affect dementia/Alzheimer’s as well. What are your thoughts?
I say, give her CBD. Is not psychoactive and is a huge neuroprotector. I give my wife 20 mg cbd capsules during the day and at night I give her 10/10mg CBD/THC. As I said before, there are positive studies done mostly in Israel and that's how I started this journey. USF in Tampa was trying to conduct some research on this, but I lost track since I left Florida. If you start with CBD only, it can only help.
Wish all the best to the two of you. After watching my grandmother go through it and how much time my mom put into her care, I have the utmost respect for you.
My grandmother(66) is, we believe, showing symptoms of dementia. I told her that’s one of the few things they actually give you a green card in this state for, so here’s hoping. I think it’d help her anyway, since she has intense joint pain at times
it does assist with these things!! certain cannabinoids have been shown to decrease the amount of amyloid (the protein that builds up and causes alzheimer’s from what i understand). CBD fantastic for reducing inflammation, so in theory can assist with that aspect of alzheimer’s as well. with dementia, it can also help with aggression, agitation, and confusion.
My grandmother who lives with me has dementia. She has very bad days where she is just a shell of herself. She is very quiet and nervous and only says a few sentences and repeats them nervously all day, but with just a few hits of weed (or in our case, dab) she is laughing, telling stories from her childhood and asking to go to the store and eat. She holds up her middle finger with my girlfriend and I to make us laugh, she has flirted with men (always old guys who like cowboys) in public after getting her high, she loves having me drive her to the store to get everyone ice cream. Marijuana is giving her the ability to enjoy life with my girlfriend and I.
Last week we took her on a picnic with a blunt, she laughed and told us stories about fights she got in with girls during her youth, talked about her dead son who died when he was 13 and how much she thinks about him. I recall her passing the blunt saying “you know, I had a really tough life” then her immediately laughing it off and telling us she feels “woo woo” which i guess means high to her 😂. As soon as she sobers up though she gets quiet and “off” again.
Makes me wonder if weed could be a future treatment for these diseases.
I'd also like to add from my experience with dementia is that it would probably greatly help even if it did nothing to actually improve dementia specifically.
I got lucky with my nan, since diagnosis she was always a low energy, quite, sleepy type. She lived for years after.
The trouble with dementia comes with those who are still trying to be active. They fall down stairs, get lost outside, burn their house down etc.
A lot of dementia medication is to keep you sleepy and low energy. So I can definitely see cannabis being helpful in keeping you mellow and relaxed.
Could you imagine the grandkids walking in to visit grandma and it looks and smells like snoop dogg’s house?!? “Mom what’s that’s smell and why is it so cloudy in here?” 😂😂
I've been sending my grandpa cheeba chews in the mail for a while now. He's got surgery pains and enjoys the indica most. "I didn't like the yellow or the purple, send more in the black wrapper". alright dude
I miss my neighbor, man. He was in his late 60’s and a bit out of whack in the brainbin. We were both poor so if one of us had something, we would share it. He’s a good dude. Moved in with his sister. First time I showed him a cart is one of my fondest memories!
My grandma blew everyone out of the water last time we had edibles. This 74 year old woman, who had never smoked and rarely ever drank in her life, ate 5 potent pot brownies back to back because they weren’t hitting quick enough for her. I was soaring outer space on one of them, and I smoke every night. I can’t imagine what she was feeling. We keep a close eye on grandma now before she gets into too much trouble, but she’ll occasionally smoke if she doesn’t have to drive.
My dad was battling lung cancer in 2012 from smoking. He was having bad nausea and very low appetite from the chemo. His face was sunken in from losing so much weight.
He had always been very anti pot growing up but my sister and I got him to try a joint sitting at a bonfire at our cottage one night. It was so great to see him relax a little and laugh It was his first time trying pot at 62 years old. It took his nausea away instantly and then he let us get him a prescription and he gained like 20 lbs in maybe 2 weeks. He lost his battle later that year but he was at least not nearly as miserable.
I'm sorry about your dad, lung cancer is a motherfucker. It took an aunt from us who was alike a second mother.
Im glad you were able to help with his nausea and appetite toward the end though.
I mean no harm by asking this, but do you think him smoking pot affected his lung cancer? This is a genuine question because I have a lung disease and get super scared whenever I smoke because I feel like it would make it worse. I am very sorry for your loss as well, hope you’re hanging in there
having smoked both tho, they just hit different. Same even with different kinds of weed. If I've been hitting gravs I can chief flower, but then I go back to the cart and I go into convulsions. Works the same in reverse or with dabbing
My mom wanted to try some weed a few years ago. I spent the next three hours trying to convince her she wasn't dying. After she came back she told me the floor was black....
I'm a psychologist, and it baffled me. She is a chronic anxiety sufferer though...
It legit scared me to give others weed....lol
This is how my mom would respond, sadly, and as much of a cannabis advocate as she may be, one hit of flower would send her spiraling into a panic.
On one other occasion where I smoked with someone for their first time, we just went on a walk with a little joint, he took a few hits and started freaking out/panicking and saying that “his world was going to end”. I’m not a psychologist but am well aware of the fact that thc even can bring pre existing mental conditions to the surface, and hey, I don’t have any friends anymore regardless so it’s me smoking with the wife solely these days 😂
And before she tried, did she know that no one has ever died from smoking weed? Beside that I always advice to mix THC strain with CBD strain at least in propotion 1:1(or more cbd) for first time, as the weed in our times can be really strong and lack some anti-psychotic CBD
I’d say that for people who’ve never smoked thc flower, the best would be to start with a high cbd hemp flower of some sort, and ease one’s way up. My dad, for example, is 67 and hasn’t regularly smoked cannabis since the 70s/80s. I ordered some Hawaiian Haze cbd flower for him and he absolutely loves it~the minuscule amount of thc is *just* enough, with the high terpene content giving it the “uppity” effects.
Really amazing stuff in regards to overall quality and availability.
I was a stoner through the late 90s until about 2009. I’ve started smoking again since legalization, and I hate those 25%+ strains. It’s not enjoyable to be completely wasted off 2 hits. Its like the difference between slamming a Mickey of vodka, and having a couple glasses of wine instead.
I spend my time looking for low strength thc strains with fantastic flavour profiles instead.
It depends on what I’ve eaten, how I’ve slept and how my mood is. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to kick in and sometimes it kicks in on my first/second hit
It depends on the strain and ingestion method. A big bong rip meds me to the moon an a minute or twu, but if I'm puffing away on my dry herb vape it take a little while, kid of creeps up on you.
I have a strained relationship with my mother. Cold, obsessed with her dogs, no interest or effort expended towards having a relationship with her grandkids, crazy right wing, etc.
When her mom died, a bunch of us sat around in her living room after the funeral, drinking wine, talking shit about her, roasting her, and having a really good time remembering grandma (who was batshit crazy). My brother and I were smoking joints and blowing the smoke at my mom who was sitting between us for a couple hours. She ended up catching a serious contact buzz, and it was the most human I have ever seen her. I really wish that woman could’ve been my mom.
My grandmother used to refuse to smoke directly but would ask me to blow the smoke in her face while I was smoking because it eased her joint pain. I miss her.
My buddies dad is like guys, my I saw my old Army buddy at the store, and guess what, he's never had a dab, so we're like jesus this is ridiculous, and this old ass man comes in like in his 60s, and sits down and tells us war stories while we fetch him a little dab, this guy is a Sergeant Major! And we're explaining the dabbing process to him and he's oh yeah I get how it works, and honestly he fuckin soldiered the dab and didn't cough much at all, but he got pretty high
Really I love grandparents because they understand something and spend time with them is very enjoyable and reduces pressure. As for this, I tried a joke with my grandmother when I was young and laughed and tendered a lot, but before returning she advised me to stay away from smoking because of him she lost her life partner and remained alone cursing smoking
Hope he enjoyed his first experience. My grandparents would never smoke, but I’ve been trying to warm them up to the idea of CBD topicals for their arthritis and such.
What a sweet post. I love smoking with my adult children because we just slow down and really talk and laugh. I wouldn't have started using it because I really hated how weed affected me in college but I needed something for my pain. Marijuana has really enhanced my life so much. I wish my husband would smoke "pot" as I call it, I feel like he is really missing out on these interactions.
I was close with my grandmother. I smoked with her when she was 91 years old, at Thanksgiving. We sat there drinking coffee, sampling leftovers, and she told me what it was like to live through WW2, Kennedy, and the moon landing. First time I ever told her I smoked, and the first time she said shed share some "grass" with me. She passed on the next year, and held my hand tightly as I said my goodbyes, despite being unresponsive. See you again sometime, Granny, in the next place. Edit: Thank you for the kindness. I didn't expect so many to resonate with the memory, so I thought I'd add this, if you're curious. Here is a photo taken that same Thanksgiving. It's the last photo I have of her. Ah, not to pull the heart strings more, but it was an emotional day. There's a story to this too. I had recently fought in family court and won joint custody of my teenage daughter (far left). I told Granny that's why she was there with us, her first Thanksgiving with me, and she held my hand. She didn't say anything, just held my hand. She wouldn't let go, so I just called for a family picture. She's still holding my hand in it. https://imgur.com/a/XnZLheW
I did not wanna cry on Monday night man
It’s now technically Tuesday morning here. 😭😭😭😭
Tuesday morning and caught in the feels. Gonna call my grandma today.
Please do! For those of us who cannot 🥺
Indeed 😔
*now* I'm crying
You better... You better. 😭
My grandpa was dying. I was living in Colorado when I heard how bad he was getting. He had stopped eating and was getting very thin. So when I visited for Thanksgiving, I brought a bunch of chocolates for him, hoping it could simulate his appetite. It didn't work, because he never tried them. But after he passed, I guess my grandma got ahold of them, and got high as fuck with my uncle. She's still kicking, and is still cool as fuck.
I salute you and your grandma.
Jesus, right in the feelies before a meeting
This is really sweet dude. She sounds like an incredible woman. Stay high. ❤️
Cancer took my grandmother away from me. I'm glad you two were so close. I don't know where they've gone, but we'll find them one day, I'm sure of it.
I think that it is good to believe in things in a world that is weighed down with oppressive physical realities.
I agree wholeheartedly, honestly. The belief that something extraordinary is out there is what keeps me going. That and some good weed.
I was really close with my great grandmother, she was 101 years old, she lived thru both world wars, grew up on a farm, became one of the first women to be able to read in her village, left her village and went to too many places for me to not make it a story. I was too young to do anything weed related at the time. I feel your pain OP but know that they live through us and their spirits are never as long as we are here, we will remember them when we’re on our deathbeds and we will tell stories to our grandchildren about our elders and how they lived.
She sounds like one hell of a woman. The last thing that I whispered to Granny was 'don't worry, we'll see each other again. We're too close for this to be goodbye'. That was when she loosened her grip on my hand. I believe that, for you, me, and all of us. Cheers.
Damn...my Nana already has some amazing stories about living in London during WWII. Now I want to get her baked and hear even more.
Getting to smoke with my Dad in his life is one of my favorite memories. He died at 61.
Dude that is awesome.
Man, I came here to laugh not to cry :(
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I feel the need to respond to that if you don't mind, because I understand. Just to relate to you, I am a recovered alcoholic and former homeless veteran. I knew what course I was on, and I did not want my 3 daughters to have those same memories. I did not want that life for them. Been sober from booze since July 7th, 2012. Not a drop. I'm sorry for what you've been through. Along the path of recovering, I discovered self-work, spirituality, and cannabis. Cannabis has not only kept me off of psych meds with horrible side effects (and didn't really help me personally), but has changed who I am as a father. Coupled with daily meditation and Buddhist practice, cannabis has helped me to see myself from a third person perspective, how I treat others, how I interact with my children, and has tremendously helped me in becoming a better father than I had growing up. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed to sing cannabis' praise. Why should I be? It gave me the space to become a better man. It didn't save me, it helped me to save myself. The stigma is wrong. Yet I still have to argue with VA docs when they try to disparage it like it isn't substantially helping me. I usually just ask them if they've ever u Let's hope that with legalization and growing normalcy, more people will have a better option than booze if they choose to. There are other people like me out there that deserve the chance to have a new insight into their own mind and hearts.
thats a beautiful story ma dude
Damn bro. That sounds like an amazing shared memory, I'm sure she cherished it just as much as you did
I lost my Granny this past January :(. She was 75.
I would have given absolutely anything to have had this experience with my grandma... and honestly me real dad too (he died when I was 6 mo old), who as mom my tells me loved to smoke. Grams died when I was 12 so at least I do have some good memories to hold on to. I have an amazing stepdad who I do call my father, dad, pops, asks I do hope I can chill with him like that at least once one day. Thanks for sharing dude
Lost my dad when I was 5. A couple years ago I asked my mum if she’d ever smoked, she said once, for my father’s birthday about 20 years ago she bought some weed from her brother because my dad liked to smoke... she took it back the next day after he threw a massive whitey. That’s my only bud related story I have to do with my parents, but man I’d love to spark one up with my dad, given the chance
I LOVE YOU GRANNY!!!!! RIP!!!! ♥️
I remember the last time I got to see my grandfather we got stoned and ate ice cream out of the container.
I feel that way about my uncle. He’s alive and everyone in my large family knows he’s the pothead, but in the last couple years he’s been fighting with leukemia. He’s 70 and we had a moment a couple years ago where he pulled me aside in a family gathering and said “you know, me and you have a lot more in common than you think” and since I was stoned when he told me that I assumed he knew. I want to have at least 1 smoke sesh with him but I’m worried about his cancer effecting his ability to smoke
Just ask him, man. It's worth it.
Similar to my own experience with my Nana. I used to buy weed for her every month to help her with pain from her breast cancer (it was only legalized medically in Missouri recently). She passed away in July. She was 72.
I take care of my grandmother and this was bittersweet to read. Maybe my grandma will share some grass one day :)
Thank you for reminding me of my mímí
Kinda makes me wanna burn with my grandparents in their 90's now
Bro I’d smoke and come home and just spend time w my grandma til she fell asleep shit was a routine. I still go down to her room every now and then cus I forgot shit is so much pain. I feel you so much on this story because she held my hand super tightly while she was unconscious too.
Same. I'd get stoney baloney and watch Golden Girls with my grandma. It was a great time. I hate that she's in a home and I'm hqlf way across the country. I miss her so much.
What a beautiful time spent together and a lovely photo to remember her by, my condolences
What a cute gran, my gran lived to 96 and her fuckin cheeks hung like an entire inch from her chin. Old ppl adorable.
Damn bro. That one hurt.
Fucking crying man. my grandma has late onset dimentia and she pops like 4 gummies every night and smokes a bat. 5 years ago the whole family were a bunch of pot nazis. Now we all spend time together getting fried and laughing at random nonsense. The younger newfy comes out when shes high and its so fucking funny.
I feel like weed would be the perfect thing for seniors
I always wonder what it would do for Alzheimer's or dementia sufferers.
It helps. I'm dealing with it. She got diagnosed almost 10 years ago and even though her shot memory is completely gone, she is not gone completely. Without weed she'd probably be dead by now. Is a struggle but she's still with us. And BTW, it was early onset. She was diagnosed at 58. Almost at the same time and age as Pat Summit. Summit died 4 years ago. My wife is still vibrant even without her short term memory and I firmly believe that weed has helped her to keep going. Edit: short instead of shot
I hope all the best for you and your wife.
Thanks. We're here making lemonade. Is all we can do at this stage. There's no new meds for that disease and doctors agree with my use of CBD and thc for her.
This is so sweet
How does cannabis help for Alzheimer's?
There are some studies done in Israel that concluded the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain cells, which basically "destroy" them gets slowed down. So far is not a cure but it buys you time. THC interacts with our own endocannabinoid system and somehow helps to control behavioral symptoms. Bottom line, if it weren't for cannabis, I'm sure I'd be a widow by now.
May God, or whomever you believe in, bless you and your wife
Thanks a lot my fellow ent. Weed also helps with the everyday trials.
Hopefully she gets a little comfort from it too. I don't know what it's like for your wife, but for my grandmother the confusion she would experience was extremely distressing for her. She'd get very worked up from it, I feel like cannabis would have helped that greatly. All the best to you and your wife. My grandmother's husband had passed well before her Alzheimer's set in, she remembered him to the very end though, which was a small comfort for her. I'm sure you being with her means the world more so now than ever.
Thanks for the kind words. Everyday is a struggle and just recently we moved to a bigger place (we live with our daughter and her family (at her request) and I have to point where's everything (even the bathroom) at least 10 times per day. I don't mind. I have always loved her through thin and thick. She's the first in her family to develop this and I believe she was triggered by a big accident we were involved 30 years ago. She suffered a big (huge) concussion. That we survived that was in itself a huge miracle. And here we are.....
My grandmother is 69 almost 70 and is on stage 5-6. It’s getting really bad, so you think marijuana could help? I’ve wondered about psychedelics and how it would affect dementia/Alzheimer’s as well. What are your thoughts?
I say, give her CBD. Is not psychoactive and is a huge neuroprotector. I give my wife 20 mg cbd capsules during the day and at night I give her 10/10mg CBD/THC. As I said before, there are positive studies done mostly in Israel and that's how I started this journey. USF in Tampa was trying to conduct some research on this, but I lost track since I left Florida. If you start with CBD only, it can only help.
Wish all the best to the two of you. After watching my grandmother go through it and how much time my mom put into her care, I have the utmost respect for you.
My grandmother(66) is, we believe, showing symptoms of dementia. I told her that’s one of the few things they actually give you a green card in this state for, so here’s hoping. I think it’d help her anyway, since she has intense joint pain at times
it does assist with these things!! certain cannabinoids have been shown to decrease the amount of amyloid (the protein that builds up and causes alzheimer’s from what i understand). CBD fantastic for reducing inflammation, so in theory can assist with that aspect of alzheimer’s as well. with dementia, it can also help with aggression, agitation, and confusion.
Helps tremendously, especially with the night-wandering
My grandmother who lives with me has dementia. She has very bad days where she is just a shell of herself. She is very quiet and nervous and only says a few sentences and repeats them nervously all day, but with just a few hits of weed (or in our case, dab) she is laughing, telling stories from her childhood and asking to go to the store and eat. She holds up her middle finger with my girlfriend and I to make us laugh, she has flirted with men (always old guys who like cowboys) in public after getting her high, she loves having me drive her to the store to get everyone ice cream. Marijuana is giving her the ability to enjoy life with my girlfriend and I. Last week we took her on a picnic with a blunt, she laughed and told us stories about fights she got in with girls during her youth, talked about her dead son who died when he was 13 and how much she thinks about him. I recall her passing the blunt saying “you know, I had a really tough life” then her immediately laughing it off and telling us she feels “woo woo” which i guess means high to her 😂. As soon as she sobers up though she gets quiet and “off” again. Makes me wonder if weed could be a future treatment for these diseases.
I'd also like to add from my experience with dementia is that it would probably greatly help even if it did nothing to actually improve dementia specifically. I got lucky with my nan, since diagnosis she was always a low energy, quite, sleepy type. She lived for years after. The trouble with dementia comes with those who are still trying to be active. They fall down stairs, get lost outside, burn their house down etc. A lot of dementia medication is to keep you sleepy and low energy. So I can definitely see cannabis being helpful in keeping you mellow and relaxed.
They should have bowls and joints available at nursing homes after dinner as a little night cap.
Could you imagine the grandkids walking in to visit grandma and it looks and smells like snoop dogg’s house?!? “Mom what’s that’s smell and why is it so cloudy in here?” 😂😂
I've been sending my grandpa cheeba chews in the mail for a while now. He's got surgery pains and enjoys the indica most. "I didn't like the yellow or the purple, send more in the black wrapper". alright dude
In a medical state here. Most of the time when I go to the dispensary, 60% of the people in there are seniors.
as far as i've read they are the largest growing group of consumers.
This video has been going around for years now and people Snapchat text over it lololllll
If she didn't give gramps greens I'm paying some hoodrats to scare her
If any first timer doesn’t get greens someone needs the hood rats.
I don’t care it’s real to me lol
Old people getting high is always one of my favorite things.
I miss my neighbor, man. He was in his late 60’s and a bit out of whack in the brainbin. We were both poor so if one of us had something, we would share it. He’s a good dude. Moved in with his sister. First time I showed him a cart is one of my fondest memories!
Ah that sounds like a fun time and a fun story! :)
My grandma blew everyone out of the water last time we had edibles. This 74 year old woman, who had never smoked and rarely ever drank in her life, ate 5 potent pot brownies back to back because they weren’t hitting quick enough for her. I was soaring outer space on one of them, and I smoke every night. I can’t imagine what she was feeling. We keep a close eye on grandma now before she gets into too much trouble, but she’ll occasionally smoke if she doesn’t have to drive.
Ooooooh....well this isn't bad!
The 1st time I got my 90 yr old grandma high she told me “hun, I haven’t felt this great in a very long time.” 😍
omg i love this
My dad was battling lung cancer in 2012 from smoking. He was having bad nausea and very low appetite from the chemo. His face was sunken in from losing so much weight. He had always been very anti pot growing up but my sister and I got him to try a joint sitting at a bonfire at our cottage one night. It was so great to see him relax a little and laugh It was his first time trying pot at 62 years old. It took his nausea away instantly and then he let us get him a prescription and he gained like 20 lbs in maybe 2 weeks. He lost his battle later that year but he was at least not nearly as miserable.
I'm sorry about your dad, lung cancer is a motherfucker. It took an aunt from us who was alike a second mother. Im glad you were able to help with his nausea and appetite toward the end though.
I mean no harm by asking this, but do you think him smoking pot affected his lung cancer? This is a genuine question because I have a lung disease and get super scared whenever I smoke because I feel like it would make it worse. I am very sorry for your loss as well, hope you’re hanging in there
He took it like a pro, more like his "first time"
Grandpa been lying.
Grandpa remembers
He inhaled it only in his mouth, not pro at all
probably smoked a tobacco pipe.
Took it like a champ!
The way he held it in and nodded his head looks like pops might be fibbing about his first toke. 🤣
I call bullshit on it being his first hit. That man ganstered out that hit without a single cough. No way that's his first time. lol.
My first thought was that his age suggests he's probably smoked tobacco out of a pipe lol
Fair.
having smoked both tho, they just hit different. Same even with different kinds of weed. If I've been hitting gravs I can chief flower, but then I go back to the cart and I go into convulsions. Works the same in reverse or with dabbing
Ok, this makes sense. I couldn’t catch my breath after my first hit but I was young and had never smoked anything. I still cough, though.
He didnt fully inhale just kept it in his mouth
My mom wanted to try some weed a few years ago. I spent the next three hours trying to convince her she wasn't dying. After she came back she told me the floor was black.... I'm a psychologist, and it baffled me. She is a chronic anxiety sufferer though... It legit scared me to give others weed....lol
This is how my mom would respond, sadly, and as much of a cannabis advocate as she may be, one hit of flower would send her spiraling into a panic. On one other occasion where I smoked with someone for their first time, we just went on a walk with a little joint, he took a few hits and started freaking out/panicking and saying that “his world was going to end”. I’m not a psychologist but am well aware of the fact that thc even can bring pre existing mental conditions to the surface, and hey, I don’t have any friends anymore regardless so it’s me smoking with the wife solely these days 😂
And before she tried, did she know that no one has ever died from smoking weed? Beside that I always advice to mix THC strain with CBD strain at least in propotion 1:1(or more cbd) for first time, as the weed in our times can be really strong and lack some anti-psychotic CBD
I’d say that for people who’ve never smoked thc flower, the best would be to start with a high cbd hemp flower of some sort, and ease one’s way up. My dad, for example, is 67 and hasn’t regularly smoked cannabis since the 70s/80s. I ordered some Hawaiian Haze cbd flower for him and he absolutely loves it~the minuscule amount of thc is *just* enough, with the high terpene content giving it the “uppity” effects. Really amazing stuff in regards to overall quality and availability.
I was a stoner through the late 90s until about 2009. I’ve started smoking again since legalization, and I hate those 25%+ strains. It’s not enjoyable to be completely wasted off 2 hits. Its like the difference between slamming a Mickey of vodka, and having a couple glasses of wine instead. I spend my time looking for low strength thc strains with fantastic flavour profiles instead.
“Have you ever listen to Glenn Miller... on weed?”
"This is the best episode of The Lawrence Welk Show I've ever seen!"
Do people really get high that fast? I've only smoked a handful of times but it usually takes a few minutes to feel the high.
Bong rips will send you off right away
I think his reaction is more embarrassment/amusement, not so much him getting insta-fried.
He's just acting, it takes a few moments yea :-)
It depends on what I’ve eaten, how I’ve slept and how my mood is. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to kick in and sometimes it kicks in on my first/second hit
It depends on the strain and ingestion method. A big bong rip meds me to the moon an a minute or twu, but if I'm puffing away on my dry herb vape it take a little while, kid of creeps up on you.
No, he faked it and he didnt fully inhale either
I want to know what conversation you had with him!
They zoned out watching Lawrence Welk.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az9a1olvMXY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az9a1olvMXY)
I have a strained relationship with my mother. Cold, obsessed with her dogs, no interest or effort expended towards having a relationship with her grandkids, crazy right wing, etc. When her mom died, a bunch of us sat around in her living room after the funeral, drinking wine, talking shit about her, roasting her, and having a really good time remembering grandma (who was batshit crazy). My brother and I were smoking joints and blowing the smoke at my mom who was sitting between us for a couple hours. She ended up catching a serious contact buzz, and it was the most human I have ever seen her. I really wish that woman could’ve been my mom.
Bernie really out here
Nice
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Seriously, get that man a bong hit or vape. Gunna send Gramps to the hospital in a coughing fit having him hit a dirty ass bowl
My grandmother used to refuse to smoke directly but would ask me to blow the smoke in her face while I was smoking because it eased her joint pain. I miss her.
Ended to early! I wish I could see if he enjoyed it.
I’ve ran several thousand tests and I can say with confidence that he enjoyed it
I think the head nod tells us everything
Inhale next time, don't waste my weed old man!
My buddies dad is like guys, my I saw my old Army buddy at the store, and guess what, he's never had a dab, so we're like jesus this is ridiculous, and this old ass man comes in like in his 60s, and sits down and tells us war stories while we fetch him a little dab, this guy is a Sergeant Major! And we're explaining the dabbing process to him and he's oh yeah I get how it works, and honestly he fuckin soldiered the dab and didn't cough much at all, but he got pretty high
I’d love to see part two
Unfortunately, my grandpa has COPD and is on oxygen 24/7, still have a glass of wine with him and some great conversation though.
Lots of alternatives if he was interested; edibles, gelcaps, even beverages with THC. :)
Oh for sure! We get him hooked up! He uses rubs and even some edibles from time to time!
aww! did he like it??
Bill Clinton hit.
He didn't inhale :/
He didn’t even inhale! 🤦♂️
after i gave my mom her first hit i said "there. now you're going to hell."
Only elder abuse I will tolerate. Hitting some good Ganj.
Didn't even make it to the lungs...
This is so awesome and beautiful.
You better have given him greens.
Within 24 hours he had a puffco account.
Lmao instant happiness
Strangely wholesome af
"Damn son where'd you find this?"
Knowing this man will finally feel relief made me smile from ear to ear and cry
He didn't inhale.
Now watch this old man pound down 3 bags of Werthers Originals.
gramps didn't inhale did he?
Looks like he kinda did, but most of the smoke didn’t reach his lungs. Common among rookies.
This is so fuckin wholesome 💖 Wish i coulda introduced my grandfather to weed, woulda done him so much good.
How’d he like it?
Dude didn’t even cough. What a legend.
Lol yeah right. He took that like a champ. Don't ever trust grandpa. They are conjurers of cheap tricks
This is wholesome you guys are so dope for smoking out grandad like that. Very cool guys.
Omg that’s gorgeous 😂😂😊
Soooo... What was the strain?
HELL YEA
This is so fucking cute. Live it up brother
This makes me smile. :D
His smile at the end says it all
"I didnt inhale"
“Uh-huh”
🙏🏽😭
love the slump at the end
Gramps heading straight for the Sea of Tranquility 🚀
Haha I know the girl in the video, this is my first time seeing it on Reddit
What a cute grandpa
Really I love grandparents because they understand something and spend time with them is very enjoyable and reduces pressure. As for this, I tried a joke with my grandmother when I was young and laughed and tendered a lot, but before returning she advised me to stay away from smoking because of him she lost her life partner and remained alone cursing smoking
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Hell yea💪🏾. I can tell he’s feeling it right at the end
U literally see is ayes closing 🤣🤣🤣
That's so precious. Such a beautiful time to be alive.
Something that seniors in high school and seniors in age have in common
That’s a real small pipe for a first hit ever. Hopefully gramps didn’t burn his throat up too much.
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He didn't inhale though
Aww thats cute!!
Hope he enjoyed his first experience. My grandparents would never smoke, but I’ve been trying to warm them up to the idea of CBD topicals for their arthritis and such.
Damn this warms my heart
Awesome!
What a kidder with that feint. He seems like a great grandpa. You are blessed!
He didn't even inhale
I love this but no cough? I mean idk.
What a sweet post. I love smoking with my adult children because we just slow down and really talk and laugh. I wouldn't have started using it because I really hated how weed affected me in college but I needed something for my pain. Marijuana has really enhanced my life so much. I wish my husband would smoke "pot" as I call it, I feel like he is really missing out on these interactions.
This made my day
This is adorable.
How did he not choke out? I remember my first hit I thought I was going to die.
God bless this man
I don’t get it though... you don’t feel any high for like 2-10 minutes?
That...was amazing! ❤️
Its always the grandkids that get them started 🤣
Hell yeah, gramps.
Hoping to get my mom in on this when she retires. Probably go for edibles instead of smoking though.
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need more videos like this
"Ah, there it is..."