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moremojo:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 29, 2006, 11:57:57 pm ---Wouldn't it be easier to ask who hasn't?
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I haven't--God honest truth. I have been in the presence of other people partaking of the drug (I was first offered it when I was in the sixth grade), but have never sampled it myself.
vkm91941:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 29, 2006, 11:57:57 pm ---Wouldn't it be easier to ask who hasn't?
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--- Quote from: moremojo on August 30, 2006, 09:37:11 am ---I haven't--God honest truth. I have been in the presence of other people partaking of the drug (I was first offered it when I was in the sixth grade), but have never sampled it myself.
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I was never into ilicit substances myself. I prefer more natural highs but I tried it in college to see what all the fuss was about and just the smell alone was, and still is, enough to trigger a migrane for me so no more pot for me ever.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Victoria on August 30, 2006, 08:28:50 pm ---I was never into ilicit substances myself. I prefer more natural highs but I tried it in college to see what all the fuss was about and just the smell alone was, and still is, enough to trigger a migrane for me so no more pot for me ever.
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I actually find the smell pleasant (as I do that of smoky rooms and car interiors, though I can barely abide direct cigarette smoke itself [go figure]), but was sufficiently scared by parents, school, and media into staying away from any significantly mood- or mind-altering substances, and therefore have steered clear of them. I feel more emotionally vulnerable than the average person (with lots of challenges involving anxiety disorder and phobias), and don't want to fool around with anything that might psychically burden me even more. I have to concede, though, that the drug culture has helped to inspire some fantastic music, literature, and art (for example, The Velvet Underground, Hakim Bey, and Alex Grey, respectively), and has no doubt been part of the source of religious inspiration (note the references to soma in the Rig-veda)...the world would be a poorer place without some intrepid souls exploring this realm of pleasure and dissonance.
SFEnnisSF:
IIRC, there *WAS* a thread about this on IMDB way back in the day... It was called "Our boys smokin' a joint" or something like that....
I personally felt it fit in with the story and the time perfectly. Made absolute sense to me.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: moremojo on August 30, 2006, 09:37:11 am ---I haven't--God honest truth. I have been in the presence of other people partaking of the drug (I was first offered it when I was in the sixth grade), but have never sampled it myself.
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Me, neither. Hell, I've never even tried tobacco.
But back to Ennis and Jack and the joint in the story and the movie: I guess we really don't know that the time we see them smoke it is the first time--and they both seem so casual about it in the film that I suppose it isn't the first time.
As for the pot use seeming not to fit with their ages, maybe it's just another of Annie's anachronisms--like giving Alma, Jr., an age in May 1983 that doesn't square with her September 1964 birthdate. (Annie describes Alma, Jr., as "a shy seventeen-year-old" in 1983, but if she had been born in September 1964, she would have been 18-going-on-19.)
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