Swedish smokers, English speaking smokers and others

[nesta]

urminnet wrote:

Anyone notice general differences in conversations and attitudes of smokers that speak Swedish compared to those that speak English? What are your experiences?

An American friend of mine have huge difficulties understanding the attitude (among common people) towards cannabis, his spontaneous reaction is – “for fucks sake, it`s only pot!”

Mvh// Nesta

[reaper]

There’s a HUGE difference between all the cultures I’ve sat my foot in.

The Swedish mainstream culture is without a doubt the worst one out of our perspective.
I really like the American one (I live here at the moment), as it’s actually okey to talk about weed here. You can openly state that you’re a stoner, and everyone is fine with it.
Compared to Sweden where if you even made one possitive, or even neutral remark about weed, you’re directly viewed as a drug-addict that will snap any second, and that steals etc. You can’t have an open conversation about green at all.
The thai-culture seems to be more open to weed to, even though their government is the worst one ever. You can have a regular conversation in which weed can be mentioned without anyone giving notice to it at all.

I don’t know if this was what you were asking about though??

[reaper]

but i was wondering if you notice differences in how they act when they’re stoked

[reaper]

I have been doing a fair share of stoning in sweden, france, spain, thailand, USA (CA and NYC), mexico, and jamaica.

Not much differences i’d say. People are people and ganja is ganja and it is a universal thing. Softish, innit?
If any differences, maybe I’d say Swedes and americans are perhaps a bit more paranoid, and french a little less so. No surprise really.

Bless,
/m

[reaper]

micke_sweedish wrote:

I have been doing a fair share of stoning in sweden, france, spain, thailand, USA (CA and NYC), mexico, and jamaica.

Not much differences i’d say. People are people and ganja is ganja and it is a universal thing. Softish, innit?
If any differences, maybe I’d say Swedes and americans are perhaps a bit more paranoid, and french a little less so. No surprise really.

Bless,
/m

And the jamaicans dem?

[reaper]

Ja du, det får väl sägas att min erfarenhet är lite begränsad. En del av dem jag så var såna storkonsumenter att det märktes ingen skillnad. Och en del av dom hade så mycket attityd att dom veskade vara alltför macho för att låta erkänna att dom blev fnissiga. Samtidigt som det verkade finnas en massa paranoja och en god dos fördom mot vitingar/västerlänningsturister liksom. Så jag vet inte riktigt.
Bless I
/m

[reaper]

i find that swedes don’t act like they’re stoned when “stoned”. I have started wonder if they don’t inhale, or if they just have no mental activity going on at all. afterall, swedes aren’t exactly bursting with personality/subjectivity nor does the language force one to talk. americans and spaniards, i’ve found, really know how to use the experience…to really understand the mild-psychedelic properties of grass.

[reaper]

I think it sounds like you smoked with the wrong swedes!

I’m pretty sure i inhale, my lungs still hurt from the bathbud the some days ago.

But I know what you mean though.. Some people are embarassed to live out their emotions and nutty antics. But that’s typicaly swedish. I try to break the trend by being a raving lunatic. Almost.

Peace!

[reaper]

Oskar wrote:

I think it sounds like you smoked with the wrong swedes!

I’m pretty sure i inhale, my lungs still hurt from the bathbud the some days ago.

But I know what you mean though.. Some people are embarassed to live out their emotions and nutty antics. But that’s typicaly swedish. I try to break the trend by being a raving lunatic. Almost.

Peace!

Word!
I wonder is this also after smoking regularly with swedes that you have learned to know, too? Or is it perhaps something to do with general shyness?
You know, swedes tend to be a little reserved in the beginning, because we have something called “jantelagen”
Then swedes have long been subjected to anti drug propanda, resulting in a generally spread (albeit not clinical) condition, aka knarkskräck. The latter reflects over many cronic herb puffing swedes, too, in that the swedish ganja connoseurs will often, by default, assume that any “outsider” is an anti drug advocat. This may sometimes be true and shift once you get to know the person, but there are of course also cases of individuals who are plain dull. And those who cooked their barins out and loose interest in anything but rolling up the next fat one, and hence come across a little on the introvert side.
But I am sure many of these things exist amongst smokers anywhere. If nothing else, it is so because everyonedoesit everywhere anyway, innit?

Oscar:
I also try to let loose of some of my inbread stiff and dullness. Sometimes i succeed, sometimes not. And I kind of like to keep it that way too. To be able to choose when to be crazy and when to be sensible. Blah

Bless
/m