• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    It does show a lack of understanding, but I don’t expect better of them because that’s something that, in general, has been lost to history. It’s just not widely known. Plenty of regular cannabis users still call it marijuana.

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      5 months ago

      My mother caught me high as fuck when I was ~16yo and asked me, “Have you been smoking the pot?”

      The pot.

      I laughed so hard it was impossible to lie that I wasn’t high.

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        5 months ago

        I have a vague memory of a comedian (Kevin Meaney maybe) talking about his dad asking him if he was “smoking the pot” whenever he said something his dad didn’t understand.