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 Don writes : "I never exhaled!"

That explains a lot Don LOL........

Good for you, Don! I agree about the "up in smoke" movie role! Hodie, I am curious. How/when did you discover this particular allergy? Is it an inhalation allergy or a contact allergy? LOL....

Has this thread been hijacked?

Actually, I discovered my "allergy" long, long ago when I had three friends in college who lived in the dorm room next to mine (they had a suite). They started out using MJ recreationally, say once every month. That soon became once a weekend, and then every night on the weekends, then essentially every night. I watched these three very intelligent, excellent students go down the tubes academically and socially, so much so that they eventually were all kicked out of the college for failing grades. It was very sad to see. Fortunately, I had enough sense to not even really be interested, for one thing because I hated smoke from smokers and secondly because I had a full scholarship that I was not interested in loosing. I graduated. They did not. I ran into one of the three some years later and she admitted that her use was the worst mistake of her life. Pretty sad.......

Hodie, that story depressed me. I think I'll go have a drink or ten.

Jim, can you please keep Boomer outta my gardens .. How many time must I say it. Ha Ha

Hodie,

I did not have any scholarships, paid my own way.  It was in the sixties, just a short drive to New York City from the slum I could afford. 

Having to earn a living to pay tuition and living expenses, kept the "moderation" brakes on my wildness.  It is a miracle that I graduated, did not get a police record except for parking tickets.  My GPA was just high enough to graduate.

Fast forward about 20 years and I got a 4.0 in Accounting to sit for the CPA exam which I passed in one sitting in the top 4% nationally.

Sometimes paying your own way is a blessing. 

Michele

Pharaoh,

We are about the same age. Believe me, had I not had that scholarship, I would not have been able to go to school. I had no family. My first two years of college was at a community college and I rode a bike 24 miles a day and worked at Baskin Robbins. I lived in a boarding house run by an 86 year old woman who accidentally started fires all the time. She was something else. 

Fortunately, I had a lot of people who helped me when I was young (and also now I am lucky to have someone who has helped) and pressed me to be what I could be. I worked for all I ever had, including scholarships and always had to work since I was a child. So though I had that wonderful scholarship, I earned most everything I ever had. I agree,  paying one's way in one way or another is important and teaches us much. It is part of what is wrong with today's youth. Too many of them have everything they think they need and want.

By the way, I took an accounting class several times in the past 4 years, was getting an "A" each time, but dropped it. The class made me nuts when I would have a problem and be off by 0.02 cents and unable to find the error. I wanted to throw my books through the window LOL. Some people have a mind for accounting, I did not and realized it was not my thing. That is excellent that you did so well and you should be very proud. Me, well I am more the artististic type......'

OOPPSSS!!! We better get back on topic. Slamdunc, where are you and Boomer?

I was undercover on a clandestine operation.  I'm back now. 

Jim

You were under what covers? Who knew? LOL.......

Glad to see you here.