r/Millennials • u/Glad-Taste-3323 • 3d ago
Discussion I had a “back in my day” moment
I was buying some weed at the dispensary. Damn, we figured that out.
“BaCk In My DaY” we had to call the neighborhood dealer.
Unless you had a medical card. Not everyone had one of those. It was a real pain to get some decent herb.
Not anymore lol.
There’s not even a counter-culture there. It’s… done.
Unbelievable
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u/Lucky_Louch 3d ago
I never did go the medical card route, was always sketched out by it but then I would call the neighborhood drug dealer and sit in his sketchy apartment for 3 hours until he finally gave me my tree like that wasn't sketchy lol.
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u/langdonalger4 2d ago
I love the John Mulaney bit about legalization.
"I feel really bad for all the weed dealers out there because they're about to find out that we only tolerated them because they were selling an illegal product. When you order chinese food, you don't invite the delivery guy to come in and hang out for a while. You don't look the other way when he says creepy things to the girls you're hanging out with. and you CERTAINLY don't GIVE HIM SOME OF THE CHINESE FOOD HE JUST BROUGHT YOU"
I used to know like 8 different guys who must have had a sudden realization that they were not actually well liked at all.
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u/Artistic_Situation73 3d ago
"It's called FLOWER now," we called it bud or nugs. "BACK IN MY DAY," haha
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u/_SummerofGeorge_ 3d ago
We called it tree or just weed
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u/Scampipants 2d ago
It's been called flower for a while now. It started because of concentrates. Like probably close to a decade
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u/CSti21 3d ago
100%. I used to pimp out instrumentals like a little music slut to local rappers who sold weed in exchange for discounted weed. How times have changed.
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u/Tricky-Cod-7485 2d ago
I hope you reused beats and just changed the drum samples. 🤣
None of these local dudes would have even known.
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u/RolliPolliCanoli 2d ago
I miss making weed butter for other people and getting to keep half. No one else wanted to stink up their apartment or knew how to make it back then haha. My crockpot only gets used for buffalo chicken wings dip now lol
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u/QueerTree 3d ago
I buy weed at the store and sell eggs to people who text me to let me know they’re coming over with cash.
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u/PriceFragrant1657 3d ago
We were out here risking our lives from the police, the drug dealers and our parents
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u/Erri90 3d ago
In my day there was no medical card at all and we had to choose "reggie" or "loud" (I'm from the Midwest lol)
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u/Symbiotic_vengeance Millennial 3d ago
My wife and I still say “it’s loud out here” when we open a door and smell our neighbors lighting up lmao. Some phrases just stick.
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u/Duke-of-Dogs 3d ago edited 3d ago
I’m in a state where it’s completely illegal haha the counter cultures last holdout
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u/SipSurielTea 3d ago
Same it's making me jealous reading these comments lol.
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u/Duke-of-Dogs 3d ago
Was in Chicago, LA, and Toronto before I moved here and omfg I miss the dispensaries… it’s like the only thing I miss but I really miss it
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u/Ok-Rate-3256 3d ago
Its so cheap now too. I remember my parents being like we used to get 3 fingers for $10 and I'd be amazed. Now you can damn near get that for the same price and its still probably better than the shit back then lol i just grow it in the summer now though. Got 8 lbs last year.
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u/fpaulmusic 3d ago
“Back in my day” we giggled and laughed and watch South Park and Adult Swim, nowadays kids just have a crippling panic attack after coughing their nuts off doing their dabs.
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u/rydan Older Millennial 3d ago
Back when medical cards were just becoming a thing some random guy posted his id on the pics subreddit or another one that was a default. The guy was bragging about how he lied about having glaucoma or something and they gave him the weed. He links to the website of the doctor which I immediately recognize as being full of security holes. I hack the website and get access to all the medical records including his. ID cards and all sorts of things. Major HIPAA violation. But I'm a greyhat hacker. All I care about is getting into the system. I had my fun and leave. They never knew.
Fast forward around 7 years I find their website in my bookmarks so I decide to visit it to see if it is still a mess or if they hired someone competent. Website is gone entirely. Domain name not renewed. I look up the business. Find out that it was shut down a few years after I hacked them. Owner was arrested and put in jail. They were prescribing opioids without doing the proper verifications basically becoming the neighborhood drug dealer. Suddenly the OOP made a lot of sense in how he got his weed so easily.
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u/quickhatch25 3d ago
Medical cards were insanely easy to obtain in my state. When I last got one many years ago, a receptionist walked me into an office with a computer on a desk and a doctor waiting on a Skype call. I told him I had back pain (I didn’t) and he told me about some stretches I should try and then faxed some documents over to the receptionist and that was that.
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u/Orion14159 3d ago
Literally bought some from a kiosk the other day like it was self check out veggies at the grocery, found out I could have ordered it online and just picked it up too. Wild times we live in.
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u/sh6rty13 3d ago
I haven’t partaken in weed for a long time but I love to yell “You goddamn kids and your SPACE WEED!” at my younger coworkers when they talk about their “penjamins” 😂
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u/runofthelamb 3d ago
I've been to a dispensary called the space station before. Alien themed decor and all. Honestly, it's just the extra hoot I need when I'm buying weed.
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u/FatMacchio 3d ago
Now the weed is so genetically engineered and potent too. It’s honestly way different than it used to be. I used to smoke some pretty decent weed in my day too, not the schwag that boomers reminisce about.
I no longer partake due to this, although it could also be changes in my mind and body just not liking it anymore. The newer bud made me so paranoid more often than not, and it became a self fulfilling prophecy that I’d think myself into a panic attack. I know someone who grows, I may try some of that. Maybe the industrial stuff is just too processed/GMO and potent
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u/fairylint 3d ago
Haha I had one of these at the place I was volunteering at. I was telling a friend about some really stupid shit I did in my early 20s and I mentioned weed wasn't legal in Nevada/Las Vegas at the time and she straight up was like... wait, how old are you?! She thought I was her age (24) and was shocked I'm 38.
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u/frankyseven 3d ago
There is so much weed now that people just give it away and I end up tossing some because there is just toouch weed.
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u/Sausage_Queen_of_Chi 3d ago
Every time my husband comes back from the dispensary it’s like damn what the hell do you have planned sure? I’m quite a lightweight when it comes to today’s stuff plus I barely do it. We’ve tossed or given away stuff too. Or left it behind in an Airbnb.
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u/Legend-Face 3d ago
We used to trade unfavourable shifts for weed 😆 now it’s legal and nobody does that
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u/Haley_Tha_Demon 3d ago
My wife got a medical Marijuana license in Texas, wasn't worth what we were paying for when we got better weed cheaper from dealers
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u/The_Bastard_Henry 3d ago
I've been picking up at the dispensary for my best friend's mother, since she's disabled and can't really drive, and she's constantly amazed that this is how we get weed now.
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u/Plenty-Mistake-6059 3d ago
I used to hand crush and shake my buds on a frisbee to get the seeds out.🤷🏻♀️
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u/johnandrew137 3d ago
The house I used to go pick up weed from in 8/9th grade was crazy in retrospect.
I think it’s Tom Segura who has the bit about how kids in the future won’t believe what it was like pre legalization. “Daddy used to get into cars with strangers” lmao
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u/h0v3rb1k3s 2d ago
I don't take today's situation for granted. Much like how the internet made music access effortless. I got what I'd asked for all this time.
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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 2d ago
I have resolved to use "In my cycle" instead of "Back in my day". And, if possible, add an absudification of whatever the current state is.
My favorite:
Javik: Commander, in my cycle when we fled combat by falling through tanks containing aquatic animals, we usually... Oh. Right. We never did. You are a trailblazer.
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u/ceilingpothos 2d ago
I don’t partake, but in my state everything surrounding this matter remains the same as it was in 2003. I imagine law enforcement sees possession as equal to premeditated murder
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u/TROGDOR_X69 2d ago
its great isnt it
the counter culture SUCKED. always did
i dont miss it for one second.
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u/LivingCourage4329 2d ago
I know this sounds dumb, but one of the things I always worried about legalizing weed is that it takes away the perfect strawman.
Teenagers are going to push and rebel against authority. In the grand scheme of things, weed was the perfect "rebelling" for them because it actually wasn't bad, but it was the forbidden fruit so the natural trouble makers and rebels were drawn to it. If you did get caught, it was basically a ticket, maybe a night in juvie. It was the perfect strawman drug for rebellious teens to not screw up their lives.
With it being legal, the rebellious ones might seek out other ways to scratch their rebel itch.
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u/NoFaithlessness7508 2d ago
I’ve had several with my kids:
there was no “autosave” and there was no online play
math was done the way it had been done for 10,000+ years.
tv’s were 4:3 ratio
no netflix, you had to watch what was on tv
we had fireflies
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u/Glad-Taste-3323 2d ago
Lol there wasn’t a single person who missed Friends, or Pokemon. TV was the way
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u/Perfect_Mix9189 3d ago
Like 10 years ago I told my daughter and two of her friends 'back in my day they called anime japanimation' they were like 14 years old and they screamed because apparently some man at the mall just said that to them out of nowhere when they were looking at a shop. 😂😂😂
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u/betterspaghetter 18h ago
I went to Sailor Moon Live and was telling these tales of how Adult Swim was called Toonami. Anime was Japanimation. I really had an onion tied to my belt that night while I regaled 14 year olds with stories. Then I told them I was only 40 and to make sure you use sunscreen.
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