No British show is going to discuss a marijuana habit, that’s very much an American word. It’s called cannabis
Yeah, this is the third time I’m seeing this reply and facepalming. I’m 99.99 percent sure that the narration I’m paraphrasing said “cannabis,” and I just automatically translated it, when I made the meme.
Weirdly, I think I might be conflating a British-produced true crime show (which had that very innocent attitude toward weed because of extreme cannabis prohibition in the British Isles) and an American true crime show which had a similarly adorable attitude toward weed, just because it was targeted at an audience of VERY WHITE older people.
Which is outrageously incorrect, more than anything else. I mean, older people smoked a shitload of weed. If we’re talking about Boomers, they are absolutely the generation of Americans who have smoked the most weed, over their lifetimes. But now they pretend like they’ve never even seen it before, and it’s just another reason why we need to “close the border.”
On that note, Americans use the word Marijuana because that was the Mexican Spanish word for cannabis and it was supposed to be stigmatizing to make it easier to ban in the US (those degenerate Mexicans were the ones corrupting our youth with this devil drug).
Such a long history of being so easily played by propaganda
In my experience Europeans fall into two drug taking categories, either they’ve never taken any or have done more drugs than any American that wasn’t a professional musician in 60s-70s or a professional wrestler in any era could survive
That’s been my experience, too, actually. There are also some poor souls who just chug along, sadly smoking the cardboard-tier weed that they get, over there.
Last time i was in the UK I met a girl that was so excited to smoke me out, she rolled and handed me a spliff and was shocked I wasn’t out of control stoned. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she was smoking straight dirt
Be honest, though: the spliff itself was rolled like a work of art, right? They dress that weak-ass weed up with some advanced rolling tezniques, across the pond.
Oh she rolled that shit like a Cuban cigar, still weak ass weed but it was a great smoke
Yup. I knew an Irish dude and his girlfriend who would do exactly the type of shit you’re talking about. He looked like an 18th Century romantic-era poet, too, which made it even more surreal to watch this motherfucker taking 22 minutes, painstakingly rolling up the tightest, most perfectly crafted spliff in the history of smoke.
If any of the friends I made over there ever come visit this side of the pond I’m gonna fuck their whole world up
Oh yeah. I mean, can you even imagine what some of these blast-your-face-inside-out edibles will do to them?
Then they’ll go back over there, calling the weed cookies they had “weed biscuits.” Which is just cute, in and of itself.
Honestly it’s mixed.
I’ve been to Amsterdam a few times and california/colarado a couple times as well, so I think I have a good grasp on what good weed is like. And yeah a lot of weed in the UK is piss poor (which is why traditionally we would smoke hash) but if you know where to get it, you can find some one of the best week anywhere on earth. Easily the best, frostiest weed I have ever smoked has been locally grown UK stuff. That was grown by a freind of a freind you crossbreed discobiscuit with some strains he got from dam.
That sounds like you experienced organised crime’s commercial grade PGR weed. A real pity. Analogous to the wine industry our bud runs the entire gamut from bunk to top-tier here in Europe. Some of us do alright. Don’t you worry. (Source: over thirty years enjoyment of the world’s recreational wonders)
No British show would say this lol, this sounds American af
Marijuana, that classic British word…
That’s my bad. I accidentally translated it. I’m sure the narration that I was paraphrasing said “cannabis” instead.
Laughs in alcohol at 18, legally
I’d rather be in a community with chronic weed smokers than alcoholics. A severe weed habit has it’s faults, but pales in comparison to alcoholism.
100%. I’m from the UK and the drinking culture here is ridiculous. People don’t just drink, they get wasted. My best friend died from alcohol abuse at 34.
There are people at my company who are very obviously alcoholics and spend the workday hungover or still drunk a lot of the time stinking of booze and that’s totally fine apparently. But if I smoked weed at the weekend like I used to and came into work totally sober I’d test positive, get fired immediately, completely fuck my career prospects and very likely get a visit from the police trying to bust me. It is bullshit.
Laughs in alcohol at 18, legally
Yeah, but doesn’t that mean you were drinking hard cider from a plastic bottle at age 12, in a forest, like some kind of demented hobbit?
EDIT: to be fair, that is actually pretty badass
That’s … An interesting conclusion
It’s just basic math. If some 15-year-olds start drinking here, some 12-year-olds are going to start drinking on your side of the pond.
A bit too basic perhaps. Just because euro teens get to buy booze earlier doesn’t mean they enter puberty and the rebellious experimenting with substances stage at age 10.
I guess. Both the USA and the UK still have, like, legitimately appalling levels of alcoholism, though. So we’re really just splitting meaningless hairs.
You spelled Japan wrong.
That’s a fair point. The way they tolerate public drunkenness over there is genuinely shocking to my sensibilities. It’s not even a matter of tolerance, it’s a matter of ENFORCED goddamn inebriation. Motherfuckers have to go get shitfaced with their boss, or else their career will go down the toilet.
Like…can you imagine if they did a version of The Office, in Japan? Every episode would end with the whole cast going down to the bar and getting sloppy fuckin’ drunk. Funny for the first few episodes, but then it would just get sad.
Brits never use the term marijuana. They’re familiar with it from American media etc, but they call it Cannabis in UK and elsewhere.
You’re completely right. I knew something didn’t sound right, when I was replicating the narrator voice.
I have never ever heard a common British person call it marijuana or cannabis unless it was in a sarcastic manner as in “Oop you smoking a bit of the marijuana?”
It’s always weed, lean, green or something other slang term.
Well, this was in the context of a narrator clinically (yet also overdramatically) describing a person developing a “serious habit” of smoking weed, as if it’s the same thing as being addicted to fucking heroin or crack.
