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[Spenelli]

So I never posted about Colorado. It was really nice there. When we first got there, it was really late. We get to the hotel and there was a sign on the desk.. "If we smell marijuana smoke you will be charged $50" Hm. So we had drove 9 hours to this state to smoke marijuana and we hadn't realized you couldn't smoke it just anywhere. We didn't have time to obtain anything so it was okay. I started my search for where to smoke. It was very disappointing. Apparently you can't smoke it in public, in your car, in most hotels.. practically nowhere. I finally found this obscure site where a guy had complied a list of what hotels you could smoke in. Thank goodness. The next day we headed to Pueblo and the best rated dispensary we could find. I walked in and it was like a doctors office. Just chairs. They came out and asked for our ID's. Then we were taken into a small room. The most amazing room I have ever seen in my life. xD There were glass cases full of jars of marijuana. The girl who was helping us told us she was a "budtender". Haha. Instead of bartender, if you don't get it. She was so adorable and nice. She had curly hair and so many piercings, and when I saw her hairy armpits I was sold she was the coolest hippie chick I've ever met. xD She asked us what kind of high we liked. She let us smell everything and I told her just to sell us her favorite. I later learned the strain, Qushage, had received 3rd place in a Cannabis Cup a few years back. We bought a $2 pipe and headed for our marijuana friendly hotel.

We smoked up and it was amazing. 1 hit and I could feel it. It usually takes me 4 or 5. It smelled wonderful, tasted even better. High quality stuff.. and I believe it being organic was part of that. Everything that plant had ever been fed was right on the bottle.. natural spring water, worm castings, ect. You knew what went into the plant. I took 4 hits even though I only needed 2. My whole body tingled. A commercial came on and a guy was working in a wood mill.. I just started cracking up. xD Pete asked what was so funny, and I just said, "Wood." xD But honestly I don't know why it was funny.

A few hours later I was restless and ready to roam the streets. We walked around and found a "Hookah Lounge". We walked in and a few people were sitting around a hookah. They informed us they were actually closed and we could come back later. Apparently all they did there was sit around and smoke flavored tobacco. It was like a bar but with a chill atmosphere. Somewhere I thought it would be great to meet friends. But then Pete saw the bras hanging from the bar. He asked about it. They said, "Oh yeah, we have those." xD And no further explanation. Something about that and just the way they were rubbed Pete the wrong way. I thought they seemed cool. But we decided not to return that night.

Later at the hotel after getting high again I started thinking clearly. I realized how scary it all was. It was becoming real. We had really came all this way. We were there. We had nobody. With the heat we wouldn't want to be camping a lot, and hotels were $50 a night at the cheapest. You also can't smoke weed at any campground. I started to see how we would easily spend $100 a day.. especially with the fantastic weed. I was afraid we'd smoke our money and become even worse potheads. I started to get scared. I told Pete all I was feeling. He agreed and we started to regret what we had done. He told me he missed his mom and his friends. He told me maybe we should go back to Alabama. I realized how much his mom would enjoy it too. And how she would actually help us. She's been the only one helping us so far.. and to repay her we had moved even further away. I was scared but his mom seemed like a light at the end of the tunnel.

The next morning Pete called his mom. She was ecstatic and said we could stay with her. She said she'd cosign an apartment for us. It made sense. Support. Someone who loves us. Someone we actually enjoy being around. So we cut our losses, kicked ourselves in the face metaphorically and got our stuff out of storage we had just payed for the day before. xD

Thing was, we had about 1.5 - 2 grams of kush. In Missouri that's nothing.. most cops would take it and send you on your way. However we had like 6 hours of driving through Kansas.. where ANY amount is a minimum 10 months in prison. How ridiculous. So of course we aren't stupid enough to risk that. However 2 grams of kush is quite a bit.. it's fluffy and light. In 2 days we had smoked only about 1 gram between us both. So we headed back to Maggie's, the dispensary.

I saw an older man walking toward the door. I asked if he was going to Maggie's for medicine. He said he was. We explained how we couldn't drive with it in Kansas and we couldn't bear to throw it out. He was so happy. He told us how he barely had any money and just needed a bit of medicine. He said he had PTSD and a messed up arm and back from the war. He said it had driven him to drink every day and the meds the doctor gave did nothing. He said finally one day his daughter came to him and told him to smoke a joint. So he did. And he finally got the relief he needed. He said he moved to Colorado because he was tired of his medicine being a crime. He said he was working on his residency so he could get a medical card to be able to afford it. He asked us if we believed in Jesus. We told him no. He said, "That's okay! As long as you have something in your life to keep the negative out, that's all that matters! You just have to have something that keeps you positive." It really touched me. He told us his guardian angel was working overtime for bringing us to him. He hugged us both and thanked us. We even gave him our little $2 pipe and he was so happy about it. It felt so good. To me I almost feel it was guided by a higher power somehow. Anyone could have been there at that moment, anyone over 21 and maybe just someone who smoked for fun like me. But instead it was someone who needed the marijuana like medicine.. someone who was having a hard time affording it. We gave him about $40 worth of medicine. Just to think he went home and got to escape his pain for a little while was worth overbuying.

So our moving ended up to be a big mistake.. an expensive, unplanned vacation. xD But it was all worth it. It put things in perspective. Had we not done it maybe we would always wonder. And now we know our favorite place to vacation, haha.  

[Spenelli]

Me and Pete both got jobs today at Dominoes! We also started today, haha. It was a pretty weird deal.

I'm going to copy and paste the story from when I was talking about it in the Giveaway thread. xD

We inquired about working at a bbq place but all they were hiring for was drivers in your own car. Pete doesn't want to put wear on our car for minimum wage. So we left. We drove across town, and the owner had followed us! xD He told us he had another store he needed people at. If he was desperate enough to follow us all the way across town I think we're probably gonna get it. xD He was super nice and asked if we wanted to work together. Pete said it didn't matter, but that we only have one car, and he said, "Okay!" Like it was no big deal. We're supposed to meet him tomorrow.

So, we met him. He immediately just started telling us the dress code. Then he said, "Go out, get some black pants and black shoes and call me". xD No paperwork, no nothing. xD So we did. We called him and he asked us questions, entering stuff in the computer. He said come in at 5. So we came in and worked. No application, no paperwork, haha.

We were nervous as hell but after a few hours we were doing pretty good. Everyone told us at the end of the day we did great. biggrin I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. I had to answer phones and take orders, and sometimes it's hard to understand people. One lady had bad cell service and kept cutting out. Pete was lucky, he got to make pizza. I can handle it though, it's better than a lot of other stuff I've done. And no hard labor at all, haha.