Has anybody ever been

[Rocinante]

Confronted on the street with the sales pitch "got your weed, got your speed, got your blotter acid"? I know it's an oldie but I got a new presentation from a kid this afternoon.

[MinnFats]

1. years ago in Boulder ...

...a buddy and I were hitting a few bars the night before a Grateful Dead concert. on EVERY street corner there was a kid whispering furtively from the corner of his mouth to passersby: "Lids, pounds, lids, pounds."
(BTW, is a one-ounce bag of weed still called a 'lid?')
We were being a little ornery so we stood at a corner and started whispering furtively from the corners of our mouths, "tons. tons."
Most people who passed by didn't get it. they just kept their eyes straight ahead and said, 'no thanks, man,' and 'not tonight.'
pretty strange.

your query brought that to mind. what was the sales pitch?

[WindRavenX]

2. yea

In Eugene, outside of a Starbucks (seriously!) some dude was selling weed in plain view and no one gave him grief. It was the weirdest scene in my life- rich yuppies comming out of Starbucks w/ their 3 dollar lattes and then going over to the kid and checking out the weed. One dude even bought a bag.
Weird as hell.

[rogerashton]

3. Not lately.

But I was at the founding concert for Greenpeace a few epochs ago. This will give you an idea what a geek I am: I was the only person present in a necktie. Thinking, hey, this is a concert, right? I think that's the last sales pitch for drugs I ever had -- from a really optimistic dealer.

But it didn't matter. There and a few other times, I was the opposite of Big Bill -- I didn't try it, but I did inhale. You couldn't be there without inhaling.

[newyawker99]

6. Congrats rogerashton!! 900 posts

:toast:

[Kellanved]

4. Yep

Not with a phrase this elaborate, but in the "hipper" areas of Berlin you can't have a BBQ in a public park without a guy offering "space cakes" to you.
Sometimes they even try to sell them in restaurants..

[REP]

5. Never

Not once. I live in California now, and have high eyeball pressure, and my doc has not recommended weed to bring it down, either. :sob:

[TheBigGuy]

7. yes, once...really strange expereince....

In downtown Louisville, during the 1970s, right on the "River City Mall" (the old 4th Street, used to be the main shopping street downtown)...some guy asked me and a freind if we wanted to buy some pot.

Since neither of us smoked we said "no".

It was really odd..this was like on a Sunday afternoon...not many people on the street...but still this was like in broad daylight in a very public place.