In Vietnam we could get Thai Sticks and those were as good as any pot today, some even had liberal amounts of opium. Consumed in great quantities by all. Get down wind and you could smell a camp from a long ways out. I’ve been in the A Shau when you could smell other platoons up wind of you. That was usually a good thing since the NVA wasn’t much for smoking weed but the VC were so you had to be careful when weed was hanging in the air. Nothing gave away one position more than pot smoke but I guess after a while we just didn’t give a chit anymore.
This country owes you a debt that can never be paid.
Some of these drug-store grunts have a hell of a nerve telling you what you can and can’t smoke.
We used to get that shyt too. But we didn’t tolerate smoking while on patrol in the gunboats. Off duty only.
Of course there is no “off duty” in the field. But we used to get 12 on 12 off, 24 on 24 off and 36 on 36 off patrol sectors. So we had a lot of rear area time.