Posted on 11/26/2025 6:31:32 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
If the guests at your Thanksgiving table this year are a bit moonier than usual, don’t assume they ate too much turkey. And if they seem extra enthused about digging into pie after a filling meal, well —
Adding to late November’s ever-growing list of festivities and shopping promotions, cannabis brands are now marketing “Green Wednesday:” the day before Thanksgiving, when childhood friends reunite and presumably light up. And consumers are heeding the call: Green Wednesday is the second-largest holiday for cannabis behind April 20, said Joyce Sinali, co-founder of the Cannabis Media Council, a trade group that seeks to improve the public perception of weed.
“Green Wednesday is not a real holiday,” said Jennifer Bartholomeo, a general manager of the Travel Agency, a New York dispensary chain. “But if you think about it, you’re traveling home to see your family, extended family is visiting and everyone is taking a walk with their cousin. And what do you think you’re doing on that walk?”
Whether junior relations are sneaking away from the gathering to smoke together or popping an edible to assuage their anxiety before they face the rest of the family, getting high on the 17th century feast day is an emergent 21st century tradition. High and dry
“Green Wednesday” is a relatively new term for a familiar phenomenon: Old friends get together in their hometown and party on the eve of Thanksgiving. As cannabis products became legalized across the US in the mid-2010s, the industry started using the term in marketing to encourage friends to head to local dispensaries to get their fix, Sinali said.
“We want folks to come and get nuanced, interesting products and take them to the dinner table for their Thanksgiving holiday,” Sinali said.
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Some of the switching from booze to pot may be accounted for as a result of increased DUI pressure from law enforcement.
“Tokin Jew” should Not be Driving!
“And what do you think you’re doing on that walk?” Uh, putting one foot in front of the other one?
FFS... I am generally tolerant of cannabis use, but this is plain nuts.🤪
Sadly.
**“Tokin Jew” should Not be Driving!**
My secret to those long days and nights as an OTR trucker: take no drugs, not even caffiene. Stop when tired, flop in the sleeper and take a 15 minute nap. Then push a few a few hours to the next nap.
Though I retired from full-time, I still drive truck part-time (there is somewhat of an addiction to rowing those gears, flipping on the jake brake, and especially, seeing the countryside). I still don’t drink coffee, mainly because I like my hands free, and I also hate burning my tongue.
Sleep in, I guess.
Hate the stuff - I am allergic to smoke and detest the smell.
That said, my husband was a huge fan b/c he said it was the only thing that alleviated his pain and nausea from cancer and chemo.
Still, I made him smoke in the garage.
I CoDrove a Transporter From
Midland TX to Long Beach CA.
I’ll never forget That but my
Career Was Definitely as
A Wire Man on RaceCars!
We don’t drink at thanksgiving meal normally unless it’s late
I don’t drink anyhow
You want to get stoned do it later
I did a couple times in high school and it was wierd being high around grandma
Aren’t there edibles? No need to smoke or vape.
Apparently smoking or vaping pot has immediate effects, unlike the edibles.
We are having ham instead.
I’m not against it for medicinal use - it’s a PLANT and I like plants, as you know. And SO many of them are useful to us as we slog through this Life.
But - I’d take it as a gummy or a pill. I couldn’t do that to my lungs. I NEED my lungs!
Dad quit smoking at age 40. He ended up in the hospital with a very bad case of Pneumonia and said, “All of a sudden BREATHING was WAY more important to me than smoking!”
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