Humboldt Humor

TOPIC: Humor

SOURCE: Talking to my new roomies and my boyfriend any given day of the week at any hour, conversation often turns to weed. There is a lot of terminology that I still do not understand from over a year of living here in Humboldt, this includes weed related humor. I realized recently during one of their conversations at the house with their stoner friends over, that although I live with some of them and empathize on a lot of things, because I don't smoke I perceive some of their humor strangely.

RELATION: Humor, differs among cultures in relation with how they perceive the world and the way their language is structured. The Humboldt weed culture is a subset of the Humboldt culture and as a member of the general public I dont understand the intricacies, especially on humor, of weed culture.

DESCRIPTION:

I have heard about weed and what you experience as a user of weed. However I don't do it so I just have an abstract idea from conversations with stoners. To add to my confusion is the fact I don't grasp half of the terminology pertaining to weed. I mean... I know what the munchies are! But I don't get why "everything is better with hash on top" (hahaha). Nor why someone "stinks like bong water" (hahahaha). Comments like "Mary Jane and Molly are my only mistresses" is a mystery to me. These are just random quotes that I remember off the top of my head, not even what they found the funniest. It might have to do with them being high and finding everything funny. It might have to do with a shared experience they routinely experience together. 

Something I noticed is they find recounting stories of stupid things they do high are highly amusing and share the same stories over and over again to each other. When high, laughing and giggling is not an unusual side affect. Something so simple as misplaced lighter can provide the humorous fodder for an entire hour of pothead conversation. This is a culture I don't understand,  but I am somewhat engrossed in.

COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS: Although people from all backgrounds of life smoke weed, becoming a part of this culture via experience, separate them from the whole. An aspect of this is humor. As a member of the culture who hasn't experienced this, I don't see their humor. I don't appreciate things so simplistically as they do. As a nonuser, the concept of me smoking apparently is hilarious. I seriously don't understand at all. At all.