As a child in smalltown Illinois there were not a whole lot of fun things for myself and others to do, then the neighborhood was called La Harpe, Illinois, as well as I am not even sure it’s still around.
- The sign coming into neighborhood said the population was 1,200, but our dad said that was not accurate… By the time I was spending our summers there, La Harpe was only about various or 4 hundred people.
There was an seasoned park in the middle of town, a couple of locales to eat, a gas station, a grocery store, as well as a drug store. That was it! Luckily the drug store sold comic books, so at least I had something to do, despite all of that, I remember Illinois absolutely fondly, and illinois was where I got our first taste of cannabis, from a local child that was growing a patch of plants near the railroad tracks; Perhaps inspired by the movie Stand By Me, as well as fueled by boredom, I would spend hours walking the railroad tracks around La Harpe, Illinois! On one of our treks I came across a small patch of cannabis plants that were so close to harvesting I could smell them from a hundred yards away. I met a teenager named Matt, who was about to harvest the cannabis, as well as offered to provide myself and others some if I helped him. With a head full of marijuana smoke, I started viewing Illinoius in a whole odd way! Thanks to Matt as well as her cannabis, the remainder of our summer time trips in remote Illinois were a lot of fun.