Who said you can't teach an old dog, new tricks....
'I'm getting high!' Three GRANNIES are filmed smoking cannabis for the first time in a coffee shop in Amsterdam (and they try bongs and space cakes)
- Friends Trish, 82, Margot, 73, and Daphne, 78, agreed to try cannabis
- Smoked class B drug for the first time in Amsterdam for a Channel 4 show
- Margot said she thought 'only criminals used it'
- But she said she believes 'you are never too old to try something new'
- Trio try using a bong and rolling a spliff then head ti a playground
By
Lucy Waterlow for MailOnline
Published: 11:27 GMT, 5 August 2016 | Updated: 12:15 GMT, 5 August 2016
Three British grandmothers have thrown caution to the wind to try smoking marijuana for the first time on a trip to Amsterdam.
Friends Trish, 82, Margot, 73, and Daphne, 78, agreed to be filmed by Channel 4 as they sampled cannabis - but not until first being reassured they wouldn't be sent to jail as it is legal to buy the drug in Dutch coffee shops.
Margot said: 'I never tried cannabis before. When I was young I thought it was only criminals that used it.
The trio, who have a combined age of 233, admit they are a little apprehensive due to what they have heard 'from the young' about the class B drug.
Daphne said: 'I have heard it can do something to your mind much worse than tobacco and it could lead to hard drugs.'
Octogenarian Trish takes a puff on a spliff after getting Margot to roll it as she is 'good at embroidery'
Daphne and Margot don't get to try the spliff as it burns down before they can handle it
The pensioners first try smoking a joint as they appear on the documentary A Granny's Guide To The World after working out how to roll one.
Octogenarian Trish instructs her friend to do it for them: 'I have heard from the young, you roll your own and then you smoke it.
'Margo, you are good at embroidery you have probably got clever hands.'
As Margot adeptly rolls up she tell her: 'Well done that was a really good lick.'
However, only one of them gets to have a puff after they light the spliff as the flame quickly burns down the paper so they can no longer hold it.
'Oh heck, where's our ashtray!' Margot exclaims as they drop it in flames.
Next the three grandmothers are shown how to use a bong
Margot had to be assured they wouldn't be sent to jail before she tried the drug in Amsterdam
They have more success when they are then shown how to inhale the drug from a bong and then a plastic bag
'I must have got something as it made me cough,' Margot said after one puff.
They also try a 'space cake' after reading the precautions and learning it should be OK for them since they aren't planning to drive later.
'It looks like ginger bread,' Daphne observes before they all tuck in.
Under the effects of the drug, the group then go to a playground where they delight in going on the swings.
'I must have got something as it made me cough,' Margot said after one puff
Margot and her friends said cannabis made them feel like they were having a 'second childhood' and after trying it they went to a playground to go on the swings
'I am getting high!' Margot squeals ironically as she takes to the swings. 'We are doing silly things.'
Later the three admit they had a wonderful time thanks to the drugs, prompting a warning from Channel 4 on the dangers of the substance, which include an increased risk of developing psychotic illnesses and lung cancer.
Margot said trying it has 'changed our opinion of cannabis' and as it made when feel like they were 'having a second childhood'.
Trish said: 'It has been a good experience, an extraordinary experience.'
Daphne agreed saying: 'Good old cannabis.'
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