Of course the potheads here on FR don't and won't accept this. Not surprising since they live in their own stoned reality like all the other mental defects.
Hey, it's America. . .
LOL!. Yeah, I don’t mind if they live in their own stoned reality...but don’t encourage it for the rest of us, particularly young people.
I think most of our stoners here are doing it for arthritis pain relief.
A lot of them don’t realize that (a) it’s not your father’s pot (meaning, it’s not like what most of them started on, but about 5 times stronger) and (b) that Americans think if something is legal it’s government-approved and good, so therefore they should smoke (vape or chew) more dope because the government says it’s okay.
I have met people in CO who just want to get out and have pulled their kids out of public school because of the pervasive marijuana use (among CHILDREN!) and the resulting idiocy.
Theoretically it’s legal only over a certain age, but it’s de facto legal (and available) to anybody of any age. When they adopted this attitude in CA back in the early 80’s, all you saw was children (12 through HS) sitting around at recess smoking dope. The teachers did nothing because the parents were dopers too.
BTW, marijuana is much higher in tar than tobacco. I had a Growing up in the mid 60s, I had a friend who actually developed emphysema from smoking so much dope - at the age of 16.