California are on the verge of total legalization of marijuana and as the Americans never do anything by halves. It will be very interesting to see how this pans out. How big business and marketing take it on ?
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It's not my bag as I find the smell a bit offensive but I have enjoyed it when i've been in the company of Asian friends as it is there bag as they don't drink. I liked the no hangover part the next day.
But to me its more about the freedom of choice part. Also I find it too much hassle to go driving the streets of Balsell Heath looking for a gapped toothed Rasta for an eighth of dubious quality.
But I think in these times of enforced leisure (no jobs) governments of the world are looking for a relatively costless "soma" * as TV and the Internet aren't quite enough. Governments really don't like rioting in the streets, like those crazy French.
[Soma = a happy drug, dished out to the masses in Aldious Huxley's, "Brave New World"]