> On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot. Haha, i sympathise: i lived nea

> On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot. Haha, i sympathise: i lived near Amsterdam for many years (i'm a non-smoker), and almost anyone non-Dutch i ever met outside of the Netherlands would immediately mime smoking when it became clear where i lived. Conversely, this was usually relatively strongly negatively correlated with how cool i was likely to find the person in general, so i tried to see it as a useful people-filter :p.