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I really don't get the issue you have with this. Why do you think it is a bad thing that some people are trying to remove the stigma of cannabis consumption and

• sliverstorm 12y ago
  It sounds like your parent is pro-drug-war. "We tried so hard to stamp it out, and now we are just going belly-up and some adman is trying to sell it to your grandma"
  • angersock 12y ago
    Quite the opposite. The annoying thing is that there are people serving sentences for--and still being arrested for in other states!--possession of cannabis and cannabis accessories. That's awful. Worse, though, to me is this McDonaldsization of the substance now that prohibition in Colorado is over. Read my quoted piece again: "Hurf durf untapped markets...let's got after soccer moms who never considered trying the stuff! Let's go after kids, now that cigarettes are uncool!" At least with the stoner culture there's well, culture, there...dank and silly and stupid and fried, but it's a thing. This is just a bunch of sharp entrepreneurs looking to turn this whole thing into another suburban mass-produced targeted-advertised thing. No soul to it, no suffering, no risk, nothing but trendy dress codes and careful phraseology. It cheapens it somehow--a feeling like when I heard Lou Reed being played in a fucking Chipotle. Does that make my position clearer?
    • sliverstorm 12y ago
      I would understand, if only I felt like there was depth to be cheapened in the first place. There is nothing deep and meaningful about drug culture that I'm aware of. You make it sound like stoners were brave pioneers, facing risk and danger and suffering for a higher purpose. (Pun not intended?) But I never saw that.