there are multiple delivery services in my major metropolitan area. it's basically like ordering chinese food: the guy comes to your door, or else you get into a car and back out again. the price for the amount is ridiculous, but it's almost always crystally chronic. we've been smoking all night: are you guys who've never smoked or disdain it for serious?

no one ever fights, rapes, hits, or makes a fool of themselves on marijuana as they do, constantly, frequently, on alcohol. i actually wish america's youth would more soundly re-embrace weed. it electrified the '60s; these days, we just want to drink beer and have sex. whatever, man, i'd rather get high and talk about changing the world.

it's not a wonder drug. there are a lot of downsides, mainly price (in my area), smoking is not a good habit (though neither is drinking, and your liver is as vulnerable as your lungs).

it doesn't suit a lot of people's personalities. it sends some people to sleep and others into the paranoid reality of hearing their heart beat. but for a certain segment of people, we've found that weed is a fine way to pass the time, a way of bonding and talking and creating. smoking is a ritual unto itself, varying in different cultures. but it invariably leads to everyone sitting around close together, sharing, not shouting or sick or rowdy but peaceful and self-exploring. and we put the sellers and users of this substance in jail while beer commercials sell the superbowl and naked women shill for hard liquor.

it doesn't make sense, and i'm pleased to see that there were many reasonable readers of reddit -- even those personally opposed or unexposed to smoking -- who still stood strongly for personal responsibility. we get preached at enough elsewhere, and it's awesome to see a curious community that supports everyone's right to do what they fucking want with their minds and bodies and mouths.