The air was full of sweet perfume as I stepped outside this afternoon, you could smell it on the buses.

Honestly I don’t have a strong preference one way or another when it comes to marijuana. Some people like to smoke or or eat it but I have very little interest in partaking in cannabis, especially not the over priced, highly taxed stuff sold in dispenseraries. Especially as I’ve grown older and more interested in personal health.

Cannabis might be more fun than drinking beer, as Phil Ochs once said. But it’s just as unhealthy, although it’s debatable how harmful the intoxication is compared to alcohol. But it makes you fat by stimulating your hunger and involves inhaling a toxic byproducts of combustion. It ruins your memory but does make you much more relaxed, easy going and open to new experience.

The war on cannabis never made much sense, much like the war on drugs. Addicts need treatment not jail time. A lot of people are passionate about their cannabis and the marijuana smoking lifestyle and I think it’s a gateway drug towards learning more about agriculture. And an interesting, if not somewhat oversold crop. But whatever…