But her story could easily have gone in a different direction. A few months ago, our year-old was found with a vape pen. I was furious. I was so furious I stayed quiet the entire minute ride home from his high school. He sat next to me in the passenger seat. DIY: Plant a victory garden now and grow your own groceries.
Here are eight steps to get started. I grew up in the s and we smoked pot in high school. It was a simpler time. But maybe every generation thinks that. But once your kid has a problem with drugs, the ubiquity of pots shops and how cool they look and their pervasive promotion across the city can feel disturbing. Which seems cooler to a year-old? Earnest mom talks or rainbow billboards? Smoking pot in the '90s, like in most of the decades after the '60s when the hippies made weed-smoking a veritable subculture, was a divisive act.
It divided us from the "normals" and bound us together. We had our rituals. We had a single expensive bong that we shared, hiding it in different car trunks or backpacks depending on whose week it was. We worked together, as a team, to procure fresh buds an incredibly hard task in a tiny town with literally one road and only one drug dealer that we teenagers were aware of. And we had Why was pot celebrated on Hitler's birthday? No one knew.
No one cared. All that mattered was that for that one special day our people stood up and said, "Yep, I smoke pot. In fact, I love it. And so do all these people wearing strangely large pants and hideous multi-colored hats.
April 20 was our one singular day to be proud. We've also got things going on. Weed helped us see things differently from other people, and we needed to feel, for one day, like we belonged. Medical marijuana is now legal in 24 states, plus Washington D. We never found the patch. The Waldos might have not discovered what they were looking for, but they stumbled upon something much bigger, a code—which they shortened to —that has become synonymous with cannabis culture for half a century.
Today, on the fiftieth anniversary of , the U. But the irony is that what started as a joke among teenagers has blossomed into the ultimate high holiday—the Black Friday for cannabis. And the U. There is still plenty of work to be done to legalize cannabis at the federal level, but if the members of Congress think it is still up for debate in America, they must be high.
For now, only two states—Idaho and Nebraska—still consider marijuana just as illegal as heroin. The momentum is certainly there. Last night, on the eve of , the House passed the SAFE Banking Act, which, if approved by the Senate, will finally allow banks and financial institutions to do business with cannabis companies without the risk of being prosecuted under federal law. When that happens, says Robert Hoban, an attorney who has specialized in cannabis law for more than a decade, pressure will ramp up as institutional investors begin to lobby politicians to de-schedule marijuana.
That will be welcome news to John Fetterman, the 6-foot-8, tattooed Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania who is running for the Senate in and has long been vocally pro-legalization. Five years ago, on , Fetterman stood on the roof of his house in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a depressed steel town outside Pittsburgh, to record a video for his first failed Senate campaign that called for legalization.
To celebrate this year, Fetterman attended the Kutztown Cannabis Festival over the weekend and is marching up the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol. Braddock, where Fetterman served as mayor for 13 years, is a predominantly Black town so he has seen the devastation up close.
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