It wouldn’t be fair to say that cannabis is totally taboo in 2024. Yes, a stigma still exist around the plant, mainly the pothead culture and stoner stereotypes. However, now we are seeing people open up to marijuana and all its potential benefits like never before.
As I reflect on my own personal journey with weed, I can’t help but compare how we have found acceptance by doing the unacceptable through cannabis.
It starts with that first experience where you knew, this is where it’s at. This is the oasis to float on through this wild and crazy life. Even though someone might judge you or even though you might judge yourself, you take the first plunge into doing it anyway. For some the choice was easy, some faced a little tug of war, and others endured a parallel life of secrecy and adventure. Ultimately, it was the choice to live on your terms, even if only for a ride. Whatever your personal story is we all know, when we decided to be potheads, we were doing it together.
And just like the potheads that came before us, we continue to carry the torch of good vibes through generations. No, these vibes are not for the people, to spread rose petals at their gnarly ungrateful feet, but to escape to vibrational levels where we can chill the fuck out for a second.
You know?
Just . . . chill.
Chill.
These good vibes are for ourselves. We ride through the dark world trying to catch them like fireflies, fearless against the energy vampires and things that go bump in the night. The way the world works is clear – the path to heaven is through the gates of hell and only the strong survive. Thankfully we have something like weed to make the journey sweet.
Quite frankly it’s unacceptable, to behave outside the boundaries of proper society and to truly blaze your own trail.
But oh look how far we’ve come.