if we are going to be a weed smoking nation, we need to smoke weed like adults.

many of us today started smoking in highschool, and new laws are unlikely to change that; there is much hand wringing but little credible evidence about young people smoking weed. we will never make young people make good decisions, and smoking a bunch of dope as a teenager is generally a bad decision.

so, us adult weed smokers need to create a better culture, a more adult culture, around weed smoking. this has several positive effects: 1- if “old” people do it as well it is less cool, 2-adult weed smoking is responsible weed smoking, an adult weed smoking culture does not accept high driving for example, 3-an adult weed smoking culture will be less abrasive on non weed smokers. i’m sure there are others.

What then, does adult weed smoking look like? We need to decide. Here is my first suggestion: adults smoke their own joints.

I totally get that sharing a joint has been a part of our culture for longer than any of us has been a part of it. And i am not saying we can never share a joint. What i am saying is that joints should be like cigarettes. Adults generally do not share cigarettes.

Sharing smokes, pipes too, is gross. In a new-people social environment it can even be dangerous. Do you want to get herpes from sketchy donna? because thats how you get herpes from sketchy donna. Weed is now, especially in toronto, readily available. People who want to smoke weed should smoke their own god damn weed.

I was driven to write this post by seeing several people asking where to get blunt wraps or pre-rolled blunts. The best i can understand / imagine is that these people are trying to relive a snoop dog music video. And you know what, if they literally were doing that, hot tubs and low riders and all, i would support it. But these clown are going to just roll up $50 worth of perfectly good weed, enough for 10 people to get good and stoned off their own joint or like 25 people to get fall down baked smoking hotknives, and instead 2 guys are going to slobber all over the thing and let 80% get destroyed by the giant cherry on the thing. This is not adult weed smoking.

People who now should be thinking about smoking weed like adults grew up with snoop dog videos. I totally understand the desire to relive our glorious youth. I totally think if you are tempted to roll a blunt and time travel back to 1995, you should do so. But then you should be honest with yourself and the experience and realise that’s is a shitty way of smoking weed.
We should smoke weed like canadians. polite, conscientious canadians who want canadian weed smoking to be the best it can be. this means, in my view, smoking your own joints.

what do you guys think? feel free to tell me i’m wrong, but please, tell me why.