User Comment Rodeo: Pot Still a Huge Deal

It's downright unhealthy. It'll drive you crazy and ruin your life. It's a gateway to worse things. The User Comment Rodeo is, in fact, all of the above – and more!

Marijuana, for God knows what reason, is still something people get riled up about. Despite being illegal, it is found everywhere, in most countries. In certain places it is policy to execute or imprison people for marijuana crime: the stakes get higher than the high. Its legal status in free countries, and surrounding discussion, is one of the most indicative dramas of our epoch. 

Every time legalization fumbles, the same crowd comes out to jeer. Many consider it the finest part – the choicest cut of commentary – but in many ways it is a joyless spectacle.

Sensationalism is never where the show's at. There are finer tastes (even though it is understandable to ignore them). Consider the above: a beautiful and puzzling moment in the blizzard of opinion – another beautiful snowflake. A natural, logically formed moment in time, among all the rest. Arguments are always made noticeably better by:
1. Organization
2. Rhythm and Repetition
3. Dope

You can't be afraid of the deep end in this business. The shallow end is easier to understand, but what you miss out on is nuance. Don't fear the deep end:
1. It's Deeper
2. Paying Attention
3. Digression: Creates Perspective

Morality is key, because let's face it: user comment boards are highly influential and very important for public discourse. The picture they paint will always be a masterpiece. But to paint a masterful picture, the artist must reach into the soul of the audience – pulling on the heaviest of heartstrings and reading unthinkable terrors

 Sativex wasn't a hugely successful product, as far as I can recall, but –

Calls for transparency are about as well tolerated as rock throwers in the glass house district. I like arguments best when they are mirrors that show you only that everything you know is disgusting and false. Honesty is not only the best policy, anymore, but also the only one which can rebuild our broken paradise.

Burning plants, though, are symbolic of so much: industry, energy, wildfires, Sunday afternoons – even burnt offerings and holiness. You cannot simply despise the burning of plant matter. That is too dull an Occam's Razor for the task at hand. It could only work if burning plants never held sway on the human mind. What would salve my conscience requires far more than the dismantling of one notorious politic.

What a triumphant end! The shallow end wins, by a landslide. The hot twenty-somethings who smoke pot aren't putting out enough and aren't trying to make a corporate product out of marijuana. But most natural products become products at some point in their life-cycle. The subtext here is that generational politics and mental disability will always prevent the issue from resolution. The status quo is perfect. The cranky, crotchety establishment can hate (via #jealousy) and oppress the disillusioned, fun-having young who are not debasing themselves enough and have even the gall to smoke pot in the face of tedium and societal toxicity.