This is just proof that legalization ACTUALLY keeps the stuff OUT of teenagers hands.

When I was a teen, it was illegal. Everywhere.

Which meant that literally EVERYONE at school had it. I seriously did not pay for weed from 8th grade until about age 22, just because SOMEONE always wanted to party with the fat funny kid. Imagine getting to smoke weed with Chris Farley. Would you charge him? Or would you just invite him?

It wasn’t until I was living with my girlfriend, and we wanted to smoke together that I realized “oh shit…I guess I actually have to go buy it.”

And it was still illegal, which meant everyone had it. I just went to work, and asked literally the first person I worked with who they buy weed from. Turns out she grew/sold it.

It was illegal, and therefore unregulated, and therefore it existed freely.

Now, in most states it’s legal, and thus regulated, and thus the black market can’t exist.

The idea of teenagers NOT having free access to weed is absolutely foreign to me, but it’s the world we live in today. Whereas I grew up in the war on drugs. Which used the D.A.R.E program to educate kids on how cool drugs are, where to get them, and then passed out free samples. Which went missing. Years later I heard conspiracy theories that the D.A.R.E programs ACTUAL goal was to get kids hooked on illegal drugs, so they could arrest them as young adults.

And honestly? I don’t have much in the way of an arguement to dispute that. I’m not saying it’s true. I’m just saying I have no arguement against it.

Because your wife needs to hear it? Or because she’d get a kick from hearing it?

What happens if 100% of humans are inside the circle, and there is no other?

Probably from not affording food.

…I never had any desire to see the barbie movie. Is that really in the movie???

American here. As do I.

I know black people who voted for trump. I have zero explaination for you.

One that I didn’t know about was the pronounciation of “Arab”.

I’ve heard “air-ab” and I’ve heard “a-rab”. I thought they were both just different pronounciations. Turns out “a-rab” is offensive, and racist. I literally grew up being babysat as a kid by a family of arabs, and didn’t find this out until I was 28.

I have no memory of if I ever pronounced the word wrong around any of them, and now I cringe looking back. I must not have offended them. They always accepted me as one of their own.

…thats moderation.

sits on your lap

Why? Whats wrong with us?

Eh, he’s ok. He just sees the state of the world, and is getting into the right frame of mind from an early age. Riot often, I say!

Eh, he’s alright. Whenever I pick up Emanual in my Uber, he’s decent people…

…what?

Did I misread the situation?

My problem is that I never even HEARD of the Home Depot thing.

Here’s one you may or may not know about. Nestle actually engages in and uses literal slave labor to grow coco beans in other countries.

So you think “well, how hard is it really to just buy hersheys chocolate instead? And buy your cookies from local bakeries?”

Except no. Nestle is more than just chocolate. It’s like hundreds of brands. I’m constantly checking packaging now to see if their logo is on products. It owns DiGorno pizza. It owns Hot Pockets. It owns water bottles. It’s like half the grocery store. And that’s just ONE COMPANY!!!

My issue isn’t accepting that you’re right. My issue is keeping track of it all. I’ve hated Nestle since 2012. I didn’t realize the scope of their brands until 2020. I think they even own a pet food company that makes dog food and cat food. Now granted I don’t have pets, so I’d not have delt with that, but still.

I only have so many brain cells left to rot before I’m a full on dementia ridden crazy person who thinks it’s still the Nixon years, despite the fact I was born in 1983.

I remember when my dad would snore loudly, I’d always punch him in the balls really really hard, and then drop to the floor.

One time he went to the doctor trying to run tests to figure out why his balls hurt every night. Doctors had zero clue what to make of that.

I have an AMAZING poker face. Inside I was dying laughing. Outside, stonefaced.

What if they’re not cool enough to block them?

Which was weird, because I remember being 14 in the late 90s, and EVERYONE was 14-16/F/Cali.

And I’d always say “Oh, sorry. I’m 14, but I’m from Ohio”.

I wonder how many FBI agents I pissed off.

Are ya winning son?

My issue is I never know there ARE protests until like 4 days after it happened.

Where possible, avoid buying from companies that are complicit.

Unless you buy from local creators/farmers, EVERYONE is complicit.

Why would anyone want to know about each other’s location?

What an odd thing to ask. Where are you from?

Hey! That was my taco! It’s been just like a taco to me!