The Chronicles of Marijuana

I mean.. Narnia... I mean.. crap!

No, I did not flub up the title. I meant to insert the word marijuana into the title box. And don't judge me because I did!

Once upon a time, last semester, I wrote a research essay on the effects of marijuana and why it should not be legalized to benefit our youthful generation, and those generations to come. And all of the words that were gathered together to make up this essay were ones that I thought purposeful because I've seen friends come and go, and where they've gone is a land filled with smoke and no sense of valuable life. And I've got the shakes just thinking about the people I love in life who run the risk of ruining their reality all for the sake of a good high.

And maybe I've got the shakes because I forgot to eat lunch, too.
I don't have the munchies today, it seems.

I come from a land filled with weed and hippies, tree-huggers and vegans. Where most spend their whole paycheck's at Whole Foods because everyone here knows that organic food will make you immortal much like the worship of crystals will. And a lot of people here only wear Birkenstocks, and I bet you anything that a lot of them did acid in the 60s. This land is called Boulder, Colorado. And I just don't know how I fit into all of this.

I've never been high, I really have no interest in being high (unless my travels take me to Amsterdam...just kidding...am I kidding?) , and I doubt that I ever will be higher than 35,000 feet whilst riding an airplane to and from Massachusetts or elsewehere in this big, fat world.

But where does that put me into relation to all of the people I know who regularly smoke or get baked from eating baked goods filled with their beloved Mary Jane? Will I forever be excluded? Does it even matter?

I believe it does matter. Because at the end of the day, we all have a need for human contact and relational love, and whether or not I am able to breach the gap between the drugged and the sober, and still connect with my friends and loved ones... I will push those boundaries, build that bridge to the other side where I can still BE with my people who I care so much about that I won't let marijuana come between us.