The topic of marijuana has been blazing in the news these days. There are 15 states plus DC that have legalized the use of medical marijuana but some want to go even further with it. Last November, Proposition 19 was proposed to California voters, which offered to legalize the recreational use of pot in certain amounts for adults over 21 years old.
The proposition was not passed but “Richard Lee, the Oakland, Calif., medical marijuana entrepreneur who sponsored Prop 19 said the fact that 3.4 million Californians cast ballots for legalizing marijuana and that Prop 19 came within 9 percentage points of passing were victories themselves,” as found in an article published by the Huffington Post.
The proposition was not passed but “Richard Lee, the Oakland, Calif., medical marijuana entrepreneur who sponsored Prop 19 said the fact that 3.4 million Californians cast ballots for legalizing marijuana and that Prop 19 came within 9 percentage points of passing were victories themselves,” as found in an article published by the Huffington Post.
Supporters of the proposition vowed to push marijuana legalization in 2012.
The popularity of this drug sometimes called marijuana, pot, weed, ganja, kush, maryjane, reefer, cannabis, herb… whatever you might know it as… dates back from as you probably know, the 60s!
Many agree that marijuana was primarily introduced by the Beat culture. These were the edgy writers, which experimented with drugs and forms of sexuality, incorporated within the hippie generation. Seemingly overnight, marijuana became the most popular recreational drug during this time.
Hippies are known, among other things, for their excessive use of drugs in the 60s, specifically marijuana. So with all this talk of the legal recreational use of pot, are we all just a bunch of hippies deep down?
Whether you are for this law or not, I think this portrays that there is a little bit of hippie in all of us today and that the effects of this generation are very well instilled upon us.
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