“Everybody must get stoned.”

— Bob Dylan

One of my favorite developments from the dawn of “medical” marijuana and those years of lying copiously, was this:

Young men of roughly college-age in Arizona were among the most eager users of the product.

Understand, we had legalized medical pot in 2010 because it was the magic balm that would relieve our rheumatoid arthritis and restore our aching backs.

But when the product started to move, we learned to our great shock that it wasn’t just the grannies in Sun City who needed the cure, but our young men in college frat houses, who were suffering from an appalling outbreak of old-age symptoms.

Or not.

Maybe they just found a new way to get high.

Or maybe they just found out we were all lying about medical marijuana.

Which we were.

What a whopper that was.

Today marijuana is not just “medical” in Arizona. It’s recreational. And anyone 21 and older can huff weed with abandon.

Last year, we surpassed $1 billion in marijuana sales since the launch in January 2021, when we upgraded our cannabis from........

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