With the national weed holiday having come and gone, let’s take a little time to reflect on what it is we love so much about smoking it. If not for the 420 idea, stoners everywhere would never have an excuse to get up and light up his or her bong. But thankfully, this marijuana icon functioning as both a date and a time of day lets us all get stoned at a more reasonable time than we might otherwise. Around 4:20 PM, many people feel that the hour of smoking weed has begun as the day is drawing to a close but not yet done. The date is a nationally recognized holiday on which thousands of stoners from around the country unite and light up a blunt to their favorite music.
More Than a Tradition
Most people like to think of this holiday or time of day as just that and nothing more. But in fact, this could not be farther from the truth about 420 culture. Smoking is a great way to sit back and relax at the end of the day when there is nothing left to do. Until recently, marijuana was a much beloved drug by all until the plant started becoming labeled as a drug as early as the 1860’s. From then on, marijuana has slowly grown more and more unfavorable in the eye of the law being labeled as a poison and a drug. The status of marijuana’s legality has always been a shaky one never staying in place for too long. But with some unavoidable reluctance, marijuana is now growing in popularity as a recreational drug once more.
People use this holiday as not only an excuse to smoke, but also as one to socialize with the rest of the culture and learn more about their fellow man. The openness of the marijuana is widely renown and just shows how harmless the plant can really be when used in moderation. The holiday of 4/20 will be one to look forward to for a long time with the growing popularity of weed these days. The time of day is also a great time to blaze it up even if the time might be your only reason for doing so. 420 culture has grown and flourished in the past few years and as a result, more people than ever are opening to the positives of the drug.
Today’s Marijuana Culture
With the growing popularity of weed today, it is easy to see all of the positive and negative side effects of smoking this plant. On the negative side, long term users have been proven to have trouble converting short term memory in to long term memory. This is just one of the excepted drawbacks of using the drug. But on the positive side, there are a lot of different things that make marijuana worth using. For one, marijuana calms you down and cools you off. You will hardly ever find an angry stoner on the street as this is not how the drug makes you feel. Smoking marijuana is not for everyone and should only be used in moderation if one does not want to suffer in the long run.
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