Your Thoughts: Ubiquitous Cannabis

We've gone from evil weed and 20-year prison terms to buying cannabis in gas stations and smoke shops, all in about five minutes. But it seems nobody is discussing the potential impacts.

Gummies are everywhere. Photo by Eric.

Dear Friend and Reader:

I’m here to open a discussion about the implications and consequences of legal weed showing up nearly everywhere. The first point of conversation is that nobody much is talking about the potential impacts and consequences of such powerful medicine being turned loose on society, just like that.

Like most environmental influences, what ubiquitous cannabis might do is somehow not a conversation, and I’m curious throughts about why. Not long ago, people were serving significant jail terms (I reckon some still are) for something that was held officially to be a danger to society, which at the same time many people did behind closed doors. Now that has reversed. It’s wonderful and anyone may imbibe.

I’l curious what you think this change might represent, especially here in the digital age. Both digital and cannabis are methods of getting to the astral plane, and I wonder about the results of the two together. Astral is a kind of dream world, with a diversity of properties that make it fairly easily recognizable if you know what to look for.

Weed in 2024 is not weed in 1970. It’s far more powerful today, and also landing in an entirely different environment, mental state, and state of the world. I see our era as a tense, frantic time, driven largely by survival, material values and appearances, when many people are holding their breath waiting for the next disaster.

Edibles weighing in at from 50mg to 200mg are pretty much everywhere.

I’m not asking for judgement from a moral perspective, but rather what I think of as environmental studies, or the ground of consciousness. If the medium is the message, what is the message of the medium of cannabis?

I see these developments as meaningful, and I’m curious if you can help point at that meaning, or clues that describe it.

Thanks for particpating.

With love, — efc