To teenagers and 20 somethings, heck even to 30 somethings we being 50 something are old fuddy duddies.
Not that those whippersnappers would ever use the phrase fuddy duddy but yes we are old. And we do things that old people do. We talk about how bad things are in the country, we vote Republican, and we talk about our children and grandchildren— a lot. We will show you pictures if you have a minute and a half. Heck we will show you pictures even if you don’t have a minute.
We also don’t do things that old people don’t do. We don’t occupy Wall Street or any of the other streets out there. We don’t travel the world with only a back pack. We don’t go out every weekend drinking, dancing or looking for chicks. We don’t do it because we are married but mostly because we don’t have the energy.
We have very little cultural references beyond 1992.
And we don’t smoke weed.
But being 50 something also means we were teenagers in the 70’s and back then everyone smoked weed at least once.
We did too.
Not often not frequently, but we did, and we don’t know anyone our age who didn’t except of course for David Stav who came in second to being the Chief Rabbi of Israel last year.
Some of our friends from back then have done very well for themselves. They became judges, lawyers, financiers, high ranking officers in the military and one was even named one of the 100 most thought provoking scholars of 2012.
And all of them smoked weed just like our president and the two presidents before him.
So it would be hypocritical of us to demand weed be illegal.
Another thing about being 50 something, we are hypocrites.
Comes with age.
We raised our children not to smoke weed.
Told our boys that doing it would make them grow boobs and shrink them down there.
Okay we exaggerated but it did get their attention neither of them became potheads.
A pothead is like an alcoholic— absolutely worthless.
But like alcohol marijuana does have some medical benefits, perhaps even more than booze.
And rural Nevada will have to decide whether to follow the lead of the state and permit medical marijuana to be sold.
We are ambivalent.
But we don’t think this issue should be decided by just a small government body like a city council.
And conveniently enough we happen to be in an election year.
Put the question on the ballot.
There is time and it should make for some great stories.