Tectonic Plates
Today it was my privilege to speak at Extravaganja, the annual pot rally put on by the Cannabis Reform Coalition at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. It was a beautiful day and the town common was blanketed with young people, all attentive, well behaved, and mostly stoned. Here’s what I told them, the gist of which is that the tectonic plates of public attitudes are shifting before our eyes. Now it can confidently be said that a majority of Massachusetts voters support marijuana law reform, and significantly the vast majority of them are non-smokers of marijuana. They’re what I call them: pot-tolerant, or Tols: they don’t smoke marijuana, but they’re perfectly cool with people who do, and they get it that prohibition is a fraud. Legalization, in other words, isn’t for stoners anymore