Does Social Media Glamorize Marijuana Consumption?

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Dear Stoner:  I'm a cannabis user and support legalization, but doesn't it seem like social media accounts and some advertising take things too far? I see a lot of Instagram accounts that glamorize smoking multiple grams per day, smoking weed on work breaks and avoiding friends to get high. When did that become cool?
Virgil

Dear Virgil: If there's a new "legal" vice or something that should be enjoyed in moderation, then chances are someone on social media is glorifying its consumption. Sports gambling, golf tantrums, retail investing, drinking, smoking weed — there are social media accounts and subreddit pages that glamorize all of them. I'd be lying if I said I never engaged with accounts like @fourtwenty or r/trees, laughed at memes about overeating edibles or shared a video of two Chads duking it out on the golf course.

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Is it healthy and good for society? Probably not — I wouldn't be surprised if large cannabis businesses or corporate interests were behind these accounts — but that's humanity for you.  Keep consumption in moderation, no matter what everyone else is doing, and teach your kids to follow suit. Like Sturgill Simpson said, "Everything will be fine, long as you stay in school, stay off the hard stuff, and keep between the lines."

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