If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.
I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.
It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.
Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.
I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.