Happy 420

The smell of weed is the smell of death. The pungent odor of civilizational decay. Normalizing it is normalizing decline itself. —Saagar Enjeti

Well, that’s, like, your opinion, man. —The Dude

Long have I had in my nostrils the scent of the herb moly which became so celebrated thanks to the poets of old . . . this herb is entirely chemical. It is said that Odysseus used it to protect himself against the poisons of Circe and the perilous singing of the Sirens. It is also related that Mercury himself found it and that it is an effective antidote to all poisons. —Michael Maier, Septimana Philosophica (1620, Frankfurt)

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