Happy 4/20 Day to those who celebrate. Photos from a January trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts…
The marijuana store for the 2SLGBTQQIA+ that opened in 2022 seems to have closed.
Leah also has a specific audience in mind: “Those of us who are often left out of things.” By that, within the cannabis industry, she means consumers who are older, or identify as LGBTQ, or women of any age. “That’s who I want to educate. That’s who I want to learn to believe and know that they can be a part of the cannabis community and culture too.” The programs she has in mind for the second floor at Yamba Boutique reflect that, including demonstrations and lectures that integrate cannabis with healthy lifestyles, from yoga to cooking and sex-positive practices.
For someone who has spent a lifetime trying to remove stigmas and upend stereotypes for herself and others, Yamba Boutique is a logical step. Leah began her career as a social worker, counseling teenage mothers like she and her mother before her, having gotten pregnant at 16 and 14, respectively. “I wanted to try to remove the stigma that we have as teen moms, that we are nothing and that our lives are gonna be ruined.”
Last week:
The “Marijuana for LGBTQ” store is being replaced by “Marijuana for Everyone” (don’t forget that marijuana is “essential”, which is why adults in Maskachusetts were able to go into a weed store and mingle while it was illegal for children to attend school).
For anyone who isn’t too stoned to read, there seems to be a new bookstore in the Square (note the two Rainbow Flags in the windows, a Biden-style trans-enhanced Flag and one with an innovative diagonal stripe pattern):
“No Kings; No ICE; No Fear; Immigrants are welcome here”. Looking through the window I observed at least five people in the store wearing masks. The person in the photo was my favorite. He/she/ze/they would remove the mask, sip his/her/zir/their coffee, and then put it back on repeatedly.
> He/she/ze/they would remove the mask, sip his/her/zir/their coffee, and then put it back on repeatedly.
Its only logical to do this! What if the virus suddenly attacks in between sips?
I believe it’s a form of Penance in a new religion.
LOL! Could be! To be entirely honest, for all I know, they might be doing it out of comradery, in order to make someone they saw doing it feel accepted.
Why don’t Republicans want people to escape from the modern dystopic nightmare? Hell if I know. The only thing keeping me from buying a Hobie Cat and retiring to the Keys is recreational marijuana. 4/20 for 4/all.
Let’s smoke that bowl
Hit the bong and then take that finger off of that hole
Plug it, unplug it, don’t strain
I love you, Mary Jane
— Cypress Hill, Hits from the Bong
> Why don’t Republicans want people to escape from the modern dystopic nightmare?
“I FILL MY BONG WITH REPUBLICAN TEARS”
https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/2046381883404034549
Godspeed tomorrow, Dem Virginia legislators on unleashing recreational weed. May the smell permeate every hotel room, like in Michigan. Medical marijuana is legal in FL, OAPH — I guess they did that a few years ago, before running the GLBT+ crowd off to the Haven State of Michigan. Do you have “PTSD” or bunions? You may be able to live your retirement dream in FL. I’m sure Phil won’t mind you moving next door, as long as it is stowed in the trunk of your G-Wagen when transporting it. You can smoke test his whole-house HEPA filtration system.
NH: How come your girl friend Greta doesn’t work on getting weed legalized in Sweden? From what I understood, weed is quite taboo there.
@PGP:
G. and I are “just friends”, that Palestinian guy with the broccoli top haircut is just irresistible to her. 🙁 I’m trying to get her to support “No Kings Sweden” before MJ legalization. She also thinks it’s more edgy to smoke a blunt from the illegal weed trade at a protest than to chew a gummy from “Ingrid’s Dainty Edibles”. Hope everyone is recovered from 4/20 (remember kids, “don’t inhale/ingest and drive”). Big vote in Virginia today, Spanberger’s changes on the table. But a big W yesterday for D, filled a rain-barrel with R tears. Best.
NH:
Your writing style reminds me of the writing style of The Catcher in the Rye and The Confederacy of Dunces. Did those books have a great big effect on hippies? I hope G is not leading you on:
https://theonion.com/friendship-blossoms-into-unrequited-love-1819587159/
I would say my tone is more like Vanity Fair by Thackery, in the style of picaresque.
> The story is framed as a puppet play, and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is somewhat unreliable. (Wikipedia)
It isn’t a difficult genre to stay sur modèle, given that the world appears today as one kooky puppet play. The weed makes me an unreliable narrator. I hate Catcher in the Rye and most Southern fiction, especially work that uses the cheap device of mental hospitals. (Please do not mention You Can’t Go Home Again, blech. There is a reason that one and the dunces book had to be dug out of the trash to be published posthumously.) We get it, kookie rebels have to be locked up. Next you’ll be accusing me of being influenced by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Everyone else is crazy, man, not me — R and D.
I’m not sure which literature influenced the OG hippies–even filthier Beat poets and X-rated underground comix? Neo hippies have traded free love for $4 bars of lemon glycerine soap. Love ain’t free. I think G. digs my smell, but maybe falafel more?
LOL! I haven’t read One flew or Vanity Fair, but there were two things I found common in the writing style of those books I mentioned and your comments: First one is the stream of consciousness type writing, and the second is a lot of hates and likes, and very little neutrality.
Americans saying I have black and white thinking, D or R, is kinda like the pot brownie calling the kettle chips bad for you, or something.
With respect to G. as a celeb crush, my real celeb crush is Yolandi, the most deplorable rapper in the world:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/aa/81/14aa81e9ab899cb69e1fc0761a201e92.jpg
I wish Trump would let her in as a refugee. MAGA for real, dude — I might vote for him for his third term.
> Americans saying I have black and white thinking, D or R, is kinda like the pot brownie calling the kettle chips bad for you, or something.
I thought Americans believed in the equilibrium between the D and the R.
BTW, there are chips available with weed as well, maybe pot kettle chips are a thing:
https://chefmattonline.com/collections/infused-chips-snacks
> With respect to G. […]
You sure do have a type NH.