Grow Me

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David Samuels/NewYorker: Dr. Kush:

Growing ganja lets you feel that you’re still living on the edge, especially when you’ve become a little complacent politically. Emily nodded, and took another puff. “The forest is still getting cut down or whatever,” she said, watching the fragrant smoke swirl in the breeze. “But you’re still working out here. You’re still subverting the Man. And you’re getting people high.”

Terms of art regurgitated by people too young, dumb, and full of shit to realize their spiritual, bucolic life-style is nothing more than generic capitalism, thinly disguised under a three-layered veil. A long strange trip it is from Northern California grow-country to LA's dispensaries of the once-evil weed, according to the reporter now the nation's largest cash crop.

Subverting "the Man" one toke at a time? Nope. Just a buncha hippies makin' bank on weed.