My Temporary Weed Fast Became a Way of Life
by Matt Baume • Feb 1, 2021 at 11:00 am I'll pass for now, thx. Photo by Alberto Ortega/Getty Images In sixth grade we were visited by a DARE officer about whom I can recall two things: One is that his first name was “Lowell,” which everyone found obviously hilarious; and the other is that everything he had to say about marijuana was extremely funny to one small segment of the class for reasons that I could not at the time understand. “It’s a gateway drug,” we were told, “it’ll get you into the harder stuff.” The student who laughed t...