Weed won't be illegal forever

I really can't believe that Michael Phelps story was as big as it was. I can't believe he lost endorsements behind it. He was even on the verge of facing criminal charges. Weird, considering no one knew exactly what was in that pipe he was puffing on. I know, I know...what else was he going to have in there? Raisin bran? Toenails?

But do you really know that there was weed in there?

Either way, that's beside the point. It just blows my mind that we're still tripping on weed smokers like we are. I can't believe we haven't legalized it yet, considering how much we know about the plant. I'm not worried about it, though, because I know one day, it will be legalized. Just as soon as the generations preceding ours are too old to stop anyone from doing anything about it.

See, for a lot of prior generations, drugs were a taboo subject, like Black people or anything sexual. It was just wrong and you didn't even bring it up, unless you wanted to catch five across the face. You didn't question the rules, because this is how it was. So because the establishment succeeded in making everyone believe that Satan lived inside of drugs, drug use was mostly limited to the seedy looking kids in the neighborhood huffing paint behind Old Man Skinner's barn or smoking reefers with the Negro boys from the next town. Drugs didn't hurt Negroes because everyone knew back then that they had no souls. Anyway, back then, if you were caught smoking weed, you were looked at as if you raped babies during bank heists. It was a really big deal.

Then the 60s and 70s came and all Hell broke loose. It's a wonder anyone got anything done because everyone between the ages of 16 and 45 was probably on something while they had sex with someone else. Every STD that exists today was invented by God to stop whatever hedonism was doing back then. It didn't work, though, because all drugs have the inherent effect of overriding one's natural fear of getting burned. Plus, there was heroin. Lots and lots of heroin.

Then "Scarface" came along and introduced a young generation to the life of being a drug lord and how one of their hobbies is burying their faces in mountains of cocaine. Everyone who saw this movie as a child would grow up to be a rapper who made songs about how they actually did everything they saw in "Scarface."

Combine that with a young Nino Brown introducing New York to crack and now you have a nation of people who are not only unafraid of drugs, but believe themselves to be drug experts, despite never personally using most of them. Everyone today can pick out a crackhead with alarming precision. Every fifth album title contains a drug reference of some sort. There is even a magazine called "High Times," and their offices don't suffer daily police raids. One professional wrestler made an entire career out of being a weedhead. The weed plant is a logo now. We are awash in drug culture these days.

As a result, marijuana doesn't have the same stigma with our generation as it does with the generation that's keeping the drug laws in place. To the younger generations, weed isn't even that big a deal; it's even acceptable. Everyone knows someone who's currently smoking weed, at the least. What else can be said? People really, really, like to get high. And one day, it'll be legalized.

Now crack? That's a whole 'nother story.