These Photos Of Legal Recreational Marijuana Users Shatter Stereotypes

[Journeyman]

1. Those look like most of the people I've ever known who used marijuana. . .

and my experience dates from the late '60s.

I've no illusions: I've known grungy, stereotypical stoners, the kind of people you cross the street to avoid, and I've split a spliff with button-down corporate sort and every kind in-between. Most, though, look like the people in the pictures at the link -- the kind of people I've associated with throughout my life, both while sober and when high. These "myths" are precisely that: stories told by those who've never used, tales meant to frighten and derail. Variants on the "Reefer Madness" meme, more akin to Shakespeare's idiot than Journeyman's experience.