I should file this piece under Humor. The author makes one valid point (torch lighters are good) but then completely undermines his entire cause by saying “No, don’t buy those. They’re too expensive. Buy cheap lighters.”

At least my bowl gets roasted every time I exert a minimum of effort to roll the striking wheel on my Bic.

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In response to the Bic essay:

As a frequent marijuana user for the last few years and daily smoker for the last two, I have dealt with my share of lighters. There are many different styles, ranging from the common flint and butane, to the more expensive and more personal Zippo, and finally the expensive torch lighters which can cost up to and well over $100. With such an overwhelming amount of lighters, some people just give up and pick the cheapest and most popular of them, but this may not be the best choice.

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Based on this story by the New York Times about salvia. I’m sure that most of you, by virtue of the fact that you chose to visit this site, will probably get the point of the story immediately. Others, however, may not have done much thinking about—or have a vested interest in—US drug policy. Let these people read this story.

Originally written by a person known as Phyzzle.

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Lotus, who has posted here before, sent me this story he wrote the other night after smoking very excessive quantities of fine Austin homegrown:

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Looking back on it, I do seem to remember a strange whistling sound in the background. I thought it was just a spurious noise, so I ignored it. As the whistling got louder, I could hear the sound of a plane’s engines roaring overhead. It was odd. I hadn’t heard them until just then, when they had been just as loud for at least a minute before. I realized that I had been hearing the sound, but I was simply not interested in it. As the whistling was at its highest peak, the thought crossed through my mind that it might be a bomb. I knew this was just the product of paranoia, but I started to become worried.

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Waiting is something that marijuana smokers are intimately familiar with. This is unfortunate, because waiting to re-up is rarely an experience we savor. This is double the case when you’re dry. Why all the waiting? Aside from the fact that the market is concerned with an illegal product, we wait because drug dealers are very shitty business people. This is especially the case with pot dealers. The pot dealers most people have to deal with are people on the very bottom of the food chain. They’re slanging so they can smoke for free, or so they can have a meager supplement to their income. Anyway, the point that I was originally intending to make is that drug dealers are shitty business people because the nature of the market allows it.

This is the first post of the Stoner Culture blog, and I would like to welcome any new readers to the site. Post your own tales of shitty dealers by making a comment below.