This stigma is really pissing me off. I've grown up in a weed loving household and no one comes close to acting like many "stoners" do in comedy movies.

Do reporters and the rest of the media not understand that comedy is an extreme exaggeration of the very short time of being stoned, stretched across days, weeks, months?

Sativa was helping me focus and pass my exams before Adderall was even a twinkle in its father's eye. I now have two degrees and a successful business, my family is pretty much in the same boat and they've all smoked... copiously. We aren't getting the SpaceX Dragon capsule to the ISS but our careers and lifestyles are FAR from any depiction in a comedy movie.

Treat this issue with the respect it deserves. Marijuana legalization strikes at the heart of our unjust justice system and helps keep minorities from being imprisoned on, literally, a chumped-up charge that has been perpetuated since the time of Jim Crow Law's. (BTW, that is how you use "literally")

Are drinkers stupid for getting drunk? That is the message this stigma enforces on marijuana users and it is a hellacious deterrent from advancements on the issue.

When you see it or hear it, don't laugh, don't giggle... get PISSED. You should be. They are branding your lifestyle and mocking it.