On a related note, while Your Tango does not condone illegal activity, we will recommend consulting your pot-smoking boyfriend if you ever feel like trying it out.

You should not attempt to get high for the first time without an experienced person present.5. Or if he's a jerk, he might sneak you some or make you feel like a total prude for not wanting to smoke up.

And yet The Idea had more legs than your typical pot-inspired idea.

It did not involve a 's Special Coverage of Marijuana in America At the time, Nate was a nineteen-year-old high school dropout who worked at a Pizza Hut in Coeur D' Alene - a gorgeous but dull resort town in Idaho - and sold the occasional dime bag on the side. Nate had never been the type to come up with a million-dollar brainstorm.

Sure, that’s a significant loss, but walking down the street, you’ll see more places to cop weed than Starbucks.

You can’t just walk into any dispensary and get your card on site.

I’m not saying that I moved to LA from New York specifically for the weed but, it was definitely one of the major contributing factors — like top three.

But he had heard about how easy it was to cross the Canadian border – only an hour north of Coeur D' Alene – and bring back the popular, extremely potent marijuana growing in abundance in British Columbia and known, generically, as "B. Bud." Rumor had it that the town of Nelson had become a sort of hippie Shangri-La, a place where if it took you more than ten minutes to find someone to sell you a dime bag, there was a good chance you were already high. And then, just as quickly, they began to lose control. Outside, there are palm trees in the parking lot and a decent view of the harbor. Though marijuana remains illegal in Canada, the stance of the government regarding pot is far less hysterical than in the United States, with laws enforced sporadically and penalties never especially stringent.So, as I’m sure you already assumed, as soon as I moved to Cali I had to see what was really going on.So I went and got my “medical” card on my lunch break and this is what I learned: While 500 dispensaries closed in Los Angeles in 2014 alone, there are still a few hundred left.It’s not that you can’t find good bud either, because you definitely can, it just comes at the New York price. But probably the most unfortunate thing for any and all weed smokers in NYC is that there’s just no culture.There are no places to go to meet new stoners, talk about your favorite strains, or any stores to buy your weed from like any tax-paying American.The not knowing what we know now; the hindsight is 20/20 and all that.I met him at Finn Mc Cool’s on Main Street in Santa Monica.