I really don't think much about smoking "weed" as most people (Californians) of my age group have known and used it for over 50 years.
Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJqk2yWUGTM
assuming that the legal smoking age is 19 ,then add 50 to it,equals 69.. coincidence? I don't think so.
My Grandmother on my my Moms side raised a family during the Great Depression and was from farming families in North Carolina.
My fathers side ranched cattle in Cochise County,Arizona.
The ranch had a southern view of Cochise's Last Stronghold.
(Google it)
My Great Grandfather Joseph Lang knew and housed Billy the Kid on the ranch my father was raised on.
(Google it)
My Grandfather ran away from a Catholic school in New Mexico when he was 12 years old due to beatings...and walked all the way to Arizona and ended up as a miner in Arizona in what is now the largest open pit mine in the State.
At the time that mine was just a tunnel in the ground.
His brother Bill became State Senator of Arizona.
Neither side of my family as far back as I was told or raised growing up ever bowed down to unlawful Government actions and in fact actively resisted.
I am now over 70 and have used Pot almost all my life.
Although I was myself born and raised in L.A.,California I am ever so much by birth,history and mindset an American Cowboy...who also helped build an Atomic power plant as an engineer for the Bechtel Corporation here in California in the 70's.