The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

A primal take on cannabis. Today I'm taking on Mammoth in the Living Room, so to speak.

Based on the emails I've received and the string of developments surround the issue,

it's maybe a long time coming.

As of November 11, marijuana is legal for recreational or medical use in 26 states.

Recreational use is even legal in the nation's capital,

Washington, D.C. Despite the DEA declining to recognize the therapeutic potential of marijuana,

formal medical research proceeds in labs and clinics, while millions of consumers in states like California, Oregon, and Colorado,

are running informal n-equals-1 personal experiments. Usage has doubled in the last 10 years. A recent

Gallup poll found that one in eight American adults say they smoke marijuana. Pretty much anytime

legalization is up for a vote, it passes.

It seems there's more weed out there than ever before and more people willing to consume it.

They're eating it, applying it sublingually, vaporizing it, and smoking it.

Meanwhile, pro and con claims mount on both sides, and while hippies, burnouts, and trustifarians might be the popular face of marijuana

culture, the modern cannabis consumer will surprise you.

A few stats.

Nearly half of all California cannabis dispensary customers are over the age of 30.

By some accounts, Silicon Valley tech firms run on weed.

More Colorado adults are consuming cannabis while teen usage has gone down. Middle-aged parents

are more likely to smoke weed than their teenage kids. Cannabis never really left, but it's

definitely shifting out of the counterculture and into

mainstream society, for better or for worse.

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