This is Dating While Gray, the grown-ups guide to love sex and relationships.

I'm Laura Stasi, and I do not use cannabis. Just saying. No judgment if you do, and you might.

Weed is legal for medicinal use in the majority of the United States.

Recreational use is legal in almost half.

Wherever you go, it's 420 somewhere.

Maybe you remember that time I met a retired opera singer at a virtual speed dating event.

We connected on our own afterward and then talked about it for an episode of this podcast.

I like to get stoned.

I like to smoke pot.

Because you talked about having sex while stone.

Yeah.

I'm wondering the wisdom of revealing to a virtual stranger that you like to have sex while you're stoned.

Yeah, that was probably a mistake.

I confess, that was the first time I had ever heard marijuana as an aphrodisiac. Okay, interesting.

But I didn't think it was relevant information for me personally.

The opera singer and I had already decided we weren't a match, so it's not like I'd be confronted

with sleeping with someone who wants to get high first, or getting high myself.

Also, the opera singer had a medical marijuana card for joint pain, so I assumed he was in a small pool of older users who had discovered this extra benefit by accident.

But then I signed up for a three-month membership on Match.com.

It was the first time I had been on that particular site in years,

and I noticed there was a new to me question about being, quote, 420 friendly.

Now, for the uninitiated, 420 is a slang term that basically means time to get high.

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