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about accuracy, fairness, balance, and good taste in news coverage, including sex podcasts. So we're going to bring on Savage Lovecast's ombudsman now to tackle a few listener complaints. Hello, I'm Dan Savage. I'm the Savage Lovecast's ombudsman. We can't afford an ombudsman, just like a lot of major newspapers. Can't afford an ombudsman anymore. It's going to be me. All right. First issue, Pot.

Kristen writes, less dispense with promoting an agenda of American society being stoned all the time.

Sorry, Dan, I followed you for many years and generally love what you do and say.

But constantly promoting pot is telling everyone, including kids to be high rather than dealing dealing with life, sex, health, et cetera, in a strong and clear-headed way.

This kicked off a debate on my Instagram account about how often I recommend pot.

People urged me to recommend therapy or counseling instead, and there isn't a savage lovecast episode that goes by where I am not pushing someone

to consider therapy or counseling.

I also don't think therapy and counseling and pot are mutually exclusive approaches.

I think pot can be good for a person.

It's not for everybody.

But boy, listening to the anti-pot people go off on my Instagram account this week. It's a little like listening to monogamous go off about non-monogamy. It's not that monogamy isn't for everyone. And so I understand that some people are not monogamous. It's that monogamy is wrong and you're doing it wrong. And there are a lot of people saying pot is wrong. And if you're using pot, you're doing life wrong or pot is using

you? One person even said, urged that I recommend that my listeners adopt mindfulness as opposed

to pot, as if mindfulness and pot are mutually exclusive phenomena, that you can only do one or the

other, but never both and certainly never both at the same time.

I reject that suggestion.

I think you can be mindful at times and stoned at times.

And I have personally experienced mindful stonedness.

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