From Bongs to Bells: Marriage Over Marijuana

Why You Should Stop Smoking Pot and Get Hitched

Joe Treetop
The Bad Influence
Published in
7 min readJan 12, 2024

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This is an illustration showing a depressed, lonely marijuana smoker vs. a happily married couple.
Image created by the author with DALLE

Ah, getting “stoned,” what a delight. The world goes a tad dimmer in that Purple Haze. Your immediate goals and other burdensome tasks, like basic cognitive functioning, become silhouetted against a smoky void, temporarily suspended.

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Joe Treetop
The Bad Influence

Essayist on the peculiar and delightfully absurd aspects of life, guilty of wielding satire | Culture needs dissecting, and I have just the sharpie!