Do you have a moment?
-By Pachinko

" I was once posed a question that I'd like you, the reader, to think about if but for a moment. What is the most valuable possession that: everyone has, if unused will disappear, you can never horde but once spent is gone forever? There maybe a variety of answer that may spring to mind but I present you the only true answer: time.

This week America will celebrate one of its nations proudest holidays, thanksgiving. A day where we take a pause to reflect on everything we had, have and look forward to, in the near future. We look to each other as not as individuals but a family, be it the immediately family breaking bread with you at the dinner table or our species as a whole, a global family. It is during this time I personally hope that we would also reflect on how blessed we all are, regardless of your situation, that we still have as noted before, time.

At this point you may wonder what would time have to do anything with what has brought many of you to read such a piece, namely Marijuana. So I humbly offer my own experiences and moreover my reasoning to my love of this plant. I can offer you no blatant reasoning for the love of the plant: I suffer no illness of the body nor the mind, I make no effort in the production or distribution of this so-called "illicit substance", nor am I an activist preaching the saving qualities of marijuana. In the grand picture I am just an average puzzle piece but make no mistake, marijuana has deeply changed the foundation of how I view my life and my view as to how my life is affected and is affected by, those around me.

BOLD
What Marijuana has done for me comes in direct contrast as to what I state before and yet I stand firmly in my statement: Marijuana has given me time. In this day and age where immediate gratification is the order of the day, one can't help but feel that as advanced as a people we are, we in essence are rushing life. Many of us can attest to the days, weeks maybe even years that have "gone by in a flash", such a thought comes across to me as one of profound sadness. We have but only one life to live on this earth and it is of such a brief span that to waste moment should be considered a crime. I would spend nights after a good smoke filled with, not the lazy exhaustion most commonly associated with the smoking of marijuana, but more importantly a revitalized sense of purpose much like I am now.
BOLD

After reading this post I could have very easily omitted a submission but there we various factors that rang in my head that propelled me to write. I wanted to write, I was inspired, the nature of the post seemed well intentioned and most importantly, thanks to Marijuana, I had time. Stacey Charter once said “Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out it's all about timing.” And right now I feel as if I have all the time in the world.

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