California Sober
California sober is neither. It's not just for Californians and the practitioners aren't sober.
The weed legalization wave is proving to be such a problem, even the diehard libertarian Tyler Cowen is saying it was a mistake, noting that pot is simply too potent and causing mental problems ("pot psychosis"), we're smelling it everywhere as users feel the need to smoke in public, and crime hasn't decreased because taxes make legal weed more expensive that street weed. He concludes that we should have merely made private use legal and decriminalized its use in public, but treating violations as civil infractions, like a parking violation or an Arab gang rape of a teenage girl in Britain.
After all the rational analysis of weed, Cowen goes right-hemispheric and trusts his intuition a bit:
[A]n old-fashioned part of me feels that even if alcohol is worse for you than strong pot, the old-fashioned drink culture of socializing, with rough and tough macho figures such as Jack Kerouac and Jackson Pollock, was better and more creative than what we have been replacing it with (NB: I am myself a well-known teetotaler, and also have never tried marijuana).
I'll admit it: I still laugh at Cheech and Chong's comedy, but given a choice between sitting down with them or Kerouac or Pollack to shoot the bull? I'm picking the Jacks.
Tyler Cowen