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A TEEN TAKE ON OUR CONSUMPTION WORMHOLE

Legally, Sandra Koretz isn’t old enough to read this newsletter. Yet the student’s chronicle of classmates’ changing smoking habits is as mature a look at an as under-scrutinized population as you’re going to find on the Internet.
Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

  • Citing data such as Weedmaps’ reported 348% increase in the number of orders processed from March to July, Koretz details what appears to be a cultural shift on consumption as a coping strategy.
  • One 20-year-old told Koretz, “I know people that would smoke blunts on Zoom. The seniors didn’t care at the end of the year. I had a friend that showed up to class smoking a blunt, claiming it was a cigar, and the teacher did not care.”