The L.A. Times image blog did a lengthy post today on the increasing pervasiveness of marijuana in all aspects of mainstream culture. According to the Times:
The California Field Poll says drug references in popular music have multiplied like, well, weeds in the last three decades. Marijuana's presence on TV and in the movies has moved from the harbinger of bad things including murderous rage ("Reefer Madness" in 1936) to full-scale hauntings ("Poltergeist" in 1982) and burger runs gone awry ("Harold & Kumar go to White Castle" in 2001) to being just another fixture in the pop-culture firmament. Cannabis crops up on shows such as "Entourage," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "True Blood" and "Desperate Housewives," and even on animated shows such as "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy."
Indeed marijuana is becoming more mainstream than cigarettes, which, Mad Men aside, have required a social stigma onscreen in recent years. How long can it be before TV and film characters begin visiting pot dispensaries as a matter of course? If the trends keep up, it could be very soon indeed.
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