I travel quite a bit, so when I come back it's a very stark difference for me. My wild guess is that it's the boiling frog situation: it's a slow change, but it effects a big difference over time.
On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot.
> On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot.
OTOH, it beats talking about that guy shooting up the abortion clinic and seems to have mostly supplanted memories of Columbine or New Life Church... So it could be worse (and for a while was).
At least for a little bit we can all talk about Peyton and whether bud light is really any better than coors.
Haha, i sympathise: i lived near Amsterdam for many years (i'm a non-smoker), and almost anyone non-Dutch i ever met outside of the Netherlands would immediately mime smoking when it became clear where i lived. Conversely, this was usually relatively strongly negatively correlated with how cool i was likely to find the person in general, so i tried to see it as a useful people-filter :p.