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[JaneV2.0]

I didn't appreciate the quiet, orderly ambience of our state liquor stores, where you could browse to your heart's content and pick up a few mini-bottles of hooch to experiment with until they were gone. Oh well--there are always the cannabis dispensaries...

I refer to our local convenience store as the "Substance Abuse Mart," since--like all such places--they specialize in beer, junk food, and weed accoutrements...

[Rogar]

I fortunately never developed a taste for wine or distilled spirits, but do like a beer while cooking or a couple with friends, but not much more. It's one of life's simple pleasures and apparently not that unhealthy. Maybe it's a guy thing, but it's at the top of my social pleasures to have a couple of beers with an old friend on a porch or at the kitchen table.

I make a shopping voyage about once a week and drop off things at the recycle center, get groceries (they can't sell liquor), pick up little beer at the liquor store, and maybe something at a box store. Funny, but I was thinking how odd it must be for out of staters, because the route takes me past maybe five marijuana stores. One is called the Cannabis Superstore and is painted Bronco blue and orange. It's just across the street from a Walmart. I have to chuckle when I go by.

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien