Sign of the Times: Cannabis-Friendly Dating Site

In an effort to get that awkward, “do you like to get high?” question out of the way early, one Marin county man has created a stoner’s dating site: 420singles.net. While this site isn’t the only one of its kind, it appears to be one of the most popular. Site-founder, Ryan Moxon, got the idea after his Match.com profile was deleted by the company because Ryan admitted to smoking weed on his profile.

Moxon believes that site growth (slow moving, but getting better) will experience a boom with greater acceptance and the movement toward legalization. As a happily married man, I won’t be trying the site out myself, but if any of you lovely single stoners are tired of trying to find a decent companion with whom you can blaze the trail, it looks like it may be worth a shot. Speaking from an experience that I am sure many of you can sympathize with, being a stoner and trying to date a non-stoner can be a fairly unenjoyable endeavor.

That is not to say that it cannot work out, but I do think if you’re looking for something long term, those lifestyle preferences tend to become bigger and bigger issues. My wife isn’t what I would call a heavy stoner. She likes a little puff at night to unwind. Me? Given the greenlight, I would blaze from morning to night (and often do). And we get along famously.

I have also dated women who didn’t really like to smoke weed, but didn’t have any big hangups around me doing so. But then there are those people whom we date who will try their damndest to change your habits. They like to drop lines on you like, “So you’ll choose a drug over me?” In a word: Yes.

To clarify, if someone had a gun to their head and told me to put down the joint or they’ll pull the trigger, I would save your life, sure. However, if you’re giving me the ultimatum of choosing to keep cannabis in my life or to keep you in my life, I’m going to choose cannabis. Mostly, I say that because they cannot give me one good reason why my cannabis consumption is a bad thing. If I was a drunk who hit you everytime I had too many, or if I took the rent money and spent it all on drugs, or if I was doing anything whatsoever to endanger lives, then there is likely a larger issue at play that needs scrutiny.

But to try and force me to give up something that I honestly believe enhances every aspect of my life and causes no harm for the simple reason that you don’t like it, then that is a deal breaker. That isn’t so much me choosing weed over you, as it is choosing something that doesn’t force me to choose. Also, you’re probably an idiot for taking such a hard-line stance on something so benign as weed.