pyesetz | We Gon’ Celebrate Your Party Wit’ You (Reply)

There's a party goin' on right here,
A celebration to last throughout the years.
So bring your good times and your laughter too,
We gonna celebrate your party with you!

In just a few hours, depending on your timezone, it will be 4:20pm on 4/20/2020, the weediest minute on the weediest day in the most ganja-esque month of a year so nice, they named it twice. Some folks have been waiting for this day of celebration all their lives. People will be filling the public parks with cannabis smoke. They’ll be doing inadvisable things on the roads with their motor vehicles, and spending money they don’t have buying rounds for everyone at the weed bar, trying not to think about having to get up for work tomorrow.

It's time to come together.
It's up to you, what's your pleasure?

Oh wait. The Pandemic. No crowds. No travel. No work. They never did get around to opening the weed bars — and if they had, the bars would be closed now. Here in Ontario, they finally started opening serious quantities of weed shops (take-out only) earlier this year. The new shops survived the first round of Pandemic closures but not the second (yet the alcohol stores remain open, because SOME recreational drugs are IMPORTANT and so the stores that support impulse purchases for them are ESSENTIAL). So if you want to smoke some pot today, you need to have mail-ordered it 4 or 5 days ago.

Let's celebrate, it's all right.
We're gonna have a good time tonight!

As of April 7th, COVID-19 became the single biggest killer of Americans, beating both heart disease and cancer. Last week, the “age 80+“ category became the largest subset of SARS-CoV-2 patients here in my area (previously the largest category was 50‒59 year olds, which is my age group). Half our dead are nursing-home residents, who did not live to smoke another joint.

But never mind all that! It’s party time! Smoke ’em if you got ’em! Or vape ’em, or eat brownies, or gummies, or spray oil under your tongue, or whatever it is that you do. But don’t try snorting keef up your nose. And don’t inject pulverized C. indica leaves behind your left eyeball — that doesn’t work well. And whatever you do, it must be done alone (maybe with a friend on video) or in the company of the housemates whose germs you have already committed to sharing, even if they kill you.

Reference: a certain chart-topping musical number from 1980.

p.s. Do *not* watch this video of bodies rotting in the streets of Ecuador, whose hospitals and mortuaries have been overwhelmed. Instead, light up a doobie and be happy for a day!!!