With the threat of punishment

Every time I look at the inside of the tent I find her outstanding development. Now she has four or more wings to fly with. Tiny ivory bugs, probably collembolans, dance on the bed of compost and on the pot. Such small friends of the soil help with nourishing her. Recently I ask my father if he has ever smoked cannabis. He says yes, and that he was stoned almost everyday when he was traveling around Pakistan several decades ago. "In the lodge they pass and smoke joints every night. Why can't you be a stoner then?" He does not oppose the usage of cannabis but tells me not to smoke in public spaces even in legalized states. In contrast to his tolerance toward the cannabis, the authority tries to oppress peaceful cannabis users by arresting, punishing, and discriminating against them. The oppression is not because of any chemical feature of the cannabis but of its deep-rooted prejudice on the plant, since most scientists say that cannabis users are not likely to harm the others. "Liberty consists in being able to do anything that does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of every man has no bounds other than those that ensure to the other members of society the enjoyment of these same rights." In the city of New Leningrad, 2020-09-13.