So I went to Taiwan for a week and a half in January and learned a bit about marijuana in their culture. Walking through night markets I would often see big weed-leaf chains in silver, gold, bling, whatever and at first I was like damn, alllright. But as I saw kids walking on the street wearing such things, I'd give them a look, sometimes obviously reacting to their chain. But none of them seemed to react any differently than just seeing some white guy walking around.

I talked to my friend who has lived there for a year and a half and he said that although they take a liking to many random elements of our culture, they do not always understand what it means, despite all the music and movie references our country pumps out. It was interesting. Marijuana is not big over there at all, apparently the compressed plants my friend got were at least double the prices we are used to because it is apparently largely from Canada and half of it gets caught at the border.

On of my friends there had a Taiwanese girlfriend, who was chill with us smoking, though she didn't understand it much. He told me that every time another friend from America visits and smokes with him, his girlfriend is so surprised, "that friend smokes too?!" surprised at what a common thing it is among a large partition of our age-group over here in USA.