Happy June folks. So one of the busiest months of the year has concluded and we are now heading into a new month, new season, and fresh start. Summer is fast approaching which means lots of outdoor activities and festivities coming its' way. This being: the infamous time of music festivity.

If you are an active music festival and concert guru, you know that summer is the ultimate time of reckless spending, music celebratory, kicking back, and "living the life" (as most of us would say). Better yet, it's the time when bands and musicians from all over the globe come together and unite. All genres (infamously bluegrass, dubstep, folk, and southern rock) create a community of music lovers from all sorts of backgrounds, ideals, interests, and races. In addition, it's also that grand ol' time of passing, rolling, and smoking doobies from one person to the next. Or, if you're a reckless son-of-a-bitch, and speaking total Millennial talk, taking those tootsie roll treats, poppin' dat molly, and rockin' those Tom Fords, if you get what I'm saying.

For the music lovers out there, you know that music brings forth a widespread community. Matter of fact, it's a great time to enjoy the music, lay in the grass strung out on life, hang with like-minded individuals, chug some 40s, share a doobie now and then, and just have fun. Sometimes, to keep the night going, alternatives besides the casual drinking of cheap 40s and doobie-smoking are utilized. Those being hallucinatory substances such as, the commonly taken, molly, acid, 'shrooms, and ecstasy.

Now here's a general question: have you ever done any sort of alternative that serves as an escape from reality (i.e. your present and mental state)? Is it alcohol, drugs, marijuana, or any of the hallucinating substances listed in the previous paragraph that alters the mind? Do you utilize those alternatives strictly for enjoyment, euphoric, and pleasurable purposes during concert and festivity season, or do you do it on the ongoing basis such as pulling all-nighters and doubles, partying, or getting through the day?

As a 4/20 related topic (and post-two months this BLAZE UP celebratory holiday), narcotics and hallucinogenics are one of the top social issues of today's generation. Specifically, the legalization of marijuana; fancy term 'cannabis'. In this past decade, narcotics, hallucinogenics, and cannabis have been going hot in the news, the headlines, and the press. You see celebrity hotshots, such as Justin Bieber and former Disney Channel stars like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, posing with a bong in their hands like they own the world in those paparazzi shots. Sometimes it makes you wanna be them or strive to "get on their level."

The biggest debatable question, to these social topics, of all: should they be fully legalized or not. This, specifically, goes out to cannabis.

Older generations (i.e. The baby boomers) mostly associate cannabis in the negative light. Most of them see it as a crime instigator or the typical cliched hippie loving mind-state of spreading the Bob Marley epitome of 'One Love, One Everybody." Cannabis, however, is far beyond that crime instigating association and loving everyone idealism. It has its positive effects, not just during musical festivity attendance but medicinally.

Rather, it aids towards treating symptoms of sickly illnesses such as cancer, the typical hangover, and the common cold. This also includes 'shrooms, which come out from the earth and do, in fact, aide us health-wise rather than hallucinatory wise.

According to the latest governing data, eight states, as of today, have legalized cannabis for both medical and recreational use: Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maine, and Massachusetts. Currently, many states are in debate of legalization. The state of Tennessee is a perfect example.

A fellow Tennessean's mother (named anonymous) is currently resolving and standing up for her beliefs and standpoints on this legalization issue in East Tennessee. She, of course, is pro-cannabis and a believer of justice and equality. In addition, about a month ago, in a Yahoo article i read, one of the members of a Tennessean family, located in Middle Tennessee, was ill and couldn't receive the necessary health treatment in their home state. With that, they had to travel outbound to one of the legalized states of today in order to obtain the necessary medicinal resources and remedies needed for their health symptoms. Due to the lack of resources of one's home state and having to travel outbound, this serves as a factor into the decision-making. In addition to costs and convenience to one's health.

Since its legalization in those eight states, and debate on fully legalizing it, cannabis serves as an important issue for future generations and families, such as for the Tennessean family and the duty of the Tennessean's mother herself, into finding solutions to current crime, health, and medicinal issues. So what do we do?

To a hot topic like that, it's hard to say. There are lots of differing views, no doubt. As well as generation differences. But in all honesty, it can be a good decision in legalizing it. Especially when it comes to aiding health symptoms and helping others in need. But what do I know? I'm just a reckless son of a bitch.

"And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food" -Genesis 1:29