Well, one good thing out of this set of elections is that medical and recreational drugs did very, very well.

Cannabis

Four additional states legalized recreational cannabis yesterday, bringing the total number of states to 15, plus Washington DC and a number of island territories. The four new states are:

South Dakota
Montana
New Jersey
Arizona

I'd like to ask you to join me in listening in on a conversation that took place in February of 1967 in San Francisco, shortly after the Be-In attracted 25,000 people to Golden Gate Park to celebrate what they thought would be a psychedelic revolution. The speaker is Alan Watts, a British-born philosopher and writer who was teaching at the time at the American Academy of Asian Studies in the Bay area: