Wonkette

When I was in college, the bud from the Pacific Northwest was the good stuff one had to get from a trusted dealer, and the Mexican stuff was the cheap shit the guys in Harvard Square mixed with oregano and sold you (not that I would know from personal experience). This was back when the dollar was strong, imports were cheap and my roommate was friends with a dealer called The Magic Man. Alas, those days are no more, and not just because my old roommate is married and The Magic Man is likely in prison. The other reasons why, after the jump.

Many people reading this probably took some sort of economics, but let me give those without a primer: strong dollar=cheap imports, weak dollar=cheap exports, which my econ classes taught me was good for America. Well, Joshua Keating over at Foreign Policy is obviously smarter than me because he has realized that the weak dollar means that we can’t buy as much good Canadian weed. Between the strong Canadian currency and stepped-up DEA ops on the porous Canadian border, Canadian bud is becoming more and more expensive and scarce, forcing potheads everywhere to start using cheap Mexican crap. Goddamn NAFTA. Canadian jobs for Canadians, man!

How the weak dollar is like, killing your buzz, man [Foreign Policy]