Object Lesson: The Pot Cookie

by Dan SavageConsider the pot cookie—the commercial, prepackaged variety brought to us by legal weed and suddenly imperiled by racist geriatrics in that other Washington.My first hit of pot, administered by the man who literally wrote the book*, changed my life for the better. But I never got used to smoking pot—the stench, the ashes, the asthma attacks. I preferred edibles. And back in the day—way, way back before July 8, 2014 (when the first legal recreational pot stores open