The U.S. Public Health Service just came to my door and gave me $30 for participating in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. I must be on some kind of research volunteer sucker list. They had me answer questions on a laptop while the guy sat quietly and read.

Some memorable questions (to the best of my recollection):

What do you think about adults trying marijuana one or two times? [emphasis theirs]

1. Neither approve or disapprove
2. Slightly disapprove
3. Strongly disapprove

Some people remove the tobacco from a cigar and replace it with marijuana. This is sometimes known as a "blunt." Have you smoked a "blunt" in the last twelve months?

1. Yes
2. No

I answered no to the second question, in case you were wondering. Odd that the federal government would be the one to finally tell me what a blunt is, or attempt to, anyways (my suspicion is that they got it a bit wrong).

And I loved the lack of symmetry in the options for that first question and others like it. Because how could we even think that someone might slightly approve of the idea of an adult trying pot?