EARLIER THIS YEAR, during a brief and mercifully abandoned period when I was considering doing stand-up as a hobby, I went to a comedy show in downtown Austin. I was legitimately shocked to find, as part of the two-drink minimum bill of fare, the option for several different flavors of $5 THC seltzers . This wasn’t “take a pull off your vape or smoke a roach in the alley before the show” territory. No, marijuana drinks were on the menu .

In the past few years, my only social activities have been poker, competitive trivia, and going to the movies, all activities people do stoned, but not activities where you can literally order drugs from the bar alongside your chicken wings . The comedy club, on the other hand, considered marijuana products as a profit center.

This was one of those lightly attended weeknight shows where the comedians banter with the audience because they haven’t prepared much material. So, during a Q&A, I brought up the fact that there were THC sodas available to order, in laminate.…