Salon essayist: A new, welcome openness is in vogue
                                
                                
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                                    Marijuana's never been exactly taboo in pop culture, but "it seems we've reached a new level of openness about a recreational—and, in most places and circumstances, illegal—indulgence that lots of people enjoy regularly," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams  in Salon . In the last week alone, Kevin Smith...