Grief I used to smoke with the best of them myself...
And we were a better crowd than many others.
It's illegal in Australia, but accepted so much in some places *cough Nimbin *cough*, that in those places not only will you not get busted for it too much, but you even see some people in authority lighting some up...

And there's the Mardi Grass, a play on words of Mardi Gras.