Many years ago, after my military service, I enrolled in the college I was drafted from and moved into an apartment in the university district in California. At the time, one of my best friends mentioned she knew the stoners who lived next door. I had a full load of classes and seldom saw my neighbors. Knowing that the meaning of a stoner is a person who habitually uses drugs or alcohol, I believed they had an addiction. A few months later, my friend asked me if I met her friends, the nice Stoner family.