Arkansas: More of a closed society, have to care about cops and real shitty schwag at heady prices if your not careful. Everything feels a little more desperate, violent and benzoed out... It was years before I was accepted and started meeting people. Think the religious/political/social element conspires to make things a little closer to how they say things are. Still it's a pretty friendly place and I'm well taken care of these days. Still: Lots of cheap pills, lots of tweakers, angry poor, lots of large rebel flags waving from trucks, less shame on macho predators. . . makes me feel like a faggy teenager in the 90s again.
I went to college up there, God do I remember pot culture there... I had a roommate who first introduced us to LSD and thus a smaller circle in a town over from where we lived, his dealers always had amazing pot and fair prices, and could usually get us acid or MDMA if we were looking... then outta nowhere one day he broke off relations with us. No more good pot or acid, we were cut out of the local hippy scene just like that. Going back to college kid dealers really blew... high prices and sub-par weed imported from Dallas... I ended up just saving my money and buying all my acid/weed from my home-town when I'd visit on breaks.
The culture there surrounding drug use was pretty open, I think if you've been to Arkiesas you know what town I lived in, it was a great live music scene up there, the drinking street was rife with hippies, hot college girls, racist frat boys... quite the melting pot. Anyways, I must stick out as a druggie or something, because people would come up to me at parties and at bars and even the bouncers would point me out sometimes to people and be like, "That guy has to smoke weed, go ask him for some," and I found that odd, I've always tried to look low profile... but yeah, jist of the story is, up there, if you know the right people, the drug scene is vibrant and kicking. If you don't, you have to settle for high priced mids and fake-acid tabs.
I live in the suburbs now again with my folks, down further south, and weed is pretty frowned upon by all the uppity Christian whites here. All the teens/young adults I know around here toke, hell, I can get the neighbor's kid in trouble by smoking weed out back and having his mom smell, then she assumes it was him. The folks on my street used to blame me for some reason for supposedly turning their kids onto pot, when these kids are 5+ years younger than me, why the fuck would I hang with them? So yeah, the 'burbs are pretty hostile to pot, but the kids themselves aren't. i still smell pot out back of the cheaper bars around here, but it's much less open and people have to look over their shoulders round here. I get so sketched just walking someplace with weed in my pocket.
You guys up in legal/medical states have no clue how bad it can get. I know my fair share of people who've gone to jail over minor possession charges. The law is very much hostile to us stoners down here, even though every person I know under 30 tokes. It'll take a few decades, but i bet you we'll be more like the West coast as the older generation croaks and can't oppress us any longer.
Toke on brothers and sisters.