I understand that there are curious people who have never smoked weed or been in company when weed is being smoked so might want to watch a stranger do so and Youtube is a great place to look for the experience, but I find it very hard to believe that there is sufficient demand for a preson to make a living out of posting videos of themselves smoking weed each day. According to the article, I am wrong.

Maybe because of the increasing liberalisation of attitudes and laws to smoking Cannabis, there are a lot of people who are considering it for the first time, and driving the demand the article identifies. Maybe it's a fad. Who knows? I am not convinced that it is a for company.

As the saying goes "there is nonse so strange as folk".

The WeedTubers: these people make a living getting stoned on YouTube

Josh Young smokes weed before he eats breakfast. He gets high before lunch, too, again before dinner, and usually one or two more times on top of that. Most days, on at least a few of those occasions, he's filming it for his YouTube channel, StrainCentral, which has more than 373,000 subscribers. Millions watch him every month.

This is how Young pays his bills. And if that's a hard idea to wrap your head around, Young said it's even harder to answer the question of how he makes a living.

"It's a pretty impossible conversation to have with just about anyone - Uber drivers, people in elevators," Young said. "I'm like, 'I smoke pot on the internet, I guess?'"

Often, his devoted followers come to his channel to learn about marijuana and the many ways to use it. They want to know, for instance, whether blunts are more potent than joints or how to make edibles.

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