Their fridge appears to be miraculously self-filling and at frequent intervals nearly everyone spills out on to the grass, furiously smoking cigs right down to the nub (while shouting and pushing each other), then clambers back inside to crack open more drinks.
They're a conventional crowd - an obsequious organisation man, an Oxbridge wiseacre, a gung-ho nerd from management resources, a punctilious girl wearing spectacles, a smart American blonde, a cool black guy and a grass-smoking, skirt-chasing, wise-cracking cockney lad.
Peak garden season, the roses were in full riotous bloom, the smoke bush was smoking pink, ornamental grasses were waving tall stalks, and Paul wore the expression of a pilgrim landing ashore after a long voyage.
I didn't do cocaine, but I liked smoking grass.
"We were sitting there smoking grass," Altman says.
The record widely credited with catalysing the movement was I-F's 1998 electro anthem Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass.
"The last time I was smoking grass, you bought a baggie filled with sticks and seeds from some shady character".
Sarah calls her friend and she and Michael go to visit her, finding that Marina is smoking grass.
My father is 18 years old, bare-chested, moccasin-clad, smoking grass and playing his french horn on a ledge overlooking Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley.
Shot to fame at seven in ET. Was smoking grass at 10, addicted to cocaine at 13, and went from child parts to trashy movies like Poison Ivy.
