[ WP ] The US announces that marijuana will be legalized nation-wide when Half Life 3 is released . This puts Valve under a lot of pressure .

``... life 3,'' Tony turns his head to the tv, bumps the volume up a bit out of intrigue, `` gets released the US congress will vote to legalize the use of recreational marijuana in all 50 states.'' 
 
 At this point tony attention is fully focused on what he just heard. The caption on the bottom confirms what he thought he just heard; with Half Life Three comes weed... Legal weed. Two dreams of his young adult life can come to fruition all at once. 
 
 `` NICK! ADAM! GET IN HERE!'' 
 
 Adam, 
 
 Adam, the other stoner of the house, turns the corner as the houses hard core gamer, Nick, barges into him as he nearly sprints to Tony's aid, `` What the fuck Nick!'' Says Adam wincing from nicks powerful entrance. 
 
 `` Shut up Adam, listen to this...'' Nick looks at the screen Tony is pointing at and reads the bottom of the screen as Tony did moments before. His jaw drops the floor in awe, turns to Adam and Tony one after another, back and forth, then stares Tony dead in they eyes and drops in to the couch clinching his stomach in a hysterical fit of laughter. 
 
 Tony sits there confused as ever with no clue as to why Nick thinks this is so funny. He gives Adam a look as if asking if he knew what nicks problem was. A similar look of confusion was all Tony got back from Adam. `` YOU'RE NEVER GETTING LEGAL WEED!!, AHHHH HAHAHA!!!'' Bursts out of Nick between spurts of hilarity, `` That game will never come out buddy.'' He says in a more serious tone as he cools down a bit. 
 
 Adam peers at Nick and asks `` What do you mean, we just have to wait for it do n't we? They're making it right?'' 
 
 `` Yeah sure you guys can have some hope but I'm all out of it. Just go play Fallout 4. It'll make you forget about that game,'' Nick responds, `` You know I do n't care about the pot thing and as you can tell I'm not one of the Half Life hopefuls you two have just become.'' 
 
 It's true. Both Adam and Tony wanted Half Life three more than ever. `` What can we do about it though?'' Adam asks Tony. 
 
 `` Fuck if I know man. I doubt we can really do anything. Other than pray and wait for heaven to descend,'' 
 
 Adam chuckles, `` When the hell did you get so poetic, but yeah you're right... I guess we could write a letter to valve?'' 
 
 `` Yeah that'll work,'' says Nick with full on sarcasm, still getting over his laughing fit, `` just give up man.'' 
 
 `` I guess...'' 
 
 
 
 Meanwhile in Washington at Valve hq the stoners of the company are rallying. The news that just dropped was huge for them. Sitting in a position to produce a game that can quite literally change the country they live in. 
 
 Over the next week dozens of meetings were held and many hours of drawing up a plan for the game they decide to go for it. Development planing to start very soon. Valve decided to announce the game soon after development started but they could n't wait. 
 
 Two weeks after the first announcement valve posts on their website, right smack dab on the top middle panel, the first thing you see, `` HALF LIFE THREE CONFIRMED'' and slightly below that in much smaller font down in the corner, `` oh and legalization of marijuana too'' 
 
 
 
 Nick opens up chrome, types in Reddit.com, the top post on the front page is the only title he ever really wants to see, even though he never expects it, `` HALF LIFE THREE IS ON ITS WAY'' 
 
 `` TONY! ADAM! GET IN HERE!''
