Getty Images Parents beware! A new video-chat service bills itself as a safe place for users of medical marijuana to meet online and smoke (legally). Brian Ries gives it a try (legally) and finds out what’s really going on. 
 
 "Where da weed attt," my partner asked, staring out at me on webcam from an anonymous bedroom somewhere in the world. 
 
 She looked young, 18, maybe, and was drinking from a can of Yoo-hoo. Weedless, I took a sip of wine, hoping she would assume I was “cool,” and began typing. 
 
 Amanda, it would turn out, was from Austin, Texas. This was her second night videochatting on Seshroulette.com —a new site for marijuana users to smoke together on camera, randomly. 
 
 If the authorities do decide to come knocking, the site doesn’t make it terribly easy for them to follow the smoke. 
 
 Amanda’s older brother had introduced her to Seshroulette the night before and they had spent hours getting high with strangers. She had met some “funky people,” some teenagers, and decided it was different than smoking with real-life friends but that “that's what makes it more fun.” 
 
 It works like Chatroulette—the original randomized video-chatting service that made waves on the Internet earlier this year—except here users are paired with strangers to have face-to-face smoke sessions. 
 
 The site was created three months ago by Dan "Chill," 20, a Web developer and onetime Loyola Marymount University student from Playa Del Rey, California, who legally uses medical marijuana to cure the pain of morning intestinal cramps. He doesn’t get high, he says, just "pleasantly painless.” 
 
 The similarities to Chatroulette aren’t unintended. As that site grew in popularity, Dan saw an opportunity to create a place where smokers could meet and smoke in a safe environment—one free of the voyeurs and masturbators that plagued Chatroulette in its early iterations. 
 
 According to site rules, all users must be 18 or older and users may smoke only legally issued medicinal marijuana. Also, there are no acts of indecency allowed on Seshroulette, where the rules warn that transgressors “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” 
 
 “I am yet to see a penis on my site,” Dan told me. “And if I or one of my users does, I encourage them to contact me via the tools on the website to make sure we can get rid of them immediately.” 
 
 He used a clone script to “strike while the iron was hot” and launched Seshroulette nearly overnight. It got 1,200 pageviews the first night and has racked up more than 100,000 visitors to date, “which is big for a site with such a small-scale demographic.” 
 
 When I first tried it out, there were just three potential partners for me to chat with. A few days later, there were seven. With a recently launched Facebook application and a frequently updated Tumblog that’s listed in Tumblr’s official directory, Dan’s busy. 
 
 One of his goals with the site is to prove that you can smoke marijuana and still be a productive, successful person. In fact, he wants to change the connotation of the word "stoner.” 
 
 But are the acts on Seshroulette legal? 
 
 Dan says he spoke with a prominent criminal-defense lawyer in California to find out, and was told “it was perfectly legal to smoke on camera if you're smoking the marijuana legally in the first place.” 
 
 This means it’s OK to smoke and stream from Playa Del Ray, where medicinal marijuana is permitted, but not from Austin, where users can be charged with a Class B misdemeanor, resulting in 180 days in prison and/or a $2,000 fine, for possessing two ounces or less. 
 
 Still, even if the authorities do decide to come knocking, the site doesn’t make it terribly easy for them to follow the smoke: The site only tracks users at the city level to see where they are coming from, leaving them otherwise anonymous. 
 
 Asked if she was worried about the legality of smoking weed on live video, Amanda, my chatting partner, didn’t see any problem. 
 
 "Nah, no one will find out about it and, like, make a big deal out of it,” she said. “I mean I don't think that would happen." 
 
 "They say it’s anonymously tracked," I offered. 
 
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 Okay. Time to Sesh with randos! 
 
 
 
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– Lonely stoners have a new option for finding fellow tokers: Seshroulette, a random video-chat site similar to Chatroulette but for marijuana smokers. Promising enjoyable "seshes with randos," Seshroulette is officially only for users of medical marijuana, but it's populated with potheads from around the country. The Daily Beast's Brian Ries tried it and ended up connected to Amanda from Austin, Texas. The site keeps locations anonymous except for city, and Amanda didn't seem bothered by the possibility of authorities trying to track her down. (It's not legal in Austin.) "Nah, no one will find out about it and, like, make a big deal out of it,” she told Ries when he asked. “I mean I don't think that would happen. Everyone loves weed :)"