Medical marijuana is now legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Of those states, Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Colorado's first retail marijuana stores opened Jan. 1 for sale to people 21 years and older.
In the English-speaking world, the expression to save face describes the lengths that an individual may go to in order to preserve their established position in society, taking action to ensure that one is not thought badly of by his or her peers.
It means to look before you leap. Not act rashly. BUT--that is not what Shakespeare meant when he wrote the actual phrase we have bastardized: The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life. The line was spoken by Willie's character Falstaff in Henry IV, Part One.