Can You Hear Us Mr President?

Interestingly enough the federal Government has finally made the decision to allow our Veterans to use marijuana as their medicine at their hospitals in the fourteen states where marijuana is legal.

Now my issue is that its a federal building. I would assume it should be adhereing to their federal laws. Its just another scenerio where the Government plays games with the public. “Monkey see..monkey don’t do”

Wow! I’ve seen this before, but it totally blows my mind how much this man is in the drug war. He’s right that the wrong people are making the money off marijuana. It makes me think back to those PSA ads that said buying marijuana put guns in the hands of terrorists. People who oppose the legalization are putting the guns in terrorists hands, not us. Its going to happen people, marijuana will be legal, you just wait and see. .. Oh and watch this video too!

Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition

The first time I smoked marijuana was not a big deal to me. In fact, I had never heard of the stuff at the age of 13. The day started normally, I couldn’t wait to get to Billy’s house to have a cigarette (which I started shortly before). See Billy’s house was the best school skipping spot around. His parents really didn’t care as long as we didn’t destroy anything, or kill anyone.

So the day was like any other, for the past few weeks. Get up, walk towards school, hang out at Billy’s, play video games, watch movies, eat the craziest crap.  This day however had a weird overtone, like just something wasn’t quite right. When I arrive at Billy’s, his older brother is there showing off something around a group of older teens. Being nosey I nudged my fat ass into the circle to see what the clamor was about.

There was this poor excuse for a cigarette looking thing in his hand. He goes on to tell everyone he just smoked some, and he loved it because it made him laugh so hard, he cried. I thought to myself, why the hell would I want to cry? This dude has to be nuts, I think. He lights it up, and takes a hit, he coughs and chokes violently IMO. It goes around the room by the time it gets to me, there’s very little left. I get one hit out of it, and cough pretty hard.

Needless to say, I didn’t get high my first time. It took one more time to get me high. I remember my friend telling me to go and make me a sandwich, that kept us laughing for the next twenty minutes solid. I was crying to the point I couldn’t see anymore due to the tears. It was the best high I’ve ever had (that I can recall).

This article was not my idea, it was someone else who had the idea first. That made me want to write my own experience.

It’s probably automatic for someone to view this site and conclude that everyone affiliated with it is a cannabis consumer. But, I’m not one that can be categorized as a ‘herb’-ivore. I’m more of a meat and potatoes man. Heheh.

Back when I was in school, I can recall being in History class and asking the teacher why we needed to learn it. Her main argument was that we needed to know what happened in the past so that we wouldn’t repeat the same or similar mistakes. Well, now I have a new question involving history… Why are the same or similar mistakes being made in the governing of our nation? Looking at the past will allow me to share the origins of this question.

In the early years of establishing our country, we were at war with England. The earliest Americans (not sure if they were technically “Americans” yet) revolted against the tyranny and oppression inflicted upon them by England’s monarch and Parliament (equal to our Congress). The Boston Tea Party rings a bell for most. The basic point is that our country was founded because of a government stripping the citizens of basic and God given rights. And now, we’re on a downhill path heading straight back to where our founding fathers started.

The relative “learn from your mistakes” moment in history is the Civil War. Southern states wished to secede because they believed the U.S. government was violating their rights. Looking at these two moments, it’s apparent that knowledge of history plays little to no part in politics. In one instance, our “founding fathers” (the government) waged war against an oppressor; and, less than seventy years later, waged war against those who felt oppressed. Is this just a one time or rare occurrence? I’m afraid not. Let’s travel back again.

What’s significant about the years from 1920 to 1933? I’ll give you a hint. Young adults weren’t so excited about turning twenty-one during that period of our history. That’s right… Prohibition! I think the prohibition period gives us some insight to the turnings of the governmental mind. One possibility is that, at times, politicians really don’t know what they’re doing. It’s legal… No, it’s not… It’s legal. Heheh. That reminds me of a particular politician, but I’ll stay on point. I think, in most cases, the government knows exactly what it’s doing. Thus, the precise insight the prohibition period teaches us is that our governing officials and organizations are influenced more by power and profitability than FREEDOM.

I’d like to look at history one more time, about a specific subject that will bring us back to present day. The History of Marijuana. In the early 1600’s, the first law concerning marijuana was enacted. “Wow, man… Has pot been illegal for that long?” No, the first law actually ordered the growth of Indian hemp. Granted, it had many uses back then that have since been replaced by a “profitable” equivalent. Nevertheless, it wasn’t illegal in any sense of the word. It wasn’t actually until about one hundred thirty years after the 1776 Declaration of Independence that recreational use of marijuana (by which I mean tokin’) became questionable.

My research reveals that by 1937 marijuana was illegal in over twenty states. Since then, laws concerning use and punishment for its use, have been created. Those legal string were loosened in the Vietnam Era because… Well, to put it simply, there was more money to be made selling drugs in a foreign country than there was busting ‘reefer rollers’. The Reagan Administration put ‘bowl burners’ back into hiding where they stayed until medical marijuana raised hopes for total legalization.

To review the last two historic topics, the government gave the rum back to the ‘rummies’ because… Ummm… Yeah, no real answer for that. Yet, science finds a medicinal purpose for marijuana and the government only loosens the law to accommodate that purpose. Why? W…e…ll. I can only offer the answers that we find in history. There are two reasons: the government makes, not spends, more MONEY fighting drug use than it could by allowing it; and, the government retains more POWER and control by keeping it illegal.

To wrap this up, I have a little assignment for you. There are only three words in this entire post that are typed in all-caps… Of the three, if you had to pick only one that you could have for the rest of your life; pass on to your children; who could pass to their children; so on and so forth, which would you choose? Share your answers with me by commenting to a post with this same title at my site: http://fixus.canyouhearusmrpresident.com/

Thanx!

420 is a recent slang of such. If you know what it means, chances are you’re not alone. There are a few very popular meanings that a lot of people actually believe. Are they true? Who knows? I’m going to let you believe what you want to believe. Leave a comment, what do you believe 420 means?

The Wikipedia version:

420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis drug subculture.

The term originated from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971.The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue.

According to an April 2009 article on the The Huffington Post, the group called itself the Waldos because its members hung out by a wall after school. Writer Ryan Grim, citing interviews with anonymous Waldos, claims that the group met by the statue at 4:20 p.m. to begin a search for a crop of abandoned cannabis growing near Point Reyes that they had heard about. They never found the stash, Grim writes, but smoked plenty of marijuana while looking for it.

Urban Dictionary:

The term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. Intent on developing their own discreet language, they made 420 code for a time to get high, and its use spread among members of an entire generation.

Adolf Hitler was born! Not a very good way to think about 420. But this is true. Adolf Hitler was directly responsible for killing millions of Jews in the 1930′s & 40′s. He however died on fire, how great, how ironic. As Eddie Izzard has said, and said rather well; “Hitler ended up in a ditch covered in petrol on fire… so, that’s fun. I mean that’s funny. Because he was a mass-murdering fuck-head!”

So the subcommittee on crime is meeting. I’ve tried to find a feed on it without any luck. As far as I know they started at 3pm EST.  And Delegate Morgan had quite a few bills ahead of him. Once I know something, I’ll let you know.

Holy crap! 5.3m plants were destroyed @ a value of $2,000, just in California. California is at rock bottom with their economy,  the Govenor of the state calls for ‘debate’ yet no one still does anything.

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The newcomers to the business are typically restricting their practices to fields of around 80 plants – that’s tiny compared to the mega cultivation seen in California where 5.3m plants were destroyed last year up from 4.9m in 2007. But at around $2,000 a plant, that still provides a good living in Appalachia.

via Americans grow cannabis to beat the recession | World news | guardian.co.uk.

By the way I did the math, and it’s over 10b. That’s huge! and that was in 2007. Imagine what it is now. All that money going to waste into a system that’s failing us, and killing us slowly everyday. As drug usage goes up, so will the need for funds to combat it. SOMETHING ILLEGAL CANNOT BE CONTROLLED.

Stumbled across this interview with Bill Maher and Brad Pitt they talk about different things, but the thing that stands out the most is that Brad admitted to smoking marijuana, and rolling the most perfect joints that Bill Maher has ever seen, really great interview, Go Brad!

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This isn’t the original video I made this post with, but HBO of course claimed the last one as their property, and youtube took it down, so I did another search, and found it again

Now the only thing I dont like about the Colbert Show is that whenever I see something on it, Colbert jokes it, which I know it’s his thing, and I love him for it! Infact I loved how he approached the idea of marijuana in his questioning, does he smoke? Will we ever know? Interesting idea, celebrities that are Ok with marijuana, stay tuned.

A LEAP spokesman said “Nothing which is illegal can be controlled.” to the Billings Gazette. A very true statement.

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Al Capone profited heavily in the alcohol prohibition. By making something illegal, you’ll already have someone wanting to profit off of it. If you were to make Pepsi illegal, someone would be selling them, and tripling, or quadrupling the price. Thus creating a black market, thus leading to violence. Could you imagine being a victim of a drive-by shooting over some Pepsi? When the US government doesn’t know how to deal with a problem, they make a law, thus filling up our prison system with non-violent offenders. Which cost the American Taxpayers about $22,000 a year per inmate.

Full article is here: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_8b22bcd8-83b3-11de-97bb-001cc4c002e0.html