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Yet when was the last time any of you people remember a day with afternoon highs forcasted to reach 107 degrees? Two days in a row?

I guess ignorance IS bliss....hope you've got sun block on while you sit up on your high horse.

 I can't believe the man the police arrested for growing marijuana, Dwayne Marshall Nielson, lived in my home town. Not but maybe a 7 minute car ride from my old street. Of course I never knew him, lol, I never touched pot till college. Still, I don't think I could have guessed that a pot farmer was living in Red Oak...looks like the market is gonna be a little thin soon, lol. He's probably going to be in jail for a long, long time because he was growing so much freakin weed but hey, it'll only cost about $17,000 dollars (yours, mine and our tax money) a year to feed clothe and shelter this guy for every year he spends in prison. Yes, he broke the law and will be punished in accordance with Texas state law, but if the law were changed and we could possess and grow (within reason, of course) there would essentially be no black market and *poof* no more pot farmers clogging the prison system, saving up money and space for real criminals. 

Thats just my opinion....

All I can say about the cops and the cookies, is I want the receipe! Laugh my bum off!! Cops giggling at eachother and watching the sky change from blue to green to yellow then orange and tasting purple. Holy BLEEP can you......

I M A G I N E...

 

 Yup, some 15 million self proclaimed pot heads roam the country. And that sweet leaf will be starring in some of the summer's comedy releases featuring a few slightly befogged, yet familiar faces. This summer is bringing us a bumper crop of movies and TV shows--Pineapple Express, The Wackness, Humboldt County and Showtime's Weeds among them--with THC in their DNA. Not stoner stories so much as plots that happen to involve pot, they ask, 37 years after the war on drugs was declared, whether there's a place in the culture for treatments of pot that neither criminalize nor celebrate it.

 Pot subculture is flourishing even as the government supresses real scientific research and keeps the wheels of prohibition and oppression rolling, releasing its own "studies" that mislead the public to try and convince people that its become more potent leading to, you guessed it, more "potential" (a blatantly absurd lie) health risks. And yes, it has gotten more potent, but you know what people do to compensate for good bud? They smoke less. Realistically the weed you'll find buried in the sock drawer or hidden in that little black box at that waaayyyy tip top of the closet is only between 3-5% THC. The White House bloates that figure to make the assumption that most commercial weed in the stash box  is now at over 9% THC, and some of it probably is. If you can afford to pay 25-30 bucks a gram for it. Just so you know one well rolled, average size, dubbie uses about 3/4 to a full gram, so you can do the math to figure out how much it would be to stay supplied for the week. Weed shops in the Netherlands have strains that go as high as 16% THC...and guess what, no crazies running around zonked out and stupid on weed, nope, they're functioning, tax paying, go to work everyday, people who contribute back to society even if the only way is by buying more pot in the coffee shop.

Tax it. Regulate it. Smoke it. Share it.

and maybe the media wouldn't have blackballed Ron Paul. I know he didn't have a shot in hell, realistically, but it would have been cool. And so his campaign fades into the obscure world of political history. Probably the only republican that could have easily swayed my vote.

Viva la revolucion de Ron Paul! Viva la!

 

 Just when I was beginning to think that people couldn't get any less intelligent, I read about this. This is ridiculous, smearing hemroid creme all over your body because it dries your skin out making you look a little more built, and the ladies love it...or so they think. Besides, I wouldn't waste my time on some superficial, high maintence, party chick anyway, but thats just me and we're talking about dudes putting a-ss creme all overthemselves. I'm not sure what the club scene is like, because the idea of being in a building with 100+ other drunk people with equally horrible taste in music just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe it works, I don't know, but I certainly won't take the time to find out and would be quick to label anyone who does/would a giant BLEEP. So frat boy, sit back drink your piss water party beer, smear on your butt ointment and scope out some chicks, cause you can have it.....moron.

 "WASHINGTON - Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday after a grueling marathon, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House."  - An exerpt I pasted from a yahoo news article. I'm pretty sure this isn't OFFICIAL and by no means am I trying to count eggs before they hatch but I think I'm right in saying alot of people saw this coming a little earlier down the road. So I guess we'll see how things will go through till November. I personally think Both candidates (McCain/Obama) will pretty much carry on the same they have for the past year attacking credibility, experience, decision making, etc. Thats how it works I guess, you make the other person look as inept as possible. Either way it's going to be close. A monumental part in history is unfolding before us and it's just a few months away. I'm casting my vote for Obama but either one would be vastly better than the pile of political BLEEP that passes as the presidential administration we have now.

 

 

 I know I've been blogging about the same general subject for some time but I feel that it is a pertinent issue in light of the times we live in today. A man in Washington state died from liver complications after being denied a transplant because he had been prescribed medical pot to treat his symptoms associtated with Hepatitis C. Medical Marijuana is legal in 12 states including Washington. Polls conducted by various media networks and some independent have shown that roughly 3/4 of the American population are in favor of decriminalizing/legalizing medical marijuana. Recently, 2 bills were introduced to the House of Representatives on April 17, 2008. One (H.R. 5843) would strip away almost all federal criminal penalties for personal possession of up to 3 ounces and non-profit tranfers of up 1 ounce. The other (H.R. 5842) would bar the DEA and federal government from hassling medical marijuana patients and their providers doctors, smoke shops, etc. States will retain the right to criminalize marijuana if they so choose. I realize that there are more important things going on in the world and this country other than cannabis consumer's rights but if you take just a few minutes to think about how many billions of dollars have been wasted on marijuana prohibition for over 70 years and how the "problem" still hasn't gone away you might catch a few ideas on how your tax money could be spent more effectively. What if instead of spending billions on pot prohibition that money when into college scholarships, new schools, public transportation, road maintence/construction, food aid for natural disasters or times of crisis? You could probably write an entire book on what could be done with that money other than spending it on policies that should not be enforced and that the people do not want enforced. Write our representatives and congressmen, urge them to support these bills and stop wasting your's and the rest of our money.

I know many of you won't be as excited about this as I am but I'll say it anway. Yesterday, for the first time in almost 25 years, NORML (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws) in partnership with Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx) are spearheading the "pro-pot" legislative campaign in D.C. As introduced, NORML’s proposal would eliminate all federal penalties prohibiting the personal use and possession of up to three ounces of marijuana. Under the measure, adults who consume cannabis would no longer face arrest, prison, or even the threat of a civil fine.  In addition, this bill eliminates all penalties prohibiting the not-for-profit transfers of up to one ounce of pot.  In other words, for the first time since 1937, the possession, use, and transfer of marijuana by adults would be legal under federal law! Hopefully, with polls showing 3/4 of Americans in favor of decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana, congress will embrace facts and science over propaganda and speculation and we can finally move ahead and start utilizing marijuana and hemp the way it was for over 5,000 years before it was outlawed! This is exciting news for some, and a good excuse to roll your eyes in contempt for others but email, write, or call our other state representatives and urge them to support House Bill HR 5843! 

I was checking myfox, reading blogs and brushing up on a few current events and noticed the video with the teens getting a toddler to smoke pot. If you read my last blog " I'm right you're wrong-" you should know what my stance is regarding the legality of marijuana but what has transgressed from this video just makes me sad. Show some f*ing common sense people, seriously. Doing things like this then having the odacity to  video tape it is what gives responsible cannabis users a bad rap and keeps prohibition laws from reformation and just adds fuel to the reefer madness politcal bonfire. These were two very stupid and irresponsible teenagers who do not represent the kind of  responsible and self-aware people who do want pot decriminalized. They should be prosecuted just for being so careless. I'm not worried necessarily that smoking pot, hopefully just the once, at age 2 will dramatically affect the childs overall growth and development but I do recognize the fact that it was wrong. Pot is not bad, what is bad are the actions and characteristics of  the foolish and irresponsible who use pot unwisely

-Please, toke responsibly.

Speak out, post comments, blogs, have a conversation with someone, anything to shed light on subjects that the government and the media won't.

 

Also try this link because the one in the Blog " I'm right you're wrong-" doesn't work properly.

Take a gander http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/>

Since 1937 the US government in cooperation with state, federal law and, at the time, newly formed and still current drug enforcement agencies have waged a relentless and costly war on Cannabis and cannabis users with no real conclusive evidence to support their claims against the plant or its users, citing it produced temporary insanity, aggression, psychosis and an entire slew of out right lies and half-truths. Still, our glorious powers that be cling to those ancient, outdated and false myths not realizing that the Constitution which they claim to uphold and defend, yet violate time and again, was originally written on paper made from hemp. Even the Bible was once printed on hemp paper. In fact, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew hemp on their plantations. They certainly didn’t tell me that in school!
 
 Marijuana is currently a schedule 1 drug under US drug policy, meaning, by federal definition, it has no medical or industrial use whatsoever, despite being disproven over and over since 1972, not to mention the 5,000 years of recorded hemp use in  history and to current knowledge not a single death directly attributed from its use as a medicine or a recreation. The affects of Marijuana on the human body are far less dangerous and harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning or alcohol related incidents or illnesses, everytime you imbue (drink) alcohol it destroys brain cells, amongst other things, pot doesn’t. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. Marijuana smoke does not contain nearly the amount of cancer causing agents or chemicals found in tobacco. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose or increase your risks of developing serious or potentially fatal lung conditions. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. ... It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat ... than alcohol or tobacco."  Marijuana also poses less of a danger to the human body than caffeine, prescribed pharmaceuticals, even OTC aspirin brands. Not only that, but Marijuana prohibition causes more problems than it solves and ruins thousands of more lives than it supposedly tries to save and costs American tax payers billions every year. DEA agents raid state-sanctioned despencaries in California, arrest doctors, growers, patients and raid the homes of the sick and terminally ill. In 2006 over 80% of marijuana violations were for possession alone by offenders. Why not keep those cells and dollars open to be spent on real criminals? It cost on average around $30,000 annually to feed, clothe and shelter a single inmate. I don’t know about you, but I would rather my tax dollars be spent keeping real criminals in prison or repairing roads, building schools and programs that benefit humanity. Minor marijuana infractions should not merit the consequences involved. College students should not loose scholarships or the availabilty of financial aid for school nor should honest people be denied or loose their jobs because of misdemeanor pot offenses. I myself was a victim of prohibition’s indescriminate tactics and totalitarianism. I lost my scholarship, and was evicted from my dorm complex not to mention placed on academic probation and cited a restraining order for those dorms on top of an $1,100 fine, all in spite of the fact I maintained a 3.4 GPA while I was a student. All for possession of an empty baggy, and an empty package of papers.
 
  Medical and general marijuana research is impeded by the limited availability and regulation of samples by drug agencies as well as a negative media frenzy. How can we learn the truth when our "free" country denies or suppresses information on the benefits of marijuana and hemp and the media networks feed on "reefer madness"? Even if industrial hemp was legalized by the Federal Government that alone would create a multi-billion dollar industry that would stimulate our slowing economy and provide jobs for thousands of hard working, honest people. Not too mention help save our Planet by creating "eco-friendly" products. Its one of the best renewable recources we could ask for. Thousands of medicinal and commercial uses and it will grow naturally almost anywhere! No pesticides or anything like that, just dirt, water, a mild climate and sunlight. Marijuana is wholesome, and its medicinal and responsible recreational users are not criminals but victims of an increasingly overbearing drug war and a similar governing regime. Federal prohibtion laws are fueled by propaganda and speculation, not hard evidence. The laws should be abolished, with marijuana legislature granted to the independant states to decide. I don’t advocate the use of marijuana nor do I condone its use, necessarily, because I feel that its something no one should touch until the age of 18 or older, because of the degree of responsibility and awareness needed for responsible adult use. Anyone who has told anyone that pot is a dangerous and addictive substance with no benefits at all, is a liar or severly misinformed. I at least hope you or someone will read this and hopefully gather something useful from it.
 
Take a gander http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/