Filed under: marijuana | Tags: cannabis, hemp, l.a., la, los angeles, los angeles prepares for clash over marijuana, medical, medicinal, new york times
In the New York Times today, there’s an article about how Los Angeles is gearing up for a “clash” between law enforcement and the many cannabis clubs within the city.
Haven’t the citizens of L.A. already spoken with their money? Those dispensaries wouldn’t exist if people weren’t supporting them. Weed is popular and lucrative: Californians voted for Prop 215 fair and square, and now they’re supporting all of those dispensaries fair and square.
What seems to be the problem, law enforcement? Afraid for your job security? Why not quit your dangerous, underpaid job and work for a dispensary instead? Seems like the common-sense choice to me.
Leave the medical marijuana dispensaries alone. They’re legitimate businesses selling a popular medication.
I don’t know where this idiocy comes from, but I do know that it makes me livid.
At least NORML continues to debunk the bullshit myths that the government and law enforcement continue to propagate even in the face of a groundswell of public opinion in favor of legalization.
The zeitgeist says yes. Medical fact says yes. Common sense says yes. So stop saying no, you fearful, self-serving naysayers. Figure it out. Get on board.
God will judge all of us, and you’d hate to look the fool then, wouldn’t you, for imposing your moral viewpoint on the rest of us? We’re not hurting you. Stop hurting us. It’s impossible to legislate morality, so stop trying. Please.
Filed under: marijuana | Tags: cannabis, cleome, plant that smells like marijuana, weed
Cleome
Cleome apparently smells just like skunky cannabis. And look how beautiful it is. I’ve recently become totally intrigued by this plant. Has anybody smelled it? Had it in your garden? What’s it like? Leave a comment!
Filed under: marijuana | Tags: bible, biblical, cannabis, christianity, church, healing, jesus, marijuana, pot, religion, spiritual, weed
Check out this article on the spiritual uses of cannabis. I fully subscribe to the idea that cannabis can be used for religious purposes, and applaud this historical examination of the plant’s role in religion.
Filed under: marijuana, school | Tags: cheat house, cheathouse, legalization, persuasive essay, plagiarism, pot, student papers, weed
Check out the specs on this essay I found at cheathouse.com:
Subject: DRUGS
Date: DEC 01, 2002
Level: HIGH SCHOOL, 11th GRADE
Grade: A-
Length: 9 pages
Note that this essay earned an A- at the 11th grade level, according to cheathouse. Expecting this to be a pretty good essay, huh? Looking forward to reading some golden prose? Well, here’s an excerpt:
Marijuana, pot, dope, chronic, budda, ganja, sinsemillia, grass, weed, greens. It seems that every where you turn these days, all you see is people discrediting marijuana. All you see and here about is are the so called “bad effects.” It makes you wonder if there are any good effects. But you must stop and consider where this information comes from. The government. The same government that made pot illegal? Yes, of course it’s the same government.
“Some people may feel nothing when they smoke marijuana. Others may feel relaxed or high.” What the hell is that? That is the propaganda that we are being fed by our wonderful government. “. . .may feel relaxed or high.” That is hardly a description. It …
Hey, kid: don’t quit your day school. This essay is shit-tacular and I’ve only read two paragraphs of it. If I ever see this shwag in my English 101 class in Ditchville, I’ll fail your ass. I don’t know what 11th-grade classroom this flies in, but it sure as hell ain’t mine. Your sweeping generalizations are unfounded, your heterographic homophones unproofread, your thesaurus woefully overused. I’m sure you got some points in high school for choosing a topic that doesn’t completely suck, but seriously, this looks like a damn first draft, not an A- paper nine pages in length. I shudder to think what C students’ papers look like in 11th grade classrooms these days.
May students be, thus, forewarned about plagiarism. Your own work will be better than the work you can plagiarize.
Filed under: marijuana | Tags: arrests, civil disobedience, george washington, hempseed, legalization, pot, weed
The bullshit continues. 847,864 Americans were arrested in 2008 for marijuana-related crimes. That’s approximately half of the drug arrests in the US.
And all of those arrests were for a non-violent crime committed by people using an herbal medicine that’s safer than Tylenol, less addictive than caffeine, and also a cure for cancer.
What we need, y’all, is a good healthy dose of civil disobedience.
Let’s end the racist waste of money that is the “war” on “drugs” – let’s regulate and tax cannabis for medical, industrial, and recreational purposes.
As George Washington once said: “Make the most of the hemp seed and sew it everywhere.”
Stop asking permission. Do what you feel is right regarding this valuable herbal medicine.
Filed under: marijuana | Tags: etsy, mary jane, pot, scented candle, weed
Today on Etsy, I saw this:
A candle that smells like cannabis.
This makes absolutely no sense to me. Maybe a glass shop would buy this?? I can’t think of anybody else that would have a use for it. Weird, weird, weird.
Filed under: marijuana | Tags: laura greenback, marijuana, mpp, pot, weed, women
Read Laura Greenback's article on women and weed here!
Today (at 4:20pm), Laura Greenback spoke up: she says it’s time for women to get involved in marijuana policy reform. I’ll join her and say that I support full legalization of marijuana (recreational, medicinal, industrial) for responsible adults ages 18+.
Filed under: marijuana, the man | Tags: cost, drug-related violence, esquire article, homicide rates, murder, prohibition, war on drugs
Click here to read the Esquire article
Prohibition didn’t work in the 1920s, and it doesn’t work now. Let’s end the “war” on “drugs” immediately!
Filed under: marijuana, self-doubt, weirdness | Tags: california, cheez balls, economic recovery, economy, healthcare, jobs, medical weed, news media, planters, radio shack, unemployed, unemployment, wireless phone sales
I don’t know what the news media is talking about when they say there are signs of economic recovery. From what I can see, there are (a) no jobs posted anywhere, (b) no raises in sight, and (c) no possibility of me ever being able to afford healthcare. Oh, and (d) Planters has still not brought back the Cheez Ball.
So obviously, my world is a bleak, bleak place, and so are a lot of other people’s worlds. Mostly because of the Cheez Balls, but also because even if there were any Cheez Balls to buy, we wouldn’t be able to afford them anyway, so it’s probably better they’re not around to tempt us. But I digress.
Number of writing/editing jobs listed on Ditchville’s local jobs website: 0
Number of machinist jobs listed on Ditchville’s local jobs website: 0
Number of wireless phone sales jobs listed on Ditchville’s local jobs website: 5
Number of Radio Shack jobs listed on Ditchville’s local jobs website: 3
As you can see, the sign of a truly flagging economy is that the shitty jobs are still open while all the others have disappeared.
I’m fixin’ to move to California and grow some medical weed. Who’s with me?
Filed under: marijuana, reform | Tags: california, legalization, oakland, oaksterdam university, pot, richard lee, weed
It’s all in the title: Richard Lee, the founder of Oaksterdam University (a pot-growing school in Oakland, CA), along with other activists, has filed a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in California. Check out the full story at KCBS.
