Reefer Madness

    Well, Hello kiddies! It has been a while since we last had a chance to rant. It isn't that I didn't want to, it is just that I have been a touch busy. Last Thursday was my birthday and I did what I always do around this time of year..... reflect and look ahead. I was talking about the past with one of my friends and we were talking about my younger years( yes I'm old now ) and all the fun stuff we did back then. I soon realized that almost all of the really funny stuff happened while I was stoned. That's right, stoned. I , like many of you, used to smoke pot, weed, reefer! I no longer do it because my job demands that I be sober and I am subject to random drug and alcohol testing not to mention that I have outgrown it. But it got me thinking about marijuana prohibition and the other prohibition that our country went through in the early part of the last century and how we never seem to learn our history lessons.

    Early in the last century our country decided that it would be a great idea to ban the manufacture, sale or consumption of alcohol. It wasn't just the Temperance movement or a government plan that caused this. It was many groups who saw the dangers of alcohol and thought it best to eliminate it from our society. It is safe to say that, while the intention was good, it was a complete failure and it failed on many levels. Before the ban women( other than prostitutes ) did not go into saloons. After the ban, women started going to speak ease's and female alcoholism sky rocketed. Before the ban, organized crime didn't quite exist. After the ban, organized crime became prevalent and ruthless not to mention that the quality of the alcohol they made was suspect as well. Our police would round up people by the patty wagons full and put them in jail which cost local governments huge amounts of tax revenue and overwhelmed the court systems.

    Well, here we are...the 21st century and what do I see? A fuckin' repeat of the past. The Narco trafficantes in Mexico have killed close to 30,000 people in drug turf wars. We have people who wanted nothing more than to smoke a little kush being rounded up, put in jail, appearing in court and for what? Because they wanted to enjoy what they like? Fantastic... great idea.... we have nothing better to do? No bigger problems to address or put those tax dollars towards? Listen you idiots... I have never, in my life, met a person who said " hey man, lets go rob a liquor store so we can score some smoke". NOOO......pot heads are not like that. They don't get high and say " hey man, lets get high and go beat the shit out of someone". Noooo....instead it is more like " hey man, lets get high, order a pizza and play a video game". You  morons who think that banning marijuana is a good idea are insane and have learned nothing from our past.

    The war on drugs is a fucking joke. We have thrown hundreds of billions at this issue over the last sixty to seventy years and what has it accomplished? NOTHING you assholes. So please stop this insanity. The definition of insanity is " doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". So tell me, has the result been any different than the war on alcohol? Nope, same failed idea, same result. At what point do we finally admit that this war is a failure? At what point do we accept the idea that as a free person, aka American, we have the right to snap a bong load or light a joint? I am really tired of goody two shoe assholes trying to tell others how to live. If you don't want to smoke a little kush, then don't but leave those who do alone. Back to wars....if I made every world leader sit down and snap a bong load we may never see another war. They would all be to busy watching a movie or playing a video game and eating pizza to give a shit about what the country next door was saying about him. Maybe we should get all of Al queda high, give them an Xbox and a game called "Kill the Infidel" and they would ease up a little and join the party.... maybe not ...pot and explosives are never a good mix but if they blew themselves up that wouldn't be so bad either would it?

    Look, all I'm trying to say is that the current policy is wrong on way too many levels. We can apply the same laws to Marijuana consumption that we do to alcohol. We can make money in both the growing of and taxation of hemp. Hemp has many more uses than just smoking it. By doing these things, we can take some power away from the Narco Trafficantes, ease the burden on our criminal justice system and finally start treating some illnesses with the plant. By the way, do you know what it costs to house an inmate in our correction system? Depending on the state it can cost anywhere from 30k to 60k a year. That's our tax money!!! These guys, are for the most part, non violent offenders who have been arrested for possession of marijuana. Then we put them in with"real criminals" and we think that they are going to be all better when they come out? Nope, now they have a criminal record and will have problems getting a job not to mention the great friends they had to make while in prison so they wouldn't get raped or beat to shit every day. No worries, I'm sure they will come out a much better person....YEAH RIGHT!

    Look genius, can we finally agree that maybe, just maybe, it is time that we reconsidered the path YOU have chosen? That maybe we can look at the plant and the people who use it as NON DANGEROUS? Damn it....PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS and think rationally for just 5 minutes. Quit trying to save people from themselves all the DAMN TIME! And by the way... you assholes in San Francisco....   I want a toy with my fuckin HAPPY MEAL alright? Get your fuckin " I know whats better for you than you do" ASS OUT OF MY LIFE! DAMN IT!!!!!! Sorry, just tired of people trying to live MY FUCKIN LIFE FOR ME & QUIT TRYING TO HARSH MY MELLOW ASSHOLE!!!!

    Anyhow, I hope I was able to talk some sense into those of you on the other side. Most likely not, but it was worth a shot. Keep on doing what your doing....after all....your insane.