Nathan: Just read this from a friend, who has asked to remain nameless. I find his comments refreshing:
Nameless: Man, oh, man. I am a huge supporter of ending the war on drugs and making marijuana as legal as beer, wine, liquor, or all the various forms of tobacco. (And use none of them, and advocate the USE of none of them, for health and moral reasons.) But, people, is this REALLY a good idea?
Think about it. We know that DC pumps stupid juice into the water 24-7. Including the water they use to serve and prepare all the soda, drinks, and so forth. And the stupid juice can be absorbed into the skin, no doubt: bathing, showering, skinnydippin’ in the Tidal Pool, you name it! And we want these idiots: not just Congress and staff and the lobbyists but all the bureaucrats and the cops and the judges and all the rest – to get HIGH?
Really? We want THEM to have the pleasures LEGALLY that they deny collectively to 300 million of us? (We know that they do enjoy them illegally, but that illegality does keep the odor down in the SOB and the HOB and the “hallowed halls” of the White House, Capitol, and Supreme Court Building.) For one thing, we KNOW what their appetites and inability to control their lusts, greed, and desires is like. We are not talking your ordinary MJ user, especially not your typical MMJ user. We are talking about people that WILL toke up 24-7, and with warped minds that they will decide on just how much fun it is to torture MORE Americans and foreigners! And for them, I betcha MJ really IS a gateway drug to everything that they can swallow, sniff, inject, and probably, insert rectally.
Nathan: The solution, for a self-governor, is simple. Take ALL power away from the District of Criminals and anyone associated in ANY way with Congress, the FedGov, the DC gov, and all these NGOs – and then let them toke to their hearts’ content. In fact, GIVE them the stuff. It will be cheap compared to the damage they will be stopped from doing if we take away their power.
Mama’s Note: Those who rule the District of Criminals and, to a little lesser extent, all who “rule” everywhere else, are so drunk with power and stolen loot that a general trend toward cannabis use could only be an improvement. One of the effects of cannabis is a softening of the whole personality, the release of stress and negative emotions. Cannabis users are the least aggressive, least controlling people I know – and I’ve known a great many of them through my long nursing career.
I don’t see a down side myself. Ship boxcars of the stuff to every politician and bureaucrat in the world. We’d all be so much better off. Cannabis could just be the thing to turn off the “stupid juice” factories everywhere. And THEN it would be fairly simple to dismantle the entire state apparatus. The “pot” smokers would no longer care. We’d just have to deal with those who didn’t partake.
But this politician isn’t even talking about “decriminalization,” only a slightly lesser “crime” if users don’t pay the “penalty” – really, just another tax, and probably another boatload of “regulations” to be added as well. The gestapo will continue to harass the mundanes, and reel in all those nasty non conformists. And I didn’t read a word about elimination of all the asset forfeiture insanity.
The Price of Liberty 