Comments on: The Big Picture

By: hANOVER fIST

hANOVER fIST — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:55:09 +0000

Yay for Wendy; salutes to BruceM; boo to he waterheads who equate weed to pharmaceutical poisons.

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By: R.O.E.

R.O.E. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:52:59 +0000

{KILL ALL DEALORS AND THEIR FAMILIES, thats a solution}

And when this person has a family member that use drugs, will he/she then stay with this thought. Will you then kill your family?

What a dumb shit.

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By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:59:37 +0000

Thanks jackl – the Berlin Reunion pics today were fun to see and interesting.

I wrote some other replies about The Big Picture of The drug war but my computer seems to go off-line just as I’m about to submit something.

That happened to me yesterday also.

I saw the world’s largest collection of real dinosaurs in Salt Lake City last week (just a tid-bit more on the topic of giants.)

My story I lost was comparing the giant marionette Reunion in Berlin to slumbering Mary Jane Giant in comparison to the Giant Scuba Diver being Uncle Sam.

They are celebrating twenty year’s since the wall came down. The giant puppets are together again after a long over-due separation.

Another Blogger (#179) with regards to the Drug War compares weed to being God and the opium/heroin/tobacco/alcohol/pharmaceuticals/meth/
cocaine/morphine addicitions to being the Third Reich and I must agree. I was able to relate this awesomely artistic scenario to what he was saying. (thanks..)

Blogger #186 – Yeah! Why are cigarettes legal in the first place – money, power, greed, corruption gave innocent Mary Jane the scapegoat bummer rap. I for one am thankful for positive change beginning. (thanks..)

It is the healing and comforting benefits to recover from the disasters of the hard drugs in peaceful cannabis use.

It is a natural muscle relaxer and an appetite stimulant and naturally fights stress, our number one killer. And now the real truth that it inhibits some cancer growth is coming forth.

One person cannot control another’s natural impulse to medicate for whatever reasons and I would much rather see a kid get pot before they so easily get booze and cigs. Why don’t people get it…curiousity is another birth-given right as we grow, adapt, and mature into this world.

Don’t blame a confused kid for being confused and smoking a little pot, but instead get to the root of the problem in the first place of why a kid is possibly considering it anyway.

Honesty is our best bet and we have President Obama’s Administration for that toe in the door to end this stupid killing situation. The only way up now to end this war has been illuminated world-wide for the betterment of human beings.

The reverence in one’s private garden is sanctioned with our Constiutional Right To Privacy, to have a personal cup of tea protected by already existing laws.

Jesus was said to have made miracles to heal the blind and lame. That can certainly be related to treatment of glaucoma and paralysis woes in today’s world.

I know it allowed me to hobble up onto a cane for a few years and learn to walk again.

I would not be here without the intermittent use of medical marijuana over the decades of my life.

Just some food for thought…Thank You Everyone. G-nite!

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By: jackl

jackl — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:39:28 +0000

Hey, on a slightly related topic, if you want to see a recent Boston Globe “Big Picture” article that will make you smile rather than grimace like the above exhibit, check out this recommended by BoingBoing.com shots of the giant puppets in Berlin earlier this month http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/the_berlin_reunion.html and then this YouTube vid of same here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umX0FgAQQeM .

(I highly recommend thinking about stuff other than the drug war from time to time or reframing as “stuff I like to look at while on drugs

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By: BruceM

BruceM — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:51:50 +0000

racism and religion are always intertwined. Black people have the curse of Ham (or whatever that’s called). Non-whites are infidels, heathens, etc. There’s a reason the KKK burns Christian crosses on the property of people they hate, rather than burning big N’s or J’s (for “Nigger” or “Jew” respectively).

I doubt we’d have much racism without religion. Yes people will always initially fear and distrust people who look different. But it takes religion to affirmatively justify those feelings.

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By: DdC

DdC — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:30:23 +0000

Racism was the original motivating factor or intent…
same with the Ganjawar.

Now its the Bible Belt anti abortionists like Op Rescue,
having the abortions. Calling them miscarriages.
From the tons of pesticides and other poisons.
Not used on Hemp. 90 million pounds on US cotton alone.
Maybe its God’s wrath, I think its the corporations lobbyists and prohibitionists keeping competition out and profits in “maintaining the dysfunction.

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By: allan420

allan420 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:23:25 +0000

@Bruce… further proof of human “devolution”

And just another sign how much better off we are when we spend more on incarcerating folks than on educating them.

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By: BruceM

BruceM — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:50:44 +0000

For some reason, when someone is against allowing people to exercise their rights, they cite a random crime as a reason not to let people exercise those rights.

Gay marriage? Why not just allow rape?

Drug use? Why not just allow murder?

This ‘argument’ (not sure what it is, exactly) seems to be the newest logical fallacy. Socrates would be amazed.

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By: meeneecat

meeneecat — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:46:51 +0000

So the guy starts out sarcastically saying “why don’t we just legalize murder and pedophilia too”…then goes on to advocate killing drug dealers (with an “o”) and their families. That’s drug war logic for ya.

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By: BruceM

BruceM — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:07:43 +0000

I love P&T but I’ve never see that particular video. That’s classic!

Did you see their P&T bullshit episode where they convinced people to put slugs on their faces to “look younger”? That was quite amazing.

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