I’ll be traveling to spend the holidays with my parents. For all those who are traveling, drive safely – don’t take any chances, and if you get tired, pull over and take a nap. Tired driving is probably the worst impairment for driving out there.
With the holidays, the roads will also be heavily patrolled. If you do get stopped and the officer wants to look through your car, just say “I don’t consent to searches.” Remember that consenting to a search is extremely un-American.
Consenting to a search shows your disregard for the Constitution and your willingness to undermine important principles within it. When you consent, you are saying that you want to suspend the Constitution for a bit. That’s unacceptable.
Consenting to a search also wastes taxpayer dollars in a period of budget crisis by taking up the time of an employee who should be working on protecting and serving rather than digging through your trunk.
Consenting to a search is also stupid on a practical level. Officers are generally not required to fix anything they break while searching your car, and if you’ve ever given a ride to someone else and something fell out of their pocket into the seat cushion, the officers are probably not going to believe that you didn’t know anything about it.
For more useful tips on your rights, get 10 Rules for Dealing with Police, which is advertised on the lower right side of this page.
Happy and safe holidays to you all!
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Well I’m sure that everyone’s been aware of an involved in the fierce and contentious debate concerning Heather Donahue and the controversy over whether she’s a good witch, or a bad witch. Well, it’s been settled once and for all, and the verdict is unanimous: Good witch!
http://tinyurl.com/ding-dong-the-witch-is-a-head
I want to invite her for brownies and tea, the luscious little tart!!
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Kryste all mitey, this is a tough room.
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Excellent rule Pete. I think what vexes a lot of people isn’t the initial request, it’s the follow up, ‘well if you haven’t got anything to hide why would you mind if I looked?’ As tempting as it is to respond, ‘well if I haven’t got anything to hide, why the heck would you want to waste your time looking?’ cases that do end up generated after a completely legal refusal to search often find the shysters arguing over whether the petitioner had an ‘expectation of privacy.’ My rule is to answer the question, ‘why don’t you want me to search’ with ‘because I have an expectation of privacy.’ Remember, if you’re if fact caught ‘riding dirty’ after lawfully refusing a search you might end up convicted even if the judge has to give his blessing to an illegal search. But might get convicted also means might not. Consent, and conviction is guaranteed.
BTW I’ve got a new story to reinforce my resolve to never consent to a search. A couple of weeks back a tenant in one of my commercial properties leaves a message on my voice mail telling me that he was cleaning out the storage area in his building and found my rifle. It seems he doesn’t like guns and wanted me to come and take it away. Well gosh, I don’t own any guns. Because of my foolishness in the 1980s having possession of one would send me to Club Fed for a nice stretch. Evidently it was left there by the former owner. I asked him to call the Baltimore Police and give them an easy tick in their total number of guns gotten ‘off the street’ statistic for Christmas.
So tell me, are you sure that you’re not ‘riding dirty’? Are you absolutely certain that there aren’t any stray rifles in the storage area above your office? No one dropped a bag under your passenger seat a few years ago? No one’s jimmied your trunk and left a couple of pounds of leaf in there because they’re pissed off at you?
Interesting discussion going on at drugfree.org (http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/drugs/legalization-of-marijuana-and-the-impact-on-children)
What I find particularly heartening is that at least some of our opponents are starting to recognize the inevitability of legalization and are shifting from demands for stepped up prohibition enforcement to calls for strict (and not entirely unreasonable) regulation of legal marijuana in order to limit youth access.
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If I could figure out a way to keep the annoying little street urchins away from the cannabis I’d most certainly make it known. Why couldn’t we just set up restricted access fashioned after orphan asylums, and leave the children to screened professionals? Who could be against an idea designed for the good of the children? Since we have the incontrovertible evidence that if people don’t use drugs before the age of 21 they’re almost certain to never want to get high I say we lock them all out of sight until they turn 21. Oh shut up about Jack Herer.
I tried posting the following, but more than 24 hours later, it’s still “awaiting moderation”
Alcohol consumption actually increased durring alcohol prohibition:
Here is part of the testimony of Judge Alfred J Talley, given before the Senate Hearings of 1926:
“For the first time in our history, full faith and confidence in and respect for the hitherto sacred Constitution of the United States has been weakened and impaired because this terrifying invasion of natural rights has been engrafted upon the fundamental law of our land, and experience has shown that it is being wantonly and derisively violated in every State, city, and hamlet in the country.â€
“It has made potential drunkards of the youth of the land, not because intoxicating liquor appeals to their taste or disposition, but because it is a forbidden thing, and because it is forbidden makes an irresistible appeal to the unformed and immature. It has brought into our midst the intemperate woman, the most fearsome and menacing thing for the future of our national life.â€
“It has brought the sickening slime of corruption, dishonor, and disgrace into every group of employees and officials in city, State, and Federal departments that have been charged with the enforcement of this odious law.â€
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/HISTORY/e1920/senj1926/judgetalley.htm
And the following paragraphs are from WALTER E. EDGE’s testimony, a Senator from New Jersey:
“Any law that brings in its wake such wide corruption in the public service, increased alcoholic insanity, and deaths, increased arrests for drunkenness, home barrooms, and development among young boys and young women of the use of the flask never heard of before prohibition can not be successfully defended.â€
“I unhesitatingly contend that those who recognize existing evils and sincerely endeavor to correct them are contributing more toward temperance than those who stubbornly refuse to admit the facts.â€
And here is Julien Codman’s testimony, who was a member of the Massachusetts bar.
“we will produce additional evidence on this point, that it is not appropriate legislation to enforce the eighteenth amendment; that it has done incredible harm instead of good; that as a temperance measure it has been a pitiable failure; that it as failed to prevent drinking; that it has failed to decrease crime; that, as a matter of fact, it has increased both; that it has promoted bootlegging and smuggling to an extent never known beforeâ€
Thanks for everything you do, Pete.
It’s a nice couch you got here.
Happy travels and family time.
Yeah..can you believe it? He just leaves us here like this all the time. Hey…anybody know what he left in the fridge?
Our friend Kristen Gwynne, writing at Alternet, provides an excellent argument for why teen pot smoking can be a good thing when pot is used instead of alcohol and other drugs:
http://tinyurl.com/7y4muau
Happy Holidays, Pete. Thanks for all the work you do on this site.
And Happy Holidays to all the folks on the couch around here. It’s my ferverent hope that the true wisdom of Jesus’ teachings finds its way into the minds of all mankind, and especially Christians who seem to be more like the Pharisees instead of Jesus.
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“Listen to that howling mob of blockheads in the street
A trick or two with lepers and the whole town’s on its feet”
I must say I that that Michael Schaeffer did the Ananus role superbly in Jesus Christ Superstar (2000). His performance sent a chill of terror down my spine. Ananus was evil, not a fairy as so many other versions present.
I realize that Herod wasn’t a pharisee but Alice Cooper most certainly did a great version of King Herod’s Song. No fooling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NSVrXQfvc
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidayz to Pete & the rest of the group on the couch. Here’s hoping we all get what we need for X-mas (not necessarily what we want, but that would be nice too!).
If you are out and about this weekend, please be careful and watch out for the idiots behind the wheels. Be safe.
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/Oswego-County-asks-to-be-a-test-site-for-welfare/ILbBPiL5GUicolZv8T26uA.cspx?fb_ref=box_right Link to story of a constitutionally dubious drug testing scheme in Central N.Y. It means that people should stay with malt liquor for a buzz. It also means more begging in public places this whole design of these phony character tests!
Happy holidays,,,see you on the other side of Christmas Pete,all,,just cured some fresh for the season and made some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies from the sugar leaf.
Thanks to the current effort by AG Bill Schuette and company to destroy the MMMA, Michigan could be the first state to repeal marijuana prohibition.
http://www.tuscolatoday.com/index.php/2011/12/23/repeal-of-marijuana-prohibition/
I got an email moments ago from SSDP (I think) announcing Obama’s about to sign a bill that includes doing away with the funding of some Child Anti-Drug Propaganda program. Lost it while trying to move it.
Anyone else get it? If so, make it known.
Yep, I just got that one, too.
Okay, so you might actually want the contents, heh. Here’s the text:
I wanted you to be the first to know that President Obama is about to sign a law that removes all funding for the federal government’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign! You know the ads. They say that if a young person uses marijuana, his girlfriend will run off with a space alien. Or he’ll accidentally eat his fist.
Wiping out this ad campaign wouldn’t have been possible without the tireless efforts of SSDPers like Aditya, Katharine, and Tim. They travelled from Columbia University to Washington, D.C. for SSDP’s lobby day in March 2011. Their message: stop waging this wasteful campaign in our names.
Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to so that we can empower more students like Aditya, Katharine, and Tim!
This is the first time since the start of the ad campaign in 1998 that funding was totally wiped out. And not only does the new law remove all funding for the anti-drug campaign next year, it actually requires the drug czar’s office to return all $6 million they have left from last year.
I don’t need to tell you that it’s not everyday that the drug war industrial complex takes this kind of hit. Sometimes living in Washington, D.C. can be depressing, given how little progress is made. But seeing students in action is truly inspiring — especially when we win.
Please support our work so that we can continue to rack up the victories!
Yours In Struggle,
Aaron
Aaron Houston
Executive Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
“We need to step up our efforts to end this war at home and stop sending our loved ones to cages because they have a drug problem. We have more power than we realize. If the people lead, the leaders will follow.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/jury-nullification-an-imp_b_1165640.html
Well, it looks like I-502 is on the ballot in Washington:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/2011/12/21/Marijuana-Legalization-Headed-Ballot-Washington-It-Already-Doomed
dc, I’m certain this is headed to the legislature, not the ballot.
I-505 is for the ballot, but signature gathering will not begin for it until January (and must have sufficient valid signatures by June or July something to make the ballot). I-502 should be dead on arrival, since it doesn’t improve anything for anyone other than prohibitionists, IMNSHO.
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I really do hope the people like yourself don’t manage to screw this up with such gross misrepresentations as in your post above, like your ilk did in 2010 California. No Windy, a law that isn’t perfect isn’t worse that absolute prohibition. That’s absolute hogwash and you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for presenting such absolute absurdity.
I-502 goes to the legislature first. It goes to the ballot if the legislature doesn’t approve it. I-505 is simple minded pipe dream. One of our greatest handicaps is the crowd of people from la-la land that think that an extremist law like I-505 has even the proverbial snowball’s chance of being passed into law. Fortunately the I-502 people learned a lot from Prop 19 and there’s a good chance that it will get enough yes votes from the fence sitters to counteract the stupidity presented by the potheads in clownface in their attempts to perpetuate prohibition.
Why are you working so hard to keep us mired in prohibition Windy? When do you get a clue and attempt to understand that we simply don’t have the numbers to write our own ticket? That politics is the art of compromise and that re-legalization simply is never going to happen without addressing the fears held by those who hold the votes to allow this thing to move forward? When do you start to grasp the reality that you’re the best friend a prohibitionist could have?
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Curtis Cartier is obviously not a lawyer, nor is he qualified to even play one in the news media. Just how many years have the prohibitionists been waiting for the Federal cavalry to ride in on their preemption ponies and slay the medicinal cannabis patient protection laws? That would be 15 years now. You’d think after a decade and a half they’d have figured out that they’re not just over the horizon.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, Windy. Lets pass something passable, and we can deal with the details later. I don’t like the per se driving requirement, but that can be a fight for another day.
It is going to the legislature, after we vote on it.
And that Seattle Weekly writer is an idiot, he’s whacked in the head.
here’s the ONDCP ad campaign story (this is 3 days old, so no SSDP mention):
Anti-Drug Campaign Takes Funding Hit Without media dollars
all I could find…
should include this quote from the SSDP msg:
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The Commonwealth of Virginia does not accept signatures from voters who mark with an “X”
Hey, Newt,
Why don’t you haul the Virginia Legislature before Congress to grill them on WHY YOU screwed up? You’d do it to Judges. And, ultimately, to We, The People. And quit calling yourself a frontrunner. Last poll I heard was Paul, Romney and then, guess who?
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Nancy Harris of Dunedin, FL was “happy” detectives searched her home because it showed dedication to fighting drug use and sale, an effort she supports.
“I don’t feel they violated my rights. They asked to search and I gave them permission,” Nancy Harris said.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/surveillance-of-largo-hydroponic-supply-shop-ends-but-legal-growers-shook/1207647
Stupid ****.
Duncan, nothing to be done. Nothing. No matter how crazy it makes us, some people have brains of Jello. Would have served her right if they’d been feeling pressure for a bust and just happened to “locate” some illegal drugs she didn’t know she had…
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High-grade pot more prevalent
Marijuana with higher THC more frequently found on Shore
“blah, blah, blah BC Bud blah”
http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111224/NEWS01/112240326/High-grade-pot-more-prevalent?odyssey=nav|head
Now the picture accompanying that story is just precious:
http://cmsimg.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=A7&Date=20111224&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=112240326&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&High-grade-pot-more-prevalent
IQs just aren’t very popular on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
There’s no cure for stupid.
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No, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t laugh at an ridicule these people. Seriously, is that a friggin’ incandescent bulb? The picture of that “grow” ranks right up with this classic, valued at $67,000 by North Carolina’s finest:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=7354&pictureid=125708
OMFG! They valued that at $67,000? It’s not worth $67.
But…you’re gonna laugh…I will often press a wardrobe box from U-Haul just like that into service when I start a new variety from seed. It’s a quickie nursery till they show thier sex…then I take cuttings and integrate them into my perpetual garden with my standard varieties. It means I don’t need to dedicate veg space in my main garden for plants I may not use. Those cartons take 100-150 watts of CFL just right. Cut a large vent in the bottom back and convection will move enough air. I’ll admit it looks unprofessional, but it does work.
…because This I Know: It does not matter how much “extra space” you plan into your garden, your garden will out grow your space in no time flat. Tell me I’m wrong, I defy you.
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Don’t you at least line it with aluminum foil? The bulb in the picture isn’t better than 17w if it’s a compact florescent and the color temp looks like it’s an incandescent to me. Of course a lousy camera combined with the brown absorbing all the light means we’re not likely not seeing what was really there.
No, I can’t say you’re wrong about filling the space no matter your plans. I think that’s a physical law. But there’s a certain amount of effort and knowledge that gets you from here to there and while it isn’t rocket science there sure are a lot of booby traps waiting for the uninformed.
Gosh I hope your sprouts are never that stretched. That’s screaming “amateur” to me. At least the ones in the forward planter don’t have commingling roots. Six plants in a single container? I’m willing to wager that “$67k” garden from NC was the sum total of the growers lifetime experience at the moment the snapshot was taken.
Now I’ve sat and looked at the first picture from the Eastern Shore and I’m as close to certain as I can be that it’s an incandescent. It’s the shape of the bulb that cinches that conclusion in my mind.
BTW, my wife was born in Salisbury and still has family there. I’ve been to the city more than a few times in my life and my comments were based on my own personal observations.
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BTW DC, your dissociative identity disorder is flaring up. I think it’s medication time. Do you still have Nurse Ratched’s number?
*Grins* I didn’t say that was a good example…just that wardrobe boxes have MANY more uses than storing your winter clothes. I like my internodes 1 to 1 1/2 inches…nice and tight. If I’ve got a climber of a sativa, I’ll use “bushmaster” at 1/4 strength once at week one after transplanting to a flowering container, then again at 1/8th recommended dilution as a foliar spary when I induce flowering. Makes even Thais look like nice little bushes.
Santa’s on his way! Rudolph leads the way! Hey, doesn’t Pete have reddish hair? Lead On, Petey!!! A very Merry Christmas to all you reindeer and to the one who lights our way. And a Happy Birthday to the King of Kings!
When you survive artillery barrages, you learn to believe in Many things. 😉 As Pete said, if you’re driving, be safe. Get blitzed after you land.
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In the course of extensive research I have discovered that St. Nicholas is the patron saint of prostitutes. This is the fellow that we allow to sneak into our homes in the middle of the night and ply our children with shiny trinkets and peppermint sticks? But that’s what we get for trusting a Greek with our children!
As if all that isn’t bad enough he’s also the patron saint of thieves. So just to top off allowing a pervert to sneak into our homes in the dead of night in order to seduce our children, we also better count the silver after he’s gone. To think that there are people who allow this scallywag free reign who claim to care about the children. Go figure that one out.
But in all fairness, he may just be a guy that likes to be a patron saint, and grabbed those two jobs because they were available. He’s also the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, students, the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine emperors, Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Barranquilla, Bari, Beit Jala, Fribourg, Huguenots, Kozani, Liverpool, Paternopoli, Sassari, Siggiewi and Lorraine. To think everyone believes he only works one night a year. Sheesh, when does the man find time to sleep?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
Perhaps it would be better if we put out cookies and tea for St. Drogo, the patron saint of coffeehouses. St. Drogo was famous for his ability to bilocate, or in plain words to occupy two disparate places in space at the same time. I suspect it’s more likely that the people of the 12th century may have been unaware of the existence of identical twins, but all sorts of odd things occurred back in that day so who the heck knows?
My cockatoo, who’s been my best bud for 34 years now, was “glued” to the computer monitor last night, watching noradsanta.org. He woke up to a pile of toys this morning and is having a blast. I give them a week, at best. LOL
Jack Marshall is taunting us…
Comment of the Day on “Comment of the Day: “Distracted Driving, Pot, and “The Great Debateâ€â€
The next thing you know he’ll be farting in our general direction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
He’s only drawing attention to the trouncing he got. Leave him alone…he has issues. Real, clinical issues. And he’s a frikking child. He got beaten up at the bus stop, and now that he thinks it’s safe, he’s taunting us to come do it again.
*sigh* I will tell you this, he can rationalize any prejudice he holds, he’s smart and embittered. Let’s smoke another bowl and pray for the asshole. Nothing else is gonna work.
I’m gonna take my field kit over there… I was a surgeon in a previous life. Of course we “only” had obsidian at that time. But I’m gonna wait until after xmas. Daughter is coming in from out of town, son is off work for 2 days… they hate seeing me with blood spatters all over me. It was hard enough for ’em watching me tripper-sitting at festivals. Sure gave ’em a clue about some folks behavior under the influence tho’.
bah… humbug… and other merry xmas grumblings to you all.
Check yer FB, Allan. Merry Christmas.
Allan…I went back and read that “comment of the day”. I’ll share with you a suspicion I have….I think he wrote that comment. Look at the point-for-point correspondence with things he said in responses to individuals in the prior thread. This guy is whacked. That’s a professional opinion. Let’s leave him be. For now.
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Have I ever mentioned before that there are some people I just don’t want on our side of the table? Just think if this man were making arguments in favor of ending prohibition! That would be embarrassing. But I will treasure the memory. There really aren’t that many people who are his intellectual equal that have achieved his level of literacy. He must be highly disciplined and dedicated to furthering his education. I’m sure he’ll earn his GED before much longer.
Drugged driving comic from 1954:
http://www.druglibrary.org/mags/AApicture/Comix/crime_punish/crime69_1.jpg
Priceless.
“Get Hep” it says on the side of the car.
Seems like the reefer (or whatever “dope” they are talking about) was associated with unacceptable blurring of ethnic boundaries, eh?
Merry Christmas everyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQhAVFxDFk
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I must have died and gone to heaven
’cause hell is Christmas at the 7-11
“Christmas at K-Mart”
~ Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X96Un6POoo8
And this will make your Christmas Bright! Really! Watch what happens when you say the Magic Words: “Not without a Warrant.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Kw9-vTJYs&feature=youtu.be
Did you notice that the scene was staged?
No….what’s your tell-tale?
Ahhh…interesting. Read the pull down under the video…it was a PRANK…looks to be an authentic reaction though…
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No! Not the Wild and Scenic Rivers!
And now for the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey might say:
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of the books “The Ballad of Carl Drega” and “The Black Arrow.” See http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com.
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Time Magazine has announced their “Person of the Year” for 2011. I must say it’s about damn time that they got around to acknowledging me.
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2011/1101111226_400.jpg
I’d like to thank all the little nazis, authoritarians, banksters and especially the Know Nothing prohibitionists who’ve made this honor possible. Without all of their efforts I’d be nothing more than a happy go lucky nobody living my life in the obscurity of peace and the quiet enjoyment of life. Thanks to you I’m angry.
Duncan, you have a short memory…they feted you in 2006 as well.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Time+person+of+the+year+cover&hl=en&biw=1341&bih=613&tbm=isch&tbnid=lGB6isgjpPyDNM:&imgrefurl=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/12/people-always-protest-times-person-year-choice/46188/&docid=9orDMysl7STyuM&imgurl=http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2011/12/14/Time_youcover01.jpeg&w=400&h=533&ei=MlP3TtGRKuOOiAKbhaGUDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=549&vpy=114&dur=196&hovh=259&hovw=194&tx=98&ty=137&sig=106155733297087619790&page=1&tbnh=132&tbnw=96&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0
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It’s not what you’ve done for me, it’s what you’ve done for me lately. But quite frankly New Year’s 2006 is a time in my life I’d much rather forget. I know I’m one lucky boy because that really isn’t a difficult trick.
That fellow Vin Suprynowicz blog looks like an interesting place. He seems to be a staunch adherent to the Revolutionary school, class of 1776.
I think I look much better in a burqa than as a computer monitor though. Hey, have you ever seen a burqa girl at a swimming pool? I think they need a time machine to buy their swim suits. What I don’t get is why is going bare foot OK? Don’t Muslims have foot fetishes?
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This is what you get when you let potheads play football:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7KPZrv7JWE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQSsMRe6BJE
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By happenstance I was looking up the warnings for synthetic dronabinol this morning and found some things I thought amusing:
Oh no! Not the warm fuzzies! Doctor, doctor, whatever should I do? I’m feelin’ all good up inside my head and my tongue is the size of an eggplant!
Good Morning! I hope everyone’s Christmas was bright. Speaking of “bright”, here’s a news story to get you back in the swing of your activism: “Man eats Cocaine out of brother’s butt; dies.”
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/30037563/detail.html
“I got upset when I saw the thing. I was pretty shocked on it.” remarked the police chief…
Read more: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/30037563/detail.html#ixzz1heosTwma
Happy Boxing Day.
I could have lived my entire life without knowing about that with no problem. There really is such a thing as too much information.
C’mon…it has all the elements of a great news story: It’s Graphic, stupid, disgusting AND fatal.
Special thanks to Brandon E., who brought that story to my attention. Thanks, Brandon… betcha didn’t even know you linked to it!
Really, Brandon, thank you..I cannot stop laughing at this…
It’ll go to the ballot. Legislature won’t go out on that limb.
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Would it be highly unethical to plant moss phlox in the yards of people I dislike and drop a dime later after it takes root? Yeah, I suppose it would be. Oh well, it isn’t even slightly unethical to daydream.
There’s no mention in the article of why this didn’t happen years ago:
How about this…Government mercenaries take a larger role in the drug war:
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/153363/selling_the_drug_war_for_%243_billion_how_the_pentagon_will_privatize_an_international_war_on_drugs/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2017083228_edit26cannabis.html
This one is appropriately placed in the “thud!” category. It’s just astounding to this almost native Virginian that this could have happened in southern Virginia:
Progress. Feels good, ‘eh?
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Now that I’ve gotten over the shock and am able to feel again, yes, it does. I’d rate this about equivalent to Pat Robertson’s comments on the thud! scale.
Hey wait a second…Mr. Robertson came up in that community. He started The 700 Club in Portsmouth, VA which is all of 3 miles from Hampton Roads. Perhaps the two events are related?
Ron Paul on the drug war’s racist origins…coincidentally, right about the time those racist e-mails went out, allegedly under his name:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/27/ron-paul-drugs-drug-war_n_1170878.html
Ya know, I’d love to vote for Ron Paul, if only because the Powers That Be want him gone soooo badly
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It probably wouldn’t be of any consequence to this country to ignore his views on forcing women to carry pregnancies to term. He just doesn’t have the political capital to make it happen so it’s a moot point. But everything else being equal I’ll cast for Gary Johnson if he gets the Libertarian nomination. There’s a long, long road between here and Election Day 2012. Who knows, maybe Joe Biden will go postal and dispatch Barry to his reward, and John Boner will be POTUS.
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/suspected_dealer_beaten_no_arrest_made/id_43139
No drugs were found..
Siamo spiacenti, anch’io desidero esprimere la propria opinione.