President Obama tells of days when he smoked pot, and inhaled, and I suppose if you think he's stupid, you could blame it on pot. If you think he's genius you have to find something else to blame it on. I used to think that if you had long hair you were cool and left wing till I met my first narc. I mean it's hard to say who does and who doesn't smoke pot these days, I know little old ladies that can't sleep at night without a toke and flat out hippies that call themselves "Quitters".
I admit, I smoke too much, obviously, whatever that is. Seven or eight joints a day. I don't care so I guess that makes me an addict. Like the guy that smokes cigarettes through a hole in his throat, I really don't see the harm. I recently spent seven weeks in SE Asia without smoking a toke so it's a different type of addiction because there were no withdrawal symptoms.
I know one thing for sure. Legalizing Marijuana would change the world. For the better. You don't need law to control pot, people that don't like it don't smoke it.
Tea party crazies are Occupy Wall Street fans that have yet to smoke pot. I really believe that. They're just waiting for the epiphany that smoking pot the first time brings, or at least brought me so long ago...
If They've lied to me about this, what else have they lied to me about?
I was sitting in a southern Alabama jail for first offense possesion of pot back in 1968 when I had mine. It hadn't been the actual smoking of pot but the punishment for smoking it that opened my mind to bullshit I'd been fed all my short eighteen years. I was in the Army but in a civillian jail facing 5-20 years in prison for less than an ounce when a friend brought me stacks of Ramparts magazine to read. Ramparts was a pretty radical magazine and I wasn't all that radical but it had articles about the unfairness of marijuana laws so I read them. When I was finished with the marijuana articles out of boredom I read the rest of the magazine and discovered the truth about the VietNam war I'd been so excited and eager to go fight till I found myself in jail. Seriously, I'd been thrown in jail seven hours before I was supposed to fly off to Viet Nam. After my conviction my family finally came up with an appeal bond and while out on appeal I ran away to Mexico where I remain to this day. (long story short)Two years after posting the appeal bond I won the appeal and the bond was returned to my family. I remain because I like it herel but compare my story to that of Obama. He was never busted, evidently. Would I have made a good President? We'll never know.
I paint pictures for a living but President of the United States was my second choice and I'm pretty sure my marijuana conviction would have disqualified me.