standard when evaluating a neighborhood. IF the neighborhood accepts gay folks and pot smokers openly, you can be pretty sure I'll fit right in for a variety of reasons, including average intelligence, tolerance, non-narrow mindedness, honesty, and a desire to REALLY LIVE LIFE.
I met a dude who LOVES, and I mean really, really, really, really LOVES his orchids. He has relationships with them. They are living creatures he cares for, and they bring him joy. My thought at the time: Good for fucking you, man! A bit weird to me, but if another life brings you joy and eases the pain of daily living, who am I to judge? If I were an "Earth god," for example, I think his joy would bring me some.
Which brings me to pot and the lies. Cannabis is a living being that that is quite interesting, in fact. Anyone who has ever been exposed to pot growing understands how the female plants seek to attract male plants with various smells and oozing qualities in their "buds." They are alive and very sexual for plants. Very sexual. It is a little creepy that they are SO SEXUAL.
People, as we know, are threatened by sex for some reason. Perhaps they don't like what they cannot have but really want--I don't know. Never understood why naked ladies are dangerous. Naked men, too, for that matter. So we lie about them and their "evil" powers. I do not need to rehash all the victim-did-it lies out there. What I have noticed is the amount of increased attention blame-the-rape-victim type thinking is FINALLY getting these days. It is high time we separate rape from sexual fantasy role playing and see it for what it is: Something we must work to stop. Cos-play all you want when people say "yes." Leave when they say "no" or are too wasted to so state. End of story.
xxdr zombiexx's post is so important to me because it is about something very similar that must be stopped--lying about the victim to create some other dishonest effect--such as this stupid, piss-based marijuana-in-the-body-from-weeks-ago "drug testing" crap. Unlike guns, for example, marijuana is not designed to kill anything. So it really is accurate to say marijuana is not the problem--people are.
But for some reason, this lie is not able to get much traction in our world. Why? I don't know--perhaps too many people equate pot to alcohol or something. Just like the blame-the-victim stuff to date, not enough critical mass? What IS it going to take?
Problem is, marijuana is not bad. It may be threatening due to its sexual nature; it may not be for everyone; it might smell up the house--but it is not bad. In fact, numerous studies demonstrate that, when used in a reasonable manner, pot may actually be GOOD.
When xxdr xombiexx states: "These fuckers are HURTING people to make money for their own goddamned pockets. Sending innocent people to jail, letting cops kill people right and left for pot - all this so these fuckers can make more money. Politeness has found us 40+ years down the road will rather little accomplished relative to how fucking stupid marijuana prohibition really is. It is an amazing committment on behalf of the most powerful country in the world."
What more can be said? Take a visit to the zoo. LOOK AT THE CAGES. Ask yourself: How can we let this keep happening as if it is no big deal? We lock people up in cages for pot! It is one of the greatest, most blatant, sucky, backward ass sins collectively committed by our society since the 1930s!--this continued war on pot. It is outrageous.
Know a pothead? Think he/she should be in jail for that? Think he/she is hurting society by ingesting a little pot at the end of the day? With a "glass of wine," is it now okay? Where is the threat? Where is the "rational basis" behind continued criminalization of hemp?
Recall those orchids LOVED by that dude. Well, potheads, real and appreciative ones--they love their pot plants, too. Grow them. Take care of them. Feed them. Watch them blossom--then ingest their gift and say thank you. Honestly, what is more pure and appreciative of life--especially after a hard day of tax-paying work--than that? In most communities in America, that is a jailable offense, however.
Get a DWI, post bond--guess what? There is no truly enforceable restriction on immediately proceeding to the neighborhood liquor store (or having a straw man do it) and buying 10, 20, 30 gallons of hard booze if you can afford it. Where is the lie now? WTF are we doing to ourselves?
Thank you for your very important reminder post, xxdr zombiexx! Ending the war on pot really matters, folks. It is important, and it IS about freedom.