“420” I must not know the meaning of this but over on GAB lots of the radicals are celebrating it as the birthday of the man who turned Europe and Germany into a ruin in 1940-1945. He should have been strangled in the cradle.
One is my best friend's nephew. 44 years old now. Never had a steady job. Gets a government check now because he's "nuts." Smoked since he was a teenager.
Another is a Gulf War Vet. Didn't have a regular job after leaving the army. Eventually he decided he was mentally "disabled" because of all the trauma he claims he suffered, and so got a 100% disability check, at least he did until he died a few years ago. (Heart attack) I think he was 58. Smoked weed constantly.
A third is a 29 year old who doesn't have a job, and is going to have a hard time getting a job, because he won't leave the weed alone. When he gets jobs, he keeps getting fired. His girlfriend gets a mental disability check from the government.
My observation of other people whom I have known over the years who smoked weed is they become lazy shiftless ne're do wells that end up on some type of government welfare.
I do not want these people having the right to "choose." The rest of us have to pay for their "choice."
Fortunately, there’s no school on Saturdays, so copycat school shootings will be at a minimum.
Don’t smoke pot—did as a kid. Big Whoop. Lots of us did “things” and sometimes those that did nothing are just “sticks in the mud”
But I find throughout man’s history there has always been the search for a safe escape from exisitence. Life is hard and then one dies.
Religion provides that safe escape for many—but there are those that would use substance to re-create or invoke that religious experience—and that has been throughout history.
The Greeks had their Elysieum (sic) that to this date its ingredients are not known. In India it was Soma—again, scripts do not leave use with an ingredient list.
The Monks refined wine and champagne and even beer.
So what I am getting at is that mankind has a long history of searching for the ultimate escape. Many “drugs” need be outlawed because they really don’t provide that safe escape—many of the designer drugs fall under this category.
Though I have never tried MDMA, or its derivitives, I hear that a 15 minute “trip” is intense —in that one is launched into orbit (mentally) and then back on the ground rather quickly.—that fascinates me in that hallucinogens have been the mainstay of man throughout history. In fact there is a theory that man is descended from mushroom eating apes. An amusing theory although I have never bought into the idea that we came from monkeys.
But the thesis that man’s mind sparked after eating a certain plant and that gave rise to glimpses of idea formulation that developed into later inventions and societal formation is a keen one to study.
Micro-dosing does the same type of thing and there are studies going on using certain hallucinogens as treatment for PSTD, or other disorders so that the person can live a rather healthy life. Under controlled settings, I have heard positive results after just a few sessions.
But this is Pot Freedom Day...
I can easily see the difference between wanting to re-create religious ectasy or a opening a path to the future ala Oracles—and that of inducing oneself into a stupor for the sake of being stupified. Then again, in my youth that was the goal on weekends—although weekends began running into the week and those activites had to be curtailed.
So—what is the point of all this...what? Hey, Don’t Bogart That Joint...
I tried one of those marijuana cans of pop when we were boating with friends. It was super relaxing and then gave me heart palpations for a month.
Oh, so that’s why there’s so many potheads around here. I’m just trying to celebrate Hitler’s birthday in peace.
I knew a girl in high school who would drink bong water on a dare.